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	<description>Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!</description>
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		<title>A Door Slammed In My Face</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/a-door-slammed-in-my-face.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/a-door-slammed-in-my-face.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve opened myself up to a lot of people in the past few years. I&#8217;ve shared my heart and soul with the world, exposed myself and made myself vulnerable. All the fear of rejection and shame that kept me from being socially connected was unfounded. Living with BIID is a scary thing. We have this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIID Is Not Just A Form Of Solipsism</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-is-not-just-a-form-of-solipsism.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-is-not-just-a-form-of-solipsism.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago someone emailed me asking whether Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID) was merely a form of solipsism. Apparently some BIID detractors have stated that. This is interesting as I&#8217;d never heard it phrased quite that way. To ensure we all understand what I&#8217;m talking about, I looked up the word on several [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another Way of Aligning with the Earth</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/another-way-of-aligning-with-the-earth.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/another-way-of-aligning-with-the-earth.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 01:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sylvie's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before this past Saturday morning, I couldn&#8217;t remember the last time I went out in my wheelchair. It sat in the now-empty basement, a sheet thrown over it to protect it from my cat who thinks it&#8217;s her own special place. I didn&#8217;t want to think about the process of unloading the junk out of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exercise and Relaxation</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/exercise-and-relaxation.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/exercise-and-relaxation.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Support]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The focus of this week&#8217;s workshop on &#34;Living Well with Chronic Conditions&#34; was Pain and Fatigue. These are critical aspects of the symptom cycle for fibromyalgia; but one of the participants asked if we may also consider emotional pain as part of the discussion. This makes it relevant to BIID, since dealing with emotional pain [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>An Image That Speaks To Me</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/an-image-that-speaks-to-me.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/an-image-that-speaks-to-me.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 01:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across a photo recently that spoke to me. I haven&#8217;t been able to get the photo out of my head. It touches me in many different ways, but I&#8217;m not entirely sure I can verbalise it. Photo &#169;Copyright Daria Endresen. Used with permission.Black and white photo of a person sitting on the floor. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Objecting to Walking is Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/objecting-to-walking-is-discrimination.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/objecting-to-walking-is-discrimination.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BADD - Impairment Specific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1 May is Blogging Against Disabilism Day. Today I&#8217;ll write about transabled folks who walk, despite needing to be paralysed, and how people with disabilities who object to that are effectively showing disabilism &#8211; or disability discrimination. BADD comes around every year and this year it took me by surprise! There is so much to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Enlightenment and Understanding</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/enlightenment-and-understanding.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/enlightenment-and-understanding.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Despair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freakin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gravity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idiosyncratic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Negativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not always been an optimist. However, so many things in my lifetime have changed for the better, both in myself and in the world, that such a stance now seems much more reasonable to me. Where there was once despair, is now hope. It may seem like there has been a torrent of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anger Management</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/anger-management.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/anger-management.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wrist Braces]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The unique focus for week 2 of the &#34;Living Well with Chronic Conditions&#34; workshop I am taking was &#34;Difficult Emotions&#34;. We each had to choose a particular emotion, associated with our chronic conditions, that we wanted to focus on and address. I chose anger. My choice would probably surprise most of my friends. I am [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Double Leg Amputation</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/double-leg-amputation.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/double-leg-amputation.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am transabled. I have Body Integrity Identity Disorder &#8211; BIID. Since the age of 3 or 4, I&#8217;ve needed to be paralysed &#8220;from the waist down&#8221;. This won&#8217;t come as any great surprise if you&#8217;ve been reading this site for any length of time. Occasionaly, I think of being a double leg amputee. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Second National Geographic Taboo Episode</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/documentaries/second-national-geographic-taboo-episode.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/documentaries/second-national-geographic-taboo-episode.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been contacted by Johanna Gibson from the National Geographic Taboo show. They are looking at doing another segment on BIID and are looking for a participant willing to appear on camera &#8211; particularly a transabled individual who needs to be blind. This is what the original email request said: I am a researcher for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Living Well with Chronic Conditions</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/living-well-with-chronic-conditions.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/living-well-with-chronic-conditions.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatigue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fibromyalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is the name of a six week workshop and support group I started attending. It is offered free by the county in which I live. My attention was attracted by the explicit listing of fibromyalgia as one of the conditions addressed. However, I also seek to live well with BIID, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/living-well-with-chronic-conditions.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>BIID as a Dinner Party Discussion Topic</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-as-a-dinner-party-discussion-topic.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-as-a-dinner-party-discussion-topic.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Laura Donnelly, Anxiety is a very modern malaise. You&#8217;ll ask what&#8217;s that got to do with Body Integrity Identity Disorder? Donnelly interviewed Professor Frank Furedi teaching Sociology at Kent University. Furedi says: &#8220;At London dinner parties, everybody has a condition, an anxiety to talk about; if you don&#8217;t, there is something wrong with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Empathy and Imagination</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/empathy-and-imagination.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/empathy-and-imagination.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.K.Rowling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of you recently sent me J.K.Rowling&#8217;s 2008 Harvard Commencement Address. Thank you. It is brilliant, deep and moving. I was in tears. I&#8217;ll start by quoting a paragraph: &#34;Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people&#8217;s places.&#34; If you are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cumulative Paresis</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/cumulative-paresis.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/cumulative-paresis.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appetiser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centripetal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paresis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quadriceps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spasms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have already explained the paradox of how skiing and hiking help treat my BIID, so I&#8217;ll try not to belabor the issues. A variant of this came up very recently. I skied hard, including many double blacks, for three days in a row. My son came to visit; the same one with whom I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>East Coast Get-Together?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/east-coast-get-together.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/east-coast-get-together.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sylvie's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that Abilities Expo is going to be in the NYC area on May 4 &#8211; 6. I had already planned to go. Recently, I got an email from Dr. First, asking what the status was of the Vegas trip. It made me think &#8211; hey! We should put on a show in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why is BIID Offensive?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/why-is-biid-offensive.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/why-is-biid-offensive.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conundrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypothesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The comments on the Anderson website in the wake of my television appearance appear finally to have fizzled out. They have left me with a puzzle. Several times on the website I asked people with disabilities, or their caregivers, why they find BIID to be offensive, insulting, upsetting, etc. Not a single person gave an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Phantoms And Parrallels</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/phantoms-and-parrallels.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/phantoms-and-parrallels.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the interesting parallels I see between different conditions. The recent airing of segments on National Geographic&#8217;s Taboo and Anderson Cooper&#8217;s talk show seem like a good time for me to post this. Anyone who has lost a limb or experiences a spinal cord injury will likely [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Paradise Found</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/paradise-found.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/paradise-found.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got home from a holiday in Hawai&#8217;i, the first real vacation my fiancee and I have taken in several years. We&#8217;re both very career focused and though we don&#8217;t have kids, the majority of our vacation time is used for friends and family. The past year has been rough on both of us, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Split Brain Problem</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/split-brain-problem.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/split-brain-problem.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the world of databases, there is a problem known as the split brain problem. It goes something like this&#8230; You build two database servers in case one fails and to lighten the load on each. You also decide to put the servers in different place, in case of fire, power failure, etc. If the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Very Different Years</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/two-very-different-years.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/two-very-different-years.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The year 2010 I spent with my ass in the wheelchair. 2011 was mainly a walking year. How different were they? Which one was better? Which one was easier? Which one was happier? It&#8217;s not so easy to answer those questions. It&#8217;s been a year since I stopped wheeling regularly. My BIID has been managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Skiing Accident</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/a-little-skiing-accident.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/a-little-skiing-accident.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faceplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skiing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, I want to say that I did not do this deliberately. I have not made a deliberate self injury attempt from skiing since 2009. I haven&#8217;t even done any extreme skiing this season. What happened yesterday was on a double black (expert) run, and entirely unintentional. Actually I spent the whole morning doing only [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>More Reports of Surgery Helping BIID Than Therapy Helping</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/more-reports-of-surgery-helping-biid-than-therapy-helping.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/more-reports-of-surgery-helping-biid-than-therapy-helping.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the course of an interesting discussion about BIID on the JREF forums, an argument was made that there *is* &#34;evidence&#34; that therapy might help with BIID. The author of that post pointed to a couple posts on this very site, one by Elizabeth and one by me. This apparently goes against what has been [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Anderson Talk Show</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/the-anderson-talk-show.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/the-anderson-talk-show.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talk Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TSA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the story of my latest big adventure, writing in real time as I wait for boarding at Salt Lake City airport. I am nervous, confident and excited all at the same time. Okay, I have to admit that my hand is shaking as I write this with pencil on paper. Why do I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maybe BIID Wasn&#8217;t So Bad</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/maybe-biid-wasnt-so-bad.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/maybe-biid-wasnt-so-bad.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am talking here about my husband. My BIID didn&#8217;t influence his life at all, apart from his mental attitude. My other neurological disorder is influencing him on daily basis much more. Maybe if he had a choice, he might prefer a wife with BIID and not a wife with Asperger&#8217;s. These past few months [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Cork Drifting</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/a-cork-drifting.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/a-cork-drifting.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob, the poet, sings How may times must&#8230;. He&#8217;s not talking about depression, but the song sticks to my mind. And the answer&#8230; Well, &#8220;the answer is blowin&#8217; in the wind&#8221; it is rather ambiguous. Either as obvious as the nose in the face, or as elusive as the wind. What *is* the answer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Far Down Surgery Would Not Help</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/so-far-down-surgery-would-not-help.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/so-far-down-surgery-would-not-help.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I feel that not even surgery for my BIID would help me. I am in a particularly bad spot. Not just BIID, in fact not primarily BIID. Depression, and associated stuff. I&#8217;ve had my dealings with severe depression over the years. Oh, I certainly have. I stopped counting. And in-between these severe bouts [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Self Worth</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/self-worth.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/self-worth.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This site is the only thing that gives me a sense of worth nowadays. I feel like a hopeless failure on every other front. I&#8217;ve been told I&#8217;m too hard on myself. That may be. Still. I look at my life and I see a lot of failure. I don&#8217;t measure success by the financial [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>My New GP</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/my-new-gp.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/my-new-gp.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been seeing the same general practitioner (GP) for the last decade, and consider her to be the best physician I have ever come across. She has been completely supportive about BIID, including willingness to write a letter of recommendation for ability reassignment surgery. She recently changed to a wellness practice, which is all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Latent Rage and Self-Sabotage</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/latent-rage-and-self-sabotage.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/latent-rage-and-self-sabotage.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m depressed. Doh. I&#8217;m not sleeping enough and that&#8217;s really not helping. I&#8217;m experiencing a lot of stress in my life, and that&#8217;s not helping either. I have latent rage, which I direct at myself rather than outward, and that&#8217;s likely not helping. When you read about self-sabotage, it seems like most people are talking [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>National Geographic Feedback</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/national-geographic-feedback.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/national-geographic-feedback.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taboo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean&#8217;s recent post about the possibility of getting more public exposure for BIID reminded me that I&#8217;d like to get some serious feedback about my appearance on the National Geographic channel before I commit to any future ventures along these lines. However, I&#8217;ll start by offering a little of my own commentary. I enjoyed the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>UK&#8217;s Raw TV Thinking About A Documentary on BIID</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/documentaries/uks-raw-tv-thinking-about-a-documentary-on-biid.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/documentaries/uks-raw-tv-thinking-about-a-documentary-on-biid.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had another request from a television production company who is investigating the possibility of doing a segment on BIID. As regular readers will know, I&#8217;m quite cautious about interactions with the press. This looks genuine enough. I think it&#8217;s good to get more exposure in public, and as such, shows like these are likely [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Assumptions</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/assumptions.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/assumptions.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Closet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a wheelchair user has provided many advantages that I did not foresee ahead of time. One of these is that it is a conversation starter. Since I enjoy talking with strangers this is a good thing. However, on occasion the nature of the conversation in relation to the wheelchair strikes me as a little [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another Post About BIID and Depression</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/another-post-about-biid-and-depression.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/another-post-about-biid-and-depression.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a variety of reasons, I&#8217;ve been walking and standing a lot over the last several weeks. I won&#8217;t discuss those reasons here, but rather mention the impact that it is having on me. In short &#8211; it is exacerbating depression. I was getting into an acute depressive state before I started walking and standing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Using BIID to Treat Depression</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/using-biid-to-treat-depression.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/using-biid-to-treat-depression.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Closet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dysthymia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flowerpot Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skiing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I entered a major depressive episode on December 3rd 2011. I woke up in the morning and knew it immediately; the feelings are all too familiar. It was clear that I needed to go back on prozac at 60 mg per day without delay. What was not clear was that this had anything at all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Transsexual Mentions BIID on Her Blog</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/a-transsexual-mentions-biid-on-her-blog.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/a-transsexual-mentions-biid-on-her-blog.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Came across an interesting blog post by Clare Flourish. She discusses her transition and her perception of having her &#8220;gonads&#8221; removed. She mentions BIID. I won&#8217;t go in at length about her post. I think it&#8217;s a good read and I&#8217;ll let you read it and make your own decision about it. There is, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>I am a Sith Lord</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/i-am-a-sith-lord.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/i-am-a-sith-lord.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Entire generations of people will suffer because of my presence on this planet. They will all voluntarily (or not) sacrifice their limbs to worship my altar. My lord, Darth BIID has commanded me to make it so. Darth Vader cut off the arm of his only son and my master will not be outdone. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Got Help</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/i-got-help.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/i-got-help.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately we&#8217;ve heard a lot of it from comments: &#34;Get help&#34;. No concrete suggestions that are proven to work, just the old blah-shrink, blah-medication lines. People have no idea. People say: &#34;Do something to manage it.&#34; Exactly what is that something? How we would love to know. It&#8217;s been two years since I started coming [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>No Patience For Disaproving And Unhelpful Comments</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/no-patience-for-disaproving-and-unhelpful-comments.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/no-patience-for-disaproving-and-unhelpful-comments.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been an increase in traffic, a flurry of activity in the last week or so. More people are coming to the site, and commenting. This is likely a direct result of National Geographic&#8217;s Taboo show that Chloe participated in. It&#8217;s good to see more activity on the site. But I&#8217;m also running short [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Response To Bethany Stevens</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/in-response-to-bethany-stevens.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/in-response-to-bethany-stevens.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bethany Stevens recently published Interrogating Transability: A Catalyst to View Disability as Body Art, a rather interesting piece discussing transability. This is another one of the papers that have come out at the end of 2011 talking about BIID. First, I want to thank Bethany for taking the time to talk to me, to read [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Removing Posts</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/removing-posts.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/removing-posts.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the space of a week, I&#8217;ve been asked by 2 people to completely remove their posts and comments. They are afraid of having given too much information that can lead to their identification. Valid concerns. But I really *hate* removing content from the site. A large part of what makes this site works is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Funeral and Life</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/funeral-and-life.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/funeral-and-life.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently went to a funeral. The deceased had commited suicide. I was rather depressed before I heard of the suicide to begin with &#8211; going there was a rather interesting experience. Some of the people were saying &#34;what an incredibly selfish thing to do, especially at this time of year&#34;. Well, yeah, suicide is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Choose Life</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/choose-life.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/choose-life.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the holiday season and most of us are busy with friends, family and office parties. It&#8217;s a stressful time of year that can make having BIID that much more stressful. But it&#8217;s also a time of year to reconnect with those you care about. Most of us know what it&#8217;s like to be surrounded [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ability Variant</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/ability-variant.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/ability-variant.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ability Variant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abnormal Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Variant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Semantic Arguments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I felt I needed a fresh approach for my annual intersex talk to undergraduates, in the department of psychology, in order to keep things interesting both for myself and for the audience. The time had come for me to focus on inclusivity, since being intersexual is an incomplete descriptor. I am trying to use the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guy Chops Arm Off With Homemade Guillotine &#8211; Is It BIID?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/guy-chops-arm-off-with-homemade-guillotine-is-it-biid.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/guy-chops-arm-off-with-homemade-guillotine-is-it-biid.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some guy in Seattle chopped his arm off with a homemade guillotine. He refuses to have it reattached. There&#8217;s a blurb in the papers about it from AP. A journalist has contacted me wanting to do a phone interview. I don&#8217;t do phone interviews, so won&#8217;t speak with him. I pointed out to the journalist [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>BIID: The Persistent Desire to Acquire a Physical Disability</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-the-persistent-desire-to-acquire-a-physical-disability.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-the-persistent-desire-to-acquire-a-physical-disability.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academic Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a roll talking about recent academic papers discussing BIID. Today I&#8217;d like to discuss the best article in an academic journal I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time: Body Integrity Identity Disorder: The Persistent Desire to Acquire a Physical Disability, by Michael First and Carl Fisher. Including Non-Amputee Impairments in BIID Michael First [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Xenomelia: a new right parietal lobe syndrome</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/xenomelia-a-new-right-parietal-lobe-syndrome.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/xenomelia-a-new-right-parietal-lobe-syndrome.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academic Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a whole bunch of new journal articles that have come out in recent weeks about Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). The second paper I wanted to discuss briefly is Xenomelia: A new parietal lobe syndrome by Paul McGeoch, David Brang, Tao Song, Roland Lee, Mingxiong Huang, and VS Ramachandran. McGeoch has worked with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Site May Be Up And Down</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/administrativia/site-may-be-up-and-down.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/administrativia/site-may-be-up-and-down.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administrativia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m dealing with some technical issues at the moment. Access to the site may be up and down for the next couple days. Please bear with me. [UPDATE]: It appears this issue is resolved for now.Copyright &#169; 2012 transabled.org. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why No Anguish?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/why-no-anguish.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/why-no-anguish.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shadow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xavier]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently stated on The Wheelchair Zone that I do not desire to be rid of my BIID, nor do I see it as a disorder. Elisabeth commented in the same thread, implying that I am in the minority with this viewpoint. This gave me much food for thought in terms of figuring out why [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Demographics, Learning and Imitation, and Body Schema in BIID</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/demographics-learning-and-imitation-and-body-schema-in-biid.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/demographics-learning-and-imitation-and-body-schema-in-biid.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Study]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. There are two main [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beyond the Binary</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/beyond-the-binary.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/beyond-the-binary.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intersex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Utah Pride Center recently sponsored a gender conference at a local college entitled &#34;Beyond the Binary&#34;. I couldn&#8217;t resist. Besides inherent interest in the subject matter per se, I knew I would find BIID analogies sprinkling down from the ceilings wherever I went. Session One The program was extremely full, with a choice of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>72</slash:comments>
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		<title>What It Felt Like</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/dans-thoughts/what-it-felt-like.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/dans-thoughts/what-it-felt-like.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dan's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you can&#8217;t understand something until you can see it from another perspective. For most of my life, I only knew what it was like to wish to be an amputee. I could not see it as someone without BIID might see it, or as an amputee might see it. My life with two legs [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Masochism</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/masochism.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/masochism.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buttock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genitalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawn Mower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mangled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masochism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spanking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shadow recently introduced the subject of masochism. Sometimes the idea comes up that people with BIID want to harm their bodies because they are masochists. Since I am in fact a masochist, it is not possible for me simply to dismiss such a postulate out of hand without giving it due consideration. Three years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is BIID an Essential Part of Us?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/is-biid-an-essential-part-of-us.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/is-biid-an-essential-part-of-us.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I would be willing to try almost anything to get rid of BIID,&#8221; many of us have said, &#8220;the pain is just too much!&#8221; But when we say this, do we really mean it? If, after experiencing BIID for years, we could get &#8220;free out of jail&#8221; card, would we take it? We know Chloe [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Would Being Stupid Minimise BIID Pain?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/would-being-stupid-minimise-biid-pain.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/would-being-stupid-minimise-biid-pain.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking the other day (yeah, it happens!). Thinking that perhaps if I weren&#8217;t so intelligent BIID wouldn&#8217;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. When I was in high school, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Connections</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/connections.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/connections.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cliffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genitalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Salt Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Western Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snowbasin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spasms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago my psychotherapist told me that in psychology EVERYTHING is connected. BIID can not be considered in isolation. It affects and is affected by everything else. There is no running away from it (ha ha!). It is present not just in the mind but also in events and places. The metaphorical hikes ended [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is Wrong with Me?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/what-is-wrong-with-me.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/what-is-wrong-with-me.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutjob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OCD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago Sean made some modifications to this site, one of which included an automatic post counter. According to that this is my 200th post! Yikes! What the heck is wrong with me? It is making me feel insecure to have written so much. When Sean asked me to be an author here, I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trading Places</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/trading-places.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/trading-places.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t switch places. For those who don&#8217;t know what conversion disorders are, in a nutshell, it is when someone becomes blind [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Body Awareness</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/body-awareness.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/body-awareness.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. I&#8217;m pretty sure my back pain stems primarily from bad posture. That and pushing a wheelchair as main mode of locomotion for well over 15 years. Using a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Tail End</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-tail-end.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-tail-end.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So this brings us to the end of my tale. Or is it the beginning of my tail? Monday brought my visit with Ramachandran at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I got up around nine, already sore from the day before, put my swimming trunks on, jumped in the chair and headed down [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>The BIID Debate &#8211; Emotions vs Logic</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/the-biid-debate-emotions-vs-logic.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/the-biid-debate-emotions-vs-logic.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Piece Of Journalism About BIID</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/a-good-piece-of-journalism-about-biid.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/a-good-piece-of-journalism-about-biid.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read one of the best, most balanced article about BIID / transability yesterday. Today, it&#8217;s making the rounds on twitter. I meant to write some thoughts about the article in a few days, but seeing there is current interest, I figured I might as well do it now. Lara Irvine wrote Translating Transableism: when [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Visit to the Orthotist</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/a-visit-to-the-orthotist.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/a-visit-to-the-orthotist.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KAFO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Braces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orthotist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite being in a wheelchair most of the time, my leg braces get quite a bit of use. Things wear out; especially when you boulder hop up mountains and such. It was time to take my KAFOs in for a tune up. The only other person in the waiting room was a guy my age. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Am Strong</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/i-am-strong.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/i-am-strong.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post kind of wrote itself. I had not thought about it. I had not considered the topic. Suddenly, I just needed to write it. And it came out &#8220;all in one chunk&#8221;. I wasn&#8217;t going to post it, it was only an email originally, but&#8230; Here it is. I am 6 years old. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Tail Continues</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-tail-continues.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-tail-continues.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m fully aware the title is misspelled. We&#8217;re getting there, this is part two and the anti-climactic buildup to my tale. Feel free to grab a carton of milk, roll out your sleeping mats and take a nap&#8230;. With the end of summer came my trip to San Diego. I had already planned to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>And Wisdom to Know the Difference</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/and-wisdom-to-know-the-difference.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/and-wisdom-to-know-the-difference.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selective Mutism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhayven and I have a few things in common, including BIID, intersexuality, and problems with selective mutism. Wait! What? Selective mutism? As with BIID, selective mutism (SM) is something many people have not heard of. As with BIID, even people who have heard of SM often do not have a realistic idea of what it [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/and-wisdom-to-know-the-difference.htm/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Commenting on New Mobility</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/commenting-on-new-mobility.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/commenting-on-new-mobility.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks there have been two pieces in New Mobility that talked about, or mentionned, Body Integrity Identity Disorder. I&#8217;ve read them, and re-read them. I&#8217;ve been wanting to play the apologist, to write an analysis or a response. And the more I read them, the less I know what to say. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Tail Begins</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-tail-begins.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-tail-begins.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a multi-part, ego-centric, narcissism laden series. I would love to spend more time writing about my theories on BIID, social issues and broader topics, but that would really cut into my me time. I don&#8217;t normally like to talk about the researchers I&#8217;ve been involved with, I&#8217;m not sure how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wheelchair Hikes Number Seven and Eight</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/wheelchair-hikes-number-seven-and-eight.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/wheelchair-hikes-number-seven-and-eight.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accessible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paraplegia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alicia suggested to me that we take a hike on the wetlands wildlife refuge trail directly opposite our house. A great deal of the trail is paved, and I had not yet taken my wheelchair on it, so this seemed like a good opportunity to test it out. There&#8217;s actually a small cow pasture directly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turn Around?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/turn-around.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/turn-around.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My correspondance with one of the kids that emailed me recently made me reflect about my own interactions with people like Chris Ryan and Dr. First. He wanted answers &#8211; but I could not give him the answers he wanted. I admit I was annoyed with him from the beginning. He sent one email per [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Discordant Identity</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/discordant-identity.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/discordant-identity.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fibromyalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paraplegia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I identify as a mother, a wife, a wheelchair user, a friend, a scientist, someone with compassion, a lesbian, an inventor; or maybe just Chloe&#8230; We can self identify with as many or as few labels as we please. We can be many things all at once, and we can wear many hats. Usually this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>They Are Just Kids</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/they-are-just-kids.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/they-are-just-kids.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I receive occasional emails from people who have BIID, but who have just discovered they are not alone feeling the way they do. That is how many of the people who participate on this site first made contact. Some of these people are teenager. I always find these emails difficult. They are just kids &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;So what?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/so-what.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/so-what.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day a friend of mine and I were talking about our sons. One of her sons is officially diagnosed with Aspergers. One of mine displays some symptoms of it but never has seen a doctor for it. We talked about ways how to handle our sons tantrums over little things and how we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unconscious Condescension</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/unconscious-condescension.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/unconscious-condescension.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monoparesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PWD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to think of myself as someone who is not patronising or condescending towards people with disabilities. I really do see the person first. It takes no effort on my part. However, I recently came to the realisation that I had fallen into the trap of overestimating the significance of disability when it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>This is not Enough</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/this-is-not-enough.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/this-is-not-enough.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermaphrodite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monoparesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monoplegia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vagina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Enough&#8230; It&#8217;s one of those weird words that looks stranger and stranger the more you look at it. It can&#8217;t possibly be spelled right. Is this a metaphor for the meaning behind the word? Although furloughed Mr.Gough coughed, enough tough dough sloughed off the rough bough through the ploughed trough into the slough. How much [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Auggie and Me</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/auggie-and-me.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/auggie-and-me.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the actor Christopher Gorham. I saw him a few months ago in Harper&#8217;s Island and thought him totally charming, even though he plays a mass murderer there. So when I found out the other day that he plays in Covert Affairs a character who is blind, I had to start watching it. And [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Something The Osteopath Said&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/something-the-osteopath-said.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/something-the-osteopath-said.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was rather puzzled when my osteopath said to me &#34;Sean, it&#8217;s always the same area of your back that causes the rest of the problems: Your L1/L2 always gets jammed up&#34;. I found that very interesting since that is where I&#8217;ve always envisionned my spinal cord injury to be. I have been going semi-regularly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Grand Opening</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/a-grand-opening.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/a-grand-opening.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accessible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new wing has been added to the psychiatric hospital where I work, doubling its size. The opening ceremonies took place recently, along with a grand tour, buffet lunch, etc. Yes, it was fun, but deeper meanings relating to BIID kept dripping from my experience of it. The keynote speaker was Heather Armstrong, author of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pesky Legs</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/pesky-legs.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/pesky-legs.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sylvie's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sylvie's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember, my legs have been covered in bruises and bumps and scars. I acquired the first set of scars on my knees when I was three years old and fell down on an in-floor furnace grating. I know where to look and I can still find the marks. Throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>BIID: The Poem</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/biid-the-poem.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/biid-the-poem.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Braces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I came home from work a few weeks ago to find that Danielle (Alicia) had just published her third book of poetry: &#34;Dead Black Bird in a Furnace.&#34; (The book is available at this page: http://www.daniellesaintemarie.com/works.html) By prior agreement I had seen or heard only a few of these poems ahead of time. Some of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bilateral Leg Brace Hike Number Two</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/bilateral-leg-brace-hike-number-two.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/bilateral-leg-brace-hike-number-two.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crutches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fibromyalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Braces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wrist Braces]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I felt ready to push the envelope a bit in this mode of hiking with leg braces. I decided to go alone and 100% off trail. There was inevitably going to be some boulder hopping too; I&#8217;m familiar with what to expect in such an area even though I&#8217;d never done this particular hike before. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free to Wheel Sometimes</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/free-to-wheel-sometimes.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/free-to-wheel-sometimes.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A week ago I talked to my priest. He asked me if I wheeled lately and I said yes, a few weeks ago, three times, for my back pain. I was expecting a little bit of preaching but was surprised by his answer. After all his disapproval of my wheeling for BIID, even though it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bilateral Leg Brace Hike Number One</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/bilateral-leg-brace-hike-number-one.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/bilateral-leg-brace-hike-number-one.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crutches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KAFO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Braces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muscles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spasms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to doing a hike with bilateral leg braces and crutches. This is the hike to a high elevation lake that I mentioned wanting to do almost two years ago. I was very glad to have my friend Dave with me for the hike, and he took the pics. I should make [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Needing to Control BIID</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/needing-to-control-biid.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/needing-to-control-biid.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve corresponded with many transabled folks who denied themselves the opportunity to use a wheelchair, even though it could help with handling the negative feelings associated with Body Integrity Identity Disorder. Most recently, it&#8217;s been Elisabeth telling us about how she had been wheelchair free for three months. She lasted another full [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Back Pain, Decisions, Lessons</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/back-pain-decisions-lessons.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/back-pain-decisions-lessons.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My back is sore most days. It comes from bad posture, and from sitting in a chair so much. Sitting in a wheelchair often triggers bad posture, which in turns aggravates pain. But not always. When I was a teenager, I really wanted to have to wear a Milwaukee brace. I mean, I REALLY wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>BIID: Needle Pricks vs Stab Wounds</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-needle-pricks-vs-stab-wounds.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/biid-needle-pricks-vs-stab-wounds.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just asked how I was doing in relation to BIID. To answer honestly, I have to admit the BIID is not as sharp and accute as it has been at other times in my life. But it&#8217;s still there, and it hurts as much, in different ways. I once described an attack of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Not Elated, Just Natural</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/not-elated-just-natural.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/not-elated-just-natural.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=6050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was screaming in pain from my back pain. My back between my shoulder blades was on fire. I was home alone and still needed to do some shopping. So I went to the garage, got my wheelchair, put more air in the tires, threw the chair in the car and went [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>BIID Ruined My Birthday</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/biid-ruined-my-birthday.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/biid-ruined-my-birthday.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this about a month ago, the night of my birthday right before I going to bed. I needed to write, to help me deal with what I was experiencing, to help me deal with my thoughts and emotions. I&#8217;m very thankful I had a supportive partner to lean on that night. I wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;This Is Really Sick&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/this-is-really-sick.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/this-is-really-sick.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WildKat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The title is a quote&#8230; from a &#34;friend&#34;. It had to happen sooner or later didn&#8217;t it? With around two hundred In Real Life disclosures under my belt at this point, perhaps I was getting a little over confident in my explanatory abilities. I spent time with her in person just two weeks before what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wheels at work!</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/wheels-at-work.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/wheels-at-work.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I wrote about my impending transition at work. I think an update is in order. So the question is, how do you explain a disorder like BIID to a company full of people? How do you explain that you can walk, but use a wheelchair and wear leg braces? My answer, tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GP Visit Number Eleven</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/gp-visit-number-eleven.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/gp-visit-number-eleven.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back Brace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood Pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Braces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muscle Spasms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OCD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since that first visit when I disclosed to my GP about BIID, the subject has seemed to dominate our discussions in one way or another. Today was no exception. The nurse who does the preliminaries (temperature, pulse, blood pressure and EKG) commented right away on my leg braces, asking how long I&#8217;d had them. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>One Movie and Two Dreams</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/one-movie-and-two-dreams.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/one-movie-and-two-dreams.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched the other day a movie that I really liked. The dreams that came during the night were rather interesting. Our subconsciousness fascinates me. I don&#8217;t know what the dreams meant but they were very pleasant. The movie is called Peaceful Warrior based on Dan Millman books. It tells a story of Dan Millman [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Apotheosis of the Emotional Base Jump</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/apotheosis-of-the-emotional-base-jump.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/apotheosis-of-the-emotional-base-jump.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alicia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Geographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parachute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WildKat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago Lane pointed out that I seem to have a predilection for emotional base jumping. Base jumping is where one jumps off a high object (building, cliff, etc) and hopes that one&#8217;s parachute will open. The metaphorical equivalent is where one makes one&#8217;s psyche vulnerable rather than one&#8217;s physical being. I think I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Errant Thought</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/errant-thought.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/errant-thought.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t stand having sheets tucked in tightly at the foot of the bed when I sleep. Never have. Not sure why, but I thought for a moment there might be a relationship to BIID. Honestly, I doubt it. But it&#8217;s one of those errant ponderings. Feet and legs feel blankets more if they are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jul 7, 2011 &#8211; Get-Together Update</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/jul-7-2011-get-together-update.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/jul-7-2011-get-together-update.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sylvie's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Together]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I&#8217;m getting very little feedback from folks. This worries me. Am I coming up with good ideas? Bad ideas? Imposing my will? (Okay. That one I cop to. A little.) I need to know what you think. I want to keep this moving. The sooner we settle it, the more likely we are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chop Off My Limbo</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/chop-off-my-limbo.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/chop-off-my-limbo.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who need to be paralysed are a bit in limbo. We have BIID &#8211; or rather, we identify with the condition. But it hasn&#8217;t really been acknowledged that BIID includes other manifestations than the need to be an amputee. For that matter, those of us needing to be blind, or deaf are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Get-Together Update, Jul 06, 2011</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/get-together-update-jul-06-2011.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/get-together-update-jul-06-2011.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sylvie's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get Together]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing research on hotels in Las Vegas. The greater interest was expressed for Vegas. I tried to contact the event planner / manager at the Bellagio last week and have not received a reply. Last night, I sent an email requesting more information on the Red Rock Resort, which is known to be [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Devotee stuff</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/devotee-stuff.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/devotee-stuff.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of us went through a devotee phase. Some didn&#8217;t.  The interesting part for us devotees is how those feelings and behaviour can stop once we realise that we have BIID and we start wheeling. There are many people who are pure devotees. The abundance of websites bear a witness to it. The sexual component [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>What To Tell The Surgeon?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/what-to-tell-the-surgeon.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/what-to-tell-the-surgeon.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sean's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My GP is cool &#8211; A few years ago I told him about BIID and he &#34;got it&#34;. But I think maybe he is just a little bit naive about his profession&#8217;s attitude towards BIID. I was talking to him a few days ago about a possible surgery on my foot to remove a fibrous [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wheelchair Hike Number Five</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/wheelchair-hike-number-five.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/wheelchair-hike-number-five.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accessible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave and I did another wheelchair hike today. I certainly appreciate living in an area where there is an assortment of mountain trails which are wheelchair accessible. I am making notes about all these hikes because I have not found a resource which lists them. I know about them because of my general familiarity with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>So Tired of Being Depressed</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/so-tired-of-being-depressed.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/elisabeths-thoughts/so-tired-of-being-depressed.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elisabeth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth's thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was close to tears. It means that my moderate depression is sliding toward severe depression. I am screwed. I am on a depression roller coaster. When I wheeled, my depression was mainly mild. I had two short bad episodes of severe depression that scared the heck out of me but most days were [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wheelchair Hike Number Four</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/wheelchair-hike-number-four.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/wheelchair-hike-number-four.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accessible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dave was on a mission of mercy. He knew from the tone of my voice a couple of days earlier that I was in significant psychological distress from my wife leaving me. I knew that the best thing I could possibly do for my mental health would be to take a wheelchair hike with a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Get Together?</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/get-together.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/sylvies-thoughts/get-together.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sylvie's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just the madcap kind of girl I am, but I was wondering if there&#8217;s any interest in a get-together? I realize that we are all literally all over the globe, but my North American-centric-ness is thinking about potentially getting a bunch of us together for conversation and general frivolity. What comes to mind quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Path Less Travelled</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-path-less-travelled.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/xaviers-thoughts/the-path-less-travelled.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xavier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xavier's Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a disorder I didn&#8217;t ask for, one that I believe I was born with. One that has wrecked havoc on my life and caused me a great deal of suffering. It sucks having a disorder no one can see, but inside feels very real. BIID isn&#8217;t fun, it&#8217;s my curse. I often feel [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Able Bodied Hiker</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/able-bodied-hiker.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/able-bodied-hiker.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Able Bodied]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paraplegia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if this is my first anti-BIID blog? It&#8217;s not really that; but circumstance caused me to have some thoughts of wishing I didn&#8217;t have BIID. I know that many of you wish you didn&#8217;t have it, but for me it is actually a very rare thought. Hiking has been an important part of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keeping a Secret</title>
		<link>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/keeping-a-secret.htm</link>
		<comments>http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/keeping-a-secret.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chloe's Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BIID]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leg Braces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secret]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skiing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wheelchair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://transabled.org/?p=5812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really not comfortable for me to be secretive about BIID at this point. However, I make exceptions when there appears to be good reason. We had not visited Alicia&#8217;s parents in a year or so, and I asked her if she was okay with me talking about BIID should they ask about the right [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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