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There are people who can see, but for whom the visual perception is so exhausting that they would rather like to be blind. Often they walk around with closed eyes or glasses. Being blind fills them withfeelings of calm and peace.
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This page is a summary of: An Overwhelming Desire to Be Blind: Similarities and Differences between Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Wish for Blindness, Case Reports in Ophthalmology, March 2017, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000456709.
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