Posted on 07/28/2017 10:12:18 PM PDT by aquila48
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 nationalpost.com ...
“Rational thinkers are something that’s rare today....”
I can only name two things that are more rare, frog’s hair and hen’s teeth.
Spendthrift?
True.....
Here it is, I found it...........
Thanks!
How could these pooooor people not chop off limbs when they are in the way of a life of ease on full disability.
I can only imagine how truly terrible they feeeeeeeeel.
Off with their heads!
Satan’s having a bludgeoning blast with the queers, the sexually befuddled and people who are into self-abuse.
Examples of what demons look like.
There is no depth the mentally ill will not go to try and prove their saneness...
in Jesus’ day people would simply say they “have a devil”.
Our society is simply way too smart to make such a prognosis.
Besides they aren’t any pills to cure possession!
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