Body Integrity Identity Disorder?

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Does anyone else have this? Ever since I was in 2nd grade I wanted crutches/to be in a wheelchair. I don't feel like myself, and the only times I do are when I'm playing around with crutches/my friends' wheelchairs. I know it's sick and I always assumed I would grow out of it, but then I saw something on TV about people feeling incomplete until they cut off a leg or something and I understood how they felt (BIID isn't just amputations however). I wonder if this is the first thing that's wrong with me that's not actually connected to autism??? (So far I've got OCD, major depressive, avoidant personality, which obviously all developed out of my A.S.).

BIID makes sense to me. Or, maybe you only had one leg in a past life, if you believe in that.

Maybe it's not so much wanting to be disabled, maybe it's the attention (or lack of) that they recieve....

Maybe it's about feeling handicapped (inside), and it would be so much easier if people could see it....

Or maybe since you seem to have friends with them, it's about just wanting to fit in with them completely....

I really don't know, just some ideas.

This is the theory that fits most closely, but I don't get the feeling there's any psychological "cause", I just think it's a condition in and of itself...normally I'm pretty good at figuring myself out and I'm pretty honest with myself about why I do the things I do, so I don't think it's attention or trying to fit in with my friends.

I don't know about BIID but I do have GID (Gender Identity Disorder) which is pretty similar. So I suppose I understand how it feels....

I definitely don't have it and would be horrified if I lost a limb.

Yeah, a lot of the information I've found on it has said the two are similar actually, which stands to reason

I had to wear crutches once... couldn't get out of them fast enough...