Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Sean - 25 November 2011
There have been several new academic papers coming out about BIID recently. I will talk about them in the next few weeks. The first paper I would like to mention is Demographics, Learning and Imitation, and Body Schema in Body Integrity Identity Disorder by Alicia Johnson, Sook-Lei Liew, and Lisa Aziz-Zadeh.
Demographics, Learning and Imitation, and Body Schema in BIID continues »
by Sean - 12 November 2011
I was thinking the other day (yeah, it happens!). Thinking that perhaps if I weren’t so intelligent BIID wouldn’t hurt so much. Idle, pointless thoughts, really. And not the first time I have had thoughts like that. But recent comments by other folks on the site triggered that thinking.
Would Being Stupid Minimise BIID Pain? continues »
by Sean - 6 November 2011
I was talking with my GP a few months ago. He asked me how I was handling things with BIID. He then said something about Conversion Disorder and how it was too bad we couldn’t switch places.
Trading Places continues »
by Sean - 2 November 2011
Not long ago, I was writing about how my back was painful. Things are changing. And as they are changing, I become more aware of my body.
Body Awareness continues »
by Sean - 29 October 2011
Nearly 2 years ago, someone wrote a post on FAB Matters, a feminist website. I wrote a response on this site. The post and comments have a distinctive anti-BIID flavour. In fact, many of the comments are angry, if not vitriolic. Chloe and I have made attempts at addressing some of the issues the posters there raise. We might as well have attempted to pull teeth with tweezers.
The BIID Debate – Emotions vs Logic continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.