by Sean - 13 June 2008
I have been exchanging emails with a psychologist about Body Integrity Identity Disorder. This person is not in clinical duties, but rather does research, and is working closely with a team of neurologists who are trying to understand BIID. I’m continuing discussion because it is of the utmost importance we get a better understanding of what BIID is. But I have been having a strange vibe that was telling me "something’s not quite right". I did not know what until someone else who has been speaking to them told me about a discussion they had with their therapist, and that therapist’s comment about normalcy and happiness.
Body Integrity Identity Disorder, the battle between Normal and Happy continues »
by Sean - 11 April 2008
I have been speaking with a disability rights activist on and off for the last several weeks about BIID, transabled issues, and how it all relates to the disability community. She has changed her views significantly and I think that she has gotten to the point where she *gets* BIID. She is telling me, however, that there is still an issue that many of her friends are voicing - they believe because we get to chose when to deal with the physical aspects of disability, our experience of disability is invalidated (no pun intended).
Choice, experience, authenticity and oppression. continues »
by Sophie - 1 May 2007
For a while I wasn’t sure I was going to be doing any post for Blogging Against Disablism Day. I didn’t really know what I should say. It wasn’t until I established in my mind what the term disability really meant to me that something sprang to mind. Sean will probably already go over this (if he hasn’t already), but I personally think an impairment is the actual physical/mental/emotional problem, and a disability is what arises from the social and physical constraints as a result of your impairment.
BADD - When does an impairment become a disability? continues »