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Originally Posted by RobinF
To attempt to clear up a few things (not that I think anyone will accept this any better than you already do, but I'd still like to try): - What we have is called BIID, not Munchausen Syndrome. There are significant differences there.
- You said "The blogger also wrote about being let onto the buses for free, no questions asked. This is nutty even if she has an unlimited pass that she doesn't bother to show to people.". This isn't me *trying* to cheat anyone out of anything, I do posses a valid unlimited-travel bus pass. I just made a comment that while using a wheelchair, none of the transit staff had ever asked to actually see it, which is unusual. The staff waving me through without asking to see it is nothing of my own doing.
- You say "It's also a waste of wheelchairs." Wheelchairs are not a finite resource, if I "use up" one, the company will make another one for the next person that needs one. They aren't an item where there's a waiting list or a shortage, so I don't see how i'm "wasting" one. My use to help with my BIID is no less valid than anyone else's use to help with anything else.
- "The reason that particular deaf wannabe is like that seems to be related to her autistic spectrum condition and the associated oversensitivity to sound" I have a similar autistic spectrum condition and am hypersensitive to light and sound, hence being functionally deafblind at times when around the house. Her having an autistic spectrum condition that is somewhat related to her need to be d/Deaf should make it easier to understand why she needs it, not less. Living with hypersensitive sense(s) would make anyone have similar thoughts, I'd bet.
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When I referred to Munchausen's, I was referring tothe post by someone else regarding a friend's behavior specifically.
What you are referring to is not diagnosable under DSM-IV (TR) criteria. The closes the DMS comes to diagnositic criteria for a disorder such as the one you describe is body dysmorphic disorder. However, the disorder,as described does not meet all of the criteria necessary. Thee is also conversion disorder, but neither does this meet the criteria for conversion disorder. Actually, this would fall more into the category of unsepcified personality disorder. If an individual truly want to be disabled, then having a mental illness certainly puts them into the category of disabled. However, as mental illness is also an invisable disability, these individuals seem to be more concerned with having a disablility that it visable and recognizable as a way to manipulate others and gain attention for themselves. These are very disturbed individuals. Threatening harm to oneself by creating a disability in oneself is sufficient grounds to commit.