The most disturbing thing I've read in ages

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

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?

i was just looking at that site.

i think in some cases it could be linked with a childhood experience, but i think the brain is far too complex a piece of machinery to make a definite statement about causation, unfortunately. some people say they start having feelings about amputation as young as 4 or 5 - to me, that says that it could be something hard-wired.