Teenager Rejects Societal Obligations to Not Act Like a Baby





Todd Fischer broke up with his girlfriend last Thursday. Correction: His girlfriend broke up with him.



He just couldn’t take the pain and longing to be held in that familiar way that seemed to comfort and soothe his sense of self worth for the past 14 months they were together.



As if things weren’t bad enough, after crying into his pillow as he woke up one Monday morning, he clumsily walked to the washroom to clean up for more crying. And then he saw it: A diaper had been misplaced by his half-sister from her visit the night before. She has a 2-year-old son.



What comfort! The feeling of a physical barrier that protected his bowels from certain grown-up responsibility. Responsibility to pee. It was this that was weighing him down all this time! Or so he thought.



As time passed, Todd grew to depend more and more on the simplicity of babydom. Being a baby, he was able to put all the pain and anguish aside and focus on which alphabet block to arrange in an immature random pattern, or which puzzle piece to shove up his nose, unaffected by the pressures and tribulations as would be expected of any 17-year-old.



Todd was finally free.

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  • 1 - Dawn

    Apr 01, 2005 at 3:04 pm

    Are you trying to tell us something about yourself CK? I have some binkies and diaper cream if you need it.

  • 2 - Phillip Winn

    Apr 01, 2005 at 3:06 pm

    Yeah -- one photo of the guy in diapers is a chance find on the internet. Two means someone posed. And who better to pose than crushkill himself?

  • 3 - Victor Plenty

    Apr 01, 2005 at 3:14 pm

    This is totally different. The other diaper photo was a picture of an unhappy fully grown guy in diapers. This is a picture of a cheerful fully grown guy in diapers.

    On the Internet, these are completely different subcultures, which probably carry out ruthless flamewars against each other in their discussion boards on some obscure site most of us fervently hope we never ever stumble across.

  • 4 - Steve S

    Apr 01, 2005 at 3:41 pm

    Did you do the masterbate in margarine thread too? In that one, the guy was rewarded for his actions. When I read this title:

    Teenager Rejects Societal Obligations To Not Act Like A Baby

    I thought you were going to tell me he landed his own Foxnews show.

  • 5 - Phillip Winn

    Apr 01, 2005 at 3:58 pm

    Steve, the margarine post was from Jason Ritledge. Crushkill's specialty seems to be delightfully odd photos, annotated. Mercifully, there was no photo of the so-called margarine incident. :-)

  • 6 - crushkill

    Apr 01, 2005 at 4:17 pm

    I was attempting to illustrate the contrast between sad diaper and happy diaper cultures within North American Society.

    Finding ones happiness in a dirty diaper is something which has fascinated me for years.

    I have a book on the subject, in progress

  • 7 - Phillip Winn

    Apr 01, 2005 at 4:46 pm

    An illustrated book, I hope*!



    * Not really.

  • 8 - NancyGail

    Apr 01, 2005 at 5:11 pm

    Nicely done.

  • 9 - Marta

    Oct 04, 2005 at 9:27 pm

    How adorable! Cloth diapers and rubber pants like a real baby. Hey, that's what my kids wore, when they were babies.

  • 10 - ALEU

    Oct 02, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    MY MOM MADE ME WEAR MY BROTHERS PULL- UPS (A+K+A DAIPER).

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