It looks like theres a new class of identity, that of transabled people. People who are biologically perfectly healthy yet they feel some of their limbs don't belong and go to great lengths to make themselves more comfortable in their body. I'd like to remind everyone that this is not a mental illness in anyway shape or form and these people are just as disabled as other's with disabilities that are not self inflicted. I look forward to seeing a person with a perfectly good set of eyes parking in a handicapped spot and rolling out a walking stick in a progressive society that accepts them as being blind because they identify as such.
https://life.gomcgill.com/people-are-becoming-disabled-by-choice-and-they-are-called-transabled'Transabled' people are the ones who choose to be disabled. Similar to transgender people, the 'transabled' feel one or more limbs or functions of one's body do not belong to one's self. And some even go to such lengths that involve illegal surgeries to remove the undesired body part. Professor Alexandre Baril, a feminist, gender, and sexuality studies professor and Fellow, defines transability as "the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment."
...
Jewel Shuping, a 30-year-old, resident of North Carolina has BIID (Body Integrity Identity Disorder) and identifies herself as a transabled person.
Otherwise healthy, Shuping decided to get rid of her eyesight as her wish to become a blind person took over her mind. In 2006 to fulfill this wish, a sympathetic psychologist poured drain cleaner into her eyes reported Daily Mail. Recalling how this idea of becoming blind infested her mind as a child she said, "My mother would find me walking in the halls at night when I was three or four years old. By the time I was six, I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable."