You want to read something really disturbing?
Part of me thinks it has to be a joke. There are so many things wrong with this, I don’t know where to start. First of all, I know body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or as she calls it here, body identity integrity disorder (BIID), is a real psychological disorder. And it’s serious. Many people who suffer from anorexia and bulimia have BDD.
But this is the part that kills me:
I think BIID will stay taboo until people get together and bring it out. A hundred years ago, it was taboo to be gay in many societies, and 50 years ago the idea of transsexuals was abhorrent to most. I have tried to make the condition more understood but it is difficult to get a case out in the open by yourself.
Yeah it’s fucking TABOO to cut your limbs off because you can’t “see yourself with legs”. “To the general public, people like me are sick and strange”. I don’t think you’re strange, lady, but I do think that you are sick, that you have a psychological disorder, and that you need serious therapeutic help. Comparing what she chose to do to herself to being gay or transsexual is ridiculous and offensive.
Her husband is a complete loser for not getting her the help she SO obviously needs. And what happens when she cuts the other leg off and then decides that she can’t see herself with arms? Will he “support her decision” then, too? And what is she teaching her kids?
I’m usually of the opinion that whatever makes you happy, as long as it doesn’t hurt yourself or anyone else, is OK, but sorry, this crosses the line for me. I’m angry that the people around her didn’t do more to stop her. And it pisses me off that she seems to think she’s some amazing strong person for finally accomplishing her “goal” (“I am that kind of person - I never fail.”). You’re a piece of work, for sure, lady, but nothing about you is admirable.
