Gosh, you hear of some stories and you can’t help but wonder why? A Cambridge University educated research scientist is so desperate to live the life of a wheelchair-bound person she is prepared to pay a doctor help her become disabled.
She wears leg braces and uses a wheelchair, even though her legs are healthy.
Chloe spends most of her time in a wheelchair, but has to get out for various household tasks and walk down the steps to her car.
Since childhood, Chloe Jennings-White has made several attempts at injuring herself so she can finally climb into her own wheelchair. In 2010 she even found a doctor overseas willing to help her become disabled by cutting her sciatic and femoral nerves, but she could not afford the £16,000 costs.
‘I might never be able to afford it, but I know, truly and deeply, I won’t regret it if I ever can,’ she said
Chloe, 58, from Salt Lake City, Utah, suffers from a rare condition called Body Integrity Identity Disorder, or BIID. Sufferers do not accept one of their own limb or limbs and seek to amputate them or become paraplegic
Some experts believe it is caused by a neurological fault, in which the brain’s mapping system cannot see a certain body part.The Cambridge graduate believes both of her legs do not belong to her and dreams of being paralysed from the waist down.
‘Something in my brain tells me my legs are not supposed to work,’ she said. ‘Having any sensation in them just feels wrong.’
For years she bandaged herself secretly, but now lives openly with her condition despite facing intolerance, insults, and sometimes online threats.
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