Interesting Interview with a person suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIDD), a psychiatric illness which makes people think perfectly normal body parts are abnormal. In this case, the sufferer thought having two hands was “not right,” so he staged an accident and cut off his right hand. In his mind, he was amputating a birth defect, and he felt more normal after the amputation.
I’m one of those body-integrity-disorder (BIID) dudes. As long as I can remember, having two hands was a defect in my body — something that was not meant to be. For me philosophically, it’s totally different from body mods, which I also have. I don’t think I had any choice. My right hand just didn’t belong to my body. As a little kid, I soon learned that I was the odd one out, and that amputation was a bad thing. My parents reprimanded me for staring at amputations, but it was totally mesmerizing for me. Somehow I made it through high school, with hormones and peer pressure doing their best to mask my feelings. In college, I met a wonderful woman, and our love kept my thoughts of amputation at bay at first, but the need grew and grew. I don’t know how I ever made it through to getting my Master’s.
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