A North Carolina woman named Jewel Shuping has Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a rare psychological condition which causes people to believe that they should be disabled. Some BIID patients desire amputation of their otherwise healthy limbs. In Shuping’s case, blindness was something she felt she should have been born with.
Shuping says she the idea of being blind made sense to her at the age of six. According to People, the now 30-year-old was able to fluently read Braille by the time she was 20. She claims to have found a psychologist willing to help fulfill her dream in 2006. After a couple of weeks, they decided Shuping was ready to lose her eyesight. The psychologist poured drain cleaner in her eyes.