He identifies as ‘strange’
If you’re anything like us, you’ve spotted a picture of someone with a split tongue – meaning a tongue that’s been cut down the middle to make the tip forked – and had a lot of questions.
‘Since I was little I wanted to look like this person I imagined,’ Thibault tells Metro.co.uk. ‘At the first possible opportunity to do that, I did it. A practitioner makes the tongue numb with a local anaesthetic then slices the tongue down a dotted line they’ve already drawn on, either with a scalpel, which can cause a lot of bleeding, or with a laser cauterising tool. To close the wound and control bleeding, each side of the newly split tongue is then sutured or cauterised.
While some people report changes in taste and difficulty speaking after having their tongue split, Thibault says that after the first week of recovery he experienced no negative effects.‘The first week it’s impossible to talk well,’ Thibault tells us. ‘It was mostly a discomfort. In five days it was healed – still a little sensitive but much better.Thibault also says he never bites his tongue , but this may be a result of the amount of control he has over his new tongue.
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