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TIL Body Integrity Identity Disorder is a rare, documented mental disorder which causes a severe dissociation with one’s own healthy extremities. Sufferers of BIID fantasize about becoming paralyzed, may use wheelchairs and leg braces, and may seek out surgical solutions for amputation fantasies.

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