Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Claire - 18 March 2007
Going through boxes of old books this weekend I came across an old diary. I confess I wasn’t a very regular writer - in a 3-year period there are a total of 13 entries. I quickly read through them, and came across an entry, dated 1981.
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by jim - 3 March 2007
There was a boy in my neighborhood that was paraplegic from polio. He was probably 3 years older than me and didn’t go to our public school. One summer we played wiffle ball in the street every afternoon. The kid, (Earl was his name) would play too.
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by Claire - 20 February 2007
Once when I was 18 or so, I was at the mall and I saw a beautiful young paraplegic woman. My heart started pounding and my breath came quick - I wanted to be her! I followed her discreetly around the mall, drinking it all in, I loved how she gracefully pushed her chair, how atrophied her legs were, and how she interacted cheerfully with everyone around her.
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by Sean - 13 February 2007
I must have been 8 or 9, I think. We were visiting some of my parents’ friends in the ‘burbs. We were all playing in the basement, when friends of my parents’ friends showed up, with their kid in tow. He was a young boy, younger than I was anyway, and was equipped with a set of braces, which I now know are used for hip problems. The brace kept his leg separated, spread in a ‘V’ shape, and held the length of his legs, with the shoes attached, and a hinged spreader bar between the shoes. I’ve looked for a photo/illustration of that brace, but couldn’t find one…
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by Claire - 10 February 2007
I was 9 years old. Todd was my favorite older cousin. He was 17, and like an older brother to me, an only child, who had no other older brother. I loved him. One day, my mother arrived home with two of my cousins in tow; Todd’s little brother and sister. She said there had been a terrible accident, and that Todd had been shot in the back while hunting, and that he would never walk again.
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