Posted on 10/01/2015 10:46:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A North Carolina woman says she is happier than ever after she fulfilled her lifelong wish of becoming blind.
Jewel Shuping, 30, has Body Integrity Identity Disorder, according to Barcroft TV.
BIID is a condition in which able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled.
She told Barcroft TV that her fascination with blindness started when she was a child.
“By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable,” she said.
Shuping says that when she was a teenager, she started wearing thick black sunglasses, and even got her first cane when she was 18.
By the age of 20, Shuping says she was fluent in braille.
“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,” she told Barcroft TV.
Her need to lose her sight increased as she got older, and by 2006, she claims she found a psychologist who was willing to help her.
Shuping says the psychologist put numbing eye drops into her eyes, and then a couple of drops of drain cleaner.
“It hurt, let me tell you. My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin,” she said. “But all I could think was ‘I am going blind, it is going to be okay.”
The woman says it took about half a year for the damage to take full effect.
“When I woke up the following day I was joyful, until I turned on to my back and opened my eyes – I was so enraged when I saw the TV screen,” she told Barcroft TV.
One of her eyes eventually had to be removed, her other eye had glaucoma and cataracts, Barcroft TV reports.
Shuping says she originally told her family it was an accident, but they later found out the truth.
She says her mother and sister have since cut contact.
She told Barcroft TV that she has no regrets and that she hopes to help other blind people live an independent life.
“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.”
According to Barcroft TV, Shuping is hoping her story will help raise public awareness of BIID and encourage people with the condition to seek professional help.
Man, that would take a lot of control to not become involuntarily “aroused” and blow his cover!
So? Alot of people want to be blind these days.
Now she can go on Disability and we can all pay for her lunacy.
The same sickness that that Bruce, I mean Caitlyn, Jenner suffers from!
You believe her story about a psychologist blinding her? She’s insane. Why would you believe anything this person says?
Yes, but is she a lesbian?
that’s what really matters.
Right now, the novelty of this decision and experience is enjoyable to her, or perhaps she is just rationalizing.
The thing is, blindness is a multifaceted handicap; it isn’t just not being able to see. No one who is reading this post with their eyes can truly understand what I am talking about, but those who have a loved one who is blind know this is so. My heart breaks for this foolish young woman.
This girl does not yet understand what she has done to herself, but in time she will find out. And in time, when she realizes she cannot go back, that blindness goes on and on and on and on, she will be devastated.
I agree that if this was a licensed psychologist, this person should lose his license at the very minimum, for malpractice, and for practicing medicine without a license. And, the federal and state govts should sue that person for the cost to the state of this girl’s lifelong care.
And now she’s free to eat as much as she likes.
What the heck????!!!!!!!! Is this “psychologist” still working?
Maybe she just looked in the mirror one time too many.
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID): interrogation of patients and theories for explanation.
This woman is sick. But not nearly as sick as our society which now glorifies mentally ill people as “role models” and enthusiastically performs surgical mutilations upon these people as “treatment” for their mental illness.
I suspect that her relationship with mom and sis was already pretty weird long before that.
She already had a disability...mental.
The psychologist should be in prison.
And this lunatic should be ineligible to receive a PENNY of public assistance for the “handicapped.”
Good point.
“I once had a buddy go into a strip club pretending to be blind.”
That line is sooooo ripe for jokes!
It’s “who she is!” Stop being bigots!!!!!
My father was blind throughout all of his adult life. I know of what you speak only too well. There is a great barrier to communicating with others when you are blind, and this was a great hindrance to me and my family which affects me even now.
Second Opnion: It’s not BIID, it’s BSCD (Batsh*t Crazy Disorder).
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