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I forgot to add this one

art about my BIID

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I hope everyone with BID/BIID has a nice 2025 and can achieve their needed body if they want to

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reminder that pwBIID who successfully acquired their desired body are just as disabled as the next person.

them purposefully getting a limb amputated does not make them "less" of an amputee or "less" disabled than someone who lost their limb(s) unwillingly.

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So you're cool with transabled people

Frankly, idk! I'm physically disabled myself and idk entirely how I feel about transablility as a concept because I haven't done all that much research into it. I don't think people should pretend to have disabilities they don't have (i.e pretending to be blind), but body integrity dysphoria is a real thing that people experience and if they want to pursue surgery or something to make themselves happier, that's their right. As long as they aren't trying to claim that they can speak on disability issues they don't actually deal with, they aren't materially harming disabled people and it doesn't matter how I personally feel about them. And I don't think a lot of people who identify as transabled are doing so out of malice, so I think any sort of position on transablility should keep in mind that it is an expression of people's real feelings and struggles and they shouldn't be demonized for those feelings. It seems like an issue that needs to be handled with compassion and understanding and not blind anger.

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Strive for a world where wheelchairs can be used by anyone. I shouldn't have to feel like my pain needs to be worse to be a 'valid' wheelchair user. That shit can get dangerous real fast. I deserve comfort and reprieve from my chronic pain. I deserve to do things that alleviate my BIID dysphoria, even if I didn't have chronic pain. Everyone does. Wheelchairs should be accessible to everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY.

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People who don't experience limb dysphoria will never understand that no amount of being reminded of how much harder life would be will fix it. I know the amputee in a wheelchair across the room has a hard life. This does not make the surge of my dysphoria go away, I cannot just keep reminding myself that society is not accessible to amputees and hope that it goes away. It's so irritating to open up to someone about these feelings, just for them to go 'you don't really want that, amputees have such hard lives :(' because no shit, captain obvious, but that doesn't stop me from occasionally wanting to rip off my legs!

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The only reason to not despair at how ass my friend is at driving is that it gives me some amount of hope

This post is sponsored by hashtag body integrity dysphoria

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Honestly you should be allowed to have any non-vital organ surgically removed just on the grounds of "I don't like it." I don't need no damn appendix, if I don't make sense in context then no amount of additional information will help you.

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me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

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GRAND FINALS

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Going on vacation to one of the countries that are often cited for surgery facilitated by gatekeepers,,,,, and not getting one,,,,, the agonies

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the thing is that it's just so fundamentally disingenuous to say "humans can't customize their bodies" and then rapidly backpedal and accuse people of missing the point when faced with the reality that countless people have customized their bodies for reasons that you do in fact agree with. either you agree that people have the right to modify their bodies as they see fit or you don't, you can't just pick and choose based on what you personally get icked about.

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Signed up to the new(ish) forum a while back thinking maybe I'd be able to talk about it more there or find some more inspiration for posts here but I ran into the same problem again. Constantly just saying "This sucks" is just not what I want to spend my time here on

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in tears rn because 'my' leg is attached to me

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Also that anon being like "there are ways to treat/manage biid" and saying that BIID doesnt count as being transabled... Huhhh.....

Not only was transabled coined as a term for people w BIID a LONG time ago, but even now, most times someone IDs as transabled, it is often due to dysphoria or even BIID.

And the "treatment for BIID" thing?

Nothing helped with my BIID. I was violently depressed and had harmful urges and actions toward myself for years because of it. I was in therapy. I was on medication. I was hospitalized in inpatient psychiatric facilities time and time again. Nothing. Helped.

Except, well, the thing that helped- actually going through with removing the limbs that were affecting me. Y'know. The thing that has been proven to help pwBIID.

It pisses me off that antis act like all transabled people can't possibly also be disabled. I am both transabled and cisdisabled. Me being transabled doesn't magically change the fact that I experience the struggles of being disabled.

Yes! If you do any surface level research into BIID you will find that the overwhelming majority of BIID patients respond extremely well to having their desired disability made a reality. It's dumbfounding that some people won't do any amount of research on a disorder before making claims about it.