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

[Bothriolepis]

What I’ll never understand about these munchies is going as far as getting a colostomy bag installed on your body…. Like holy shit that’s disgusting by itself, but you want to voluntarily get one just for internet points?

What's important to understand about munchies is that they are, in fact, very, very sick, just not in the way that they want to be. Münchausen's is almost always a secondary diagnosis to something like HPD or BPD. In the former case, it's simple attention seeking and doesn't usually progress too far. In the latter, it can easily become the person's entire constructed identity. They might recognize on a conscious level that they're pretending, but validation turns it into their reality, and so getting a doctor to perform an unnecessary surgery makes it almost as good as objective truth as far as they're concerned.

Does this mean they're not lolcows? Well, no. Explanations aren't excuses, most people with either condition aren't munchies, and their bullshit is hilarious in a dark sort of way. We're more on their side than anyone who plays along, too, even if we don't intend to be. Feeding into their illness is a shitty thing to do, and can very easily fucking kill them. Mockery probably won't save them, but it's still better than uncritical acceptance.

 

[The Judean People's Front]

SensoryUnicorn has become my personal favorite munchie because of posts like this. How do you read that caption and not laugh?


She's also "preparing" by treating herself to a special edition Build-A-Bear. Those bear builders aren't paid enough to put up with this DID larp shit. Terios is her previous "system" name.

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Troon "girl"friend

Fake tard on a fake horse

Also, I need to dive deeper but it seems Rebecca here has unwittingly revealed her munchie origin story: her brother is legitimately disabled and probably got the attention.




Edit: holy shit, I just noticed her shirt

 

[Bothriolepis]

Also, I need to dive deeper but it seems Rebecca here has unwittingly revealed her munchie origin story: her brother is legitimately disabled and probably got the attention.

Jesus, that's legitimately fucked up. If this is accurate, she needs to be doing more to make sure he gets the care he needs rather than LARPing Dissociative Identity Disorder and complaining about her fucking Sonic Build-A-Bear having too much stuffing or whatever.

 

[Shape Rotator]

I never thought I'd see the day when normie girls pretend to have autism and be obsessed with Sonic for clout. CWC should call her out for cultural appropriation.

 

[no I will not]

I’ll miss Allyson’s many head-friends that all spoke the same way as her, her videos of herself grunting and greasy haired and chewing on a kids chew toy while rocking in her specially decorated stimming corner. Not to mention the many, many pictures of troughs of food and buckets of milk/coffee that she ‘forced‘ down. What a shit life, it’s sad really. Alex’s family must be so relieved.

Her bowl of oatmeal is legendary.

The whole situation is sad because she had so many resources for getting better but instead she spent years passively killing herself with food and being an idiot.

 

[Eventide]

SensoryUnicorn has become my personal favorite munchie because of posts like this. How do you read that caption and not laugh?

OMG I think I recognize SensoryUnicorn! Is SensoryUnicorn in her 30's? (I guess she'd be like, 35 by now?) & did she grow up in a really poor, ultra-religious Christian family? I'm pretty sure she used to be a fundie Christian "stay at home daughter" blogger. I remember her from an old fundie snark group (we snarked on her, she wasn't a member of said group), from circa 2012-2013. IDK about her having a DID/Autism diagnosis', but back in the day (i.e. if the Christian blogger I'm thinking of was her) she claimed she had an unspecified birth injury/learning disability. Her wackadoodle family kept pressuring her to go out & find a good traditional Christian husband, but (fortunately) she couldn't find a devout traditional Christian man in her area willing to marry a sheltered (mildly?) intellectually disabled woman. I remember she used to be obsessed with babies/general baby stuff - like, she'd often go thrifting & buy baby toys, clothes, books, & blankets for her "future" babies that she was planning to start having immediately the moment God sent her a good Christian husband. She'd often make posts showing off her baby item hauls.

...didn't expect her to become a TikTok munchie/grifter/Autism influencer. But I guess that's a better fate than getting married to any random ultra-trad Christian dude, 'cause "Christian women are supposed to get married as soon as possible and start have babies" (her family wasn't Quiverful, but they were the sort of ultra-Christian that believed young women belong barefoot in the kitchen and pregnant.)

 

[S.C.U.D.]

Interesting.
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There is now a preview for non-subscribers which doesn't really show much but we do get this shot of the very sick woman who has been bedbound for 2 years uwu.

My theory right now is she's finally sick of staying in her room all day and wants to do stuff again, I doubt she'll give up the munchie grift though. I think we're witnessing the transition to "sorry I can't do [menial task/social engagement I don't want to do] my ME/CFS is flaring up sweetie."

 

[often puzzled]

Some quality service dog munchie antics for y'all courtesy of /r/service_dogs

Perfectly reasonable question by a non-munchie:
I asked a woman what her service dog's name was, and she refused on the grounds of it being a service dog. Is there a reason?

Real groups who train dogs for the blind figured this one out long ago: these highly-trained dogs have two names, one that you tell people who ask the dog's name, and one that's the dog's "real" name that his handler will use. This is because people who train guide dogs have a non-insane approach to the world and recognize that people love dogs and will definitely ask you your dog's name.

This means that your dog might be named Soren, but, when the neighbor kid asks, you tell them that the dog's name is Peanut. Everyone who asks is told that the dog's name is Peanut. This means that when the neighbor kid gets really excited and yells out your dog's name-- which will definitely happen, let's be real-- the dog will not respond.

I'm always entertained by the "service dogs" in this thread because I've been around guide dogs and know how they're trained. It makes the behavior of the service dogs and their handlers infinitely more amusing and exasperating. It also amuses me in situations like the one from this Reddit post: the totally legit handlers of totally legit service dogs act like these are complicated problems requiring complicated solutions (and vests, and patches), but the solutions already exist . . . if you're not an attention-starved drama magnet.

 

[Kufungisisa]

Agony Autie is pregnant:

She announces this from the bath:

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It's a miracle of course:

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She's still very ill but has been healed by 'somatic psychology', she has mentioned this a lot in the last few years and I still don't know what it is.

Posts the usual Borderline poses.

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She might not know who's baby it is, in her own words she 'fucked around & found out'.

According to her she is 18 weeks along:

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It's definitely not Liam's:

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I believe she has been granted unsupervised time with her kid recently judging from the content of the images and just the increase of photos and videos of the kid (I censored the couple I posted).

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Completely out of context she posts about stalkers with erotomanic delusions:

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[NoodleFucker3000]

*pretend this post is narated by david attenborough* A munchie dies and a little munchling takes form. Truly, the circle of life.

 

[Pun Direction]

Another one has gone to that great psych ward in the sky.

Allyson Sutphin aka Skylar Plurality aka neuro-complicated's partner announced she "died in her sleep," confirmed by a housemate.
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She was allegedly on a psych stay when it happened although a lot of people doubt that she was actually there since she liked to lie about being in the hospital. Her last update on Monday she had been bumped up to 1:1 observation. She claimed she had been put on the detox ward and she liked to claim she popped benzos like candy.
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Allyson was another morbidly obese tube fed GP/EDS zebra in a wheelchair who also claimed 'tism so severe it made her non-verbal and also DID and gender shit.
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She was constantly threatening suicide and had a pretty insane level of self harm so entirely possible she finally pulled the trigger on it, and she was also obese with a ton of comorbs like diabetes that she was not managing at all. At least once she bought sketchy drugs from an indian pharmacy online and tried to pass them off as her real scripts. Who knows? Who cares?

ETA: other people close to her including family have joined in. She's ded. Rest in Peas, Allyson.
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How does one have a phone in a detox, and a 1:1 suicide watch facility?? But she can’t have markers…my guess is she wasn’t actually there as speculated.

 

[blue gopher snakes]

Those bear builders aren't paid enough to put up with this DID larp shit

Nah I took my little girl in there this past year while we were window-shopping at the mall and had to quickly escape because it was entirely staffed by doughy, socially awkward young women with pronoun pins and 99% of the other potential customers were some variation on that same theme.

I think the Build a Bear employees would probably be annoyed with a DID larp in the same way some women get annoyed when they see the same dress on someone else at a party.

 

[Snickermycin]

If she really did die in her sleep I would be thinking respiratory arrest from sedating drugs. Probably quite easy done when there's 100lb of blubber on your chest alone.

Her health is fucked up but she's not quite at the level/age where spontaneous sleep death would be likely. Unless of course theres another factor unknown to us.

Quite a few munchies that have passed over to the great psych ward in the sky have "died peacefully in their sleep" now that I think about. Makes you wonder if that really is the case or just the most palatable thing to tell the public.

She was on a nasal CPAP. My thinking is she didn't have it with her in the psych unit, she was given sedating drugs because psych unit, and had a respiratory arrest. Easy done.
She occasionally had an o2 nasal cannula in her nose...so unsure if she was meant to use that every now and then too.
She was a consistently boring munchie, but consistent at least. RIP in the Skylar. The torment for all around you is over.

 

[prolific_mango]

Logged into an old Twitter account and realized I was still following coffeespoonie (ebegging jew malingerer who reports her uber drivers for not accepting her pet service dog)

Don't think I'll have a chance to go through her entire history (for all her disabilities and dislocations she sure fucking tweets a lot) but here are some recent gems:
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No money for rent, all the money for coffee. But it's okay because her therapist tells her to! Did you know there's literally no reason to leave the house other than to get coffee?
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Didn't happen lol
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She celebrates the customary munchie tradition of being hospitalized during holidays:
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I'll leave you with this fucking hilarious mental image of her battling her mortal enemy (gravity), bouncing down the stairs cane and all:
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another munchie cow, victor manuel/prednisone hate account, interacts with her a lot but we cant see her side bc shes on private. feel free to share any gems over there if you want

 

[fitty tucker]

another munchie cow, victor manuel/prednisone hate account, interacts with her a lot but we cant see her side bc shes on private. feel free to share any gems over there if you want

I actually think coffeespoonie has gone out to pasture and isn't much of a lolcow anymore. Back when she privated her account she DFE'd anything before 2023. Most of the hilarity occurred in late 2022, and all those tweets are gone.

Her most recent posts, while asinine/etc, do indicate she's actually been employed for the last few months. Hopefully she's seen the light and realized malingering when you have real illnesses irrevocably destroys your body.

I don't think she's working with her service dog anymore either. In early 2023ish he got attacked by another dog and I think she had to either retire him, or do more training and wasn't able to.

Ironically, I think some of these women start doing better once they're no longer bringing their questionably-trained service dog everywhere. Maybe they see the difference in actual anxiety it causes, maybe they see that they're creating a lot of their own problems. Idk.

But yeah, a little Christmas miracle right there, hope she stays this course.

 

[TismFarmer]

Agony Autie is pregnant:

She announces this from the bath:

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It's a miracle of course:

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She's still very ill but has been healed by 'somatic psychology', she has mentioned this a lot in the last few years and I still don't know what it is.

Posts the usual Borderline poses.

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She might not know who's baby it is, in her own words she 'fucked around & found out'.

According to her she is 18 weeks along:

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It's definitely not Liam's:

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I believe she has been granted unsupervised time with her kid recently judging from the content of the images and just the increase of photos and videos of the kid (I censored the couple I posted).

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Completely out of context she posts about stalkers with erotomanic delusions:

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This crazy bitch reminds me so much of Bootstrap Jack Munroe.
They both have that 'nutty English woman' phenotype...

 

[Adjustable Autism]

I can't imagine how much it must be fucking up their research data at this point. Imagine if schizophrenia research ends up with the same data quality issues that hEDS has.

This is an issue across the board. A shitload of patient data is completely useless at this point. And that is especially bad for the munche favourites, since they depend at least partially on self reporting.
There is actually an inofficial "rule" in my field to treat data from the the anglosphere and specifically the US with caution. Even a diagnosis means next to nothing these days.

See also doing diamond art, but it's Braille so it's okay. Also Yoder is to Anabaptist as Cohen is to Jew. Some of the first Anabaptists in the US were Yoders.

Lol, what the fuck is that even supposed to be? Not a single blind person would be able to read this shite. I did send the picture to someone who is a braille instructor and she said it took a whole minute to figure out this was meant to be braille.

The whole point is that the letters have to be completely the same height and width and placed in a completely straight line. Our fingertips are limited in the information we can gather from them. They are - for example - pretty small. There are a lot of nerve endings in our fingertips, which makes them really sensitive, but that means that even a slight deviation from the standard format would completely throw the person reading it off. Suddenly it could be a completely different letter.

To be fair, there are blind kids, who do diamond painting braille greeting cards for relatives, but a) they are using a stencil to properly place the beads and b) It is more of a joke or novelty thing and the receivers are usually able to see the card.

I didn't check for beginner mistakes (common letter combinations like st have their own Braille letter), but this was funny enough as is.

Who you are is not about what you accomplished in life. it's about what tee shirtable slogan you can claim as your own.

Now, THAT is a sentence I would love on a T-Shirt. Or on a poster for my office.

The ones who go terminal interest me too, because to most outside observers it ironically proves the Munchie correct.

"How could you call her a faker when she died at the age of 23?"

It is very hard to answer this question without sounding like an asshole!

One of the most infuriating yet amusing phenomena is the reaction on Reddit et al: Once a munchie kicks the bucket, people immediately fall over themselves to swear the person was never faking it and totally for real sick and they knew that all along (often from the most vicious users why the person was alive). When Jaquie died, it dominated the then relevant Subreddit and some people created a new sub just to discuss how wrong everyone was accusing her of faking.
It is like clockwork.

 

[athousandrustynails]

This crazy bitch reminds me so much of Bootstrap Jack Munroe.
They both have that 'nutty English woman' phenotype...

I associate both of them too. Did they come to prominence at the same time or something?

 

[latter day taint 2]

Agony Autie is pregnant:

She announces this from the bath:

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It's a miracle of course:

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She's still very ill but has been healed by 'somatic psychology', she has mentioned this a lot in the last few years and I still don't know what it is.

Posts the usual Borderline poses.

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She might not know who's baby it is, in her own words she 'fucked around & found out'.

According to her she is 18 weeks along:

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It's definitely not Liam's:

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I believe she has been granted unsupervised time with her kid recently judging from the content of the images and just the increase of photos and videos of the kid (I censored the couple I posted).

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Completely out of context she posts about stalkers with erotomanic delusions:

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"Somatic therapy" is actually a therapy for malingering and munchies. It works to identify and treat purely psychosomatic symptoms and blames it all on "trauma"

 

[Kufungisisa]

I associate both of them too. Did they come to prominence at the same time or something?

They both remind me of Laurie Penny:

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David Starkey Vs Laurie Penny:

https://youtu.be/lC4bRzZ6GF0?si=g5QnaGhp1Xje_qI8

A British BPD look.