Comments on: Missing Half My Life http://transabled.org/thoughts/missing-half-my-life.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:41:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Claire http://transabled.org/thoughts/missing-half-my-life.htm/comment-page-1#comment-172 Claire Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:56:55 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/missing-half-my-life.htm#comment-172 Hi Marie. Thanks for your comment. Believe me, the irony is not lost on me. But I can't help being transabled any more than you can help having CP. I just am this way, and have been since my earliest memories. It's not something I can wish away because it's not really practical, or because someone else tells me I'm not missing much. That's why they call BIID a mental illness, a disorder. Because it doesn't just go away when you tell it to. Like any other disability, mental, emotional or physical. Hi Marie. Thanks for your comment. Believe me, the irony is not lost on me. But I can’t help being transabled any more than you can help having CP. I just am this way, and have been since my earliest memories. It’s not something I can wish away because it’s not really practical, or because someone else tells me I’m not missing much. That’s why they call BIID a mental illness, a disorder. Because it doesn’t just go away when you tell it to. Like any other disability, mental, emotional or physical.

]]> By: Sean http://transabled.org/thoughts/missing-half-my-life.htm/comment-page-1#comment-168 Sean Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:06:25 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/missing-half-my-life.htm#comment-168 Thank you for posting Marie, As a person who has been transabled for over 30 years, I can tell you that we *wish* we could be glad to be able-bodied... But it's not that easy, is it? Thank you for posting Marie,

As a person who has been transabled for over 30 years, I can tell you that we *wish* we could be glad to be able-bodied… But it’s not that easy, is it?

]]> By: Marie http://transabled.org/thoughts/missing-half-my-life.htm/comment-page-1#comment-167 Marie Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:53:31 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/missing-half-my-life.htm#comment-167 As a person with severe cerebral palsy, who has lived 20 years in a costom made wheelchairs, you aren’t missing much. Please be glad that your able-bodied. As a person with severe cerebral palsy, who has lived 20 years in a costom made wheelchairs, you aren’t missing much. Please be glad that your able-bodied.

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