For most people, going blind is their worst nightmare, [/b]but for this North Carolina woman it was a dream come true.

Jewel Shuping, 30, was so desperate to be blind that she poured draining cleaner in her baby blues to wipe out her eyesight — and she couldn’t be happier.

[b]She suffers from an illness called body integrity identity disorder (BIID) — a disease that causes able-bodied people to strongly desire a disability.

[b]“I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth,” [/b]Shuping told Barcroft Media.

The afflicted woman knew from a young age she wanted to be blind, and would attempt to harm her eyesight by staring at the sun while “blind-simming,” or pretending to be blind.

By the time Shuping turned 21, the idea of being blind was “a non-stop alarm that was going off” and she sought the help of a sympathetic psychologist to help her carry out her ultimate desire in 2006.

The psychologist gave her eye-numbing drops before sprinkling a few droplets of drain cleaner into each pupil.

“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.”

Dr. Michael First, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, says that people who suffer from BIID can’t control their need to be disabled.

“These people are aware that this feeling of theirs is unusual — they know it is coming from within them. They can’t explain it,” he said.

Shuping is now studying for a degree in education and is hoping to help other blind people live an independent life. She hopes that by sharing her story, it will encourage other sufferers of BIID to seek professional help.

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WEIRD!!!!!

This is what my black people here in Africa dont have.

Integrity Identity disorder kor
So she advises others with BIID to go blind, is this some kind of professional help
This white folks sef.. I love Africa, I trust them not to do such..

I just really dont get what wrongbwith some white folks.
make she come try am for naija where govt support no dey, she gp do bambiAllah tire.

Only in America. . .

Every madness in that country has a funky name. BIID indeed. Tua!

She's possesed by an evil spirit yet they think it is a disease

White people, white people problems....

Abeg na wetin consign me??

Oyinbo ati were sha! Smh. Dia level of madness z higher dan d peak of mt.kilimanjaro.

I feel sorry for her foolishness

They just have to term it?
BIID my a.ss!!!

She's demonically possessed and yet, they will look for a sweet medical name to label it. SMH... BIID indeed.

END TIME TINZZZZZ

When she knows the US government will take care of her and pay her disability money, why won't she chop her left leg off? All these psychologists enabling stupid behaviour. Be yourself, be yourself; na so you are yourself until you start doing crazy things. Mtchewwww, try this one in Nigeria and see if you will not beg on the streets. Funny people.