All my friends and family know I need and use and I would say 99% of them have at some point provided care ,they also know I “stress test “diapers for fun and knowledge .
there is unlike for most people no “cost “
I don’t need to ” hide” diapers because everybody knows.
i am not ashamed of incontinenCe or stigmatized by it.
I have an illness , I am not my illness
perfect strangers see a positioned/restrained adult/ child in a power wheelchair and assume “they must be diapered”
with all that said if I have a diaper failure nobody cares , diapers leak that’s what they do, nobody is going to get mouthy to an obviously physically disabled guy whose diaper might be leaking .
so I have freedoms not generally experienced by diaper wearers.
as a side not ,I didn’t know it when I moved here, but I got a great neighborhood a couple of miles from my house is an international institute of excellence for intellectual and physical disabilities almost everyone there wears some kind of protection and or a mobility device , so before I had my own aide and even now that I do , if I am out and get into trouble , people pop out of the wood work to give you a hand because the going or leaving work on break running an errand etc and they all have the specialized skills to assist you no matter what you need or when . Like when I got my service dog “do you want him to have any special skills” I said no , I should have said yes I want a seizure dog, I just by luck got a partner who didn’t need training he was a natural at warning me I was going to have a seizure .
I am just one low flying diaper out of hundreds in my ‘hood any given day, and 9-10X’s that of people that will just stop to give aide because you lool like you may need it.