How do your siblings react to your wearing diapers/nappies for incontinence? My younger brother took many years to understand.
Both my older sisters are very accepting. They will even cover for me when I go for change and stuff.
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What do you mean ‘cover for’ ?
Like if I have to disappear for a change and we’re around other family or friends. They will cover for my absence.
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Ah ok My brother doesn’t know but I think He suspects.
I found telling my sisters to be a real weight off my shoulders.
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It took quite a while for my brother to stop joking/teasing.
My sibling is a bit of an oddball themselves; it would have been rather hypocritical for them to not be accepting.
Then again, I only talk to them once a year…maybe.
We’re a very close family.
Ok thanks
No one seems to see it as a problem
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Not so here.
My sister accepts it very will especially when she has some problems. My parents and in-laws all accepted it very will. Unfortunately they are dead now and I miss them. My father and I use to joke about it not as teasing but as laughing about it. Even my wife and my sister as will as others joke about diapers. You will find at least I have found most people are understanding.
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Having understanding people around does help. And it also saves the hiding effort too. Although I don’t make it obvious, when people know, they just don’t make an issue of you going for a change or if you start to smell a little. Some of my female friends with good noses will tell me if I need a change and that’s really helpful. It’s nice not to hide.
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Not an issue in our family. I have always been a bedwetter. I have an older sister-8 years older -who used to diaper me before bed growing up. The fact that I am still sleeping in diapers is neither an issue or a surprise once I did not “out grow” it as a teen.
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My siblings and family don’t know I wear - and I prefer it that way.
My incontinence started really early in my life so my immediate family members that were actually around knew shortly after it started. My siblings were accepting but they had issues of their own. One wet the bed until high school and the other had accidents until third grade so my incontinence wasn’t anything surprising or humorous to them. The embarrassment of their own problems kept their mouths shut when we were young and now we’re all mature enough to know it’s nothing to tease over. My mother took it very poorly though. She was disgusted and liked refusing to acknowledge the condition. My grandparents were sympathetic. When it started I was still too young to have a job so it was my grandparents that had to buy diapers for me to deal with it because my mother refused to.
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All but one of us wet the bed and diapered until at least 10 years old. Some of us were still wetting regularly as teenagers. So we all understood and supported each other.
One of my sisters was dry by age 5 or 6. She would make a point of being able to go to bed without a diaper.
My mom didn’t even try to keep track of who needed diapers. Every few months, she’d make diapers and buy plastic pants in various sizes. She stacked them by size in the linen closet for us to diaper ourselves. She had a big plastic tub for our wet diapers and sheets. She washed a load every day.
We joke about it at family get-togethers. When my parents moved out of the house we grew up in, there was still a stack of diapers and plastic pants in the linen closet.
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Sister knows brothers do not but the don’t have that much to do with the family so I don’t worry about it
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My entire family knows due to lack of good hiding cause I was on the truck for so long. I didn’t need to hide it so I got sloppy. But when they found out it was a physical thing, they don’t tend to bring it up.
Really not an aspect of my life to share, just like I don’t ask about their medical issues. I would speak candidly about it, if asked but, not something to buy the t-shirt for. 
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