by Chloe - 23 August 2010
My disability presentation has evolved over the last two years. It has lacked consistency, both over time and also between different groups of people. I’m not sure I could have done it any other way. I needed to experiment in order to find an optimal presentation for treating my BIID. These things simply weren’t obvious to me ahead of time. However, it leaves me with the discomforting baggage of being known in different ways to different people.
Consistent Presentation continues »
by Chloe - 2 June 2010
BIID disclosures are filled with trepidation, tears, nervousness, raw emotion, vulnerability, and even terror. Right? Well, not any more; not for me. Guilt and shame get replaced by comfort and confidence. Oddly enough, this brings it’s own disclosure difficulties.
Disclosure Conundrum continues »
by Chloe - 15 March 2010
Another tedious skiing adventure from Chloe? Yeah maybe, but I wouldn’t write about it if I didn’t think I had something new to say:
Out of Bounds continues »
by Sean - 9 January 2010
I was reading a discussion about Body Integrity Identity Disorder on a LiveJournal Transgender board. One of the comment seems to have triggered the crystalisation of a thought I’d had before, without really being able to verbalise it. We shouldn’t say "I need to be paralysed", or "I need an amputation"!
Transabled Folks Must Change Thinking Patterns! continues »
by Chloe - 4 January 2010
I apologise to everyone for throwing in an obscure reference to the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" in last month’s post, Ruminations on Sexuality, without giving any clue as to why I find relevance to BIID in the story. This post is to rectify that.
To Kill a Mockingbird continues »