Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Sean - 7 August 2010
I have been accused of having a negative attitude. I have to agree that I do get negative at times. Overwhelmed with despair. I also happen to have other people in my life who are very negative - for whom everything is a drama and who manage to find negative in many things. I think that negativity triggers itself.
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by Chloe - 29 July 2010
Every Sunday Alicia and I set aside several hours specifically to discuss our feelings. It’s what we do instead of going to church. In fact, for us it IS going to church. Today I went on a hike which exemplified and consolidated what we had discussed on the previous two Sundays. As usual, my hike is dripping with metaphors for BIID; but I’ll let you figure those out.
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by Elisabeth - 22 July 2010
My BIID has been at around 2 out of 10 badness for the last two or three months. So why do I still wheel? Wouldn’t it be easier both for me and my marriage to stop wheeling when my BIID is quiet?
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by Sophie - 21 July 2010
It’s getting harder and harder not to use labels in life. We all like the idea of using labels, it would mean we’d fit into something easy and predictable compared to what the norm actually is. In regards to BIID although specific labels are argued, a lot of us are happy to put ourselves under a label if it means we get the help we need, we consider labels a means to an end.
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by Sean - 18 July 2010
Author Jane McGowan recently published the novel "The Secret World of Zoë Golding" with Fern House. The publisher emailed me to let me know about the book, likely because it deals primarily with Body Integrity Identity Disorder. I read the book with interest, as there are not many published books that touch on BIID, especially in novel format.
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