Are "anthropology scholars" just completely unaware of Munchausen syndrome, or...? https://daily.jstor.org/the-complicated-issue-of-transableism/ …pic.twitter.com/1h1zYbTuRy
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My understanding is that these guys don't keep coming back; if you chop off their arm (or whatever) they just go home happily one-armed forever. (Compare body dysmorphia where they'll come back with different complaints, which I think is also separate from Munchausen.)
Admittedly, transable-identified matches up much better with facetious disorder (DSM-4) than somatic symptom disorder (DSM-5), but at least for FD the diagnostic criteria indicate a desire for the role of a sick person, not ongoing dissatisfaction even after attaining the role
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I'd guess it'd be useful to distinguish between people whose desired modification produces an actual lifelong disability & those who desire a modification that would not necessarily require long-term care. "This foot is wrong" seems meaningfully different from "I should be blind"
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