Here's something you definitely don't hear about everyday…
While most people who suffer from blindness would do just about anything to see their family's smiling faces or a sunset just once, 30-year-old Jewel Shuping is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Jewel was born with perfect eyesight, but developed a rare condition known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) which makes people actually want to be disabled in some way. Normally BIID will manifest in people who want to cut off limbs, because they feel their body parts don't belong to them, but for Jewel it was much different…she knew from a young age that she was supposed to be blind.
Blindness became Jewel's obsession and her dream. As a child, she wore dark glasses, used a cane and eventually learned Braille by the age 20. Shortly after that, the yearning to lose her sight became impossible to ignore, so with help from a sympathetic doctor in Canada, Jewel poured drain cleaner into her eyes and literally never looked back. In the following video from Barcroft TV, Jewel explains her bizarre condition, explaining how she's never been happier, finally able to be "herself".
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