The reason why I though she was aware is because she claimed on Tiktok that she able to draw intricate pictures as she has a visual memory, despite not being able to see her work as a whole, shortly after it was mentioned on here.
To be fair, there are quite a few blind painters. It depends on the severity (since blind doesn't necessarily mean pitch black) and what the problem is. There is for example cortical blindness, where the eyes and nerves are working fine, but the brain doesn't know what to do with the signals past the Thalamus, since the visual cortex is damaged. (It is quite fascinating, since this can cause Anton Syndrome, where cortically blind people are adamant that they are able to see, even when confronted with evidence that this is bullshit.) I don't know what her art looks like, but it is a possibility that she is telling the truth.
I have a question though: Where I live, blind means less than 2% vision on both eyes. 5% or less is "severely visually impaired". Is it different in the UK? I am confused by Alexandra calling herself deafblind.
To be fair, there are quite a few blind painters. It depends on the severity (since blind doesn't necessarily mean pitch black) and what the problem is. There is for example cortical blindness, where the eyes and nerves are working fine, but the brain doesn't know what to do with the signals past the Thalamus, since the visual cortex is damaged. (It is quite fascinating, since this can cause Anton Syndrome, where cortically blind people are adamant that they are able to see, even when confronted with evidence that this is bullshit.) I don't know what her art looks like, but it is a possibility that she is telling the truth.
I have a question though: Where I live, blind means less than 2% vision on both eyes. 5% or less is "severely visually impaired". Is it different in the UK? I am confused by Alexandra calling herself deafblind.
I was suspicious about the timing of her post in relation to content posted on kiwi farms. Also, I wondered if anyone could shed some light on her visual memory claim? Is memory type innate?
I’d recommend anything by Oliver Sacks for those interested in weird brain stuff.
pssss did you know, disability is a super power? She’s just released a tiktok showing us her superhero gear, tubes, cane, drainage bag and all.
Alexandra recently posted a tik tok about how she can avoid a code blue/crash call. She basically says you are never alone and other doctors and nurses instantly appear. She is basically admitting that she is unable to code a patient but won't out say it.
Most healthcare workers, even non clinical need at the least CPR training or BLS level training.
A question for KFS. Do you think Shelby leaning into the androgynous 'gender-queer' styles is trans regret, some kind of weird autoandrophilia like the fujo to aiden pipline, or because the ambiguous look is really popular in modeling and advertising scenes ALA Zoolander 2?
The way she's stripped down and eyefucking herself in every shot, it seems like she LIKES the weird beard/no tits/lipstick/hip jut style. But I also accept that it could be an act to get instaclout and modeling gigs.
A question for KFS. Do you think Shelby leaning into the androgynous 'gender-queer' styles is trans regret, some kind of weird autoandrophilia like the fujo to aiden pipline, or because the ambiguous look is really popular in modeling and advertising scenes ALA Zoolander 2?
The way she's stripped down and eyefucking herself in every shot, it seems like she LIKES the weird beard/no tits/lipstick/hip jut style. But I also accept that it could be an act to get instaclout and modeling gigs.
Yeah i think there's some degree of fetish to it. I just don't think she would have necessarily developed the fetish if she wasn't so opposed to just being a normie lesbian.
Yeah i think there's some degree of fetish to it. I just don't think she would have necessarily developed the fetish if she wasn't so opposed to just being a normie lesbian.
Not disagreeing about the fetish part, but some of it has to be your typical narcisisst eyefucking. She's too obsessed with herself and her image for it not to be, trans regret and all
In a different life she could have been a cute enough chapstick lesbian, directing all that time and energy towards obsessively micromanaging the fuck out of both an entire women's soccer team and a well-fitting blazer wardrobe.
Great write up. Shelby is my favourite munchie to hate.
I think it’s because Atlas always looks so miserable and like any normal person badly treated animals make me mati.
Most of his ‘smiling’ pics are of him caught mid stress-yawn. I’d never seen an unhappy Golden Retriever until I entered the realm of munchies and their service dogs.
I hope Jaina is out there living a happy normal lesbian life, with somebody who loves and appreciates her. She deserves it.
Alexandra recently posted a tik tok about how she can avoid a code blue/crash call. She basically says you are never alone and other doctors and nurses instantly appear. She is basically admitting that she is unable to code a patient but won't out say it.
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So she’s BLS trained but I wonder how recent, given it needs yearly updates. It’s not the hearing or visual impairments I’m concerned about here as much but her recently acquired oxygen tubing. She will not be able to provide adequate chest compressions and it’s also a fire hazard around a defibrillator lol.
The comment about not planning on rotating in ED made me laugh given she’s got to rotate through 6 different specialties if she qualifies and she thinks there’s less chance of doing CPR in those? They don’t stick juniors in resus. Also she would need to be qualified in advanced life support before completing initial training, which involves the things she said she wouldn’t have to do. Sorry Alexandra but you can’t be a medical student forever. Now I know why she wants to go into palliative care so she can sign DNRs for all her patients and never have to face CPR.
Also multiple ten minute TikTok’s, all in costume? Really? Worse than the blogs.
Healthcare is teamwork, yes. But when there’s two or three members of staff for a ward of 28 acutely ill people and you’re waiting on the crash team to get there… you need all hands on deck, it’s not possible to carry people. Not going to lie I’d be so resentful if I had to work alongside her.
I did lol at her ward helper memoirs, the nearest she’ll have been allowed to a living breathing patient is handing them a cup of tea or making a bed. Their responsibilities are pretty restricted within the NHS, she definitely wouldn’t have been wheeling old Doris and her bed off the ward for some morning air.
Today we're going to push through and finish Alexandra's blog (finally). Some of the posts I covered in earlier posts before I decided to do this to myself, so I'll link to that post instead of the blog.
It's going to be very long, mostly because her blog posts now have more relevant information. Sorry in advance for that. I've spoilered as much as I can.
Alexandra's former colleagues are now giving her medical care. She got COVID in December, and despite being unable to leave her room in the hospital for over six months, she didn't think it could be the virus. She didn't read the news so it was surprising that everyone had been so badly affected.
Allegedly, Alexandra was left naked for five days, laying in puddles of her own piss and puke on top of diapers and pee-pads. Nobody cleaned her up. She was in horrible pain and decided to waste the nurses' time, even though they said they didn't have time for her. She puked up her drainage tube and choked on it for 20 minutes. She was unhooked from her TPN and spilled hot coffee on herself and then decided to lay in it instead of pressing the call button.
Alexandra's neck is stiff and it hurts. She wastes a nurse's time, and the nurse knows she's full of shit. Lexie decided to shit, piss, and puke on herself and be a disruption. The nurse tells her to cut it out. She became septic, but nobody listened because she was apparently claiming her neck was fractured(??). Of course she recovered in time for her birthday.
LINK - 27 February 2021
People called Alexandra out online and she began her post with a list of some recent highlights. Later she shares more "hate comments" and insinuates that anyone stupid enough to say she's faking her illness and not being truthful must be anti-vax and a COVID denier.
She's been deafblind since before her birth and faces "cruel interrogations" on a daily basis.
Alexandra's faceless selfie was at the top of this post. Why is the tube so big? Why does she have a port? Why does she need this shirt? I have a lot of questions.
Alexandra hasn't been "on the frontline" since March 2020, but being a patient is just as hard. She doesn't like doctors making small talk or treating her like a fellow capable doctor instead of an average patient, because she thinks it means they think she's incompetent. She wants her medical doctors to instead look after her emotions, which is a therapist's job.
She makes generalizations about how doctors are treated as patients (despite not being a doctor yet); if any doctors are present and want to weigh in on that please do.
She recounts the tale of being in the hospital as a teenager and claims she didn't know for months what was happening or why she needed multiple invasive surgeries. A doctor flashed her and everything was resolved. Later in life, she tells a random patient all about her ICU trauma. There's more about the mean nurse who said her neck was fine. Remember: patients are the real medical experts!
Alexandra gets lots of fun munchie toys: a central line, feeding/drainage tube, catheter, and her own wheelchair. Even her doctors think she can't be a doctor like this. But she has empathy and lived experience.
LINK - 11 August 2021
Sad Alexandra selfie :-(
Everyone struggled with mental health during the pandemic. Alexandra, of course, struggled the most. This is the tale of how she suffered the most out of everybody ever.
The story begins with Alexandra having a seizure in the ED parking lot and puking in her mask. The first lockdown made her sicker. Her doctor calls her a faker and calls psych. She found out she has EDS, then she got COVID. She dislocated her shoulder and hip from laying in bed, then suffered a lot more.
The nurse says Alexandra is wasting her time, so she flings herself onto the floor of the COVID ward (this was probably how she infected her central line, or she puked on it). The other patients tormented her and laughed at her. Alexandra's catheter didn't work and she refused to poop in a toilet. Instead she shit the bed and bedpan, and claims nobody cleaned either.
In March 2021, Alexandra is transferred to a specialist hospital in London. Everyone there is a beautiful perfect angel, except they have male nurses and won't get her psych help. She lost almost all venous access and was no longer able to have TPN because of it and the doctors said they could no longer help her. She resorted to taking out her hearing aids to avoid hearing the meanie doctors.
A doctor has diagnosed Alexandra with having factitious seizures after witnessing one, which she states was her trying not to cry. She suicide baits and is told the referral for psych help was denied (probably because the NHS is extremely overworked, which she knows). She goes to the ICU again (that's 20) and says if only people had listened it could have been avoided, which gives the impression that it was a suicide and/or self-harm attempt in the hopes of getting psychiatric care.
It's a bit of a wall of text, but worth reading.
LINK - 30 December 2021
Alexandra has been in the hospital for sixteen months. She's had six peri-arrests and she visually describes her surroundings. Social media isn't an accurate reflection of how sad her life is. Everyone dies. She had sepsis seven times in 2021 and suffered a whole bunch, but there was still time for friendship and empathy. She was suicidal but the doctors didn't listen. The nurses leave her in the rain in her wheelchair. But despite all the suffering and trauma, she's going home for New Year's and then back to the ICU for another surgery.
LINK - 7 February 2022
Alexandra is home and she's broken and alone. She left the hospital by choice even though her tube and drainage bag are apparently broken and causing her lots of problems. The solution to this is a compass-inspired adventure.
She went to an AirBnB and then visited her family at the beach (great for infections!). She does nothing for energy and has a social media detox, as well as discovering Ayurvedic medicine and sitting in a sauna (great for POTS!). She buys things, including skincare stuff that is friendly for her MCAS, and goes to a fancy restaurant for her birthday after just getting off TPN. She's writing a memoir.
LINK - 2 May 2022
After two years away, she's back!
Alexandra does a nice recap of all her suffering and trauma. Some details don't add up, but why does that matter? She's going back to Medical School to qualify as a Doctor.
So what's the takeaway here?
Alexandra was born deaf and blind, but never shares the exact names of her diagnoses. It's obviously impossible to say for sure what she is able to see and hear (with hearing aids), but that doesn't matter because her vision and hearing changes from post to post. I don't know very much about being deaf or blind, but I assume that a congenital condition changing day to day based on what she wants to do is unbelievable.
Over the course of her life, Alexandra faced multiple other illnesses. As a teenager she was hospitalized for a year and had multiple surgeries for stomach issues, which she's said at one point was reflux. She has reported diagnoses of mitochondrial myopathy, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), "other cardiovascular instabilities," gastroparesis, bowel dysmotility, intestinal failure, urinary retention, and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). She had COVID-19 in late 2020. She has lung/breathing problems and has had at least twenty ICU admissions.
My personal theory:
Alexandra probably got treated differently for being deafblind in her childhood. She would go through struggles most children don't, but she worked through them to the point of becoming proficient in two different sports. She spent a year in the hospital when she was sixteen and had multiple invasive surgeries for GI problems. I believe that she latched on to the positive attention she received whenever she overcame her challenges and realized that hospitalizations were an easy way to get that positive attention.
There's obviously no concrete way to know unless someone verifies it, but I do think it's interesting how quickly she went down the EDS diagnosis to full munchie pipeline. After an EDS (and more!) diagnosis in November 2020, she got a double-lumen Hickman central line, feeding tube for draining, catheter, and personal wheelchair in spring 2021.
Alexandra has been called out multiple times before, by her medical professionals and by complete strangers. She's personally admitted to being told by multiple nurses to stop her dramatics. Her doctor charted her as a seizure faker. Multiple people online have said her stories are unbelievable at best.
Being deafblind, or having any other congenital disorder, doesn't prevent someone from being a munchie (again, see Katie Stanina). I feel completely comfortable saying that Alexandra Elaine Adams is a liar and exaggerates her illnesses and suffering for online attention.
Great write up. Shelby is my favourite munchie to hate.
I think it’s because Atlas always looks so miserable and like any normal person badly treated animals make me mati.
Most of his ‘smiling’ pics are of him caught mid stress-yawn. I’d never seen an unhappy Golden Retriever until I entered the realm of munchies and their service dogs.
I hope Jaina is out there living a happy normal lesbian life, with somebody who loves and appreciates her. She deserves it.
Celiac might not be, but ‘gluten intolerance‘ seems to popular in munchie circles, anyone can identify as GI, diagnosis is based on self reported symptoms.
Make every food based event evolve around you super power = munchie wet dream
minor powerlevel
about 20 years ago, I went to a gastroenterologist for IBS. I was PETRIFIED they would find me lactose intolerant, which would devastate me. After bloodwork, they found I had nonceliac gluten issues. Going gluten free, totally, might have been ideal, but I went to a class for new celiac ppl and that shit looked hellish, so after some testing of “official” gluten free choices, I have found cutting out “obvious gluten” for most meals, having an occasional sandwich or pizza or pasta item, and not sweating the “label reading”games, and I rarely have symptoms. I try to not to. make it a thing.
