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| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
by Sean - 20 April 2012
I am transabled. I have Body Integrity Identity Disorder – BIID. Since the age of 3 or 4, I’ve needed to be paralysed “from the waist down”. This won’t come as any great surprise if you’ve been reading this site for any length of time. Occasionaly, I think of being a double leg amputee. |
I saw an episode of Taboo about this. They had an older woman on there who desperately wanted to be paraplegic, and a 30-something Aussie dude who wanted nothing more than to lose his right leg just below the knee. He explained that ever since childhood he'd felt as if his one leg was not his own. Since no reasonable docotr would amputate a healthy limb for fear of losing their medical license, the guy basically froze his leg in a vat of sub-zero chemicals - similar to dry ice, but not the same thing - until it was so damaged that he had to be hospitalized and doctors were forced to remove it. He said later that his prosthetic limb felt more a part of him than his old leg. Very strange disorder indeed.
Also, still waitin' on definitions of dl/ab. Lastly, this thread really really stopped deliverying after the OP. Can't believe I took my pants off for the rest of this rubbish.
Now c'mon, someone more creative than me take some stabs at dl/ab before I resort to googling it.
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