Plan A
by Chloe - 31 December 2008
I have been thinking about how to conform my body to my paralysed self image since I was five years old. The plans come in three categories. I call them Plan A, Plan B and Plan C.
Plan A continues »Archive for December, 2008
Wishing I Could Go to Frankfurt
by Sean - 30 December 2008
There is a Body Integrity Identity Disorder converence to be held in April 2009, in Frankfurt, Germany. I have been invited to speak at the conference. Other invitees include Dr. Michael First, Christopher Ryan, and I’m sure several of the other researchers on the topic. Unfortunately, I am short about US$6,000 to be able to go!
Wishing I Could Go to Frankfurt continues »Do I Want To Get Cured?
by Tom - 29 December 2008
I have tried to get therapy for the past eleven years or so. Initially, I wasn’t quite sure why, but I felt there was something wrong in my life (other than my BIID) and I expected to discover what that was. I made several attempts with different therapists. Lately, I mentioned my desire to have my left hand amputated and I also mentioned what happened in my childhood with my father and the accident I had when I was eight that left me with a temporarily paralysed left hand and that temporarily also saved me from the sex abuse. Do I Want To Get Cured? continues »Coming Out
by Cath - 28 December 2008
It is Friday evening and I am sitting in my lovely sleek Ti-Lite ZRA looking at the blank page on my word processor and wondering where to start. It’s not like me to be stuck for words – I am a linguist by training, if not these days by profession. Friends would laugh at my unaccustomed inarticulacy, but then they don’t know that I am here and I may never get round to telling them, though I would dearly love to some day.
Coming Out continues »Another GP Visit
by Chloe - 27 December 2008
Today I had my third GP visit with regard to depression. There were a couple of things I wanted to bring up in connection with BIID. I was nervous about this, so I asked my partner to accompany me.
Another GP Visit continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.