(October 3, 2015 at 10:27 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Quite frankly, though I have done some reading on this disorder, I still have yet to imagine exactly WHY someone would want to be blind.
I can sort of imagine it.
Sensory signals from her eyes may have felt extremely intrusive. Personally I'm extremely sensitive to sensory input and if I am in a busy street with very a multitude of very loud noises, bright lights and lots of sensory information then I find it extremely stressful. I'm also quite tactile defensive. I can't wear wool for example because I find it too rough. Tactile defensiveness is often a symptom of people on the autistic spectrum. Not that I am autistic but my father and uncle have undiagnosed aspergers and I can see it running in the family.
As for the limbs, imagine having something growing out of you which you were always extremely aware of. Imagine the beginnings of a third leg from your thigh or a second nose from your forehead. Or even a very large benign lump on your face. It's still a part of your body.
Or take Ranulph Fiennes the famous explorer who does not suffer from BIID. He had reason to cut off his finger tips.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes
Quote:In 2000 he attempted to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole. The expedition failed when his sleds fell through weak ice and Fiennes was forced to pull them out by hand. He sustained severe frostbite to the tips of all the fingers on his left hand, forcing him to abandon the attempt. On returning home, his surgeon insisted the necrotic fingertips be retained for several months before amputation, to allow regrowth of the remaining healthy tissue. Impatient at the pain the dying fingertips caused, Fiennes cut them off himself with a fretsaw,[3] just above where the blood and the soreness was.[2][4]
