I always hear about the “forced to” and really do wonder what that must have been like. You are wetting, can’t help it, in grade school, and before bed, begging them not to, your clothes were to come off, lay on bed, and diapers with powder went on you no matter how you felt about it. Then, you are roaming around in diapers in front of everyone till morning, Wow.
However, not with diapers, but I had something else back then, really happen to me, that I was 100% forced to do, that I never really got over.
Parents traveled for about 5 days. Summer I had just turned 10!, 10!, starting 5th grade in the Fall. Usually, stayed with grandmother when parents were gone but she went with them. So, I stayed with aunt, uncle, and my cousin, Sean, who was only a year younger, was about 9!
Did not realize my aunt and uncle were real strict. Here it comes.
After dinner, NOT JOKING, my uncle announces, boys get upstairs and get ready for YOUR BATH. I froze. Turned to my uncle, “oh uncle Rick, I don’t take baths, I always take showers. He replied in a very direct voice, “NOT IN THIS HOUSE”
Like a stream of electricity went through me. Me and Sean, at age 9 and 10 years old!, marched upstairs into his bedroom, both striped out of all our clothes, and both walked completely naked at 9 and 10 years old, into bathroom with running bath water, where both aunt and uncle were standing next to tub, and we were instantly instructed to both climb in to the tub naked together. We were given the bath. My aunt watched, standing watching quietly, as my uncle pretty thoroughly bathed the 2 of us boys. We were both, one at a time, towel dried by my uncle. Then, both walked completely naked back to his room to get on our underwear and PJs.
H U M I L I A T I N G. We were both several years waaaaay too old to be given baths together like that. Even if we were both half that age at 4 1/2 and 5, it’s still could be considered too old! We were 9 and 10!
Now looking back on it, I’m surprised I was not marched into a room and Pampers put on me. Something tells me had this possibly happened just a few years earlier, that might have been an actual possibility with my aunt and uncle. Hmmm..both me and my cousin at 6 and 7, definitely a chance. My cousin and I roaming around there together in Pampers. Now, could totally see that for real staying THERE at the time. Never got over it. Sorry, not the norm, even for back then. Plus, the very few I admitted that story to over the years, and obviously, it has not been many, are shocked when they hear it. Not normal.