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30 Apr 2011, 3:54 pm

I had mental exam a few weeks ago for my Aspergers and I noticed something interesting. The lady that was examining me basically (again) summed my symptoms, which according to her I have a lot of them. I guess I have a severe case, according to her. I was really nervous at the time, I hate personal exams, but I was following along fine until my Dad brought up a certain other 'issue' of mine. I was never officially diagnosed with it before, but I am an infantilist. I have these strong urges to be treated as a baby, I use an adult pacifier, wear....um...certain things, among other stuff. The interesting thing is that she said it could be caused by my Aspergers. She threw it in with my countless other symptoms. I am not certain if I agree though. It makes sense but its something that I never thought about before, of course I found out that I was diagnosed with Aspergers two years ago, I guess the diagnoses was made a long time ago, and I have had these urges since I was five. I just wanted some other opinions. That lady was nice though. =P

Edit: She was talking about wearing diapers and using a pacifier, not the baby treatment urges.



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30 Apr 2011, 4:04 pm

Never heard of a connection between the two. I honestly doubt there is one. I've never heard of somebody on the spectrum with infantilism, and the few cases I've heard of where somebody had urges of infantilism didn't involve AS.



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30 Apr 2011, 4:12 pm

Hmm, I should have mentioned this as well. She never actually said anything about baby treatment urges being related. She mainly said wearing diapers and using a pacifier. She said that she has had different cases involving those two things.



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30 Apr 2011, 4:18 pm

I have no idea if it's linked. There are plenty of NTs who like the same thing. In fact I have come across NTs who like even weirder things. It's a good job I am very open minded!



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30 Apr 2011, 4:24 pm

Speaking with no particular knowledge on the subject, I would imagine the number of NT individuals who are infantilists would outweigh the Aspies by a staggering amount. I have certainly never heard of the two being in any way connected, and it seems more likely that this is simply a fetish, developed much like any other.



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30 Apr 2011, 6:15 pm

I think it depends (pun not intended). If you like to do it for sexual reasons, probably not it's probably just a fetish. If you like them because they calm you or relax you, they might be considered a stim-type activity.



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30 Apr 2011, 7:10 pm

Both myself and one close friend of mine are infantilists, and we are also both diagnosed on the spectrum (me Asperger's, her HFA). The infantilist community has many autistic members.

For me it is not sexual, it is just one of the coping mechanisms I developed when I was young to soothe myself when I am having difficulties. My difficulties caused me to become an infantilist, but just because my difficulties stem from AS, doesn't mean that AS causes infantilism. It is, in my opinion, just one of many ways to cope with difficulties, no matter what caused them.

So to include infantilism as a "symptom" of AS isn't accurate, but I understand why it was done. The cause-and-effect relationship still holds true.


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30 Apr 2011, 7:39 pm

That is really interesting, Druidsbird. As I said in my previous post, I wasn't speaking from any base of particular knowledge on the subject. I wonder why it was you and your friend developed such an elaborate calming ritual.



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30 Apr 2011, 7:39 pm

I used to be one but once my depression went away, my desires went away and then the diapers when my baby came. I see myself as being over it.

Being on the AB/DL forums, it seemed like lot of them were on the autism spectrum so I once made a thread asking if there was some connection to it.

I had also noticed lot of them had AD/HD too, Bipolar PTSD, learning problems, and emotional problems. I also noticed lot of them seemed to have abusive childhoods. So I also wondered if there was a connection between those and infantlism.

I can remember my shrink blaming it on my AS and I thought it was a bunch of bull because NTs are into it too.



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30 Apr 2011, 7:43 pm

no, no, and no. but I admit my saying no is from distaste and not factual other than me seeing no cause for infantilism other than some childhood neglect or bad experience which hasn't anything to do with autism.



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30 Apr 2011, 7:50 pm

Killman wrote:
I had mental exam a few weeks ago for my Aspergers and I noticed something interesting. The lady that was examining me basically (again) summed my symptoms, which according to her I have a lot of them. I guess I have a severe case, according to her. I was really nervous at the time, I hate personal exams, but I was following along fine until my Dad brought up a certain other 'issue' of mine. I was never officially diagnosed with it before, but I am an infantilist. I have these strong urges to be treated as a baby, I use an adult pacifier, wear....um...certain things, among other stuff. The interesting thing is that she said it could be caused by my Aspergers. She threw it in with my countless other symptoms. I am not certain if I agree though. It makes sense but its something that I never thought about before, of course I found out that I was diagnosed with Aspergers two years ago, I guess the diagnoses was made a long time ago, and I have had these urges since I was five. I just wanted some other opinions. That lady was nice though. =P

Edit: She was talking about wearing diapers and using a pacifier, not the baby treatment urges.


I don't think this lady knows what she's talking about. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of people with AS don't wear diapers or use a pacifier.



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30 Apr 2011, 8:06 pm

There are about seven million adult babies in the world. That is a small number of people compared to six billion. I read this on Daily Diapers or somewhere by a user. On a video my husband watched in 2007, it said five million but I was sure there are more because not everyone knows about other adult babies so they think they are alone. Not all of them go to the websites so they wouldn't know. But there are more than five million autistic people in the world. A lot more.



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01 May 2011, 12:41 am

The lady who was examining me said that she has heard of some cases like this, not a lot. Most other aspies probably have zero desire in this stuff, obviously.She said that it could possibly be related to some type of sensory issue, she said it in a whole better way but my memory is not very good. This is not an assumption that all aspergers people do this, but how it somehow could relate to my case. Its always possible I guess. Symptom was a stupid word to use. I always seem to word things awkwardly.:|



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01 May 2011, 9:11 am

druidsbird wrote:
Both myself and one close friend of mine are infantilists, and we are also both diagnosed on the spectrum (me Asperger's, her HFA). The infantilist community has many autistic members.

For me it is not sexual, it is just one of the coping mechanisms I developed when I was young to soothe myself when I am having difficulties. My difficulties caused me to become an infantilist, but just because my difficulties stem from AS, doesn't mean that AS causes infantilism. It is, in my opinion, just one of many ways to cope with difficulties, no matter what caused them.

So to include infantilism as a "symptom" of AS isn't accurate, but I understand why it was done. The cause-and-effect relationship still holds true.

I can relate to this. (I've read only what Wiki writes about infantilism, so I don't know much about it.)

For me it is not sexual too, I don't wear diapers, use pacifiers. I can only relate to "fantasies of a return to infancy", or to an earlier stage of my life, say 3-9 years old. It may be connected to the desire described in the text as "some fantasize about being free of guilt, responsibility, or control". I remember the time I was amids my adolescent crying over my lost childhood... I feel guilty about it, I haven't grown out of it totally after so many years... :oops:

For coping mechanism, I understand what you write, I do it sometimes, acting in a little bit childish manner, just to avoid conflicts, confrontations, or smooth the conversation.



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02 May 2011, 10:11 am

I also should say that this is not sexual for me either, incase anyone was thinking that. :p



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21 Aug 2011, 2:22 pm

I was diagnosed with aspegers I am a male I also am an adult baby but I am catholic and trying to stop my personal opinion is that it does has to do with aspergers I am just a baby in my heart i dont want it to be sexaul and for the mist part its not i just love ruturning back to a baby in my own world I am embaressed to ask I sicitrist if there is a connection but I can't stop wearing footed sucking my thumb crawling around talking in baby language and using a paci I just want to be a baby agian I don't want it to be sexual I just want to know how can I be a baby and not let it turn me on and does it really have to do with aspergers cuase I can't help it it's like who I am just like the aspergers since it's a develement disorder maybe I just haven't fully mutured can some one give me some peice of mind and tell me that I am ababy cause im have aspergers