Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Sean - 10 February 2009
Body Integrity Identity Disorder is a rare and rather weird condition. Those of us with BIID want need an impairment. We need to be paralysed, or amputees, or blind, or deaf. Even by the most open-minded criteria, it’s bizarre. And when we think of transabled people, it’s easy to start thinking of people who look as bizarre as the condition we have.
Looking Normal And Accepting BIID continues »
by Chloe - 23 December 2008
In September 2007 a physician offered me an elective amputation. I had not seen this coming. It seemed quite entertaining for someone with BIID to be offered an amputation. Too bad he wasn’t offering paraplegia.
Almost an Amputee continues »
by Chloe - 3 December 2008
Sean told me I had purchased a "granny" chair. Yeah, alright, but it was cheap. The problem is, I’m not a granny, and I don’t behave like one with or without a wheelchair.
To the Knacker’s Yard continues »
by Sophie - 13 August 2008
I met an interesting man today who raised a good point, what is disability. This man had been a firefighter until one day when he was in a car accident and he was brain damaged. You wouldn’t know any of this just by looking at him but he had no long or short term memory. He had no sense of smell or taste and he can’t hear properly. He looks like any normal man joking around about every day things but in reality he’s wondering why the heck people are calling him ___ when he’s been told his name is something else????
What is Disability really? continues »
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 »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.