A 30year old woman intentionally blinds self to fulfil life-long wish...SEE PHOTO

Firstclass newsline learnt that a 30-year-old woman from North
Carolina, United States, who has been obsessed with the idea of being
blind right from childhood, had finally fulfilled that long held
desire by deliberately damaging her eyesight.
Jewel Shuping, according toBarcroft TV,who nursed in insane desire,
grew increasingly soaked in the thought of living life without one of
her most vital senses – eyesight – trying different strategies over
the years to make that dream come true.
"My mother would find me walking in the halls at night, when I was
three or four years old," she said. "By the time I was six, I remember
that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable."
Shuping spent hours staring at the sun as a child, hoping it would
damage her eyes and by the time she was a teenager, she started moving
around in thick black sunglasses. At 18, she got her first cane and
became fully fluent in braille by the time she eventually clocked 20.
"I was blind-swimming, which is pretending to be blind, but the idea
kept coming up in my head and by the time I was 21 it was a non-stop
alarm that was going off," she said.
In 2006, the 30-year-old found a psychologist willing to help her
become blind. He put numbing eye drops followed by drops of drain
cleaner in each of her eyes. The pain was excruciating, but the
thought of going blind kept her happy.
"My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my
cheek burning my skin," she said. "But all I could think was 'I am
going blind, it is going to be okay.'"
Shuping was then rushed to the hospital where medics tried everything
to restore her vision. "When I woke up the following day I was joyful,
until I turned on to my back and opened my eyes – I was so enraged
when I saw the TV screen," she said.
But in less than six months after that period, her eyesight slowly
diminished to nothing. When her family members came to know what she
had done, they disowned her. But she has received support from her
ex-fiancé, Mike, who is naturally blind. Shuping is now studying for a
degree in education and says she has no regrets for what she did.
Firstclassnewsline.net