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Britain’s Missing Top Model: a review

by Gordo - 17 July 2008

I was looking through some random stuff a few weeks ago, and came across an article about a show in the UK called "Britain’s Missing Top Model." The premiere was scheduled for July 1, and basically mirrors the format of "America’s Next Top Model," but with a catch — the models all have some sort of disability. The first thing I thought to myself was: "BBC — don’t screw this up."

Happiness and fear

by Gordo - 3 July 2008

Today, a contact on my MSN list attached the following comment to her username: “Be right or be happy?”

Whenever a question like this is phrased as such, it seems so obvious — be happy. However, as we’ve seen in the BIID circles, it doesn’t always work like that. Society has an obsession with being “right” at the cost of happiness; in other words, being both “normal” AND happy is at a premium.

A Little Bit of Everything

by Dante - 28 June 2008

Awhile back I had a conversation with someone else I know that also deals with BIID. Often that person is the one who spurs me to write as I have. Once again, that person told me that I should explain my unqiue sitation…

Gordo’s humble beginnings

by Gordo - 25 June 2008

This is a bit long-winded, but hopefully it’s easy to read and rich in content, so bear with me here… :)

There are some out there who say that people with Body Integrity Identity Disorder often have some early interaction with people with disabilities, which eventually leads to "acquiring" BIID. Some may have relatives or friends with disabilities, or have constant contact with people with disabilities. It is very possible that this contact may manifest itself in someone’s early childhood memories and eventually morph into BIID.

Fantasies and pretending

by Mary - 14 June 2008

It started when I was a kid, maybe as early as when I was around 7 years old. I had a very lively fantasy, so I made up stories about everything. But there were a kind of stories, fantasies, that came to my mind, from a deep inner feeling. If I had seen a person with a disability on TV, in a book or in real life, I couldn’t help but thinking about that person and that disability. I started trying imagine how life would be living with that disability.