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Infighting

Written by Sean on Saturday, July 31, 2004

Over the years I have been continually amazed, and disapointed, to see that the wider community was so divided. For some reason, a majority of amputee wannabes seem to discount those of us who don’t want to be amputee, but instead perceive themselves as paras.

I’ll keep saying that there are too many similarities between our two groups to remain apart from one another. I’ll keep insisting that we would be much stronger if we merged our efforts.

I must admit, it hurts me to be continually refused access to a community I feel I belong to. They probably don’t care about those feelings, but heck, I have to be candid and admit them.

The folks at Body Integrity Identity Disorder site have done some pretty good work so far. But despite repeated attempts at getting them to widen their scope, they still have not. A member of their board told me they were willing to listen to my arguments, but that went nowhere.

And if I sound bitter, perhaps I am. I’ll never understand why any group shuns others with similarities so strong