Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Tom - 2 December 2008
I have tried hard, for the past 35 years or so, to overcome my unthinkable desire to loose my left hand. I have tried everything. I have run away from the desire in all directions. I have done many a thing I wouldn’t have done if it wasn’t to flee from my desire. Secret Garden continues »
by Tom - 30 November 2008
I have wanted all my life to be disabled. It started at an early age. And the kind of disability doesn’t really matter to me. What matters is just to be disabled. In that sense, I suppose I’m not a "genuine case of BIID", if I may say so. Amputation? Paralysis? Upper limb? Lower limb? One, two, three or four limbs? Or a sensorial impairment? As a matter of fact, I can’t recognise myself as a BIID sufferer in the sense that my "condition" doesn’t involve a specific type of impairment but rather a need to have something different - and disabled - in my body. There are, however, disabilities that I like better than others and, as I explained elsewhere, my body image is basically that of a one handed - an lbe amputee. But it is not just about my own image, since I also admire other disabled persons. Perhaps I am both a BIID case and an admirer.
Je me Souviens continues »
by Sarah - 29 November 2008
I’m home alone for a few days and so of course I immediately put my neck brace on. I don’t have a wheelchair - that’s not as easy to hide as a case full of neck and back braces.
Source of Solace continues »
by Sean - 20 November 2008
One topic of heated debate with many of the people who hear about BIID through articles such as the one about Dr. Ryan’s suggestion that surgery might be appropriate is one of "who gets to pay for it?". And it is a good question.
To Pay or Not to Pay? continues »
by Sean - 8 November 2008
Today, several things happened and suddenly, the penny dropped - I am unlikely to ever be paraplegic. I am not in deep depression, though I am never far from it, and this realisation may push me back there. There. Is. No. Hope.
The Penny Drops, the Hope is Gone continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2008 - All Rights Reserved.