George Costanza - The World's First Transabled Man.
His goal was to become disabled.
People like Jason have been classified as ‘‘transabled’’ — feeling like imposters in their bodies, their arms and legs in full working order.
“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.
“The person could want to become deaf, blind, amputee, paraplegic. It’s a really, really strong desire.” - About trans-abled.
I'm speechless.
ReplyDeleteAnd they'll find surgeons who will mutilate them for what is essentially a mental disorder. No different from gender dysphoria.
ReplyDeleteROFL! I needed this.
ReplyDeleteAs if we needed proof that the world has gone completely mad, huh?
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