It takes a lot of courage and effort to live with a disability, but how about identifying as disabled and rolling around in a wheelchair even though your spine and legs are totally fine? Well that’s either stunning and brave, or completely bonkers depending on who you ask.

Jørund Viktoria Alme, 53, an able-bodied former male who identifies as a disabled woman, went on Good Morning Norway last week and spoke about how she always wished she’d been born a woman who was paralysed from the waist down. Turns out all Alme had to do was identify as female, buy a wheelchair, and voila:

Alme, a senior credit analyst for Handelsbanken in Oslo, has received positive coverage in Norwegian media since first announcing her trans-disability publicly on Facebook in 2020. Despite having no physical handicaps, Alme uses a wheelchair “almost all the time.”

Alme also spoke to Vi, a Norwegian outlet, earlier this year about having Body Integrity Disorder (BID), in addition to gender dysphoria:

“I have struggled with this every day my whole life.

It is a cognitive dissonance: in the same way that I experience being a woman in a man’s body, I experience that I should have been paralyzed from the waist down. This is not a desire to be a burden on society. It is about the wheelchair being an aid for me to function in everyday life, both privately and at work.”

Well, either BID is an actual thing that makes you feel that you are a paralysed person in an able-bodied person’s body, or we are witnessing a Norwegian master troll at work. Would be interesting to hear how genuinely disabled people feel about Alme rolling around town in her wheelchair when she’s perfectly fine walking. Seems pretty disrespectful for those who have no choice but to use a chair 100% of the time. In fact I just found one wheelchair-bound critic on Reddit:

Hit the nail on the head there if you ask me. If Alme prefers life in a wheelchair for whatever reason then more power to her, but pretending to actually be paralysed is a slap in the face to people who really live that life. Alme will tell you it’s the BID, though – she can’t help it! Well, I guess we’re just going to have to take her word for it on that one.

For the time a woman with no legs won a treadmill on The Price Is Right, click HERE. Awkward.