Tuesday, June 2, 2015

From carving up their crotches to cutting off their arms

Get ready for transability:

When he cut off his right arm with a “very sharp power tool,” a man who now calls himself One Hand Jason let everyone believe it was an accident.
But he had for months tried different means of cutting and crushing the limb that never quite felt like his own, training himself on first aid so he wouldn’t bleed to death, even practicing on animal parts sourced from a butcher.
“My goal was to get the job done with no hope of reconstruction or re-attachment, and I wanted some method that I could actually bring myself to do,” he told the body modification website ModBlog.
To be “transabled” means that you don’t feel like your body is your own. There’s an episode of Grey’s Anatomy where a guy comes in and is convinced his foot isn’t his, so, later in the episode, he takes a chainsaw (because no one thought to remove it from the bedside of the guy who came in with a chainsaw-related injury) and cuts off his foot. It’s insane to watch, but even more insane to consider it’s totally a thing we’re seeing happen in society.
ModBlog.  Sheesh.  A support group for the self-absorbed.

It is so very late in the day.

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