Posted by LucyP on October 25, 2006 at 10:12 [84.201.164.32]
I don't know about the other LGs on this board, but when I'm in LG mode I want to do all the things I did (as well as all the things I would have liked to have done) when I really *was* little. Yes, I like to be pampered and loved, and to 'get away with it' because I'm so cute. I like not having to worry about things and being looked after. Tidying-up and housework is something LGs just don't do, and that's fine by me too. But most of all I like to make pee-pee and poo-poo in my pants because it feels as nice to do that now as it did then.
And when I was little - even when I wasn't quite so little, right up to about ten or so - I loved wetting and messing my pants. Nappies, trainer pants, little-girl cotton underwear or school knickers - it was all the same to me. Pants were for pooping in.
It's odd, really; I've read a lot about potty-training and children who have 'problems' with wetting, bedwetting or 'soiling' (such a polite way of putting it!). Various causes are advanced - weak muscles, lack of co-ordination, constipation, emotional disturbance, poor concentration, distraction, mental disorders... but no-one ever seems to mention what I'm sure is the commonest reason kids go in their pants: it feels good and they like to do it!
Having 'accidents' in my underwear was something I did all through my childhood. They weren't really 'accidents', of course; I went potty in my pants because I didn't want to stop what I was doing and left it too late, or because I decided it was more important to carry on playing than waste time going off to the bathroom. One of the great things about going toilet in your pants is that you can be doing something else at the same time! Occasionally I pottied my pants because I was told to (stuck in traffic jams or nowhere near a toilet) but most often I went because I wanted to.
To me, having wet or messy pants is an intrinsic part of being 'little' and I find it odd that there are LGs out there who don't do this. I also find it odd that other LGs are trying to loose bladder or bowel control so that they can't help themselves. To me, that's regression to infant status, well beyond being a LG. My sort of LG is more-or-less potty trained but often decides not to be! But an infant always in nappies is not at all the same thing.
Yes, I do like to wear nappies (proper soft, fluffy towelling ones with pink locking pins) and plastic pants, at least at bedtime. In the house, I'll often wear terry-towel training knickers, with or without plastic pants over the top, but sometimes ordinary cotton panties. Sometimes I ask for the potty, and if Dadddy sits me on the toilet with my pants down I'll try and perform... but for the rest of the time, I just go when I need to. Wearing wet or poopy pants never worries me and I'm quite happy to wait until Daddy is ready to change me.
What do ther LGs think/do about this?
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