The most disturbing thing I've read in ages

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Originally Posted by carrie721

i think what makes it so difficult to grasp (well, for me anyway) is that people without BIID view the loss of a limb as a disability or a handicap, and people with BIID view it as an enhancement, they feel enabled & empowered.

That's exactly it. I know the idea of losing a limb is a devastating thought to me, so it's hard to comprehend the idea of someone seeing actually having limbs as a handicap.
I was intrigued to see what triggers something like this, since apparently it starts in childhood and found a site for it:

http://www.biid.org/

From that site:

Where does the desire come from?
No one is sure exactly where the desire originates. For most (dealing with this syndrome), the desire arises early in childhood and they will have a fixed concept of the type of amputation they wish by the teenage years.

So bizarre. It must be linked with a childhood experience don't you think?