Chloe Jennings-White adjusting her leg braces at her home on May 16, 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Chloe-Jennings White wears leg braces and uses a wheelchair, even though her legs work fine, and she does not need them.
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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.
“The person could want to become deaf, blind, amputee, paraplegic. It’s a really, really strong desire.”
Researchers in Canada are trying to better understand how transabled people think and feel. Clive Baldwin, a Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies who teaches social work at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., has interviewed 37 people worldwide who identify as transabled.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Self mutilation is a sign of mental illness.
THIS COMMENT FROM ED MORRIEY OF HOTAIR.COM:
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/02/the-next-wave-of-body-diversity-disabled-by-choice/
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When I first read this, I had to double-check the references and do a little research to make sure this wasn’t something the Daily Currant had launched in the wake of Jenner’s re-emergence. Dr. Clive Baldwin appears to check out as advertised, as the Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies at St Thomas University, Fredericton. “Narrative studies” sounds a little ambiguous as a discipline, but his website states that he lectured in the UK on mental health in social work and on dementia studies. A YouTube search for more on the topic raised videos spanning at least four years, including an unfortunate Jerry Springer segment, which Springer himself said would be the strangest segment he’d ever done. That’s a tall order, one I’d really prefer not to research, but it’s probably correct. Feel free to click the link, but I’ll pass on embedding it here.
So this is not a hoax, or at least the story isn’t. The impulse to mutilate one’s body in various ways has been known and documented for a long time, but only recently have we begun to accept it as an expression of self rather than a pathology, as Dr. Baldwin dismissively notes. The measure of the latter, though, has never been the sincerity of those impulses but their destructive nature and disconnection from reality.
This brings us to Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner, of course, and other transgender people who have operations to change their gender to match their mental and emotional identity. There doesn’t seem to be much of a moral or medical difference between surgically removing one’s sexual genitalia to address gender identity issues and removing a leg, arm, or eyeballs to address “transability” issues. One can argue that there is a difference between do-it-yourself “modifications” to chop off one’s arm and a surgeon to remove male genitalia and construct artificial genitalia in its place, and there are differences. The latter has been made much safer, of course, and much more socially acceptable, but that’s only a matter of being ahead on the moral-relativity curve. Surgeons can do amputations, rob eyes of sight, and the like, just as safely as they now perform gender-reassignment surgeries.
These people are mentally ill and need help psychologically. What they don’t need is for their views to be validated as ‘normal’ and for academia and policy makers to force everybody else to accept this as normal and healthy behaviour.
Body integrity identity disorder, where someone wants to remove whole limbs
“....only recently have we begun to accept it as an expression of self rather than a pathology..”
WE KEMOSABE!!??
Amazing... depressing; to hear that there are web communities catering to this type of craziness.
I don’t know whether I should say, “Bravo” or “Who am I to judge?”
RE: Amazing... depressing; to hear that there are web communities catering to this type of craziness.
Well, there are MEDIA people catering to and celebrating men like Bruce (AKA Caitlyn ) Jenner who want to surgically do the same to himself.
It is common for men to have a body part that seems to have a life of it’s own, separate from their ability to control it, but they rarely consider amputation.
"It’s a really, really strong desire. mental illness."
There, fixed it.
Transgenderism is also a body dysmorphic disorder/ Body integrity identity disorder.
People who feel this way are suffering from an abnormal condition which needs to be cured.
The fact that it might not respond to treatment does not imply that the disorder should be accepted as normal.
What great courage displayed by ‘One Hand Jason’.
Maybe ESPN has room for another ‘courage award’ for this guy.
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