>>48796
>Can you maybe pretend that you don't have a horse in this race?
I'm not entirely sure of what the implication is here. I'm an abdl too, so as far as how we're perceived as a group, I do have a horse in the race.
>Anyway, I'm pretty sure the point is that people feel excluded because of their sexual attraction. Since ABDL attracts a lot of hate from the common idiot who throws around "pedophilia" without understanding english, it's easy to feel lonely and depressed 'cause you feel as though you don't belong anywhere. Therefore you might want to find people who feel the same way and might sympathize with your situation, since they're in the same situation.
I agree with this completely. I still remember how it felt when the light bulb turned on and I realized that there were other people like me with this weird fetish, and that it has a name. It was immensely comforting. As I've said before, I've met a lot of cool people from my time on abdl websites, and I learned a lot by talking to them. And it definitely makes sense to want to have friends across the full range of a persons interests, so when you're particularly interested in your chinese cartoons one week you have someone to talk to about them, or the next week when a new widget comes out you have a different friend who's really into widgets to talk to.
That being said, I never understood the desire to meet other abdls in person. Admittedly I'm not the most social person, but what do you get from being friends in person with another abdl that you don't get from chatting with them online? Assuming you have at least some irl friends, that is. Put another way, what additional benefit is there in taking that abdl-based communication off the internet and into the real world?
>I'm pretty sure it's possible to have every kink in the world and still be a functional social being. If people can't shut up about it, it's their own fault.
Sure. And this is one of my issues with some abdls - the complete lack of an ability to moderate their behavior.
>>48798
>Why wouldn't it be? Most friendships start because two people have some trivial thing in common - even just being in the same place at the same time. Almost anything can serve as a point of commonality, and if the friendship lasts then that initial commonality will get replaced with much more important bonds of shared experiences and trust.
Fair enough.
>What kind of massive fucking autist do you have to be to not understand even this much about how friendships work?
I have 7 Giga-tisms. Get on my level, scrub.
>Also, in my experience the people who go around getting offended by cringy shit other people do are usually total freaks themselves. If you're feeling guilty about your own disgusting behavior it becomes quite appealing to go around pointing out how everyone else is guilty too.
I've noticed the same thing. However, if you were on my level of The Tism, you'd recognize that my posts have been much less of an offended response, and more of a disgust type response (focused on the behavior of others). People give offended type responses when you call them something mean. They give a disgust response when there's a cockroach in their kitchen.
>>48819
>I get that you're wracked with guilt over your "degenerate" fetish, but you don't need to sperg out like a retard and project your insecurities on everyone around you.
The poster you're replying to wasn't me, I was >>48704 and >>48751. Also, I never said that this fetish is degenerate, but that a lot of the people within it are.