Will ABDL-ism change with the time?
It's very interesting how the concept of infancy and childhood when we were growing up seems to affect this whole thing. For instance, there were some mid 90s ABDL photos, one of the first ones available on the internet. And one thing that struck me was how common was cloth diapers, plastic pants and cloth diapers covers.
Which make me think, those people in those photos were probably born in the 70s or so, a time when, I think, cloth diapers weren't that mainstream – especially when comparing with how unanimously popular disposable diapers are nowadays. In a way, it's like this fetish, kink, whatever, evolves with the time to each new generation, and we have this idealized vision of childhood, this definition of childhood or little-girlhood that existed when were growing up, and this idea gets embedded and engrained into us in a way that's hard to put into words. It is our definition of what a child is, and what they should be wearing, and so on and so forth.
And it goes beyond just clothing, but even things like toys and so on. It's very common nowadays for you to see babies and toddlers playing with an iPad, playing some baby game in it. Well, there was no iPad in the 80s or 90s or early 2000s. Babies and toddlers back then played with a rattle or something. It's interesting to think how people who were born nowadays, and who will get interested into ABDL 20 years from now, will think about this kink and how they will idealize the concept of infancy, what being a child will have meant to them.