Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Chloe - 7 May 2009
My BIID is asymmetric. That seems odd. My self image corresponds to complete paraplegia. Both legs the same. Both sides of my lower torso the same. It seems absurd for there to be laterality. Yet it is so.
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by Chloe - 24 April 2009
Birthdays have had a special significance for me ever since I was ten years old. That’s when OCD kicked in. BIID became linked with my birthday last year. I hadn’t seen it coming.
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by Sean - 24 August 2008
I am at the computer, sitting in my wheelchair. I’ve been at my desk for a little over two hours. I have not moved my legs in that time. Occasionaly I realise that my body is tense, muscles clenching. I make a conscious effort to relax the muscles, particularly my buttocks and thighs. This is in sharp contrast to last evening, watching television in the recliner.
Fidgetty legs continues »
by Sean - 11 February 2007
It pops in my mind out of nowhere, shoving existing thoughts aside and making itself known. How I wish it was different, but it is my reality, day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, year after bloody year, decades going.
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