by Mary - 14 June 2008
It started when I was a kid, maybe as early as when I was around 7 years old. I had a very lively fantasy, so I made up stories about everything. But there were a kind of stories, fantasies, that came to my mind, from a deep inner feeling. If I had seen a person with a disability on TV, in a book or in real life, I couldn’t help but thinking about that person and that disability. I started trying imagine how life would be living with that disability.
Fantasies and pretending continues »
by Sean - 28 March 2007
A recent post I made on this site and a Yahoo! discussion group prompted a lot of discussion and brought up the nearly age old question of “Does BIID include anyone who wants a different condition than being an amputee?”. I maintain that it doesn’t matter what condition is sought, we all suffer from BIID. Some agree. Others disagree. Others yet are quite vehement in their refusal to have BIID include anything else than “amputation”. And so I decided to go to the source. I emailed Dr. Michael First, who coined the term Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
An email exchange with Dr. First about BIID. continues »