Transableism

Yes, this is a thing. This is a disorder when people identify as disabled. One woman even put bleach in her eyes to blind herself and is happy about it. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A rare condition called body integrity identity disorder BID is
back in the news after North Carolina woman who claims
to have the ailments shared her story in hopes of
bringing more attention to it. People with BID feel from
early in life that they should be disabled.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Ooh.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
In most cases they experienced one of their limbs.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
As I'll help you out, give me that hammer. Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
In most cases they experience one of their limbs is
foreign and are driven to have it amputated.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
One man whose case is recording in the scientific literature,
shot himself in the leg to force its amputation. This
woman in North Carolina wanted to be blind from childhood.
Oh brace yourselves now.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
In an interview with TV station, she described pretending to
be sightless and wearing thick, dark glasses. By age twenty
she could read Braille fluently. At age twenty one, she
blinded herself with drain cleaner, she says, with the help
of a psychologist. She's now living happily as a blind woman,
according to her own account.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
With the help of a psychologist that's not a very
good psychologist.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
So they mentioned that this caused a strong reaction or
people with bids a psychotic or they desperate for intentional attention.
What forms a care can doctors ethically provide? And they
go into the research on this and how it dates
back to a single doctor or amputated in the healthy
limbs of two patients before he was shut down. I

(01:34):
Hope arrived with a thick stack of psychiatric evaluations. He
was determined not to be psychotic, he was professionally employed,
arrived with his wife. He told the doctor he feared
he would attempt to amputate his leg himself if the
doctor didn't help him. He did not want to because
he knew it was dangerous and he didn't want to die.
He just experienced the limb as not his. And they've

(01:57):
done some brain scans on people that have shown unusual
activity in the part of the brain that maps out
our awareness of our body. For instance, you have an
air of your brain that tells most people, this is
my left arm. And they again they showed in the
different activity in the brains of these people. They point
out that doesn't prove BID is a neurological disease. It

(02:21):
could be a neurological disorder which often leads people to
not use the offending body part. They admit most of
their patients are troubled, but it's not clear what's going on.
So now that's interesting. In the human brain. As I've
said many times, it's a wonder that sometimes it works
more less correctly. It's so complicated. But then you have this.

(02:45):
People who suffer from BID are now identifying themselves as transableist.
Transablism is attracting attention. It's a person who identify is handicapped,
and BID has been relabeled to transabilism to align with
today's transit community. According to some, the point of changing

(03:10):
the identifier to an from a psychiatric condition to an
advocacy term is to quote harness the stunning cultural power
of gender ideology to the cause of allowing doctors to
treat BID patients by amputating healthy limbs. Snipping spinal cords
are destroying eyesight.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Gotcha, I get it now.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Culturally, transabilism is the next abyss, the next front. The
site also notes several people commenting it's a cry for attention.
It's offensive to people actually suffer from the condition.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, it could be real, but it's got to be
a very small number of people, right surely we won't
have a year from now thirty percent of college students
identifying as this.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
You would hope not. Yeah, yeah, wow. They go into
some of these people. This woman is long dreamed of
being paralyzed from the waist down.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Oh my god, she.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Uses a wheelchair though she has no physical handicap. That's
a crazy person. And again, mental illness is not anybody's
fault in most cases. Sometimes drugs cause mental illness. But
so I'm not like hating on this woman, but that's
clearly a crazy person.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
You wanted to be disabled. This reminds me of this.
Met the Walmart the other day and there's one of
the I'm too big to walk around the Walmart electric
scooter things out by the carts mm hmm. And my
son Henry said, hey, can we can we drive that
back in? We'd be helping them out. We'll take it
back up to the store. I say, we probably shouldn't

(04:49):
do that. He said, well, and they mentioned the name
of a babysitter. He said, I'll make up a name,
fred Fred did I said what he said? Yeah? One
time we were at the Walmart. We had to go
to the Walmart and there was one of these here,
and Fred jumped on it, did a wheelie and rode
it back to the walmart. And like your style, Fred,

(05:12):
is that is that kouth to jump on the handicap?
I mean, you're you know, it's like taking the carts back.
You're doing them a favor. Is that what you're doing
with the You're not just going for a joy ride
on the.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah? Sure, it's like you know, somebody has their cart
there at their trunk and you say, if you're done
with that, I'll just take it back. I eat a
cart anyway, I think so.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Sure? When, but how's the how's the too big to
walk around the walmart person supposed to get from their
car to the walmart? Doesn't it handy to have it
out there? I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
No they don't. They don't just leave them in the
parking lot later, do they? This one was, no, they're
inside the store. This one was is out at this
So the person rode it all the way out to
the car. Apparently, I think the kid to the young
person who rounds up shopping carts and all rounds those
up too, So your son is putting them out of work.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I gotta admit I feel like I'm pretty good at
various vehicles or fun and enjoyment. I'm not sure I
could WHEELI one of those first try. I didn't know
they had that much torque, right, Huh? You'll start riding
around in those. I'd hate to end up flat on
my back, sprawled out in the Walmart parking lot.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
How agile are they? Can you like off road like,
you know, wheelie up and drive over the banana display
in the produce section or what? How nugy can you get?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hey? Getting back to the crazy people with the limbs
and all, there are a lot of people who just
think it's Munchausen syndrome, which is a disorder where people
repeatedly and deliberately act as if they have a physical
or mental endless when they're not sick, for the attention
and stuff, or Munchausen by proxy, where they like, make
somebody sick so they can be a hero and save them.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
So is it it's a really weird disorder? Is it
Munchausen when the parents do it? Or is it only
when you do it? You know all those stories that
always happened about my kid has got cancer and they
do fundraisers and all this sort of stuff, and you
find out later the kid and sick.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
At all, Well, that might just be a thief, a
con man. Munchausen by proxy is when you make somebody
sick so you can nurse them back to health.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And be seen as noble. Gotcha.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, those cases are truly truly crazy, which all reminds me.
You know, there was a great editorial in the Wall
Street Journal, It's time to bring back the mental asylums,
and it was very very good and very very persuasive.
And then I saw the various responses to it, the
arguments against it. They were weak, pathetic, vague, greeting, kardish

(07:33):
rhetoric from like the ACLU.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I saw five people yesterday. I'm sure I see that
many every day. I saw five people yesterday that, in
any sane world, if you'll pardon the expression, and any
sane world, would either have been locked up in some
sort of facility for drug use or in a mental institution.
But then that was just at the radio studio. Hey,
come on, what But they wouldn't just be on the street. Yeah,

(08:00):
I mean you're either you're either so drug addled you
shouldn't be out here, or you're mentally I owned you
shouldn't be out here, But you shouldn't be out here.