Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Sean - 30 June 2009
Over the years, I’ve come across many people who just up and cut ties with the BIID community, such as it is. They do it for many reasons, but one of the big reasons seems to be to appease the BIID pain. The idea is that if you don’t involve yourself with other people who have BIID, you won’t be thinking about it so much. I’m not sure it works.
Cutting Ties With BIID Community continues »
by Zoe - 14 November 2008
I’ve been reading Alain De Botton’s ‘The Consolations of Philosophy‘ lately. I have read it in the past, but I managed to pick up a cheap copy the other week and it has reminded me how much I liked it when I first read it.
On a more positive note… continues »
by Sean - 20 August 2008
Over the last few months, I’ve been told by a handful of people that they resented me for my position of "leadership" in the BIID community. I wrote about that in a previous post. I was recently again accused of being a self-appointed leader. I was going to write an entire new post about it, but considering that I already wrote about it in February, I will let you all read this entry again.
Accusations of leadership, again continues »
by Sean - 3 December 2007
I’ve spoken about "belonging" a few times before. Everyone needs to belong, somewhere, somehow (well, almost everyone). But those of us with Body Integrity Identity Disorder don’t really belong anywhere, do we? I mean, in which group do we fit? Do we belong to the world of people without a disability? Do we belong to the disability community? Where do we fit?
Of belonging continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2010 - All Rights Reserved.