Most bizarre article you're likely to read in a while...
2 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Sunday, February 4 at Sunday, February 04, 2007.
This Guardian piece about a woman with "Body Integrity Identity Disorder" (BIID), well headlined as "I won't be happy until I lose my legs" is surreal and disturbing. If it was an excerpt from a Monty Python skit I would be laughing, but this is reality, and it's weirder and more out there than anything you could make up:
"Most people want to change something about themselves, and the image I have of myself has always been one without legs......Read the rest - it gets much weirder, and much worse. Great work by the Guardian to find a story like this and a person willing to tell it - and great work by the consistently awesome BoingBoing for delivering it on a plate to me along with the rest of their daily dose of wonderful things....
There is no instruction manual for those who want to remove their own limbs, but I always knew I would do it. I had eventually, told my husband that one day I would lose my legs. It took many years for him to understand why, but he did realise it was part of me, and I suppose he accepted it."
Hey Tom,
Good to hear Cairo is treating you well. There was a similar storyline to this a while ago on CSI or something similar (I think it may have gone that someone had died in a botched up amputation or something). Odd.
Renee dJ
yeah think i have seen it on CSI, Law and Order and the other forensic crime shows i am addicted to! "good" to know that it is a real condition and not something just made up to make a good story though...must be a horrible condition to suffer