Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Elisabeth - 19 January 2010
Where they have gone, all those young people with SCI? All those young people after car accidents? Where are all the manual wheelchair users? Those sexy, muscular, elegantly wheeling young people some of us want to be?
Tell Me, Where They Have Gone? continues »
by Lane - 28 August 2009
In Stormy Night 1 & 2, I recounted the true story of how I was hit by a drunk driver at highway speed, suffered massive injuries, including multiple spinal fractures, an incomplete SCI, peripheral nerve injuries, and a whole host of internal and orthopedic nonsense. It took me a month to wake up from a coma, and when I did, I found that I had total paralysis in my right side and decrease sensation and function in my left leg. Despite the tragedy, this was real progress.
Stormy Night 3 - Family Support continues »
by Lane - 18 August 2009
It’s the funniest thing. Most people, I’ve found, just don’t get paralysis. That is to say that they don’t understand what it really means and how it affects the person who is experiencing this condition. The same could be said for pain or hunger or for an itch. For many people, there are few clues to what another person is truly experiencing.
People Just Don’t Get Paralysis continues »
by Chloe - 23 July 2009
My hands were still on the steering wheel; I was the right way up. Although there were holes in the windshield, none were in a spot through which I could see anything useful. The driver’s window was completely gone. I could see that cars were going by in the opposite direction, so that meant I was in the fast lane, parked facing oncoming traffic. After a while there was a shout from outside the car: "Are you okay?"
Unbreakable continues »
by Lane - 15 July 2009
In Part 1, we dealt with some unnecessary constraints that we may be putting on ourselves – which hinder our progress toward resolving the core BIID conflict between our minds and out bodies. OK, now how do we actually get it done?
Engineering Paralysis is Indeed Possible - Part 2 continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2010 - All Rights Reserved.