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

Holy shit, that's a very familiar face! It's Shelby/Julian Gavino (aka The Disabled Hippie),
That’s what a thought at first, but then I looked through her profile and thought, nah, she’s so… benign? But now you’ve convinced me, the dog checks out. Nice!

Shelby seems to have a very “empty” personality (BPD?) - she becomes whatever attributes she displays. That’s probably why she keeps leaning into the munchie props after letting go of the beard.
 
Holy shit, that's a very familiar face! It's Shelby/Julian Gavino (aka The Disabled Hippie), who seems to still be going by 'Julian' on her insta but is now using she/her-nouns again. Wasn't entirely sure until I cross-checked with her insta, but it's the same damn dog with the same damn 'do not pet' lead and the tattoos all match up.
LMAO. Thanks, you guys are fantastic. She had to come milk some attention from the detrans Reddit, where every woman is told she is femme and beautiful, or not-femme but totally womanly and beautiful anyway. Julian made it clear she wanted to be told she was very femme and pretty. (Who ever told her she looked like Kris Tyson was spot on btw. Uncanny resemblance in the face.)

Wow, she went way further with her tranny schtick than I imagined but I can see why because she milked it for every drop possible. Trans-disabled fashion show? Runway barrier. Good lord. Her only way to compete in the munchie world was to up her game by going tranny.

She mentions a girlfriend. I wonder if it’s the same one featured in her old IG? Probably. Does this chick have rich parents subsiding her farce and the girlfriend has hitched along for the ride? She appears to have no job and appears to live fairly well. This isn’t possible w/o rich parents when one’s full time job is munching, but maybe she’s milked the disability gravy train and gibs for all its worth.

The “disabled hippie” also seems to be embracing “Jewish” and discarding her Italian roots. She got a huge panther tattoo to cover up a “all roads lead to Rome” tattoo.

She seems to have quietly gone back to not being a man. I guess she didn’t think she could mine deteansition for the same type of attention that being a tranny gets. Giving munchies usually don’t care what type of attention they get, just as long as it’s attention, it’s a bit surprising. She seems to only court praise and validation.
 
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She mentions a girlfriend. I wonder if it’s the same one featured in her old IG?
It appears to be the same girlfriend, yeah, there are 5 year anniversary posts on her IG and she's studying to be an OT or something, same as the other girl was. I always got the impression that the trans thing was partly denial of the fact that she's a lesbian, so it's good to see she's dropped her internalised homophobia, if not her OTT munchiness. And lol yeah, she definitely has an air of Kris Tyson about her.

She seems to have quietly gone back to not being a man. I guess she didn’t think she could mine deteansition for the same type of attention that being a tranny gets
I am wondering if she's not made a bigger meal out of being detrans because as someone with a small public profile (she was one of 'the faces of NYC Pride '22 and had a few commercial campaigns a few years back) she is aware that she's googleable and doesn't want TRAs blowing up her munch by further publicising the information collected on here here and on the various other farms and Reddit munchie threads? If the trans thing was mostly attention-seeking and she realised her heart lies more with munching, it would make sense to keep a lower profile as a detrans and try not to catch the rabid trans brigade's attention and ire.



There's not much to be had in her postings on the new Reddit profile, just the usual 'service' dog malarkey (Atlas is cute as hell, but he ain't a fucking seizure alert dog lol, especially not one that she didn't train for it and given that she doesn't have seizures) and the also usual vague references to her unspecified disabilities shoehorned into totally unrelated posts. I'm yet to go through her comments on other people's posts, they may be milkier.
 
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She got a huge panther tattoo to cover up
Not quite detransitioner Reddit, but the "oh no what do I do about this awful tattoo" subreddits default to "you could cover it with a sick-ass panther" so much that they've started abbreviating it.

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am wondering if she's not made a bigger meal out of being detransition because as someone with a small public profile (she was one of 'the faces of NYC Pride '22 and had a few commercial campaigns a few years back)
Safe assumption. I also think the only reason she got those gigs was being a marketing unicorn. A disabled tranny for corporates and nonprofits thirsty to check diversity boxes by getting the most oppressed and unsightly people with punk rock ‘tude!
 
I'm wondering how professionals feel about the Ehlers Danlos Society these days. I know it's not all the organization's fault that their cause has been co-opted by munchies, but their social media accounts are overrun with young women claiming to have hEDS. When I still worked on the clinical lab, the rheumatologists affiliated with the hospital system had stopped accepting new patients under 25 with benign joint hypermobility, so I think they've noticed a trend, but from what I see online, the revision to the hEDS diagnostic criteria hasn't deterred any of these girls.

There's a lot of moaning about EDS-POTS-etc in the emergency medicine subreddit. I've also seen POTS (and possibly EDS?) come up in the EMS one, and I feel like I've also seen discussion of them in the family medicine sub. The emergency medicine crowd is very aware of all of this, to the point that mods will pin a "yo, we're about to get brigaded"-type comment when anyone asks a question about how you deal with these people.
 
The “disabled hippie” also seems to be embracing “Jewish” and discarding her Italian roots. She got a huge panther tattoo to cover up a “all roads lead to Rome” tattoo.
Fake Jewish: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-16769541

While I'm at it, I'm going to link to all of Kate's extensive posts about her...

Julian/Shelby Part 1: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-11962744
Julian/Shelby Part 2: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-11974757
Julian/Shelby Part 3: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-11983751
Julian/Shelby Part 4: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-12036401
Julian/Shelby Part 5: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-12039286
April 2023 update: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-16172065
December 2023 update: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/muncha...ers-munchies-spoonies-etc.29936/post-17347924

Edit: I saw this earlier and totally forgot to add it to my quotes.
A few days ago I saw a reel on instagram with a girl who claimed she looks years younger than her twin.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't EDS genetic? If they're identical twins then wouldn't the twin have it too? And if they're fraternal twins, it's kind of a silly gloat...
 
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I'm retarded at archiving but just wanted to throw some LilCannoli69/Disabled Hippie/Julian/Shelby screenshots up here just in case she-he-they DNFs. Will totally delete this if someone tells me to.

I lurk the detrans subreddit and of course being a munchie lover instantly noticed the sitting position, muscle tone, motorized chair, and service dog. Clicked on the username and a lot of very predictable content appeared...
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Saw this and definitely thought this looked familiar and suspected it was Queen Jaquie's BFF. Of course had to get a bit of the highly necessary powerchair headrest in the frame:
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Of course, totally normal for someone with a feeding tube to drink coffee (if they are a huge munchie):
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No comment needed:
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Predictably, a lot of replies on this one assumed the mastectomy was due to cancer. Predictably, none of these assumptions were corrected:
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Look at my toys!
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Fishing for headpats
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God that shit is irritating. The vast, vast majority of people who actually do have a problem that leads to them being at risk of fainting/seizing/etc in public usually do whatever is possibly in their power to manage their condition because they find it embarrassing as fuck, especially when they know it is not a true medical emergency but people around may mistake it for one. Failing that, if they've had the condition for any length of time, they usually know to an extent when it is about to happen (without a service dog of dubious utility) and have a lot of experience quickly finding somewhere to gently lower themselves to the ground as discreetly or unobtrusively as they can possibly manage, and then try to just sit until it passes, which it often will without incident.

What I have literally never seen fucking anyone except malingerers do ever (not even the non-munchie PNES/conversion disorder people) is fucking plan out their histrionic drop to the floor in the most conspicuous area possible with the actual goal of making a member of their unwilling audience feel obligated to call an ambulance (sometimes also gunning for a hospital trip, seeking benzos and/or electrolytes and fluids given IV that would be completely unnecessary if they did not deliberately induce/agitate (or just lie about) their condition with drug abuse, fluid restriction, or bizarre eating disorder shit). And while I've seen a fucking lot, never have I witnessed a munchie/malingerer/drama queen with the gumption to actually carry around a pillow and some cushions like they are going out in public specifically to collapse in a manner that creates an egregious spectacle, having planned it in extensive detail.

tl;dr, yo dipshit, if you want to be believable, nix the fucking cushions and pillow and wear a tard helmet full time. Better yet drink a fucking Powerade, stand up slower, and quit being a silly bitch. If you really like making an ass of yourself in public there are so many ways to get your fix of negative attention that are way funnier or more creative than this.
 
Was scrolling Reddit (my first mistake) and came across a post on r/disability that seemed interesting but not for the reasons the OP intended. By the way, r/disability is a great place to look for people trending towards the munchie-side of things. I was getting a weird sense that we weren’t getting the full story (also the username seemed very ‘munchie’), so I clicked on the profile, saw their appearance, and it finally dawned on me who it was.
Hi Rose!!!
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A couple of hours ago Physics Girl tweeted this:

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At first, I assumed she got bored with the grift and decided to move on, but nah - there’s this recent tweet, too:

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She’s just trying to have two grifts going at once. That’s very entrepreneurial for a broad with totally real LC.
I'm laughing.
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When she isn't munching, she's posting dad jokes with AI art.
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Also some clips from her stream earlier this summer got cut into a short, featuring her shaved head:
 
it finally dawned on me who it was.
Hi Rose!!!
She also popped up in the crochet sub with this fucking gem:
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(Think I got this thumbnailed correctly. Plz tell me if I am still lame and gay)

She didn't even make the damn thing, just bought it, and seeking all the asspats. Guess since what's his name's getting any attention, Rose needs extra.
 
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Re: Flaming_Barghast posting about learningservicedogs ( I can't quote for some reason) in one of this girl's videos there is a comment about how one person's 12 year old son was walking with his 12 yr old (girl) friend and she fainted from POTS and fell in the river. He had to rescue her and when he brought her ashore, she couldn't communicate verbally but through tapping on him for yes or no questions he was able to help her. Perhaps this story is true in some fashion, but does it seem super far fetched? It certainly does to me but perhaps I am just a jaded person based on the muchie antics I have seen over the years. Of course this person was lauded with how spectacular their son was in replies to the comment.
Oh shit sorry, I didn't get a notification.
It's certainly possible but unlikely. Unless she hit her head really hard in the river, not being able to talk is very strange. Water doesn't damage your vocal chords, you either cough it up or swallow it. She could have also been dazed, but then she would likely be too out of it to even answer.
 
Also some clips from her stream earlier this summer got cut into a short, featuring her shaved head:
150k is nothing for serious research. A lab wouldn't even bother applying for that funding cos its maybe one post doc and one student for a year- I don't know in the US but in the UK I heard one post doc cost £60k per year before they even had any equipment (with salary typically £30-40k of that) and that was several years ago. Good for them for trying I guess but its all just an excuse to massage her ego and give the grift a virtuous sheen.
 
She also popped up in the crochet sub with this fucking gem:
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(Think I got this thumbnailed correctly. Plz tell me if I am still lame and gay)

She didn't even make the damn thing, just bought it, and seeking all the asspats. Guess since what's his name's getting any attention, Rose needs extra.
The munchie goon demon is back.
 
Those of you who avoid A&N (as you should), you might be interested in this post: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/ign-a-...change-but-she-never-actually-existed.198695/
The ultimate illness-fakers, women who don't even exist!

That was a good read, thanks for linking it here. Leaves me wondering if 'Coty' is more exploring her own latent munch tendencies through these personas or if it's more about entryism into a part of the gaming world a white able-bodied person can't otherwise legitimately access (i.e. springing from the same impulses that make some people trans).

I'm glad you also googled her face and spotted the very obvious pooner, might be worth crossposting to the Pooner Zoo thread too? I'm sure those that are there but not here would also appreciate this fine specimen.
 
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I have had a fun post drafted and ready to go for weeks, I finally have time to upload the post thanks to a two week work trip where I have nothing to do after hours but stare at the wall, and I left my fucking hard drive home. Instead take this one I've been sitting on for a while who isn't the most prolific but does take us to see all our favorite quacks.

I kept seeing the name "Sophie's Army" pop up in comments sections and naively thought it was some innocent cancer mom's blog, some poor woman who was being taken for a ride by these girls. Nah, of course not. Sophie Taylor Phillips d/b/a @sophiesarmy and @sophillz is a failed musical theater actress who learned the hard way that she is not Broadway material. Plan B is, of course, fake sick to avoid the sting of mediocrity and below-average looks, and maybe get herself some diversity castings while she's at it.

We start with this very prescient post. You're welcome, I've enjoyed stalking you very much.
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And jump right into sick kids. Megan here was born with a bum ticker and got her first transplant at nine weeks old. 12 years later she had her second. She died a few weeks shy of her 18th birthday after her second transplant rejected. Our gal knows her from Camp Boggy Creek, a camp for "children with serious medical illnesses" in Eustis, Florida. It's part of Paul Newman's network of camps for sick kids. I guess Sophie works or volunteers there.
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She posts a bunch more pics of sick kids and teens because she's doing charity work fundraising for congenital heart defects. Fine, not suspicious. Maybe she had a correctible one or maybe someone in her family had a really bad one. Who knows? In any case she's focusing on the children and not herself
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Her aunt dies. From this post we learn Sophie is a music theater geek who loves performing. Of course.
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The picture of cardiovascular health. I can really tell she regularly does vigorous cardio and keeps her diet in check.
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Okay, not just an annoying music theater geek. She's one of those women who knows she was meant to be a star! That didn't pan out for her since she lives in Florida now.
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Well, I guess it wasn't a total bust. She's performing in a stage production of The Little Mermaid. Community theater, I guess.
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This runs in her family. Her grandma was a ballet dancer and Broadway starlet.
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Steadily gaining weight over the years her account has been active. She's posting only very sporadically at this point.
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She is Chosen People. I mention this because so many of our girls pretend to be for extra oppression points, but like Andie Proskus this one is actually Jewish and it can be traced through genealogy. It also becomes important in the future. But also hello a lobe of my brain just deflated. I thought she was like late 20s, early 30s when her account starts. But those are Finding Nemo pajamas in this here childhood photo of her. That movie came out in 2003. That means she is at most in her late teens. Oh boy.
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And she's going to some high school that takes its students on trips to New York. Probably some glorified performing arts camp since they go to Broadway shows and she meets this person I suppose is famous based on the caption
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Oh yeah she's one of those kids. Every egg is in this basket and has been for years. There's no back up plan for if this doesn't work out. We're in for a ride.
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Confirmed. She's a high school junior in 2015.
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Her parents must be paying a fortune for this school. On a one week trip they saw eleven shows.
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I'm just gonna keep this one on mute and assume nothing of value is being lost, that cool?
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If you thought she was playing any other character in the mermaid show IDK what to tell you. Still hasn't explained why she was at this camp for very sick children.
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Here we go. She was born with a septal defect that isn't causing any problems. She met other kids who are in much worse shape. She is therefore choosing to advocate for better screening and more research for pediatric heart defects. We're cool. Always nice to put your problems in perspective like that although I don't know why a very very common defect that is causing no symptoms and likely never will earned her a spot at that camp. Three of the friends she posts about from there were heart transplant recipients.
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Back for another round of broadway magic.
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This is going to age well, I can feel it.
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Okay, so she's from South Florida and loves BPD drama cow Demi Lovato
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Ortho boot, no explanation why. Dance injury maybe. She posts about her really intense dance classes sometimes. I had a friend that was about her size, who stepped off a curb funny and demolished the bones in her foot and ankle one day. Injury was so much worse than you would have thought could be caused by just stepping down wrong. Doctor didn't fuck around, told her the reason it was that bad was so much weight came down on those bones at once and now was not the time to sit around getting fatter because it would just cause more problems and prolong the healing. She needed to get up out of bed , do her PT, and eat like she gave a shit. Just an anecdote. No reason.
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There is something uniquely annoying to me about not just the music but the exaggerated facial expressions and gestures of musical theater. I know it's because it has to translate to a live audience that might not have the best view but I watch videos of her performing on mute thinking it's merely the pay-attention-to-me singing that bothers me yet still feel this weird anger building in me.
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AND here's why we're talking about her. Sophie is now claiming she has CRPS and demanding she get the same awareness programs as the heart defect kids.
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Kids with cancer inspire her to think more about herself and her own non-fatal health problem.
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Hospital for a month. Oh good, they've gotten her into pain rehab to nip this shit in the bud.
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And it worked. She went from saying she needed a walker to get out of her bedroom to going for a run. She loves running, can't you tell?
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And dancing! Vigorously! At her pain PT!
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So she's moving on with life. I'm sure some overpriced theater program will accept her (parents') money to tell her she's got real lead role potential! Giving her the benefit of the doubt here. She's tying her future up in being a stage performer, she just had a painful injury that took her out of dance classes right before her college auditions where she'll need to prove she has at least some ability to learn and execute choreography, she fixates on the injury and how much it hurts because she's anxious it'll be the thing that keeps her from succeeding, she ends up with amplified pain, but she got into a program to treat it early.
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In May 2017 she graduates high school, claiming that just a few short months ago she couldn't even walk unassisted and now she's getting around fine with no signs of disability. She's still in "excruciating" pain but she can manage it and nothing's going to stop her! Just so we're all clear, we know she's just setting herself up to use this as an excuse in the future right? right.
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A few days after graduation she creates her sickstagram, Sophiesarmy. Both she and her mother post to this account. Because when one is feeling much better and ready to move on, one makes a whole separate account for obsessively posting about the symptoms and treatment of their illness.
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She was at the pain rehab at Nemours, the same program that Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital tried to transfer Maya Kowalski ("Take Care of Maya") to. Her mother's absolute meltdown over hearing this was a cognitive behavioral and physical therapy-based program instead of the IV ketamine and epidural clonidine pump she was demanding was a big part of why CPS stepped in.
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Obligatory 46 ON THE MCGILL PAIN SCALE!!!!! shit they love. Worse than cancer! Worse than childbirth! Feel bad for me!!
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And we learn she missed over 100 days of school for this. Well, most of it was in rehab and she did online school, so I'll give her a pass. Again.
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Something tells me the disability is going to look like the wheelchair before we're done.
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Getting hospitalized for some scary unspecified testing (and also hospital prom!!!)
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LOL suddenly she has excruciating headaches, nausea, poor balance, vision issues, and facial numbness. They worked her up for all the scary stuff it might be like a brain tumor but everything's clear.
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And she's using this all to get attention from the cast of some show called Army Wives. How pathetic.
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The verdict: it's nothing. They found nothing wrong with her and all they told her was to see her regular pain management doctor to adjust her CRPS meds and see if that helps
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Three days later, back to the hospital and back to begging actors from Army Wives to pay attention to her.
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Success! it's still fucking nothing.
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Can't you just see the excruciating pain in her face? For a would-be actress she's not very good at this.
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Four hospital visits in a week. It's like feral cats. If you feed them they just keep coming back. What these hospitals ought to do is keep a water pistol and a metal coffee can with a few coins in it on the desk. When a munchie walks in shake the can real hard while spraying them with the water pistol. This startles but does not hurt the munchie and deters future visits. Otherwise you just have them pissing all over the place, screaming at 2 am, and breeding like rodents.
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LMAO THIS BIG FAT BITCH MUNCHED HERSELF TO AN NG TUBE. For medication, of course. She hates it, can't you tell by the smug satisfaction on her face in every photo? Last time one of my Florida munchies got a feeding tube "for medication" it was after Natalia Rijos stopped herself up to the eyeballs with zofran and opiates. They ran bowel prep through it at a steady rate until she cleared her drug constipation. Headcannon accepted: Sophie is full of shit.
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Two days later: out of the hospital, her tube has been revoked, and she's eating a salad. And I guess she's going to Shenandoah, a performing arts conservatory in Virginia. I know someone who went there for music theater. She took out something obscene like $100k in private loans she has come nowhere near being out from under despite paying as agreed every month for over 15 years. Her last "role": a singing saleswoman at a Renn Faire, which cost her more in costume supplies than she earned. I know no one wants to discourage their kids from following their dreams but sometimes their dreams are retarded and you have to sit them down and tell them this is a hobby, not a career.
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Remember when she said that cancer kid made her think of her own struggle? That kid was 10 and on her death bed.
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She and another girl she went to pain rehab with go to disney! and talk about Chronically Ams, a munchie who is now dead after purging herself to heart failure.
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A true medical mystery! She complains of endless symptoms that fuck off when she has something more fun to do, but all her tests are clear. No one can figure it out. No one? I think I can.
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LOL It's just her complex regional pain syndrome spreading to her entire body and causing all sorts of symptoms not associated with that disease. She got that same kind Natalia Rijos had I guess. Did someone tell her if you keep this up long enough you can score a buffet of ketamine, benzos, and opioids from one of Florida's resident doctor drug dealers?
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Despite these terrible headaches and pain in her everything, she moves to Virginia to start her conservatory program.
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I wonder what it's like for her to sit there sandwiched between girls who actually look like what a casting director wants.
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Setting herself up with new pain docs in VA to care for her while she's in college. Just for the record her personal account has been dead since graduation.
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LMAO her options are "a strong medication" that will affect her brain function or a 7-week course of thrice weekly ketamine, both of which will make her class schedule difficult or impossible
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She opts for oral ketamine and low dose naltrexone, which her parents are paying for out of pocket and which are only slightly reducing her symptoms.
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Mom believes her daughter whole heartedly. In October she announces Sophie will be starting IV ketamine infusions. Why does she look surprised to be here in all of her headshots?
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She starts on Halloween. The reblog thing at the bottom of the second pic says she was posting to her personal but it's gone from that account, interesting.
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Well, she's not home in Florida. She's having someone she calls her "surrogate grandmother" send pics home while she's at college.
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Over on her personal page she's just being a Broadway starfucker.
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And using her fake problems to get her schoolmates to rally for her, as is typical.
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oh wow another actually sick person she knows has died young of a shitty disease. You'd think she would learn that being sick is not fun but nahhhh she's about to score good drugs from it. Can't stop now.
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I wonder I wonder, I do wonder. Nearly every caption on her personal insta has been edited sometime in 2019. What did Sophie want to hide?
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Oh jesus. See I had taken a screenshot of this when it happened, because she was in a children's hospital and I saw a drag queen looking dude. I am totally and completely against all those Drag Queen Grooming Hours. So I went off on a whole sperg about how these gross degens need to go back to getting their kicks from STD-addled fags and leave cancer kids alone. No, turns out her mom personally contacted this guy to make a special appearance at the hospital just for her. Now I just think her mom is an indulgent idiot who created this problem for herself.
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Here's the original from when it happened.
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Over on the sicksta, Sophie's indulgent mom posts more pictures of her in a k coma as if this is something to be proud of.
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Back home in her mother's loving indulgent arms for the holiday break, Sophie's symptoms get worse again. Imagine that. They're peddling her tale of sorrow to hospitals around the country trying to get her on even stronger, better drugs.
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life-threatening. Lmao.
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Hospitalized. Shows off redness and supposed swelling in one of her arms. I mean, there's a clear color difference there. I still don't think it's CRPS. Maybe I'm wrong. Whatever it is, she gets more ketamine because of it.
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The hole in her heart that is causing no problems is less than pinhole sized and still causing no problems.
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An amazing treatment option you say? Whatever it is, it's an infusion and the doctor has never done it before. Very reassuring, I would definitely choose this treatment and doctor for my non-fatal condition.
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A minor injury set this off and the reason you might not notice she's in 600/10 pain every minute of her life is because she's just so good at masking.
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Of course. Her miracle cure is IVIG, that scarce blood product that takes thousands of donors for every dose, that keeps people with major immune dysfunctions alive. Not a drug where production can be scaled to meet demand, but something that requires individual people to step up and donate plasma. Every doctor who prescribes this shit to fuel a munchie's social media arms race ought to lose their ability to practice.
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She names the doctor she'll soon be seeing for her pain management: Dr. Hanna. We've seen him before! He's the Ketamine King who was giving Maya Kowalski so much of the drug that she was taken from her parents to save her life and returned only after her MBP monster of a mother was dead and her dad agreed to never attempt to get her back on it, the same man who prescribed 800mg+ doses with high dose Versed on top to Natalia Rijos to the point where she does not remember her teenage years because they were spent in a drug haze. Also five days of IVIG infusions. So five doses of this shit in a row, at 20k donations per dose. 100,000 plasma donations gone so that Sophie Phillips, spoiled brat of Port St. Lucie Florida, didn't have to admit she wasn't Broadway material. In the comments Sophie even says it does nothing for the actual symptoms. It's for the autoimmune component that only seems to exist in affluent young women with indulgent parents.
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Did she get aseptic meningitis? Because she deserves to have gotten it. Then she'd know what pain actually feels like.
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Dance kid to theater kid to munchie adult, classic. She just needs to get the CRPS in remission with fun drugs, then she can tackle the other, newer diseases she's been diagnosed with that are limiting her life, then she'll be a Broadway star!
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What other diseases? POTS, Sjögrens, and unspecified autoimmune diseases she needs to see Cleveland Clinic for because local doctors are too dumb to figure it out, all caused by CRPS of course.
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People are dying left and right of this non-fatal nervous system hypersensitization for which the most reliable treatment is PT and desensitization.
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She gets published on Buzzfeed, a short essay on how you should pay a lot of attention to her and her disease. Okay, you're the boss. The other tab in her browser is another article she wrote for The Munchie, now called "Why My Rare Disease Shouldn't Be Compared to Cancer." A breath of fresh air, i thought. One who is fighting the good fight to make people realize that cancer is objectively worse than these diseases they all pretend to have and they all need to stop with the obvious jealousy of little girls whose lives are ravaged by chemotherapy and hospital stays. LMAO NOPE! The whole article is about how her made up problems are just as bad as babies dying of DIPG and maybe even worse because people don't take it as seriously as cancer. Last edit: JULY 16, 2024. A few fucking weeks ago she looked at this and said yes, this is still what I want to say.
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LMAO I was giving her so much benefit of the doubt with the heart thing, that she had a defect, she saw kids that were much worse off than her and took stock of how lucky she was. Nah that little pinhole in her heart that isn't causing any problems and likely never will unless her own stupid decisions force it to was her first taste of how being sick makes you very special and gets you very special treatment.
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Going to Tampa to see the BEST doctor around for overprescribing controlled substances to 10 year old girls at the request of their by-proxy moms until they almost die and CPS has to step in to save them. She'll be in a coma like state for 5-6 hours during treatments thanks to the cocktail that's "very strong on the body"
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And it begins
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On day four, mom announces she's now unable to swallow and aspirating but it's fine! sophie's getting her ketamine on and that's what's important. What's a little extremely elevated risk of death by choking or pneumonia between friends?
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I knew we'd get a wheelchair sooner rather than later! Her friend visits so all her symptoms fuck off and she's jolly and able to do whatever she wants as long as she has her new accessory
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She's also posting videos of herself high out of her mind begging Demi Lovato for attention. I've said it before but the social media generation's absolute obsession with getting personal attention from even minor celebrities and influencers is insane. They do the most mind-blowing stunts to get a thumbs up on instagram from someone who doesn't know them and won't care if they live or die.
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Another round of k-holes with her mommy at her side.
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It sounds like it's making her problems worse.
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This all started with a fractured foot in her last year of high school. She is in constant agonizing pain as you can tell from the many times she goofs off with her friends or dances around for instagram attention with a big shit eating grin on her face.
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CRPS invites all its friends to the party. That's why special spoonie warriors like Sophie end up with a lot of unrelated diseases that in no way can be triggered by it.
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They're out of the Ketamine Kingdom and home to rest up for Cleveland Clinic in a few days. Needless to say, Sophie has not gone back to her conservatory this semester.
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If there were ever posts about how Cleveland went on her account, they're gone now which always sounds to me like they were told it was anxiety and shown the door. We go right back to Dr. Hanna's Playhouse for another round of hallucinogens.
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Her best CRPS friend is as Johns Hopkins All Children's, the hospital that separated Maya Kowalski from her mother and almost definitely saved her life as her mother was openly telling doctors that her plan was to take Maya home and overdose her to end her pain. Sophie goes to visit.
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"Ketamine can be harsh on your liver." It can also completely shut your bladder down and burn holes in your brain. I'd say "enjoy your early onset dementia" but you seem like the type that's going to die of a polypharmacy misadventure before that sets in. After all this her pain is still at a 3/10 but that's a great improvement.
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So great that she can go out and eat pizza with her drug buddy!
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Pray that her liver hasn't been totally bricked so Dr. Hanna can get another shot at totally bricking her liver.
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She's back in his clinic.
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1200 mg ketamine. Over a fucking gram of ketamine per infusion. Plus lidocaine, magnesium, and 4mg of Versed, plus what looks like different benzos in the tray. Holy fuck.
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Yeah I bet you feel great after all that. And here I am drinking vodka like a commoner.
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April 6 she's at All Childrens again, this time as a patient. A bold choice although as a legal adult she's not really at risk of getting the Maya treatment, I suppose.
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Another round down. We learn the All Childrens was an ER visit. All she has to do is get her liver checked again to make sure she still hasn't killed it, then it's all clear for another shot at killing it. Thank you social media for patting her on the ass and telling her she's as brave and special as she knows she is.
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Back to All Children's. Clearly this is an emergency since she's fucking around taking photos for social media. Don't you understand that she's in 10291031/10 pain, while she's sitting here with a big old grin on her face enjoying whatever drugs this can net her?
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HAHA SURPRISE IT WAS ACTUAL PAIN THIS TIME. She got a kidney infection and I'm going to guess it's because the massive doses of ketamine for days on end temporarily destroyed her ability to completely void her bladder or killed her urge to do so. On top of that her GI system wouldn't wake up from all the shit she's been pumping into her veins. Sophie experiences real pain for once in her life and finds out it actually is very very unpleasant. Of course she just blames this on the CRPS instead of the enormous doses of drugs her dealer with an MD is providing. She will not be going back to school and has collected her belongings from her dorm room.
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DO NOT INFUSE SALINE FOR VANITY PURPOSES. Only Sophie may infuse saline for vanity purposes.
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And she's learned nothing. Back to Dr. Hanna's crack den for another round of better living through chemicals.
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WAHHHHH MY LIFE IS HARD. Why is money going to cancer research instead of me?! Because your baseline lifelong risk of getting cancer is like 20% and unlike CRPS it has a really good habit of killing people pretty indiscriminately
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Thank you for kissing my ass after my whine-fest yesterday. After ketamine, benzos, and my parents' bank accounts, I love you the most!
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On June 9th, 2018, Sophie's dad died suddenly. For a while that is, understandably, all she posted about.
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I won't speculate too much because from what's available online (mostly people posting things he did and said in his life, scattered around the internet) dude seemed like a lovely person who loved his family whole-heartedly, a real family man. The weight was obviously a problem. If you scroll through the photos posted with his obit you can watch it yoyo over his life, getting down to the cusp of normal before bouncing back up. In the most recent photos he almost always had an oxygen cannula or the indents from one on his face. Sophie's story is she kissed him goodnight like always, went to bed, and he was gone by the time she woke up. She'll later say things that insinuate she was the one who found him deceased the next morning.
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Will this be the thing that changes her ways? lol of course not, that would mean rawdogging life and actually dealing with her emotions instead of numbing them. Instead she'll try to get attention from munchie poptart Sia while getting her drug on, wearing an oxygen cannula w/CO2 reservoir because she might die in her sleep from this. Just like daddy!
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And demi lovato.
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Someone named Shawn Mendes takes the bait.
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I guess she's not going back to school ever because drug binges with mommy holding her hand are more fun. On one hand, lol that she either got so addicted or figured out she had no chances at "making it" in a single semester and tapped out before Shenandoah could bleed her parents like pigs at a slaughterhouse and/or saddle her with insane debt she'll never claw her way out of. On the other, she's never moving on with life. She and mommy are totally bonded over this fake illness. All her friends are "spoonies". We're here until she dies.
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July is when her facebook page, Sophie's Army, starts with a now-dead GFM campaign.
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In peak tacky munchie attention seeking, her campaign was also linked in her dad's obit.
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And we'll stop here. Sophie isn't our most exciting gal but it is fun to see how easy it is to buy a diagnosis when you're a well-off only child whose mother has nothing to do but focus on your every complaint. I'm sure this won't shock anyone who reads this thread but Sophie and her mom are about to become even more codependent now that her dad has passed.
 
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I love how you can see the crazy in her eyes in every single selfie, even before the drugs.
Having army in your personal account name is pretty much the biggest red flag there is.

Something that never gets old are the horrible awareness t-shirts. So many of them think of themselves as creative, yet they always create and wear the most visually offensive shirts imaginable. Her orange CPRS shirt looks like a AI generated AliExpress shirt someone would wear ironically to a bachelor party.

Thank you for sharing :feels:
 
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