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.
Another crazy person getting fifteen minutes.
One result of ten thousand channels: 24 hour village idiot cam.
I really do hope that there was not a real psychologist out there who put drain cleaner in her eyes. If so, he or she needs to be locked up and the key thrown away.
This was an episode of Mysteries of Laura last night. Where someone fake cancer to get $$$
Uhm, having a mental disorder is indeed having a disorder and the psychologist that helped her mutilate herself rather than deal with the psychological problems she was experiencing should be losing their license.
She’s blind, but now to be truly happy she needs to be diabetic and catch HIV. Some people are never happy for long. /S
If you haven't the brains to appreciate what God blessed you with, at least donate your eyes to a blind person.
Does this woman not have a serious mental disorder? How is this different than being a transexual? Should the government now pay for operations to blind people?
Sick. And the same crazed sickness that leads someone to cut off body parts. She better not get one dime of public money.
And the psychologist who did this should probably be shot. IF that’s the real story.
Reading Louis Braille’s story in 4th grade cured me of that.
The psychologist needs to be named and prosecuted. This person is batshit crazy and the psychologist facilitated her insanity.
Bizarre. There are also those who want a limb amputated or pretend they can actually change their sex.
This is no different from Bruce BRUCE BRUCE BRUCE Jenner.
Sick in the head.
I wonder how she supports herself?? Never mind I think I know!
“But I don’t think I’m crazy, I just have a disorder.”
Yeah and I don’t think I’m old, I’ve just lived a long time.
I’m wondering if this person isn’t so messed up she either imagined the whole business with the psychologist or the woman blinded herself. She is nuts. I can’t believe she stumbled onto a psychologist who was equally nuts to indulge her destructive delusion.
I sure hope this creature isn’t receiving public assistance to support herself!
The psycho doctor needs to go to jail.
The patient needs to be in Creedmore.
Drop her dumb-ass in the wild.
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