Psychologist Poured Drain Cleaner In Woman’s Eyes Because She Wanted To Be Disabled

There’s a growing community of those suffering with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). We call these individuals “transabled” for short.

Transabled individuals are those with fully-functioning, healthy bodies, but they live with an insatiable desire to be disabled. Sometimes, they’ll intentionally injure themselves or have someone else injure them in order to achieve the disability of their choosing.

As Mockarena told you before, one man actually dropped a concrete block on his leg, hoping it would have to be amputated. (Doctors were able to save his leg, so that was a total bummer.)

Some who study the disorder say that intentional injury can actually help people with the condition. Amputating an arm might make them feel more complete, just as sex changes make transgender people feel more comfortable in their own bodies.

I know this all sounds far-fetched, but this is actually happening.

Case in point.

Jewel Shuping suffers with BIIID and wholeheartedly believes it was her destiny to be blind.

“When I was young my mother would find me walking in the halls at night, when I was three or four years old,” she said. “By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable.”

When she was 18, she bought black sunglasses and a white cain. By the time she was 20, she mastered braille.

She actually pretended to be blind.

“I was ‘blind-simming’, which is pretending to be blind, but the idea kept coming up in my head and by the time I was 21 it was a non-stop alarm that was going off,” Shuping said.

I know what you’re thinking. Why didn’t she go see a psychologist? Well, she did. Except her psychologist helped her achieved her dream of being blind by pouring drain cleaner in her eyes.

“It hurt, let me tell you. My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin,” Shuping said.  “But all I could think was ‘I am going blind, it is going to be okay.'”

Sure, who wouldn’t be comforted by that?

She woke up the next day and was “enraged” when she realized she could still see.

Despite her desire to destroy her eyesight, doctors tried to save her vision. Months after the “procedure,” her eyesight began to fade. Her left eye had a “corneal meltdown” and had to be completely removed. Cataracts and glaucoma developed in her right eye.

“I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth,” she said.  “When there’s nobody around you who feels the same way, you start to think that you’re crazy. But I don’t think I’m crazy, I just have a disorder.”

Yes. And when someone has a disorder, you get them help. Help to get back in order. It’s the same reason I have a problem with doctors bowing to “gender confused” individuals and allowing them to physically alter their bodies. They’re not addressing the root of the problem. In all of these cases, it’s a mental issue that needs to be addressed, and you can’t address a mental issue by altering the physical body.

Shuping said she understands why some people would be mad at her for intentionally blinding herself, but contends that she had no choice.

“If someone were to say that its fundamentally selfish to blind myself, I would say that it’s selfish to refuse treatment to somebody with a disorder,” she said. “This is not a choice, it’s a need based on a disorder of the brain.”

I have zero tolerance for this. Zero. Maybe it’s because I grew up watching my youngest sister struggle with her disability. She’d give ANYTHING to walk and talk and feed herself and function like everyone else. It ticks me off to see people take their fully functioning, healthy bodies for granted.

It IS a choice. She CHOSE to act on that wacky desire, and the doctor CHOSE to help her.

Now watch society try to normalize this condition.

h/t Mirror