Becoming disabled by choice, not chance:‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully worki

The National Post ^ | 06/02/2015 | Sarah Boesveld

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

OTTAWA — When he cut off his right arm with a “very sharp power tool,” a man who now calls himself One Hand Jason let everyone believe it was an accident.

But he had for months tried different means of cutting and crushing the limb that never quite felt like his own, training himself on first aid so he wouldn’t bleed to death, even practicing on animal parts sourced from a butcher.

“My goal was to get the job done with no hope of reconstruction or re-attachment, and I wanted some method that I could actually bring myself to do,” he told the body modification website ModBlog.

His goal was to become disabled.

People like Jason have been classified as ‘‘transabled’’ — feeling like imposters in their bodies, their arms and legs in full working order.

“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

Does the media think this is something to be celebrated too, as they do with transsexuals? What's the difference? They're both mentally deranged and practiced by a tiny minority of society.

[Lazamataz]

There is no hope for the human race.

[needmorePaine]

I wonder if someone who felt like he belonged to another race would be as celebrated.

[day10]

That is a fact.

[Cold Heat]

Not unless we get off this rotting fruit called the Earth.

[Army Air Corps]

Call it Transethnic or Transracial.

[Steely Tom]

Sure. Have your little toe amputated. Then claim disability and go on the dole for the rest of your life.

Some will be willing to have a finger amputated, or a hand, or a leg, if it gets them a larger EBT every month.

[Ray76]

“transabled” = disabled by intentional act of deranged person

[mabarker1]

Thus:

WE CAN NOT LAND THE PLANE!

;)

[Paladin2]

Rush started on this first.

[Lazamataz]

DON’T LET THE PLANE LAND!!!

[Lazamataz]

DON’T LET THE PLANE LAND!!!

[Lazamataz]

DON’T LET THE PLANE LAND!!!

[Lazamataz]

DON’T LET THE PLANE LAND!!!

[Paladin2]

Before you even signed up....

[Dagnabitt]

Since it’s Tuesday, I identify as a purple pony. Don’t tell me I’m not, you bigots.

[needmorePaine]

Not unless we get off this rotting fruit called the Earth.

Until the technology is developed and the new Earth is discovered, can we just have a national divorce?

[mabarker1]

OK

[mabarker1]

OK

[mabarker1]

OK