Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Dan - 28 August 2007
I wrote a while ago that I was going to see a therapist who treats PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). The idea is that I think I have PTSD as well as BIID, and PTSD is supposed to be treatable.
Therapy continues »
by Sean - 23 August 2007
It is dangerous, I think, for us to call it a lifestyle choice. That expression implies a benignity of the condition which is just not true. It also implies a choice, which we do not have. We have no more choice about having BIID than someone who is gay has about their sexual orientation. And I think you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who is gay to agree that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice.
Is transability a lifestyle choice? continues »
by Sean - 19 August 2007
Everyone who has been reading this blog for any length of time knows that my BIID focuses on needing to be a paraplegic, specifically an L1/L2 para. The question I’ve been asked is "would this be enough?". And going one step further, considering a bilateral femoral nerve transection, which would indeed paralyse my legs, but wouldn’t affect my bowels, bladders or genitalia, would that be enough?
Would it be enough? continues »
by Claire - 13 August 2007
An opportunity is coming up that would allow me to use my wheelchair regularly, in public, in the open. I’m going back to school. No one will know me there, although there’s a chance, even a probability, that someone I know will see me there one day eventually. So the question is…should I do it? To wheel, or not to wheel? continues »
by Sean - 11 August 2007
Someone was telling me they’d like to hear more about some of my day to day "adventures". I don’t really see my every day life as such an adventure, it’s pretty boring stuff, really. But there you have it, I understand that it might be of some interest, somehow. So here is a brief story about a nearly daily trip to the workplace cafeteria.
A trip to the cafeteria continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2008 - All Rights Reserved.