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🧠 Identity & Perspectives

🦿 Wannabe Experiences

''Wannabes actually want to become disabled, sometimes going to extraordinary lengths to have a limb amputated.''

Terminology is voluntarily retrieved from Bruno (1997) to allow for nuanced discussion.

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"Reality of BID”
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By lefty
4 months ago
The grinding stress of BID repression
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By Johnsco21
1 year ago

🧲 Devotee Discussions

''Devotees are nondisabled people who are sexually attracted to people with disabilities, typically those with mobility impairments and especially amputees.''

Terminology is voluntarily retrieved from Bruno (1997) to allow for nuanced discussion.

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Devotism a BID-symptom?
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By Clark
3 days ago

''Pretenders are non-disabled people who act as if they have a disability by using assistive devices [e.g., braces, crutches, and wheelchairs] in private and sometimes in public, so that they 'feel' disabled or are perceived by others as having a disability.''

Terminology is voluntarily retrieved from Bruno (1997) to allow for nuanced discussion.

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Pretending as part of life with BID
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By Clark
4 days ago

🧠 Identity & Perspectives

Discuss the different identities and experiences within the BID community, including Wannabes, Devotees, and Pretenders. Share personal perspectives and insights.

While some terminology may now be considered outdated and does not fall within the inclusion criteria of ICD-11 (hence making it de facto not BID), it is retained here to provide a space for informed discussions on these related topics. The terminology (and definition) of this section is drawn from Bruno, R. L. (1997). Devotees, Pretenders and Wannabes: Two Cases of Factitious Disability Disorder. Sexuality and Disability, 15(4), 243–260.

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