Vanilla-Parfait
I am not into infantillism, but I think consenting adults should be allowed to do what they want. In all honesty the idea of it makes me somewhat uncomfortable, it's simply not something I would find attractive. But I believe that as long as the individuals involved are not exploiting real children in any way, then there isn't any harm in it. Infantillism doesn't mean ***** necessarily. I suppose there are individuals attracted to it for that reason, but it doesn't mean that the group as a whole would ever exploit children for sexual purposes.
I am into BDSM and it's the same kind of thing in that world. It's sometimes misunderstood (though more widely accepted now) and some people think that we're all these violent rapists or something. Again, I suppose there must be some people attracted to it for those reason, but that doesn't represent us as a whole. It is always supposed to be between consenting adults, so how can anyone say there's something wrong with it. I'm a domme, but I'm actually a nice person. Play is play.
I do hope that you keep standing up for yourselves, and after reading what you all had to say I understand more how you feel about it and I can see why you're fighting for acceptance.
I was really happy to see the BDSM crowd get a majority of acceptance as it's a step towards world wide acceptance of other things. Once people understand that we aren't out there to get their children or even think of their children, then WE'LL have the start we need. It'd be arrogance for me to hope that we could genuinely go public about this, but I guess what I do hold onto hope for is that one day, telling a person, due to neutral publicity regarding infantilist, won't immediately result in "YOU *****!"