Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Sean - 26 January 2010
I experienced something I hadn’t experienced before – swollen ankles. I mean *really* swollen. I blame a combination of not drinking enough, and higher than usual ambiant humidity. I couldn’t help thinking how so many of my para friends have such swollen lower legs and ankles. BIID is really weird.
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by Chloe - 25 January 2010
This had to come sooner or later; an evening of dancing in my wheelchair. I should have learnt by now that there is nothing to be nervous about such things; but I was nervous anyway.
Wheelchair Dancing continues »
by Phil - 24 January 2010
What would I do without BIID? What would I be? If there really was a way to “tame” it, to reduce the pressure… what would I do all day?
Without BIID continues »
by Peter - 22 January 2010
We very rarely talk about my BIID but my husband is constantly reminded of it by the clutter of braces and crutches around the house and not least the wheelchair that is permanently hanging over a back seat of the car with its wheels that clang every time he drives round a corner.
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by Elisabeth - 19 January 2010
Where they have gone, all those young people with SCI? All those young people after car accidents? Where are all the manual wheelchair users? Those sexy, muscular, elegantly wheeling young people some of us want to be?
Tell Me, Where They Have Gone? continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.