Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is a serious psychological
condition that gives able-bodied people a strong desire to be disabled.
It’s what made this woman from North Carolina purposely blind herself by
dropping drain cleaner into her eyes!
Jewel Shuping, 30, revealed that she’s been obsessed with blindness
since childhood. “My mother would find me walking in the halls at night,
when I was three or four years old,” she said. “By the time I was six, I
remember that th
inking about being
blind made me feel comfortable.” So she would spend hours staring at the
sun, hoping that it would damage her eyes. The obsession increased as
she aged, and by the time she was a teenager, Jewel had taught herself
to move around in thick black sunglasses.
Eventually, Jewel claims to have found a psychologist willing to help
her become blind. In 2006, the duo put numbing eye drops followed by a
couple of drops of drain cleaner in each of her eyes. The pain was
excruciating, but the thought of going blind kept her happy. “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.’”
Oddity Central.
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