Tom I didn’t mean to say that I had been dry for a year at age 9. I was one of those who never became dry from day one I wet every night till I was 13 I didn’t start having dry nights till 13 ½ - 14 years. My story was in response to someone who was thinking about taking her 8 year olds out of pull-ups at night. My mother stopped using diapers on me at night at the same age but I still wet every night. I was just recalling how I felt as a little girl going on an exiting trip to see my grand parents. My mom and I lived with them till I was 5 and they moved when I was 6. I was the oldest grand child by far my aunt was 4 years older then me she was like my sister we had always played together. I was nervous about seeing her because she was now 13 seemed like grownup to me at that age. I was 9 at that time a lot older than the other grand children so her and I would hang together. When we arrived she was so happy to se me and said I was going to sleep with her and we could stay up late and watch television. I was so happy that she still liked me and I was feeling like quite the big girl and we were helping around the house. I still had my little problem and something had to be done to deal with it. I was only trying to show how I felt as a little girl at the moment. Bed-wetting is one of those things you have to live through to understand. Today I have a choice I can look at it two ways. I can play the victim and say I was humiliated and made to ware diapers in front of others. Or I can say I had a not uncommon problem my mother was responsible to decide how to handle it. There was no perfect solution she did the best she could think of at the time. In the end nothing terrible happened during that trip. Did I suffer subconscious side effects from bed-wetting? Yes what those are I am just beginning to understand. Do I ware a diaper today? No I am a nice girl I don’t have any props no handcuffs no leather no paddles no whips no weird piercing and no diapers. Steph