Comments on: Hyper-hyper awareness of one’s legs http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/hyper-hyper-awareness-of-ones-legs.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Claire http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/hyper-hyper-awareness-of-ones-legs.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16264 Claire Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:50:59 +0000 http://transabled.org/?p=929#comment-16264 For me, concentrating on my legs makes it worse. After my recent trip to the researchers, where I was concentrating a lot on how my legs felt, I had several days of the worst BIID in a long time. That also might be because I walked, unaided, everywhere, at their request. They wanted my BIID/anxiety level up so that they could study it. (That was perfectly fine by me, btw...I'm just mentioning that it DID go up!). My BIID level has constantly been up since that trip. Perhaps that's why wheeling helps so much, because I don't have to think about my legs at all, not even subconsciously. For me, concentrating on my legs makes it worse. After my recent trip to the researchers, where I was concentrating a lot on how my legs felt, I had several days of the worst BIID in a long time. That also might be because I walked, unaided, everywhere, at their request. They wanted my BIID/anxiety level up so that they could study it. (That was perfectly fine by me, btw…I’m just mentioning that it DID go up!). My BIID level has constantly been up since that trip. Perhaps that’s why wheeling helps so much, because I don’t have to think about my legs at all, not even subconsciously.

]]> By: Gordo http://transabled.org/thoughts/sean-thoughts/hyper-hyper-awareness-of-ones-legs.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16261 Gordo Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:08:44 +0000 http://transabled.org/?p=929#comment-16261 I often feel the same way too. That's why, after wheeling for a few hours, when my feet start to get cold and numb due to inactivity, I actually welcome that because I'd feel less of my lower body that way. And it becomes hard to even move anything below my waist due to that inactivity. So it seems that the longer I wheel, the more "realistic" I look/feel, compared to a paraplegic. I often feel the same way too. That’s why, after wheeling for a few hours, when my feet start to get cold and numb due to inactivity, I actually welcome that because I’d feel less of my lower body that way. And it becomes hard to even move anything below my waist due to that inactivity.

So it seems that the longer I wheel, the more “realistic” I look/feel, compared to a paraplegic.

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