A Cambridge University educated
research scientist is so desperate to live
the life of a wheelchair-bound person she
is prepared to pay a doctor help her
become disabled.
She wears leg braces and uses a
wheelchair, even though her legs are
healthy. Chloe spends most of her time in
a wheelchair, but has to get out for
various household tasks and walk down
the steps to her car.
Since childhood, Chloe Jennings-White has
made several attempts at injuring herself
so she can finally climb into her own
wheelchair.In 2010 she even found a
doctor overseas willing to help her
become disabled by cutting her sciatic
and femoral nerves, but she could not
afford the £16,000 costs.
‘I might never be able to afford it, but I
know, truly and deeply, I won’t regret it
if I ever can,’ she said
Chloe, 58, from Salt Lake City, Utah,
suffers from a rare condition called Body
Integrity Identity Disorder, or BIID.
Sufferers do not accept one of their own
limb or limbs and seek to amputate them
or become paraplegic
Some experts believe it is caused by a
neurological fault, in which the brain’s
mapping system cannot see a certain
body part.The Cambridge graduate
believes both of her legs do not belong to
her and dreams of being paralysed from
the waist down.
‘Something in my brain tells me my legs
are not supposed to work,’ she said.
‘Having any sensation in them just feels
wrong.’
For years she bandaged herself secretly,
but now lives openly with her condition
despite facing intolerance, insults, and
sometimes online threats.
Chloe first realised she was different at
the age of four, after visiting her Aunt
Olive, who was using leg braces after a
bike accident.
‘I wanted them too,’ she said. ‘I
wondered why I wasn’t born needing
them and felt something was wrong with
me because I didn’t have them.’
At the age of nine, Chloe even took action
and pedalled her bike off a four-foot high
acting stage on Hampstead Heath, north
London, landing on her neck.
‘I only wanted to stop my legs working
but could have broken my neck or died,’
she added.
From then on, Chloe lived out her fantasy
in secret, pretending to be disabled when
alone, playing risky sports and climbing
trees in the hope of hurting her legs.
Now, as an adult, Chloe enjoys the
excitement of downhill skiing and the
possibility she might fall and suffer
serious leg fractures.
‘I ski extremely fast, and aim for the
most dangerous runs .’Doing any activity
that brings a chance of me becoming
paraplegic gives me a sense of relief from
the anxiety caused by the BIID.’My
friends and family can get a little worried
about me skiing, as they know I ski very
aggressively and they know that in the
back of my mind I actually want to get
paralysed.’ I can’t afford to convert my
home for disabled access so I just use the
chair as much as I can,’ she said.
She fantasises about having a car crash
without hurting anyone else just so she
can damage her own legs.
‘Any time when I’m driving I sort of
conjure up accident scenarios in my mind
where I will become paraplegic,’ she
admitted.

http://dailystar.com.ng/2013/07/22/meet-the-woman-who-asked-doctors-to-cut-her-spinal-cord-to-fufill-her-desire-of-using-a-wheelchair/

M0ron

Monthly disability checks.

Laziness

Oyinbos are maaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

Oniranu

kai. Does she really need a doctor to be paralysed? She should come and be dancing azonto on Lagos-Ibadan express way na.

wonders shall never end.come i can help you achieve your dream.just pose in front of my car.