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

[Coo Coo Bird]

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.

I swear it ages you faster, too. Dylan Mulvaney is a theater kid that's aging like milk, and while part of that is definitely the estrogen and the plastic surgery, I think the exaggerated expressions are another factor.

 

[klarine]

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.

Sjogrens is a very creative one to munch on, specially when it has a proper diagnostic procedure lol. The doctors just put a paper in your eyes and you are left to suffer there for minutes, then they see how many tears you've produced through markings on the paper. If your eye lubrification is normal you don't get diagnosed with it. There are also exams to measure salivary production. None of these exams are something you can manipulate to get a false positive.
And to even get considered for a diagnosis, the patient was most likely already diagnosed with another associated autoimmune disease, shit like lupus. I really want to know who put Sjogrens in her head to begin with.

Great post btw, she was really interesting to read about. I think she took a diagnosis she got as a teen and blew it way out of proportion now, I kinda feel bad for her mother.

 

[Zemblan Physics]

The CRPS fakers are fascinating. And they could so easily be nipped in the bud if the doctors just, you know, stuck to the actual diagnostic criteria when labeling someone with it. But who’s gonna pay for sending the doc’s kids to Berkeley to study interpretive puppeteering then, I ask you?

 

[Fëanor Curufinwë]

Sophie looks a bit like Jonathan Yaniv to me. Must be the Jewish ancestry.

 

[Din Djarin]

And I guess she's going to Shenandoah, a performing arts conservatory in Virginia.

Ah a kind of local munchie. I knew quite a few kids from high school who had the New York Dream who went there, got sucked out of all their money, and never made it. I guess it's a good thing she didn't get through all four years.

They're out of the Ketamine Kingdom and home to rest up for Cleveland Clinic in a few days

It's funny because the area Shenandoah is in has very good hospitals and doctors close by, but I guess they can spot a faker a mile away and either didn't want her there or she wasn't getting what she wanted.

Anyways, I love a good, run of the mill munchie so I'm excited to learn more about her.

 

[Battery Low]

Bit of a weird question but does anyone have any hints as to how to search for an archive of a pay walled article?

I was telling my nearest and dearest about that Grey's Anatomy writer ironically being a munchie herself. Dug out the Vanity Fair two-parter to send them but appears to be pay walled these days.

 

[klarine]

but I guess they can spot a faker a mile away and either didn't want her there or she wasn't getting what she wanted.

Might be from trying to get an autoimmune diagnosis. Those are surprisingly difficult to fake, since you have clear indicators something is wrong on blood tests and physical exams Pain disorders like fybro and CRPS are easy, no doctor will want to accuse you of not actually feeling 3000/10 pain, but how will you fake butterfly rashes from a lupus crisis?

 

[Aunt Carol]

I was telling my nearest and dearest about that Grey's Anatomy writer ironically being a munchie herself. Dug out the Vanity Fair two-parter to send them but appears to be pay walled these days.

Usually if I submit it to an archive service, it'll have been archived before without paywall. This probably depends on when the wall went up. It's still a good way to get around the "you have X of Y free articles left."

I like to include "link | archive link" to things like this when I'm sending them to normal people. Feels like I'm quietly helping expand their horizons.

 

[Battery Low]

like to include "link | archive link" to things like this when I'm sending them to normal people. Feels like I'm quietly helping expand their horizons.

I like the way you think and do

 

[Potato Burrito]

Bit of a weird question but does anyone have any hints as to how to search for an archive of a pay walled article?

I was telling my nearest and dearest about that Grey's Anatomy writer ironically being a munchie herself. Dug out the Vanity Fair two-parter to send them but appears to be pay walled these days.

As the clever @Aunt Carol suggested, use an archiver like archive.ph and it's probably already in there.

E.g.: https://archive.ph/gQteZ Saved 2 years ago.

 

[Meow_meow]

It's absolutely insidious she was working that dog that hard so young. It looks like she started PA at like, a few months. The dog looks 5 or 6 months MAX at the first Disney trip and it was carrying weight in packs. Disgusting.

Let puppies be puppies. There's a reason most dogs don't finish until 2.

Oh, also? The puppy looks 8 weeks old when she brought it home. There's no way it had any actual obedience training. Early socialization and puppy culture sure, but NOT training.

I just had a friend go through a whole ordeal with Amanda Winig. I am know discovering this whole thread…

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

I just had a friend go through a whole ordeal with Amanda Winig. I am know discovering this whole thread…

As president (and only member) of the Amanda Winig fan club, I would like to welcome you. In the links below you will find my updated love letters to my future wife:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

I have been painfully, embarrassingly obsessed with this woman for almost a decade and welcome any contributions you can add to my growing collection of artifacts about her life.

 

[roblox gay nazi sex club]

Might be from trying to get an autoimmune diagnosis. Those are surprisingly difficult to fake, since you have clear indicators something is wrong on blood tests and physical exams Pain disorders like fybro and CRPS are easy, no doctor will want to accuse you of not actually feeling 3000/10 pain, but how will you fake butterfly rashes from a lupus crisis?

makes me wonder how many of the autoimmune end up enjoying it because they can fake shit on /top/ of actual diagnosis.

probably v easy to be like IM IN SO MUCH UNGODLY PAIN when you know how to fake the rash/aggravate your other physical symptoms on top of it.

 

[SNU]

A random question thats been on my mind. I know munchies like having the EDS, POTS, MS combo but how frequently do these organically cluster together legitimately? Is it actually relatively common for these to legitimately occur in the same person or is it so rare that it's pretty much a red flag for munchausens if someone claims to have all 3?

 

[Topaz Eyes]

A random question thats been on my mind. I know munchies like having the EDS, POTS, MS combo

I don't know if it's common to munch MS because there are objective tests for it now and hardcore meds. They do munch MCAS though. Does anyone know any munchies faking MS?

 

[Mrs. Roombah]

About that fracture and consequences..


This is Arssi. He broke his leg one winter and doctors fucked up. BIG time. This is the way he has been living for years. Every once in a while he get to be put in medical coma to let him rest.

Why I tell this? There is no pain meds that helps him. Even ketamine is more like water.

So if this girl claims needing IVIG, lidocaine and ketamine for the pain of fully healed fracture I call it bullshit.

And about that IVIG, my countrys doctors actually have an experts meeting where they raise hand to vote who gets it. People who are not actively working don't get even considered.

Sorry for angry posting but sometimes these clowns just get me..

Ps. I was afraid that @Kate Farms Shill has forgotten us. Thank you for an excellent write up again.

Edit. Brain malfunction/ typo

 

[Eventide]

Might be from trying to get an autoimmune diagnosis. Those are surprisingly difficult to fake, since you have clear indicators something is wrong on blood tests and physical exams Pain disorders like fybro and CRPS are easy, no doctor will want to accuse you of not actually feeling 3000/10 pain, but how will you fake butterfly rashes from a lupus crisis?

Aside from the difficulty of faking Lupus rashes/positive ANA antibody results, I don't think munchies fake Lupus (or other autoimmune diseases, like Sjogren's Syndrome) because Lupus doesn't get you painkillers scripts. I'll go ahead and paint munchies with a broad brush - they're all just degenerate addicts trying to score an opiate fix.

 

[Battery Low]

I might be misremembering, but I think that the delightfully batshit Katie Schmude might have given a stab at the butterfly rash via an abrasive.

I love it when they mix their retardation with creativity. Like that woman who would stick her tongue out and squint for her anaphylaxis selfies.

I think there are plenty who malinger for drugs, or turn into drug seekers due to their munching but there are those who are just after attention, hiding an eating disorder or chasing a "get out of adulthood free" pass. In some ways getting/buying a rare or difficult diagnosis adds to the thrill ("see? I can't possibly be faking because no-one can fake X-disease. I'm just truly that special etc etc")

 

[Zemblan Physics]

This is Arssi. He broke his leg one winter and doctors fucked up. BIG time. This is the way he has been living for years. Every once in a while he get to be put in medical coma to let him rest.

If this person genuinely has CRPS 2 (the kind with a known underlying nerve injury), the only way for him to recover is through physical therapy and behavioral therapy. The cause(s) of CRPS isn’t fully known, but it’s agreed that lack of movement and touching of the affected limb is what perpetuates the pain. Short acting opiates before PT may be used for PT to be possible, and amitryptiline (a tricyclic antidepressant) can have some effect, but drugs are not what’s going to help. US doctors seem to shill a lot of poorly studied drugs like ketamine, and sure, I guess that’s like 23 minutes pain free but it’s not gonna do anything in the long run.

It’s a hell of a condition but if the patient has a lot of support and an internal locus of control they get better. Some even get well.

 

[McSneaks]

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.

Isn't this literally the difference between every normal person and these freaks? Same with trannies and women. NO normal person makes whatever problem (or being a woman, which could also be classified as a problem lul) their identity, blow it up, or make a huge deal about it. It's something they have not solely who they are and what their life is. No one with legitimate IBS makes a huge dramatic scene shitting everywhere. People with various muscle issues don't make big shows in public about golly look how dainty and weak I am.

Anytime anyone makes a big non-stop spectacle out of any illness....they're faking it.