Comments on: Poor cousins http://transabled.org/thoughts/poor-cousins.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:30:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Ronald http://transabled.org/thoughts/poor-cousins.htm/comment-page-1#comment-11429 Ronald Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:35:36 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/poor-cousins.htm#comment-11429 No, a "substitute" disability would not solve anything. A bilateral leg amputation would only result in you being an amputee, not a paraplegic. If that would have any constructive result, then so would a pair of leg casts in creating a legitimate and somewhat long term need for a wheelchair. If only a solution were that simple, we could all satisfy ourselves with do it yourself solutions. I have considered wearing a cast, yes I would be committed to using crutches and would have the same mobility impairments and have my hands occupied, and presumeably similar challenges to being a single leg amputee. But I know this is not what I want as much as I know what I really want. No, a “substitute” disability would not solve anything. A bilateral leg amputation would only result in you being an amputee, not a paraplegic.
If that would have any constructive result, then so would a pair of leg casts in creating a legitimate and somewhat long term need for a wheelchair. If only a solution were that simple, we could all satisfy ourselves with do it yourself solutions. I have considered wearing a cast, yes I would be committed to using crutches and would have the same mobility impairments and have my hands occupied, and presumeably similar challenges to being a single leg amputee. But I know this is not what I want as much as I know what I really want.

]]> By: Rorschach http://transabled.org/thoughts/poor-cousins.htm/comment-page-1#comment-11264 Rorschach Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:22:16 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/poor-cousins.htm#comment-11264 I've thought about this a lot, but yeah in the end it just wouldn't do it. I’ve thought about this a lot, but yeah in the end it just wouldn’t do it.

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