Adult Baby: National Geographic's 'Taboo' Highlights Man With Infantalism (VIDEO)

It's no odd thing to pine for a simpler time, to wish you could go back to childhood. It's a common, impossible fantasy, it seems, one that is more exaggerated gasp and wistful dream in difficult times. For some, though, the desire for a past life is so insatiable, they do everything they can to make it happen.

Unfortunately, given that time travel isn't yet possible, they often seem a bit unusual in their quest.

National Geographic's "Taboo" highlights the life of one such dreamer: Stanley, the adult baby. He sleeps in a giant crib, plays Legos in a baby play area, gets fed with a bottle and is even creating his own gigantic highchair. It's not sexual, just the recapturing of a simpler time, no matter how psychologically complicated it may appear.

An infantalist, Stanley dresses normally for the real world, but in his apartment, it's all child's play. Though most babies don't build their own cribs.

To learn more about the show, which airs Wednesday night, click over to National Geographic.

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Comments

[midget280]

11:44 AM on 05/20/2011

Hey - you want to do that, fine by me, BUT - and this is a big but - why should I as a taxpayer be paying for it? And not just paying for him but his woman as well. Ridiculous! I work too hard every day 12+ hours while raising my son to have to pay for that.

[Stanley 19802]

05:16 PM on 05/13/2011

Hello,

It drove me nuts to not be able to find the full episode of the Taboo “Fantasy Lives” episode online. Thankfully I recorded it the night it aired, so I hooked up my VCR to my computer and made a .MPG file and uploaded it to Youtube.com. Now it’s not the full episode. I only have the AB portion of the episode uploaded. I am not sure how long Youtube.com will let the video stay up as it’s NatGeo’s episode. But maybe you can catch it before it’s gone. You can check out the video by going to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAjAz3tpF0
Take care.

-Stanley

[littlefairy]

11:10 PM on 05/11/2011

I don't think only "cultural norm(s)" tell us that we grow up, moving from infancy through childhood into and out of adolescence and into adulthood. I think EVERYTHING about being a mentally normal (with regard to cognition) human being tells us that.

I don't know that I'd say bordering on insanity but obviously there are unresolved emotional issues that create this disorder, and I would call it a disorder, personally.

[greatusername]

04:45 PM on 05/11/2011

Is he still breastfeeding?

[Cody fattystoner]

03:16 AM on 05/11/2011

i know this guy he is my neighbor but i had no clue he did this.....freaks me out

[Lordcron]

05:31 AM on 05/11/2011

I'm sorry.

[Stanley 19802]

03:50 PM on 05/11/2011

Hello Cody,

Really, small world, what apartment building you in? And what about it freaks you out? Perhaps if you did more research, you would better understand and that would take the "freakyness" out of. It's all quite simple really. My e-mail address is [e-mail]. E-mail any questions you might have about. I would be happy to try to answer them the best I can. Even though I have been in it since I was 14, I am still learning new things about Infantilism. People would be down right amazed to know who is AB in the world. People working all kinds of jobs do it. State court judges, cops, lawyers, singers, sports players....you name it, there is probably a AB in the world working that field.

-Stanley

[Cody fattystoner]

11:25 PM on 05/11/2011

idk what freaks me out maybe that i have seen u around and i had absolutely no clue at all.....

[electricladyland]

11:13 PM on 05/08/2011

It's not taboo, it's tastupid.

[sassiestkat]

10:57 PM on 05/11/2011

LOL! :)
F&F

[BillAnthony]

02:48 AM on 05/08/2011

He looks so content in his jammies, like a little angel.

[soapstix]

02:08 PM on 05/07/2011

This should have been dealt with, when this man was a 14 year old boy. A lot of people would like to turn back time, but this is utterly ridiculous. Wearing a diaper is even more ridiculous, and it does make him look like something other than just someone who wants to go back to being a tot.It makes him appear to have a diaper fetish, which he denies. To be clear, I do not believe the people in either category are pedophiles. There is however something very disturbing about this whole thing. I cannot imagine being someone like this mans "aunt" caretaker etc. That is also bothersome. Iamjustsayin

[mayslc]

12:35 PM on 05/07/2011

Let's see, Man Baby comes home from work and plays with lego and drinks juice from a bottle. I come home from work and I play XBox and drink beer from a bottle.

Man Baby goes around the house in a diaper, I go around my house in my underwear.

Man Baby has an "aunt" that feeds him baby food and makes him bottles and I have to literally beg my wife to make me a sandwich.

Man Baby=1, Me=0
Well played Man Baby....well played...

[sassiestkat]

10:57 PM on 05/11/2011

Bahaha!
F&F

[neversubmit]

02:50 PM on 05/18/2011

Actually, it's Man Baby=2, You=0. That's because you go to work everyday & he stays home everyday, playing baby, collecting 'disability' welfare, paid for by you. Kinda makes you want to participate in some "child" abuse, huh?

After the show aired & being called out on his welfare fraud, he threatened to commit suicide if taxpayers dare stop his gravy train. Now he sounds more like an entitled bratty teenager instead of an infant...actually, he sounds like your basic, modern welfare recipient who leeches off taxpayers.

[HannaSchmitz]

12:21 PM on 05/07/2011

That's one fat baby.

[Wendy Barley]

12:15 AM on 05/07/2011

Some things you just don't need to know. Cripes, what if this guy is someone's boss?

[sassiestkat]

10:58 PM on 05/11/2011

I read a few other articles that stated they are both on disability so no boss to worry about, perhaps ever after this revelation.

[carmenmaddox2020]

04:12 PM on 05/06/2011

OMMFG......dude are you 4 real???? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joetherealist]

03:56 PM on 05/06/2011

Silly me, I thought this was an article about Senator Vitter.

[Master Debater]

03:39 PM on 05/06/2011

Wow. As long as he pays his taxes I don't see that he's doing anything wrong. We are all weirdos in some way. I just feel sorry for him in that he doesn't seem to have interpersonal relationships with anyone other than his "nanny".

[neversubmit]

04:02 PM on 05/18/2011

He doesn't pay taxes--he leeches off society, living on disability checks, paid for by those of us who work. And now that he's under fire for his welfare fraud, he's threatening to kill himself if they cut him off. I don't care what he does in his own home, it's his sense of entitlement and stealing from the rest of us that pisses me off. Still feel "sorry" for him?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/17/senator-questions-benefits-to-adult-baby/?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4dd407df3606b39c%2C0

[Brittany Vidaurri]

03:30 PM on 05/06/2011

I had no idea there was even such a thing as infantalism....

[quovadiszero]

03:50 PM on 05/06/2011

If its out there HuffPo will find it.

[forum4women]

03:58 PM on 05/06/2011

Me either. I think I want to get into that though. I hope my 5 and 6 year olds won't mind...lol
I just hope their dad don't see this or he'll want to do it to..yikes! He doesn't go to the bathroom in that diaper does he? Ewwww. I think that would turn the whole not so bad fetish into something rather disgusting.