This story is a sequel to Taboo Feelings
Scootaloo is not a normal filly. Deep down she knows the life she lives cannot stay that way forever. She fools her friends well enough, they usually don't ask questions. She fools her teacher and even the other residents of Ponyville. What happens when the life she worked for starts to crumble? What happens when the plans she had worked so hard for happen to be impossible from the start? She can only fool everypony for so long after all.
Editor: Albert Manhattan
Proofreader: thunderchaser23
Warning: Contains aspects of infantilism.
Chapters (8)
It's supposed to be we were.
If Scootaloo ran off, how could she have known that Twilight grinned at her?
What you have here....
Is a masterpeice in the works... Good job, and keep it up, you got a like and a watch from me
Thank you very much!
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3883388 youre quite welcome
3883388 im on hiatus for my story, but id love for you to check it out. Im currently joining Super-Stallion and his Foal Adventures.
I have a great idea! I'll take my last story and do the exact same thing, but with another pony! All I have to do is switch up the name and nobody will ever know!
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This while emotional is awsome
Did you even read the story?
Because it seems pretty different so far... 3884036
3884096 No, nor do I really care. Looks like the exact same story, though, especially when you just read the descriptions, tags, and titles.
What happened to never judge a book by its cover?
Also, the similarities to the tags and descriptions and title was done on purpose. 3884105
3884119 You see, judging books by their covers has saved me a lot of pain. That phrase is about as stupid as playing in traffic. The cover will pretty much tell you whether or not a book will be worth your time, especially considering the cover usually includes a quick summary.
Also, so it's a false pretense to get people to read your story. Almost as low.
I could defend my story to the death and you would still not give it a chance, huh? Your assumptions that I simply copied my last story is wrong, though I'm sure you would not listen. Even if I'm telling the truth. 3884131
3884149 No, I wouldn't. It's the same story as the last one, except with Scootaloo. Sure, it may not be an exact copy, but the entire premise is exactly the same. X pony is an 'adult baby' and hides it from everybody else, but it eventually comes out. Does that about sum it up?
A: It's not just regular foalcon.
B: I don't care for the subject.
C: It's the exact same as the last one.
I don't write Foalcon, or did you miss the everyone tag? You don't care for the subject? Then why are you commenting on it? Its not the exact same, I don't know how many times I have to say this
I guess I'll just start ignoring you for now, don't know why you took the time to comment in the first place though. 3884161
I'll just leave my downvote instead, then. Was going to just leave it as is, but comment deletions irk me.
I'm gonna have to go with Peppy on this, but I'll just leave my downvote as well and move on.
I'm guessing you didn't read it either?
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3884289 Why would I want to read something from somebody that can't take negative feedback?
Feedback: information about reactions to a product, a person's performance of a task, etc.
He said in one of his comments that he did not read it, how is that feedback?
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You don't have to read the entirety something to be able to react to it. I'm quite certain he read the description, did he not? Please don't try to twist things to your own gain if you can't properly do so.
And, if you want, I can provide you with his last comment, too, since he was nice enough to send it to me.
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don't worry about what others say. It's your story. Do what you want.
I can’t wait for more!
Don't worry. I like the story
3884289 Ignore them, I get down votes all of the time. Two people down voting isn't the end of the world, especially if it's from people who are blatantly trolling you in the comment section. Just ignore them as I already said, they obviously have no lives and are pathetic enough to go to a story and down vote it with no reason simply because they are against the idea of people being different and freedom of expression. I think I've made my point.
3884235 3884268 I see...
You're obviously using an alt account to support your own opinions and bash this story with more than one downvote, Peppy.
Reported.
Edit: Aaaand, Peppy got banned. I knew that second critic was an alternate account.
Ignore the two critics. Pinkie will get them in time.
Story's great!
Dis goin b good
Hm, either Mrs. Cake is picking up supplies for her twins. Or she has a secret that she clearly doesn't want anyone to find out. I'm guessing it's the latter, and I know what it is.
Don't listen to those two users. They don't know the meaning of the word criticism. You can't make a good judgement if you don't read beyond the description. But if you don't like it then you don't have to read it.
That being said nice job so far. Scootaloo needs to apologize, no matter how stressed she was there was no call for snapping at her best friend.
Well. Great.
Nothing more to say actually.
I'm just waiting for the part where Scootaloo freaks out completely while the crusaders are at the clubhouse and shows them just how she's spending her nights and what her 'home' actually is.
Go on dear writer.
Dragon
I'm guessing you or someone close to you indulges in this lifestyle? (rhetorical question. The answer is unimportant to me) I don't understand most of the extreme stuff, like dressing up or diapers, but I think everyone has an inner child and almost anyone can have fun playing with a good set of blocks or a toy trainset. Heck, there are probably a not insignificant number of bronies who watch mainly because they enjoy the escapism of watching children's TV.
It's as Applejack said in the last fic; so long as no one is getting hurt and everyone involved is enjoying it in their own ways, then what they do in their own time is fine by me.
I do kinda wonder what will happen with Scootaloo in this fic however. You could take it three ways:
1) Scootaloo goes baby to regain the feeling of childhood that she has missed for years.
2) Scootaloo goes caretaker, but perhaps with an emphasis on trying to help the 'foal' grow up. This would misunderstand the point of caretaker, as far as I can tell, but it might be what she tries. This one also feels the most OOC, given the characterisations both in canon and earlier in this fic.
3) Scootaloo learns to live and let live. That not understanding something about her friend doesn't stop her from being a friend nonetheless. If you go this route, then the plot is likely to focus more on Scootaloo's homelessness than it otherwise would.
Thank you
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He got banned but his downvote still stays
oh well, I'll get over it! 
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I'm glad you think so. I probably should have grouped a few comments, oh well
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Yeah, I wasn't so subtle there but oh well. 3885024
You'll see how it goes, as long as you keep reading, heh. How about a hint though, while it is true many of us indulge in the more extreme side (diapers, bottles etc...) the primarily focus of this story was never meant to be just about that. The infantilism is a smaller part of a larger story and that's it.
We don't (at least I would like to think so) need diapers and all of that to feel like a kid again, they simply enhance the experience I suppose. Cartoons, playing, and childish acts are enough. 3885362
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Yeah, I can tell that the previous story was the one that focused more on what it means to the pony/person in question, while this one seems to be more about what it means to friends and/or family.
(given that, it seems likely that my third theory will prove to be the most correct)
Another thought: In this fic, Scootaloo stumbled upon a store catering to the adult foal audience.
1) I'm surprised such a store could exist in a small town like ponyville, even as a side business. I would have thought there wouldn't be nearly enough customers to sustain it.
2) While understand the story you want to tell pretty much required a store like this to exist, I suspect that in the real world over 99% of sales catering to this extreme side would be over the internet only.
Poor scoots.... The entire town is babies.... Its anarchy!!
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My advice is this: if you want to have another story about a foal having strange feelings and realizing that they're an infantilist, don't set it in the same universe as your other story about a foal having strange feelings and realizing that they're an infantilist. It comes off as cheap, exploitive, and fetish-driven, like yaoi stories where every single male character turns out to have a kawaii crush on another male character.
The original story irritated me because I don't like infantilism and I wasn't warned before I read far enough to realize what was going on. But that aside, it was a somewhat unique take on something that people typically write as explicit fetish material. That's what it had going for it--the unique way in which it was presented, exploring the character's psychology rather than her sexuality.
This one is the exact same idea retold with different events and words. It even has the same phrasing in the summary. Simply retelling your old story strips the new one of any literary value it could have had, because we already read this idea. People who are into the lifestyle will naturally enjoy it regardless and favorite it, but if you're trying to bring in a wider audience, you need to be more creative.
Also, I don't think this should have been rated E, but that's just my opinion. The way I see it, stories that center around things like this should at least be rated T even if there's nothing explicit, because you are dealing with some pretty racy subject matter that some people may still be bothered by. Presenting it as acceptable for anyone is disingenuous marketing.
That's just what I have to say about this. I'm not a fan of ab/dl stuff, but you're not a bad writer, especially compared to a lot of the other people who post these things. Your other story was at least an interesting take on the psychology behind why people would want to do such things.
I notice the new chapter has repeated use of the word "sweet". I get why you've done it, including its slight double meaning (there's a reason why nopony has referred to more than one pony as 'sweetie' in canon, and the word 'sweet' is rarely if ever said).
It's a creative use of language.
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That the two descriptions are so similar is one of the reasons why I don't think Scootaloo is likely to choose that lifestyle. Scootaloo has a different problem (homelessness) that can be described with similar imagery.
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But in the summary, we have this:
We have Scootaloo observing ponies preparing for and discussing their infantilist activities within the story, just like in the other fanfic, which contains identical descriptions of emotional turmoil experienced by the protagonist and which in the original leads to her having an interest in the abdl lifestyle. The author is also called abdlpony, which implies this lifestyle is one of the main aspects of his identity as a writer, and he used to have some other infantilist stories as well that he apparently deleted.
If we apply Occam's razor to all the information available, producing the simplest explanation of what the outcome will be given the large number of infantilism-related ideas within and surrounding this story, we can conclude that this is going to be a story about Scootaloo becoming an infantilist.
While I'm sure all of us who are into ab/dl things appreciate you being so restrained and being big enough to admit when someone is a legitimate writer even when you hate the stuff they write about. (I can tell your being civil which is awesome) Ab/dl stuff isn't always sexual in nature, I suppose its community has not helped its image however. Most will see a fetish, which saying no one is into this when it comes to things of a sexual nature would be a lie. But I truly believe not all of us are into this just because it turns them on.
Also, so far I don't see many similarities to Taboo Feelings, any and all are there because this is a sequel to that story, at least I hope so... 3885829
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We've already seen aspects of infantilism, and we are likely to see more regardless of whether of not Scootaloo joins in.
No, I'm becoming more confident that this will be a story where Scootaloo learns to accept that aspect of her friends' lives, but won't make it her own life.
And while I know as good as nothing of the lifestyle beyond what I can glean from these two fics, I can see that Sweetie and Scoots are not taking the same paths.
I can see the possibility of Twilight, or less likely Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash, taking on a caretaker role over Scootaloo, I also think Scootaloo is likely to reject the offer.
Finally, I made no judgements about the author's name because I have never heard of that acronym before. To me, it could have just as easily been their own initials or a random set of letters in the same vein as xkcd (chosen as much for their unpronounceability as a word as for any other reason). Even now, I can guess what 'a' and 'b' each means easily enough, and 'd' I have a hunch about, but 'l' is an unknown to me.
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I have no doubt that there are a lot of reasons one would engage in such a lifestyle besides just getting off. It depends on the degree to which you're into it and what you do, I suppose. But nevertheless, society is not going to recognize a 35 year old man wearing Pokemon feet pajamas as 'normal' for the same reason that we can't shout "I clop furiously to Twilight Sparkle's delicious futa dick and fat pony plot!" in public places. It's socially abnormal, regardless of what its practitioners believe it should be regarded as.
And you can never unsee stuff like Deeker's website. It haunts you for the rest of your life and affects your perception of all related activities from that moment forward.
I don't think infantilism is wrong, personally, but the idea of wearing a diaper as an adult, period, is just icky to me. I avoid reading about it, though this story caught my interest for the same reason the other one did--it looked like it was about something dark or deep like sexual/gender orientation, or abuse.
Even more reason why it should be different. Sequels should be more than rehashes; they should add something new to the series. Think Terminator 2 vs. the original Terminator. Except with diapers, I guess... ugh, I don't want to think about Arnold in a diaper.
Just ignore the parasprite. If he really didn't like the material present in the original then I have no idea why he's reading the sequel. My guess is he just wants to nitpick about something.
In any case it seems like Rainbow Dash may be involved in the same sort of secret as Pinkie Pie, Sweetie Belle, and Mrs. Cake. And Twilight and Fluttershy may potentially be caretakers. It seems like, oddly enough, Applejack is the only noticeable authority figure that's not tied to any of that. Unless, she is.
Not to turn this into a joke, but you would be (or not be) surprised what Japan considers normal from time to time.
Deeker is one of the examples that painted us in a bad, bad light aside from the obvious. I'm glad you think its not wrong though. I guess I can see how an adult wearing a diaper would be considered icky, but *shrugs* you don't have to be into it. Arnold in a diaper happened in Robot Chicken 
ha. As for being a rehash, I guess its a matter of opinion, I don't see one yet. If you see examples though that are clearly copied or rehashed from the first story then make another comment and point them out. 3886001
Well...
This isn't... a good situation...
No family anymore? Check.
Ponies acting weird around her? Check.
Strange business for 'big foals' in Ponyville? Check.
Scoots being reminded of the sour days of life? Check.
Poor Scoots.
I'm seriously awaiting her breakdown.
Dragon