TV Documentary Program interested in Inflation

i don't ever trust the media, ever

I agree with everyone on saying to not trust the media. Like I said I was interested in giving it a try because I felt like this would help me with knowing more and more about film business since I am minoring in film in college and I want to know more on how to work in the film industry. But the reason that I didn't is because I don't want my family, friends, girl that I like, and anyone who knows me to think of me as a sick, twisted, psychopathic, perverted, monster/freak which I have been called that numerous occasions, and I don't want to be sent back into a mental institution. So, I have been trying to stand up for everyone in the inflation community by telling this person in a nice way that we as a community don't want to be discriminated and laughed at for being different, and we would like to stay anonymous for the our safety and the safety of what is happening in our lives whether it is family, friends, a career, and even your name. Maybe everyone on here was the cool kid in high school or is still in high school and looked as the cool kid.  I don't know.

"Why yes, I will cheerfully be recorded answering all sorts of intensely personal questions about myself and let you edit the final product in any way you see fit to get the highest ratings possible.  Not only that, I trust you to pixelate or otherwise conceal my face at my request."

Then again, maybe not.

The reason why this production company wants one of us to tell our stories about our fetish is and this is coming from the person who I have been talking to, "We are interested in telling someone's story of body inflation because it is a habit that not everyone has or knows about." That's their answer to the reason why they want one of us to be on the show. I am not bashing or angry at them, so please don't think I am trying to start a riot or some thing. I just wanted to point that out to everyone.

I first found out that i wasn't alone from a message scrawled on a toilet wall about inflating Princess Di!  Yes, i probably agree with you.  The situation is probably a bit different than the previous one.

That was how i discovered i wasn't alone, not how i discovered i was into this! The way i found i was into this was when, in my school playground, i noticed some girls playing a game that one of them was being inflated by a blood transfusion and found it strangely intriguing.

Concerning Bodyshockers, the last i heard was that they'd done all the filming. I think they found someone off YouTube but i don't know if they're here as well. Probably they didn't find what i do visually appealing or spectacular enough - i did tell them i wasn't likely to be good TV material.

Some years ago the Daily Show (Kilborn era) made contact, looking to do a segment. I said "I'm a big fan of the show and I realize this all looks a bit silly, so sure -- what would you like to discuss?" And they never wrote back. They lost interest the moment I made it clear we would be in on the joke; if they couldn't be cruel, they couldn't be bothered.

I do think some attention can be positive -- we've had nice treatment at the hands of a few online columnists in the early days, plus Katherine Gates approached us from a respectful, anthropoligical perspective for her Deviant Desires book -- and yes, that can lead to new people saying "oh, thank god I found you people, I thought it was just me." But now that anybody who wants to find us can Google a few key words and find kindred spirits in earnest, I see more risk than reward when the media comes calling. 

Anybody can go to YouTube and make fun of us without our involvement. So if you want us to participate, I wind up asking myself, "What's in it for us? How will the community benefit from this?" And I never seem to come up with a good answer. 

My guess is that the show will just try to take something that has a mild fetish value for some and (no pun intended) blow it up into a 'look at the freaks' side show. 

Yes, it's a weird fetish, but the version that will be shown will be akin to a crazy rubber suit wearing lunatic wanting to marry an air tank.

Avoid this show.

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