Comments on: The Wee Years http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:18:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Wheelchair Fairy http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm/comment-page-1#comment-20363 Wheelchair Fairy Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:53:42 +0000 http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm#comment-20363 All my early memories of spotting disabled ones live inside of me very vividly... For example, there was a young man living in the same street with his parents. Something could happen to him, I don't know what was it but he had a wheelchair and also tried to walk time to time, pushing a walking frame, but very very slow he managed to... Many times I was watching fascinated from behind the bushes, also his chair and w. frame whenever it was left outside... All my early memories of spotting disabled ones live inside of me very vividly… For example, there was a young man living in the same street with his parents. Something could happen to him, I don’t know what was it but he had a wheelchair and also tried to walk time to time, pushing a walking frame, but very very slow he managed to… Many times I was watching fascinated from behind the bushes, also his chair and w. frame whenever it was left outside…

]]> By: Anonymous http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm/comment-page-1#comment-17285 Anonymous Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:23:29 +0000 http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm#comment-17285 Incredible is the huge courage of you guys, to talk about these stuff so openly. That is really comforting. In my case, I also went through this whole "voyage of discovery" thing, I knew this guy of my school, he couldn't walk since he was 7, and I was about the same age. Well, I did use to pretend I had some kind of disability, some fingers missing, or hopping in the bathroom on a single leg, or putting my arm into the sleeve and trying to do everything with one hand... But now I know that I do not desire to become disabled, but yet disabled women turn me on a lot, from amputees to paras, and some forms of malformation of the body also attracts me, although I have it clear in my mind that I don't desire to become disabled... Anyway, I just wanted to share... Incredible is the huge courage of you guys, to talk about these stuff so openly. That is really comforting.
In my case, I also went through this whole “voyage of discovery” thing, I knew this guy of my school, he couldn’t walk since he was 7, and I was about the same age. Well, I did use to pretend I had some kind of disability, some fingers missing, or hopping in the bathroom on a single leg, or putting my arm into the sleeve and trying to do everything with one hand… But now I know that I do not desire to become disabled, but yet disabled women turn me on a lot, from amputees to paras, and some forms of malformation of the body also attracts me, although I have it clear in my mind that I don’t desire to become disabled… Anyway, I just wanted to share…

]]> By: Ana McCann http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16241 Ana McCann Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:59:26 +0000 http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm#comment-16241 Yeah- I could really relate to this.... Particularly the early years ' voyage of discovery' you mentioned. I was fascinated with disabilities of all types as a young child, but entirely secretly- I was desperate to read about disabled people and to seek out information, but so guilty about it that I completely covered my tracks. I still do. I am not a voyeur- I don't seek scandal or freakery (made up word?!!) but I am genuinely interested in the mundane day to day details of disabled living. It's something I need to be a part of. I too used to do the 'legs in the trousers' amputee thing- I used to secretly sit in my granny's clunky hospital wheelchair and be transported to heaven, I used to play piano in the dark or blindfolded, I learnt basic braille & BSL, but my main focus has always been on my legs. My dream would be to be a DAK amputee (I've never, ever wanted to be one-legged, strangely...) but If I was told definatively that I could never have this, then I'd happily be a paraplegic. The two are not interchangeable- and would be very different to live with- but are both things I have deeply desired and felt to be a part of 'me'. Good luck in your 'quest'! Ana x Yeah- I could really relate to this…. Particularly the early years ‘ voyage of discovery’ you mentioned. I was fascinated with disabilities of all types as a young child, but entirely secretly- I was desperate to read about disabled people and to seek out information, but so guilty about it that I completely covered my tracks. I still do. I am not a voyeur- I don’t seek scandal or freakery (made up word?!!) but I am genuinely interested in the mundane day to day details of disabled living. It’s something I need to be a part of. I too used to do the ‘legs in the trousers’ amputee thing- I used to secretly sit in my granny’s clunky hospital wheelchair and be transported to heaven, I used to play piano in the dark or blindfolded, I learnt basic braille & BSL, but my main focus has always been on my legs. My dream would be to be a DAK amputee (I’ve never, ever wanted to be one-legged, strangely…) but If I was told definatively that I could never have this, then I’d happily be a paraplegic. The two are not interchangeable- and would be very different to live with- but are both things I have deeply desired and felt to be a part of ‘me’.
Good luck in your ‘quest’!
Ana
x

]]> By: Will http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5193 Will Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:20:58 +0000 http://transabled.org/stories/the-wee-years.htm#comment-5193 Yeah, I and i'm sure most people in here have been through a similar "voyage of discovery" to see where we fit into this thing. Oddly enough i've been thinking about this the last few days too, why for me is it T10 ?, why not an amputee or even a quad or a lower level of paralysis so crutching is an everyday possibility ? I likened my journey to those baby toys where you have to fit the shapes into the right slot. Yunno when you dont yet understand what these shapes mean or do, you just try them in the first slot you see, and if it dont fit you try another. Then eventually you find the right slot and it all begins to make sense. I guess with regards to BIID we're all at the toddler stage, although it would be nice to grow up some day :-) (at least we dont have to eat those vile Farleys Rusk things...ugh) Yeah, I and i’m sure most people in here have been through a similar “voyage of discovery” to see where we fit into this thing.

Oddly enough i’ve been thinking about this the last few days too, why for me is it T10 ?, why not an amputee or even a quad or a lower level of paralysis so crutching is an everyday possibility ?
I likened my journey to those baby toys where you have to fit the shapes into the right slot. Yunno when you dont yet understand what these shapes mean or do, you just try them in the first slot you see, and if it dont fit you try another. Then eventually you find the right slot and it all begins to make sense.
I guess with regards to BIID we’re all at the toddler stage, although it would be nice to grow up some day :-) (at least we dont have to eat those vile Farleys Rusk things…ugh)

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