Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Zoe - 30 June 2008
I’ve deviated from my primary topic in my last couple of posts, but its time to get back on track.
Another one of my theories about where these feelings come from is that perhaps i am unable to be grateful for what i’ve got, i mean, if it seems to good to be try, it probably is. So have i created a need in my mind which grew into an obsession, which keeps me from being completely happy about my life…
Back to the point… continues »
by Sean -
Someone pointed me to a YouTube video that appeared recently. It seems to be an extract of an actual documentary, though it’s not one I’ve seen. It is interesting that Dr. Robert Smith is in there, doing a follow-up on one of the people he’s provided an amputation for. Or that is what it looks like anyway. In the short segment (~2 mins), the amputee is asked if he has any regrets, and he says that being an amputee is all that he’s ever wanted and he’s happy.
BIID amputee says he’s happy. continues »
by Dante - 28 June 2008
Awhile back I had a conversation with someone else I know that also deals with BIID. Often that person is the one who spurs me to write as I have. Once again, that person told me that I should explain my unqiue sitation…
A Little Bit of Everything continues »
by Zoe - 22 June 2008
I am disabled, just not in the way i need to be.
The dictionary defines disability, as an inability. And, my inability, is to fall pregnant. This is not new for me, it’s not like the smoking gun that the unbelievers would like to think explains all of this.
(Dis)Ability continues »
by Zoe -
Whilst still early on in this exploration (and hopefully before getting nasty comments on my last post), i thought that i should explain that i do understand that there’s much more to being a paraplegic than just not being able to use one’s legs.
More to it than that… continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.