After many years, Jewel Shuping, a 30-year-old from North Carolina, has managed to fulfill her lifelong dream. Having dreamt of being blind since she was a child, Jewel was finally able to get rid of her sight through the help of a sympathetic psychologist who agreed to have drain cleaner poured into her eyes in order to fully blind her.
Jewel has been diagnosed by experts with a condition called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), which involves a person believing that they are meant to be disabled. In Jewel's case, this involved her believing that she was supposed to have been born blind, according to The Daily Mail.
"My mother would find me walking in the halls at night, when I was three or four years old," she said. "By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable."
She further stated that as a child, she would spend hours staring at the sun after her mother informed her that doing so would damage her eyes. Her fascination with the disability continued until she reached adulthood, with her getting a cane when she turned 18 and becoming fully fluent in Braille by the time she was 20, reports The Mirror.
Her determination finally paid off in 2006, when she found a psychologist, who remains unknown as of writing, who decided to help her out. After putting in numbing eyedrops, the psychologist added a couple of drops of drain cleaner in her eyes.
Though she did not immediately go blind after the incident, her vision eventually deteriorated until both of her eyes became fully unable to function.
While she initially told her family that her blindness was the result of an accident, they eventually found out the truth, causing both her mother and her sister to cut contact.
She has found support in her fiance, however, who is legally blind. Though of course, in his case, he became blind due to natural causes.
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