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

Dead Wife said:
Speaking of the elusive male munchies, has anyone encountered Ren, a rapper/singer from Wales? He’s a sickly looking thing and has the Lyme, CFS, autoimmune and gut issues that so many of our munchies have.

Being way too complex for the NHS or something he’s receiving some sort of ‘$pecialist care’ in Canada. He named his debut album Sick Boi. I’m not saying he hasn’t been unwell but it seems like he’s had very real depression and maybe the internet has provided him with ‘reasons’ for the physical symptoms?

Daily Mail link - they have the best tragique sickbed pictures, lol. Sickness back story
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Whoooahhh FINALLY! I mentioned Ren here about a year ago but was too lazy to compile a timeline.
 
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Knowing the truth about Rose, everything she posts no matter how innocuous it seems nauseates me, but I LOLed at "(I've also been dying for a while)".

Noticed this in her post history.
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I wonder who this "best friend" is that she is "marrying" since The Horse Lord is out of the picture.
 
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a hapless toad said:
From your mouth to God's ears.

And it can't come a second too soon for this detestable gremlin.
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Maybe the holy grail for a munchie isn't any tube or test or mobility device. It's being able to say "My life sucks, I'm going to kill myself 🙁" and have everyone crying and saying you're special and brave and beautiful and they support you whatever you do.
 
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Jamila said:
Knowing the truth about Rose, everything she posts no matter how innocuous it seems nauseates me, but I LOLed at "(I've also been dying for a while)".

Noticed this in her post history.
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I wonder who this "best friend" is that she is "marrying" since The Horse Lord is out of the picture.
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"...pyjamas from my sibling and my sister gave me..."
Is her sister not her sibling? Is she trying to claim one person as two?

"Got some baby toys as I'm losing motor function and my brain is regressing..." Yet she is texting with perfect lucidity, no hint of cognitive decline, nary a spelling mistake in sight. Good motor skills there too.
But no, she needs those baby rattles. Her iPhone is too advanced for her now.
 
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failed mist said:
It's very disturbing to think that this thread documents a female suicide cult hiding in plain sight.
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I think suicide cult is an apt term for us observers to use, but I think these munchie see it as nothing less than their very own passion play. The various medical equipment and tubes are their version of the stations of the cross.

Ofc unlike Jesus nobody is redeemed or saved by their antics. In fact I’m positive these are the types of girls that got various people burned at the stake for funsies 330 years ago in Salem.
 
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Kate Farms Shill said:
Merry Christmas! Here's some more quick presents before I go celebrate with my family. This isn't how this year was planned to go and I still have like 5 more posts I didn't get time for but I wasn't expecting a bunch of them to choose the nuclear option in such a short time.

1) We now kind of know how Allyson died thanks to one of the residents of her home for wayward weirdos. Someone checked the reviews for the facility she was in and found someone talking about how her bipap malfunctioned and they told her to just sleep without it. So yes, dead by obesity-related diseases exacerbated by her drug use.
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2) Paige was spotted in someone's comments claiming she's going to VSED (pulled from Reddit)
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3) So is Rose. According to a medfag what likely happened here is they know she doesn't need all these interventions she's gotten and she's using them to keep herself sick, so she's been told no more. Now her options are go home and eat or die in a hospice. Everyone is expecting her to starve for a while, disappear, and come back pretending she's jesus's favorite little miracle child.
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Enjoy this unintentional comedy gold from her.
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if you’re still doing update batches can you squeeze in Bee Crisp?

Also, your recaps have been the best farms gift ever—we appreciate you.
 
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I think we all know or at least suspect this by now, but even if someone has a degenerative illness that makes them mentally digress, you still get things that are age appropriate. You wouldn't give your Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother a goddamned baby rattle. There are cups with handles and drinking spouts (teething toys are fair game if the demented person in question has a tendency to try to eat their fingers, but that's a different situation than this).
 
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Maybe it’s a bit off topic, but I need to get this off my chest. Anytime anyone on the internet claims to be terminally ill, I’m immediately going to assume they’re a Munchie farming for sympathy and/or have a financial incentive to do so.

I used to fall for the scams back in the day, until I realized that most genuinely terminally ill people have next to zero energy to bother using the internet. The very act of picking up your phone to doom scroll is just too exhausting for the terminally ill who could die at any given moment.

If they comment, their comments will be brief and without detail. Because their brains are literally start to deteriorate as their illness rapidly gets worse. Most of them would rather spend whatever time they have left with family members rather than internet strangers. It’s why in genuine cases, family members handle online communications on their behalf.

It’s beyond sickening to fake being terminally ill. You have to be a special kind of sociopath to do so.
 
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Kiwisee said:
Maybe it’s a bit off topic, but I need to get this off my chest. Anytime anyone on the internet claims to be terminally ill, I’m immediately going to assume they’re a Munchie farming for sympathy and/or have a financial incentive to do so.

I used to fall for the scams back in the day, until I realized that most genuinely terminally ill people have next to zero energy to bother using the internet. The very act of picking up your phone to doom scroll is just too exhausting for the terminally ill who could die at any given moment.

If they comment, their comments will be brief and without detail. Because their brains are literally start to deteriorate as their illness rapidly gets worse. Most of them would rather spend whatever time they have left with family members rather than internet strangers. It’s why in genuine cases, family members handle online communications on their behalf.

It’s beyond sickening to fake being terminally ill. You have to be a special kind of sociopath to do so.
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I think the modern internet ruined self-help groups. Maybe I remember the old internet with rose tinted glasses, but I feel like it wasn't always that way. I can imagine that it would be genuinely nice for someone to talk to someone who has the same terminal illness. I know there were fakers from the beginning, but I also think that social media is now so much more about ego and self-portrayal and less about community.
The red flag for me is that their illness always seems to be their whole identity. Even the interests they pretend to have outside their illness seem so incredibly surface level.
But I also think that, just like the chronically ill, there are probably also quite a few true and honest terminally ill people, who behave just as bad as the fake ones...
 
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Breadbear said:
You wouldn't give your Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother a goddamned baby rattle.
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When you start looking for dementia-specific toys and tools, a lot of them do look like larger versions of young children's toys--and the manufacturers know this, and are careful to keep them dignified and adult-appropriate.
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Real progressive dementia isn't clean and well-demarcated; the worst part is when the person is self-aware enough to know something is wrong, and to sense when people are patronizing them, even intermittently.


This situation is just an adult baby getting off in public.
 
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Aunt Carol said:
When you start looking for dementia-specific toys and tools, a lot of them do look like larger versions of young children's toys--and the manufacturers know this, and are careful to keep them dignified and adult-appropriate.
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Real progressive dementia isn't clean and well-demarcated; the worst part is when the person is self-aware enough to know something is wrong, and to sense when people are patronizing them, even intermittently.


This situation is just an adult baby getting off in public.
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I've also seen dementia patients being given toys from their childhood, not really to play with, but so they might be able to remember something familiar. (This is just anecdotal, could be "not a thing".)

I typed a long paragraph about how much Rose disgusts me, but then I remembered that that is what gets her off, so I won't.
 
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Breadbear said:
I think we all know or at least suspect this by now, but even if someone has a degenerative illness that makes them mentally digress, you still get things that are age appropriate. You wouldn't give your Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother a goddamned baby rattle. There are cups with handles and drinking spouts (teething toys are fair game if the demented person in question has a tendency to try to eat their fingers, but that's a different situation than this).
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I would give my Alzheimer's suffering grandmother a goddamn baby rattle, who are you to decide what I should do?
 
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More anecdote though I have heard similar things said by nurses and social workers who deal with dementia patients. I've heard that, at least with some types of dementia, they go back to a specific period in their lives. If you can figure out what this period is and adapt to it, its less difficult for them.

I've seen two people decline with dementia to the extent neither remembered they had children, It was really difficult to watch. Neither seemed to be in a specific place and time, but would respond to certain people and objects, so I can see this working.

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I've also seen dementia patients being given toys from their childhood, not really to play with, but so they might be able to remember something familiar. (This is just anecdotal, could be "not a thing".)
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Thanks KFS for the excellent Christmas presents despite your corporate overlords making you do more work than expectef.
 
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