Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Chloe - 29 August 2010
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, Chloe used to experience enormous psychological stress when seeing a physician. Now, at her ninth GP visit in a wheelchair, she finds it both relaxing and entertaining.
GP Visit Number Nine continues »
by Chloe - 23 August 2010
My disability presentation has evolved over the last two years. It has lacked consistency, both over time and also between different groups of people. I’m not sure I could have done it any other way. I needed to experiment in order to find an optimal presentation for treating my BIID. These things simply weren’t obvious to me ahead of time. However, it leaves me with the discomforting baggage of being known in different ways to different people.
Consistent Presentation continues »
by Chloe - 10 August 2010
In many mythological tales the choice of the left hand path represents the path to authenticity. By contrast, the right hand path represents following the dictates of society; doing what one is told one should do. Many of us coming to this website choose the left hand path. Or is it a choice? Perhaps it is simply the destiny to which we are born.
The Left Hand Path continues »
by Chloe - 29 July 2010
Every Sunday Alicia and I set aside several hours specifically to discuss our feelings. It’s what we do instead of going to church. In fact, for us it IS going to church. Today I went on a hike which exemplified and consolidated what we had discussed on the previous two Sundays. As usual, my hike is dripping with metaphors for BIID; but I’ll let you figure those out.
Winning and Losing continues »
by Chloe - 16 July 2010
With hindsight, my resistance to becoming a majority time wheeler seems quaint. Why would I have resisted a change in my life which has proved to be so beneficial? As with a lot of things, the answer seems complex.
A Year of Wheeling continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2010 - All Rights Reserved.