Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Chloe - 29 August 2010
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, Chloe used to experience enormous psychological stress when seeing a physician. Now, at her ninth GP visit in a wheelchair, she finds it both relaxing and entertaining.
GP Visit Number Nine continues »
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 Sean - 30 July 2010
I spent most of the day doing chores, and walking to do these chores. At some point during the day I was reminded of a conversation I had with a woman who has osteogenesis imperfecta, and knows about BIID. Mostly, she gets it, but she has a few issues. One of these issues is the fact that some of us do walk. If we need to be paralysed, and use a wheelchair to help with BIID, we should be consistant and never walk, they say.
Is It Moral (Or Ethical) For Us To Walk At All? continues »
by Elisabeth - 22 July 2010
My BIID has been at around 2 out of 10 badness for the last two or three months. So why do I still wheel? Wouldn’t it be easier both for me and my marriage to stop wheeling when my BIID is quiet?
Still Wheeling continues »
by Chloe - 16 July 2010
With hindsight, my resistance to becoming a majority time wheeler seems quaint. Why would I have resisted a change in my life which has proved to be so beneficial? As with a lot of things, the answer seems complex.
A Year of Wheeling continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2010 - All Rights Reserved.