October 1, 2015, - 3:29 pm
WTF?! – VIDEO: Woman Happy After Fulfilling Lifelong Dream of Becoming Blind
>Want another sign that we live in a warped, stupid, depraved country? A woman deliberately blinded herself to make her life “more interesting.”
We live in a spoiled country–a perverted country–in which people have it so easy and are so bored that they do crazy and disgusting things to themselves to make it “less boring,” whether its making a sex tape, cutting off their penises and getting fake breasts or, now, deliberately destroying their vision.
Jewel Shuping fulfilled her “lifelong” wish to become blind by having a “psychologist” put numbing drops and then drain cleaner on her eyes. This caused her to lose one eye and get glaucoma and cataracts in another. Reader Duane sent me this story and before even reading the story, I though, “Hmmm . . . this sounds like something a spoiled Millennial hipster would do.” And, sure enough, Shuping is only 30. So, now, she will spend most of her life blind.
My late father, H.L. Schlussel, MD, an eye doctor and surgeon, is probably turning over in his grave about this story. He regularly did charitable work treating the blind through the Garden City, Michigan Lion’s Club and always did what he could to save the vision of his patients who still had it. My dad saw patients lose their vision because of tragic accidents that were no fault of their own. He watched a good number of his older patients go blind through macular degeneration, for which there still is no cure. All of these people would give almost anything to be able to see.
And, yet, this stupid, spoiled, sick woman willingly destroys her sight. And, unfortunately, while this is an extreme, I believe it’s a symptom of something I’ve written about before on this site: that younger generations in this country–particularly hipsters–are so spoiled, that we have it so easy in life through technology and innovations, that they are bored with life and constantly engage in risky behavior to make it exciting. On the less extreme level, you have foodie hipsters (and Barack Obama), who are so bored with regular, tasty food–food starving people around the world are desperate for–that they constantly seek new, weird, ever-escalatingly-exotic (and, often, disgusting and unsavory) tastes and combinations to make their taste buds wake up and their life exciting.
What this sick Shuping woman did is a more extreme version of this. There have been other stories like this–of people deliberately amputating body parts because they’ve always wanted to be handicapped and feel like they have a disadvantage that is worth living life to overcome, people deliberately castrating themselves, and the like. And we’re seeing more and more of them. People like to be victims and create their own victimhood if they don’t have one already “built in.”
Also, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that she’s quite obese and unattractive. This is what she did to get attention and feel good about herself. Very sick and very sad.
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.
Um, why does every sicko get a special name for the “disease” of being crazy and selfish?
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. . . . She told Barcroft TV that she has no regrets and that she hopes to help other blind people live an independent life.
HUH? She should have donated her corneas to someone who needed them to keep from going blind. They way to help blind people is not to take your own sight away. But we live in a sick country, where people feel they must walk in a minority’s shoes. . . literally.
“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.”
Riiiiiight.
Remember the good old days, when people didn’t have it so easy–when they had to work hard to buy food or sow, grow, harvest, and cook it themselves? We didn’t see this kind of behavior then because people actually had to worry about living life, providing for themselves and their families, and surviving plagues, darkness, harsh weather, etc. Now, we have so many conveniences that everything is easy and cheap. And, for some of these people in younger generations, there is nothing to do but watch the Kardashians or become a YouTube star. And if you can’t do either of those things, why not “accomplish” or “achieve” something, like destroying your own eyesight . . . you know, just to make it exciting.
You don’t see any Yazidis or Christians in Iraq trying to blind themselves to make life exciting. They’re too busy trying to stay alive and survive Muslim persecution, rape, torture, and murder.
Like I said, we live in a spoiled, sick society. That’s Western society today. And you wonder why Islam is filling the void and taking over.
Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible? We’re already there.
Tags: BIID, Body Integrity Identity Disorder, hipsters, Jewel Shuping, Millennials
I hear what you’re iterating in the writing Debbie, but I wouldn’t entirely correlate this specific story of some mechanical flaws with our society.
This is imaginatively risky and to me kinda selfish of this woman doing something that’s extraordinary odd. She claims that she has a psychological disorder/DSM on why she did this, but it shouldn’t justify her conditional maneuver to intentionally excluding her eye-vision. But on the other hand of me using my critical thinking skills, this story can be a beneficiary for those who are blind to presumably not live in shame for having a disability of blindness?
Sean R. on October 1, 2015 at 4:17 pm