What if somebody claimed to be "transabled"?

o______________o · June 04, 2015, 10:34:07 AM

How would you guys react if there was a movement of people who claimed they felt that their arms and legs shouldn't be working? That they felt they were disabled, despite the fact that they had motor functions in said limbs? Would it be insensitive and damaging to say that they do indeed, have functioning limbs? Would anybody who calls out the movement as BS instantly be labeled as a bigoted intolerant asshole? Would I be accused of using the slippery slope?

Would I?

Okay, what if I told you it was a real thing? Is it a valid concern or are they just trying to exploit the transgendered community?

Orbital Malaise 69 · June 04, 2015, 10:36:23 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder

Girl of Mystery · June 04, 2015, 10:38:34 AM

I'd tell them to shut the fuck up and stop being a mong.

The Lord Ruler · June 04, 2015, 10:39:51 AM

I'd push that girl in the wheelchair down the stairs and make her actually disabled

Cheat · June 04, 2015, 10:40:50 AM

I would be fine with it, but I think they should be required to tell potential sex partners that they aren't really disabled. It's just unfair to everyone else that they're convincingly portraying a disabled person.

Mr. Psychologist · June 04, 2015, 10:53:30 AM

Jesus...

This is a particularly difficult one because of how it seems to just shit all over two of my ideologies ._.
The first being preventing the mentally ill from coming to harm, such as losing a limb or life to their disorder.
The other being to do with serious body modification <.<
I.e wanting to replace my own parts with augmetics when they become available, or someone undergoing a sex-change operation to treat their dysphoria. It would be somewhat hypocritical to say that it is acceptable for transgendered people to modify their physical form to better suit their mental form and unacceptable for someone with this... issue... to not be allowed to also remove parts of their own body to better suit their mental form.

I'll use the old fallback then, provided that a competent assesment shows that this is a genuine wish and not one born of delusion/psychosis (As in, the person with the disorder is still able to make a rational choice about their own autonomy) then it's not too... bad.

From a more reactionary view though, it's pretty disgusting that people wish to maim their bodies to become disabled. I'd be more supportive (and infact I do) of people who wish to improve their physical bodies. Slicing bits off to become an amputee for the sake of it and not to have the limbs replaced with superior mechanical ones though... well shit ._.

Super Irish · June 04, 2015, 10:57:07 AM

Whatever, so long as I'm not paying for a physically healthy person to pretend to be ill (crutches, medical operations, wheelchairs, etc), and they don't try and scam people for pity or donations.

As long as it isn't affecting anyone else, frankly they can pretend to be anything.

DAS B00T x2 · June 04, 2015, 11:00:20 AM

I may just open a clinic for these people...
they clearly need help...
for cheap...
cash only, no insurance...
no warranty.

Magos Domina · June 04, 2015, 11:17:33 AM

I would giggle

Casper · June 04, 2015, 11:31:22 AM

Don't fat people already do this?
The ones on scooters?

Coomer · June 04, 2015, 12:05:02 PM

Honestly, there's social progress and then there's just people doing shit because they can

They need to prove that they have control so bad that they resort to this shit

-.-

Seriously

Solonoid · June 04, 2015, 12:06:59 PM

If you were accused of using the slippery slope, you could invite them to fall down it and fulfill their dreams.

challengerX · June 04, 2015, 01:13:02 PM

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Ren · June 04, 2015, 01:27:15 PM

I fully support transgenderism, but I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Zonda · June 04, 2015, 01:31:07 PM

It looks like a group of attention hungry special snowflakes to me.

PSU · June 04, 2015, 01:40:31 PM

If you support transgendered people you need to support this too. Unless you liberal pussies are hypocrites? Just kidding, I know all liberals are huge hypocrites.

The Lord Ruler · June 04, 2015, 01:43:05 PM

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A guy named Jason, for example, CUT OFF HIS RIGHT ARM with a power tool, because he had such a strong, insatiable desire to be disabled.

HOLY SHIT LOL WHAT THE FUCK

The Lord Ruler · June 04, 2015, 01:44:22 PM

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One guy apparently dropped a massively heavy concrete block on his legs, hoping he'd need to have them amputated.

fuck im actually reading the article now. these people are fucked up

Naoto · June 04, 2015, 01:45:24 PM

Looks like just another day on tumblr to me.

ಠ_ಠ · June 04, 2015, 01:52:04 PM

This is some made up BS.

Sandtrap · June 04, 2015, 01:53:31 PM

Quote from: Fierce Mild on June 04, 2015, 10:36:23 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder

Alien hand syndrome as well, supposedly.

DAS B00T x2 · June 04, 2015, 01:54:13 PM

Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:52:04 PM

This is some made up BS.

BIID is pretty legit, the OP's article doesn't do it any real explanation.

ಠ_ಠ · June 04, 2015, 01:58:20 PM

Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 01:54:13 PM

Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:52:04 PM
This is some made up BS.
BIID is pretty legit, the OP's article doesn't do it any real explanation.

I've never heard of anything like this being an actual legit thing before

Orbital Malaise 69 · June 04, 2015, 01:58:32 PM

Quote from: Sandtrap on June 04, 2015, 01:53:31 PM

Quote from: Fierce Mild on June 04, 2015, 10:36:23 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder

Alien hand syndrome as well, supposedly.

YouTube

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DAS B00T x2 · June 04, 2015, 02:03:03 PM

Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:58:20 PM

Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 01:54:13 PM
Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:52:04 PM
This is some made up BS.
BIID is pretty legit, the OP's article doesn't do it any real explanation.
I've never heard of anything like this being an actual legit thing before

Well, the condition's onset has a lower rate than BDD, and there's never really been any mainstream media feature of it, so, that's not surprising at all.
I only found it a while ago when researching connecting possibilities of phantom limb syndrome and those few, few people born with tails that get amputated.

Girl of Mystery · June 04, 2015, 02:04:18 PM

This isn't even remotely the same as transgenderism

Girl of Mystery · June 04, 2015, 02:06:40 PM

Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 02:03:03 PM

Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:58:20 PM
Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 01:54:13 PM
Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:52:04 PM
This is some made up BS.
BIID is pretty legit, the OP's article doesn't do it any real explanation.
I've never heard of anything like this being an actual legit thing before
Well, the condition's onset has a lower rate than BDD, and there's never really been any mainstream media feature of it, so, that's not surprising at all.
I only found it a while ago when researching connecting possibilities of phantom limb syndrome and those few, few people born with tails that get amputated.

There was a cross-dressing guy on TV a few years back that didn't want his legs, so he kept injecting his legs with all kinds of nasty shit in hope that they'd need amputating, but the hospital kept flushing them out. In the end he cut them off with a power saw or something.

DAS B00T x2 · June 04, 2015, 02:07:27 PM

Quote from: Lemön on June 04, 2015, 02:06:40 PM

Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 02:03:03 PM
Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:58:20 PM
Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 01:54:13 PM
Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:52:04 PM
This is some made up BS.
BIID is pretty legit, the OP's article doesn't do it any real explanation.
I've never heard of anything like this being an actual legit thing before
Well, the condition's onset has a lower rate than BDD, and there's never really been any mainstream media feature of it, so, that's not surprising at all.
I only found it a while ago when researching connecting possibilities of phantom limb syndrome and those few, few people born with tails that get amputated.
There was a cross-dressing guy on TV a few years back that didn't want his legs, so he kept injecting his legs with all kinds of nasty shit, but the hospital kept flushing them out. In the end he cut them off with a power saw or something.

That's some tvue cvlt shit right there.
brvtal as fvck.

ಠ_ಠ · June 04, 2015, 02:07:40 PM

Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 02:03:03 PM

Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:58:20 PM
Quote from: DAS "كافر" B00T on June 04, 2015, 01:54:13 PM
Quote from: Nuka on June 04, 2015, 01:52:04 PM
This is some made up BS.
BIID is pretty legit, the OP's article doesn't do it any real explanation.
I've never heard of anything like this being an actual legit thing before
Well, the condition's onset has a lower rate than BDD, and there's never really been any mainstream media feature of it, so, that's not surprising at all.
I only found it a while ago when researching connecting possibilities of phantom limb syndrome and those few, few people born with tails that get amputated.

I mean I understand the stress and sensation when it feels like something should be there but isn't (or vise vera), but holy shit actually wanting to cut your arms and legs off is mental.