by Collective - 13 April 2009
The following post is a collection of entries on the topic of “BIID and Choice” from different people. Everyone was asked to write about that topic, but were not given more direction than that. I chose to leave it up to people to go in the direction they thought best fitted the topic. I am quite happy with the way it’s turned out and might repeat this experience with another topic. Sean
Choice and BIID – Varying Opinions continues »
by John - 9 February 2007
Sean said:
From posts here and elsewhere, it would appear that many of us transabled have had to deal with depression. Me as well.
Without going into personal detail, I have had to deal with depression for years. This has not been much fun but in somewhat more recent times things have gotten considerably better for me partly because I am using an effective antidepressant. While I still have some aspects of depression to deal with I no longer am likely to see almost any stressful situation pessimistically and full of doom and gloom. My depression does have some relationship or impact to my transabled side:
Depression and transability continues »
by John - 9 September 2006
Like Sean, and at least a few other people, I have had a strong and long-term desire to become physically disabled; to use Sean’s term, I am "transabled". In my case I want to become a spinal cord paraplegic, something that I share with Sean. My interest in disabilities and my desire to become disabled dates back to childhood. It is impossible to honestly say when I felt interest in being paralyzed but I do remember being fascinated by the sight of someone with an amputation or in a wheelchair from very early childhood, say age 5 or 6. Certainly by adolescence I wanted to become physically disabled myself. Though the desire to be unable to walk and restricted to using a wheelchair has always been part of the picture, I have also had interests in other disabilities both in terms of being a devotee and wannabe. Still, the desire to be a paraplegic has been the strongest by far.
My Perspective continues »