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Christians, prayers, and Body Integrity Identity Disorder

by Sean - 21 July 2008

I’m angry. I’m fuming! Nothing new, you’ll say, but this time, the trigger is not something I’ve discussed here before. I’m going to discuss the problems caused by some people who call themselves Christians. Mind y’all, I’m not against Christianity (regardless of what "type"), I’m not against God. My post is not anti-religious. I must say this, because it is an important distinction to make. While I do not share religious beliefs with Christians, Muslims, Hindhus or any other organised religion, I am very much of a live and let live kind of mindframe. But sometimes, people, as best intentionned as they are, are managing to do a whole lot of damage. One of the most damaging is to first intimate that Body Integrity Identity Disorder can be “cured” through prayer, and then to cut someone off from all support other people with BIID can provide.

Teenagers with BIID have it tough

by Sean - 19 July 2008

I received a plea for help earlier this afternoon from a teenager who has BIID. This "kid" has been in touch on and off for about a year. He’s not the first teenager with BIID to contact me, and is unlikely to be the last. His email reminded me of the really hard time *I* had as a teenager. Having BIID is not easy in and of itself, but being young and having BIID makes it even more difficult, because the only recourse available to handle the pain of BIID are pretty much unavailable to you. It just seem incredibly unfair.

Addressing the “pretenders for fun” issue

by Sean - 18 July 2008

Rorshach recently objected to a post from Claire, where she was expressing concerns about “Pretendering for kicks”. This post was originally published on a private blog, but permission was given to reprint on this site. You may wish to read it if you haven’t already. This is an important issue that seems to inflame passions. I have some strong opinions on the matter and am going to discuss them here again. Be warned, I might ramble on a bit :)

I think I told my husband…

by Zoe - 17 July 2008

I think i told him…

I was a little drunk (well, more than a little drunk), but that was the only way i would have felt free enough to say anything at all, let alone to tell him my deepest, darkest secret in the world.

A pretender who doesn’t pretend

by Claire -

I met a pretender today who had an interesting approach to it, I thought. My last post stirred a couple of people up, so I went back into the annals of the late, great, wheelchairpretenders group to read the old posts once again. One guy had said something interesting, and I could also see that he was online. So I sent him an instant message, to see what he had to say about his motivations for pretending. He turned out to be really cool.