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@keyboardlegs
This came to me in a dream
theres not an easy way get cool robo limbs
[ID: a cartoony drawn picture of a boy, labeled "me with BID", standing at a forking path. The path on the left leads to a bright, sunshine-filled hill with a dark castle edited in. The castle is labeled "staying able-bodied and dysphoric". The right path leads to a dark hill where the sky is clouded and lightning shoots down to a bright and shining castle that has been edited in. The castle is labeled "accomplishing my need but have a harder life" /End ID]
Woe, another meme be upon ye
Let's all hop in the BID cloud! Or maybe not, it seems like a rough place.
not a big fan of how bodily autonomy as a value seems to be strongly rejected by a lot of leftists
there’s a carve out for trans people usually—“that’s different!” or “but they really need it!” frankly I don’t find that reassuring—support for my bodily autonomy in certain limited directions shouldn’t be politically contingent, it should be because it’s my fucking body and i can do what i want with it.
@ill-posed-problem
I'm in favour of most cosmetic surgeries but I think you're missing the point, these leftists aren't against bodily autonomy, they don't think it applies when the person isn't thinking clearly. If someone wanted to amputate their arm because having it reminds them of past trauma and someone objected, you'd have to be pretty dense to conclude they are against bodily autonomy.
I think this is a really poorly thought out counterargument, for multiple reasons.
One--"this person isn't thinking clearly" is not, in itself, a good reason to deny bodily autonomy. This excuse has been used to deny people bodily autonomy countless times in the past, whether forcing on them medical interventions they don't want (like lobotomies) or preventing them from access care they do want (as many young women seeking procedures like tubal ligation or hysterectomies can attest). Ultimately because you can choose a standard of "thinking clearly" arbitrarily, you are saying simply, with heartfelt condescension, "if someone has preferences I disagree with strongly enough, I can deny their preferences and substitute my own."
Two--it's a bad example. People don't want to cut their arm off because of trauma. There are people who want to have otherwise healthy limbs amputated, and people with body dysmorphia (NB people sometimes mix these up--"dysmorphia" and "dysphoria" are different words with different usages) who are perennially unhappy with their appearance no matter how many cosmetic procedures they get. But, crucially, these people are still adults who can make their own decisions. If (big if!) their conditions are treatable by talk therapy, you can't force them into talk therapy against their will. And since in this application this argument is exactly isomorphic to the arguments deployed against trans people (down to assuming there exists some magical super-effective form of talk therapy that can arbitrarily alter people's preferences), I take a very jaundiced view of it!
There are conditions that, as a society, we tend to view as sufficiently mentally disabling that we don't treat the preferences expressed within those conditions as authentic, like actual psychosis, mania, being very drunk, or being very depressed. We can dispute which conditions can be classified in this way, but I think a key attribute of most of them is that the preferences expressed are not consistent and are in conflict with preferences expressed when these conditions are less severe or absent. People often regret things they do when suffering from psychosis or mania; drunkenness directly affects our self-control; people may express preferences when very depressed (like a preference to die) that they later regret if their depression goes into remission or is successfully treated.
Body integrity identity disorder (the medical term for people who want a healthy limb amputated) is rare, and seems to me to not typically be accompanied by (say) psychosis. It also seems resistant to treatment, and is more akin to body dysmorphia, and there is, IIRC, some indication that people with BIID who do successfully get the offending part amputated are often quite happy with the outcome. It is much better that this should happen in a hospital, rather than in some home amputation scenario where they might bleed out and die. There are also people into castration as a sexual fetish, for instance--these are not people who have had a break with reality, they are under no illusions as to the medical consequences of such a thing, and if that's their turn-on, they should probably be allowed to pursue it! That's a bullet I can easily bite. I don't get it. I certainly don't share that preference. But "you like things that spook the normies" is not a reason to deny someone a free choice. That argument has been used against LGBT people for decades, and it's horseshit.
Lastly--very many more common body modifications (tattoos, boob jobs, rhinoplasties, piercings) have consequences that are just as permanent, it's just that, as a culture, we happen to classify them as normal, because they are common. It's quite a circular logic, isn't it? If we define as acceptable only preferences that are widely shared, we are not building a liberal society, but one of reactionary conformism where any notable deviation is punished, and people are afraid to express their preferences out of fear theirs will be seen as too strange and they will be punished for it.
We also do not ban people from joining the military, or skydiving in those super-dangerous wingsuits, or doing daredevil motorcycle stunts, or drinking because they might regret it, even though those all are, to some extent, notably risky activities that might seriously harm your body. So even the criterion of "your preferences might eventually change" is a pretty bad one!
Have you told your therapist/psychologist about your BID/BIID?
Yes
No
I told a previous therapist/psychologist, but not my current one
Never had a therapist/psychologist, but wouldn't ever tell them
Never had a therapist/psychologist, but would tell them
I don't have BID/BIID; See Results
Since I am currently debating this question, I am wondering how others have dealt with this
Have you told your therapist/psychologist about your BID/BIID?
Yes
No
I told a previous therapist/psychologist, but not my current one
Never had a therapist/psychologist, but wouldn't ever tell them
Never had a therapist/psychologist, but would tell them
I don't have BID/BIID; See Results
Since I am currently debating this question, I am wondering how others have dealt with this
Good news! I plan to work on comics again because my job has eased up and I have more time/energy to devote to drawing.
Bad news! My BID has gotten so much worse recently, in part because I am so much less busy that my mind keeps drifting towards it.
Assuming you had access to perfect medical care at no additional cost, which of these would you want most?
fix my eyes
fix my heart
fix my lungs
fix my blood
fix my hormones
fix my limb(s)
fix a different organ, tags
fix my brain chemicals
get this unwanted growth off / out of me
there's no fixing me, It Is What It Is
nothing about me needs to be fixed
Tell your stories in the tags, if you want to share!
Please someone take my legs!!!
my cartooning advice: -your first foray into graphic storytelling should not be that 900 page epic youve been working on since you were 12 -use whatever crappy art software you have -dont make every panel an illustration -cut more corners -no, more than that -no, more than that -a badly made comic will eventually become good but a never-made comic will never become good
Not sure if anyone can quite relate to this, but it is so weird trying to sim now that I live with my partner. Even though they are supportive, I just feel like I literally cannot sim while they are in the house. Since they've been fully remote for awhile, it has meant that I haven't felt like I could sim for months which has made my BID so much worse and harder to deal with 😬
About what age did you first notice symptoms of BID?
Before 5
5-6
6-7
8-9
10-11
12-13
14-15
16-17
18+
Don't have BID/let me see results
Related to my previous comic, just curious! My symptoms seemed to start around 9 years old
Feel free to reblog to spread it around a bit
About what age did you first notice symptoms of BID?
Before 5
5-6
6-7
8-9
10-11
12-13
14-15
16-17
18+
Don't have BID/let me see results
Related to my previous comic, just curious! My symptoms seemed to start around 9 years old
Feel free to reblog to spread it around a bit
About what age did you first notice symptoms of BID?
Before 5
5-6
6-7
8-9
10-11
12-13
14-15
16-17
18+
Don't have BID/let me see results
Related to my previous comic, just curious! My symptoms seemed to start around 9 years old
Feel free to reblog to spread it around a bit
Comic on how my BID manifested as a child, and my lack of awareness of what BID even was.
Hey due to a small rabbit hole I fell down I wanna speak some thoughts.
People with BIID are so fucking valid. I don't have it but like - I want those folks with it to know I support whatever they choose to do.
There's something so odd about BIID discourse and treatments and such. I've only scratched the surface so I can't have much of an opinion but-
If you seek out psychiatric treatments and ways to relieve the symptoms without surgery, I support you. If you are someone who has tried all they can and end up still needing surgeries to feel comfortable, I support you. If you can't do anything about your BIID yet, I hope you're able to find treatments/things to aid you.
And as someone who may be trans and has been looking into bodily autonomy discourse years due to debates - bodily autonomy should be granted to everyone. Even if the decisions make you cringe or you can't understand. Even if they don't make sense.
BIID itself is a disability and disorder. And if we're striving for a world that is accepting of disabilities, we need a world that will openly discuss and help those with BIID.
And to any people who are trans with BIID - I hope you find people who take you seriously and will help you find a suitable way to maintain your meatsuit.
Okay. That's all.