14 DAY TRIAL // 58-year-old Chloe Jennings-White is now desperately looking for a surgeon who would agree to turn her into a paraplegic.
Physically wise, the woman is perfectly healthy.
She is not suffering from any medical conditions that might make her legs ache and make her wish that she did not have any sensations in her lower extremities.
Still, Chloe says that she'd simply love it if she were disabled, and that she spends many hours thinking about how great it would be if she were paralyzed.
“My dream is to find a surgeon who will operate on my spine to stop my legs working,” the 58-year-old says.
Before anyone thinks about accusing Chloe of being an attention-seeker, it must be said that her wish to be a paraplegic is a symptom of a rare condition known to the scientific community as Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID, for short). The Inquisitr reports that people affected by this disorder do not feel like themselves when they are healthy.
They sometimes go as far as to inflict injuries upon themselves, just to make sure that they become disabled in a way that they think might make them feel complete.
The same thing happened to Chloe. The woman says she first realized that she wished she did not have any sensations in her lower limbs when she was just 4 years old.
As time went by, she started to deliberately crash her bike, hoping to fracture a bone or two. Between the ages of 12 and 16, she managed to break her legs five times.
Once she got older, she decided to come clean to her family about the thoughts that were troubling her, and hoped that they would understand her wish to find a doctor who would paralyze her.
Needless to say, the woman's family is still having trouble wrapping their heads around Chloe's plans to become a paraplegic.
In 2010, Chloe came very close to having her dream fulfilled. Thus, she managed to find a doctor who agreed to cut her sciatic and femoral nerves. She only backed out of this surgery because the doctor asked that he be paid $25,000 (€19,082).
Despite this setback, the woman still hasn't given up on her dream to lose the use of her legs.