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Hello CITR;
I doubt those customer-parents know of your pedness. I think you might be guilty of some wishful thinking here. But that's easy for people like us to do in a world where we are often stressed out by knowing how hated we are. Remember this: Parents are most inclined to interpret an adult giving their child attention (and vise-versa), as something totally innocent. They do not imagine you are capable of having a sexual attraction for their kids. They just believe you find their kids to be cute with a nice personality.

Parents are in denial that their kids are sexual beings. These youngsters, in their bent minds, are not really people, yet at all, having rights that matter. Not really. They are not much more than trophies on a mantle to them. Trophies that are made of clay. Trophies in which they put a different touch on, each day. Sort of. For lack of better analogy.

Anyways, Just keep things in perspective here. You don't want to lose touch of the reality of things. It's not impossible for "some" of those parents to think you a ped and have okayness for it. But most likely you are deluding yourself and misinterpreting their pride (pride of feeling that they raised a kid who can interact so well with people, including adults) for having an okayness of your pedhood.

Be careful. Don't slip into delusional thinking.

You are safe if you know that your pedness will most often be interpreted as an "innocent" love of children, as long as you do not let any awkwardness (awkwardness due to worrying if people are detecting your pedness) shine through. In other words, paranoia and worry, is capable of exposing you (or any ped).

A ped must never be afraid to admit, to people or parents, that he loves kids and finds himself having a sort of connection with them, or, at least, that he finds kids often take a liking to him (a liking of which he admits he doesn't mind, since he enjoys their attention as well). And this is a peds safe-haven with the anti's and non's. It's a safe-haven because anti's and non's understand that such connections are common. Speaking of all this; Someone said to me, lately, that some certain kids really seem to like me. This person said this as though they were impressed and refreshed by it. I was flattered and said something to the affect of "Yeah, I seem to get that with kids. And I don't mind it."

Anyways, Sorry if it seemed like I was preaching here. I don't pretend to know more than you do, about anything. I just had some points on my mind and decided to let them flow. If you got anything good out of them, great. If not, great.