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Friday, June 5, 2015

Feeling the Need to be DISABLED?

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/becoming-disabled-by-choice-not-chance-transabled-people-feel-like-impostors-in-their-fully-working-bodies#__federated=1

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/02/the-next-wave-of-body-diversity-disabled-by-choice/

     If you feel the need to be a different sex than the way you were born you call yourself transgendered and change your sex like Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner.
     So now, if you feel like you should be Disabled but are not, you call yourself TRANSABLED and cut off a limb... Make Yourself Disabled!!!

“We need to move away from pathologizing people,” says Clive Baldwin, including those who chop off their limbs or fake paralysis in order to live as disabled people. “For many, amputation is the only way forward,”

      REALLY? I am sure I can say with much certainty, that there are many disabled people out there that wish they were not disabled and if they could  make themselves whole and not have their disability they would choose to do so.       Someone PLEASE logically explain to me WHY would someone WANT, On Purpose, to make themselves disabled? Do they dislike their lot in life so much that they think being disabled would be better? Do they thrive on other peoples attention so much and find this is the best way to get that attention?

“We need to move away from pathologizing people,” says Clive Baldwin

PATHOLOGIZINGregard or treat (someone or something) as psychologically abnormal or unhealthy.
     Normal people who have relatively healthy minds will want to be healthy and normal with functioning limbs. 

    The operative words there are Normal & Relatively Healthy.   We are making great strides at opening up conversations and making mental illness not as stigmatized in an effort that people who suffer from mental illness can and will get the help they need. It seems to me that we need to help people that have these feelings of a need to be physically disabled, figure out why they have these feelings and get the mental health help they need so they do not feel the only way to feel good is to mutilate their perfectly good bodies to the point of disability.  When people engage in cutting, we look at the emotional & psychological reasons why they engage in this destructive, physically mutilating  behavior and work to help them deal with the psychological reasons for their behavior to help end the destructive behavior. We do not say that it is just part of who they are and therefore OK...should be treated as "Normal". This is beyond even cutting...This is major mutilation and in my opinion not actions of Normal & Relatively Normal Minds. 

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