Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Z - 29 September 2010
I think I’ve always had a love/hate feeling about vision. On the one hand- being sighted in a world designed by and for sighted people is convenient. You can learn the way people want you to. You don’t have to walk into school and hope they have things you need to be able to learn. I’m not actually sure how you can do math while blind- I’m sure you can, but I’m a bit afraid of the braille for Calculus equations.
My Eyes continues »
by Z - 27 September 2010
I do not like dogs. I don’t know when exactly it started, but I’ve always preferred cats. Then, in kindergarten, a large dog who was big enough to knock my father over came running at me to get the stuffed animal (mine) I was holding in my hands. I kind of black out everything between then other than knowing that the stuffed animal is safe and I still hate it’s owner. I’m guessing nothing happened seriously, but the memory of a huge animal with angry teeth lunging at my 4 year old torso is still ingrained.
Dogs continues »
by Z - 24 September 2010
I grew up in a small town. I basically had the same class of 25 or so kids from K through six (4-12 y.o), with a handful of kids that varied. Every now and then one would come in with a cast or something, but never anything so bad as to need a wheelchair or even crutches. The worst thing that happened was a girl who broke her head open jumping off her dresser in kindergarten- which thankfully didn’t have much damage. So I wasn’t really exposed to differently abled people.
Z’s Brief History continues »
by Z - 22 September 2010
I don’t pretend/sim blindness. There’s a couple reasons for this. The first being that it’s hard to do it well for me. I don’t like feeling like I’m pretending when I shouldn’t have to, and I’ve never been comfortable having something over my eyes (which rules out… most of the ways to do it properly).
Blindsimming continues »
by Chloe - 20 March 2010
Sometimes strangers say things to people with disabilities, which seem a bit, well, strange. Sometimes strange people say strange things that really get me thinking.
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