Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Chloe - 23 June 2009
I have a craving to be normal. Yes, I know how ridiculous this sounds. I know all the logical arguments about why there is no such thing as normal. Why would anybody want to be normal in the first place? What’s the point? Nevertheless… This craving runs deep.
Feeling Normal continues »
by Chloe - 31 March 2009
I’ve been reading the posts on transabled.org from a year ago. I read through last year’s posts until the end of March 2008 and found that they were unfamiliar. That means I had yet to discover transabled.org by the end of March last year. It occurred to me to look at last year’s diary to see exactly what I was doing a year ago. It’s not a diary written after the fact, just what I’m planning to do that day. Not much detail, but enough to reconstruct what was going on. It turned out that March 31st 2008 was the day my BIID went supernova.
BIID Anniversary continues »
by Chloe - 11 February 2009
Several of you have got me thinking about why so many of us are, or have been, ashamed of how we feel. Sometimes you write posts that haunt me. One such is Silent’s "I have BIID, I am Buried Alive". There is a deep emotional honesty there, and a lot of it is about shame.
Why the Shame? continues »
by Chloe - 15 January 2009
Back in July, Sean and I had a little interchange of posting comments in connection with "Bronwyn’s fateful weekend". Sean suggested there that I should talk to my psychotherapist about what has motivated me to do blindsimming. My first reaction was "Yeah right Sean, he’s just going to think I’m a nutcase". Then I realised that psychotherapists like nutcases. That’s why they are psychotherapists. Here’s what the ensuing discussions with my psychotherapist uncovered:
Blindsimming and Such continues »
by Chloe - 19 October 2008
Recently, the emotional strain of appearing able bodied at work got too much for me. I started limping. The next week I bandaged my left leg in such a way that I had no choice but to limp. The next week I added a right forearm crutch.
Limping, Bandages, and a Crutch continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2010 - All Rights Reserved.