Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention

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SimplyScrumptious said:
It does make me wonder how such body focused individuals, ED and sport fuelled, can be okay with literally maiming their bodies with unnecessary surgeries and tubes? And then then add medication & eating along side tube feed weight gain and it’s even more bizarre to me.
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A common profile is for the sporty proto-munchie is to have peaked, and being on a downward slope. Maybe she's aged out of her sport/activity, maybe she is good, but not good enough to perform at the elite level or make a career out of it. The munchie arc is her coping with this - 'I would have been a prima ballerina / pro athlete, but cruel illnesses stopped me' - rather than 'I didn't make the grade, oh well, time to re-plan and think about what else I could do in life'. It seems like a kind of arrested development.

I have a lot of sympathy for them at this stage. It's shit enough being a teenage girl to begin with. Sports, ballet etc can be really brutal in winnowing out the stars/Olympians from the 'pretty good in high school but not a careerist'. It must be hard to be told that the hobby you love and have devoted thousands of hours to, sweated for, cried over etc, doesn't want you any more. The sympathy stops when they begin hoovering up not-needed medical resources, grifting thousands from the gullible, demanding the organs of dead children, etc. It's when it starts to impact on the lives and happiness of others.
 
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A tree said:
She has mentioned it. Part of auties newly retrofitted back story is that in 2019/20 after the sexual assault she "became anorexic in front of the whole country" or some such shit. I never noticed her get skelly but she insists she dropped to a size zero and came back up.
Far be it from me to suggest that having a period of stress related weight loss is a common experience and is not anorexia nervosa.
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I don’t think UK sizes go down to 0. If they did it would be equivalent to US size 000. Calling BS on that.
 
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There is currently drama in the DID faker community, here's a rundown:
A seminar was held by a Harvard scientist explaining the phenomenon of "Imitative DID" on TikTok. The presenter was civil and said multiple times he can't diagnose anyone online and used example videos that are public and popular on tiktok of people "switching" and celebrating DID.
  • He kindly points out that those adolescents might have different problems such as anxiety and depression and fill the void in their life by creating new colorful characters that makes them feel more unique, this happy presentation of DID harms actual survivors of trauma who disassociate to forget about incidents of rape and violence, but the TikTok teens still need help.
  • DID fakers unite under "pixieeelocks" who is infamous for the happy DID diagnosis cake and spam the hospital with bad reviews
  • The hospital's youtube channel takes the video down, despite having a fraction of views and generally being positively received
  • DID fakers are now campaigning for an apology for an apology from the staff
Tl;dr these idiots think their self-diagnosis and "experience" with the disorder makes them more valid than doctors who work with PTSD and DID sufferers.
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SNU said:
If she only manipulated as much as you manipulated her then what did you do to her? Because it seems like she manipulated you a lot. So you can say she didn't bully you and only manipulated a fair amount but I don't buy it. The following highlights paint a picture:

- blackmail
- "she can convince anyone of anything"
- called the cops so much you got fired
- you're concerned she can cause a lot of "trouble" for you
- accused you of sexual abuse because you asked your partner if they wanted to be intimate

If it's dangerous for you to upset her then why come here and post? Maybe I'm interpreting things wrong but to me it kind of seems like you're defending her. Sure you concede some things that would be hard to deny but you seem so adamant that she's actually super paralyzed and honestly she's not a liar but just out of touch with reality. Even though she lied about the dog and other stuff. She also hangs out with munchies but she totally isn't purposefully munching. To me it looks like what PR people do when someone gets caught doing something bad. Like "we can't outright deny everything but maybe we can spin it to paint them in more sympathetic light". I don't know if it's fear or you still have feelings for her but I don't 100% believe everything you say. Parts of it are believable and make sense but it seems like it's filtered by some bias you have.
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This might be unpopular, but someone's gotta mention it. The Drewy content has struck me as a personal vendetta since she was first posted here a few months ago. I have certainly not yet been persuaded to care about her.
 
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CrossedTubes said:
A common profile is for the sporty proto-munchie is to have peaked, and being on a downward slope. Maybe she's aged out of her sport/activity, maybe she is good, but not good enough to perform at the elite level or make a career out of it. The munchie arc is her coping with this - 'I would have been a prima ballerina / pro athlete, but cruel illnesses stopped me' - rather than 'I didn't make the grade, oh well, time to re-plan and think about what else I could do in life'. It seems like a kind of arrested development.

I have a lot of sympathy for them at this stage. It's shit enough being a teenage girl to begin with. Sports, ballet etc can be really brutal in winnowing out the stars/Olympians from the 'pretty good in high school but not a careerist'. It must be hard to be told that the hobby you love and have devoted thousands of hours to, sweated for, cried over etc, doesn't want you any more. The sympathy stops when they begin hoovering up not-needed medical resources, grifting thousands from the gullible, demanding the organs of dead children, etc. It's when it starts to impact on the lives and happiness of others.
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Totally agree here, it makes perfect sense. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for their families seeing their child pretend to waste away. Perhaps their assumed neglect keeps them pandering to the child. Living a lie must be exhausting so they surely must slip up a lot.

The other thought would be do any of these munchies have enough social & adult skills to actually make theirselves a life if they decide to stop the bullshit? I only recall one cow featured over on LC who actually admitted they weren’t sick, and was working on getting better.
I’ll have to dig through to see if I can find the old posts, after a lot of digging I found her, Robyn Brown. She was quite tame in comparison to others.

Old milk
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/munch...hies-spoonies-etc.29936/page-102#post-4756182

While digging I did find this comment that still holds true.
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Thomas Eugene Paris said:
This might be unpopular, but someone's gotta mention it. The Drewy content has struck me as a personal vendetta since she was first posted here a few months ago. I have certainly not yet been persuaded to care about her.
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If anything I am less sympathetic to Drewy now I've seen the long range control job she has done on Avery. I don't think he is going to come back. I've no idea what his motivation was in posting as he panicked when I told him she was reading here and nearly deleted it all.
He did also admit to me that he still buys her things off her amazon wishlist because she is struggling and he feels bad for her. Obviously i suggested he stops doing that right now. I didn't want to just completely dogpile the dude with revealing that level of embarrassing details while he was spilling but it's pretty obvious he hasn't broken the controlling hold she had on him.
I think it was 50% revenge and validation wanting to slag off his ex and have people agree with him and 50% not wanting to admit to himself that he was completely fooled and abused and manipulated by this person so wanting to defend his believing in her medical nonsense.
 
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SimplyScrumptious said:
Much appreciation to those who have dug through and found relevant info on the munchies, it must take an awfully long time!

Quite often I stumble across someone suspicious on instagram and they usually have the typical dancer/ED/rich kid past. The onset of their supposed illnesses is always very fast and within a year they have conned their way into multiple speshul zebra diagnosis’s and often some spoonie props. Can’t forget the occasional gymnastic picture in among the multiple hospital stays either!

I have noticed that there is one type of anorexia that lives for the attention, there’s no hiding of their “fat” bodies at all; this type thrives from the theythinkimdyinglmao attention. This type usually goes on to become a full blown munchie, or binges their way to obesity and still tries to cling to an AN diagnosis.

It does make me wonder how such body focused individuals, ED and sport fuelled, can be okay with literally maiming their bodies with unnecessary surgeries and tubes? And then then add medication & eating along side tube feed weight gain and it’s even more bizarre to me.

It’s difficult enough getting your GP to take you seriously here in the UK, it must take a lot of research and doctor shopping to find the quack who’ll gladly do it all for your sweet sweet cash over in the states.

Delusion and attention must be some fabulous drugs. And we can’t forget the nectar of the gods- Benadryl.
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I think the ED to munchie pipeline is fueled by a special sort of mentally ill female, but I think the attention and worry they get from having an ED is the spark for being a munchie. Many people theorize that lots of ED are about “control” and I think being a munchie is similar in that they artificially control stuff via choosing their illness, how that manipulate and maim their bodies and esp how it allows them to manipulate and control ppl around them.

As for munchies in the USA, I’m sure they have it much easier than their peers with public health coverage. Monitoring MBP mothers has taught me there are always greedy doctors here willing to do unneeded procedures and milk the Medicaid system for every penny they can. Some American munchies have private insurance via parents but most have Medicaid (free health insurance for poor and disabled). Many of the better doctors don’t take Medicaid patients because they get paid less, but many doctors focus a practice around Medicaid patients and know how to maximize profits and a munchie can be a great pay day for them for a year or two. Both patient and doctor have incentives for bullshit, unnecessary medical procedures, it’s fucked up.
 
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Munchie blames harvard doctor for not going to her youtube channel and watching her defense video why she made the DID diagnosis cake. She complained that the lecture gave her panic attacks and she couldn't work (her job is youtube) but 50% of the video is her cutting and pasting her old video lol

Excuse my double posting (can't edit the previous post now), but another one made a response video and it's whackier because she's doing age regression and hugging a blanket, she tries to justify why she is selling merch at one point
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Vampirdžija said:

Munchie blames harvard doctor for not going to her youtube channel and watching her defense video why she made the DID diagnosis cake. She complained that the lecture gave her panic attacks and she couldn't work (her job is youtube) but 50% of the video is her cutting and pasting her old video lol
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On a lighter note,

Chronically Ash, here with the horror of having to adjust her glasses. Eyes dilated because of autonomic dysfunction, right. It's not like there's a more reasonable explanation....?
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Look at the state of this woman, that foot. Why would you do this to yourself. She ignores the diabetes, edema, and bloat because it isn't a fun illness, but that is... not good. Real, self-induced disability about to be earned! Graduation!

Gotta love the chair in the frame, though.
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It's very hard to be her, and very normal to take and share these pictures constantly.
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