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

[MirnaMinkoff]

All this talk of old school diseases made me think of the Bills of Mortality they used to keep in London. They have some great causes of death listed.

Bills of Mortality Wiki intro

Folger Shakespeare Library Article

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There’s also a great Podcast called This Podcast Will Kill You that goes through all sorts of fascinating modern and historical ailments, including an episode @Kate Farms Shill on Encephalitis Lethargica

A note on EDS folks - I have only ever met one person who I genuinely believe had some form of EDS. It was a kid in my primary school who, bless him, already had it tough as he was the son of a real bitch of a teacher. Anyway, he used to do this with his hands all the time:

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This was the best picture I could find, but in my memory his were even bendier. He was like a young Mr Fantastic / Human Pretzel.

That brought up an odd memory, I used to do that as a kid along with many others in my school. This was the shit you did bored at your desk. You’d do it, show the kid next to you and they’d try to do it better.

I think it just demonstrates the flexibility of young joints, because I could still do it up until HS then realized I had better things to do than braid my fingers for no reason.

I do not have EDS. I think most kids under 15 could do this, at least half my classmates could.

I knew a lot of kids who could do that growing up, me included. Now i feel weird.

Yup. I think it’s just being bendy and flexible as fuck as a kid…and boredom

 

[Munchie_Minder]

Imagine some anorexic tit foaming at the mouth and pushing food and drink away in a hospital bed trying to prove she has rabies.

Omg how I missed your wit and comic relief. Fucking hell that’s hilarious imagery. The water phobia act would be priceless. There could be a birth of a whole new #spoonie tag #chronicrabies

Shit, now I have the perfect subject in mind for this project… the skelly queen herself.. EC. Is it considered cow tipping to make a social media video trying to start a chronic rabies trend? damn this is such a perfect idea for someone who has a following making fun of influencers.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

It's not a bad idea. After all we already have the chronic lyme munchies, having some of them switch to chronic rabies wouldn't be all that weird

 

[Munchie_Minder]

being bendy and flexible as fuck as a kid…and boredom

This is why new geneticist guidelines do not even consider a clinical signs-only diagnosis for EDS, even with children with a family history, until at least 12 years of age now. Previously it was 5 years old. Kids are naturally bendy and loose so that they can continue growing their internal frame without issue lol.

 

[poopinmy_line]

I'm personally waiting for munchies to larp the return of the bubonic plague. They can inject silicone to give themselves lumps and sores then sharpie their fingertips black!

 

[Spunt]

Parkinsons has potential. You can gyrate on Tik-Tok and get secondhand coolness from people like Muhammad Ali and Michael J Fox.

 

[The Hoh Rainforest]

I'm personally waiting for munchies to larp the return of the bubonic plague.

The truly committed will catch some prairie dogs to rub on their ports.

 

[Not_a_Doctor]

Wow, I clearly did not hang out with enough kids growing up or know any as an adult. I didn’t realise this was super common - TIL. Makes sense though, all those babies who can get their legs up to their heads. My apologies!

I bring this small offering to atone for my dumbassery: Top Five Strange, Rare and Fascinating Medical Conditions

Where are the munchies faking Fish Odor Syndrome or Proteus Syndrome?!

 

[poopinmy_line]

The truly committed will catch some prairie dogs to rub on their ports.

Sylvatic plague is a deep cut, respect.

I was going to say they should try bringing back measles but some dumb white moms in Texas already did it .

RIP to those innocent kids, their parents should be executed via firing squad.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Encephalitis lethargica is a good one. No one's quite sure what caused it and it came and went so long ago that there was never any real diagnostic testing developed. It's widely considered a post-viral syndrome that cropped up in the years during and after the Spanish Flu so it fits with the long covid crowd. The symptoms are extreme fatigue/sleeping for days, neurological symptoms that honestly look faked, and in young people especially, behavior changes.

This is interesting, but it made me think: are there any crossover munchies who do/used to do historical reenactment? Munchies tend female, so it'd be more likely to be someone who sewed/dressed, collected or cooked than someone who was weaponsperging or out on a battlefield.

Imagine the drama, though. You could claim to have caught a period-authentic retro disease from restoring a piece of hair art/unwrapping and getting measurements from a vintage gown that the owner might have died in. Those junkies have modern resistant tuberculosis, but the doctor tested mine and he said it was vintage and original!

Or someone could just give herself arsenic poisoning recreating antique dyework.

Maybe this is more of a low-tier r/nosleep story outline.

 

[Oracular Slug]

You could claim to have caught a period-authentic retro disease from restoring a piece of hair art/unwrapping and getting measurements from a vintage gown that the owner might have died in. Those junkies have modern resistant tuberculosis, but the doctor tested mine and he said it was vintage and original!

I want someone to try smallpox via old scabs, but that would summon an entire alphabet soup of agencies.

 

[RNTard]

You're right about everything else, but if she's actually converting at a synagogue, it can be a long process so I wouldn't take that to mean much.

Small update on emma, shes uhhhhh muslim!!!!! and self flagellating for previously supporting zionism, its giving youtuber apology video vibes, note the Israli flag still prominent in the background.

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anyway emma is currently speed running being the worlds first solo polyamorous hijabi amputee downs syndrome munchie

yes... this is a real picture (so so sorry abt the attachments its being supper buggy for me, uploading her videos just isn't working)
But interesting update she states she was diagnosed with autism at 14, and "psychosis" at 16. She probably means first episode psychosis not schizophrenia like she reports.

 

[alogatog]

anyway emma is currently speed running being the worlds first solo polyamorous hijabi amputee downs syndrome munchie

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yes... this is a real picture (so so sorry abt the attachments its being supper buggy for me, uploading her videos just isn't working)
But interesting update she states she was diagnosed with autism at 14, and "psychosis" at 16. She probably means first episode psychosis not schizophrenia like she reports.

as someone too lazy to truly go through this whole thread, every update like this is a fucking flashbang.

 

[Kela de Thaym]

Parkinsons has potential. You can gyrate on Tik-Tok and get secondhand coolness from people like Muhammad Ali and Michael J Fox.

I will personally invoke total life ruination on the lives of these little brats if they do decide to TikTok-ify Parkinson's Disease as a quirky disease to fake for attention.

 

[urr13 account]

Parkinsons has potential. You can gyrate on Tik-Tok and get secondhand coolness from people like Muhammad Ali and Michael J Fox.

You're a visionary.

 

[Zemblan Physics]

She converted to the Ku Klux Klan?!
Man, I love her so much.

 

[RNTard]

as someone too lazy to truly go through this whole thread, every update like this is a fucking flashbang.

quick little timeline of emma, this is Emma in July 2024...

December 2024, Jewish/Hindu/Hispanic delusions era, went by the name "Isreal" and started becoming obsessed with Anne Frank

January 2025, troon dad, faking deafness, shitty ASL and starts making music. Becoming the "mother" of ur mentally ill daughter after ur wife dies is some truly moid shit.

February and March, more shitty ASL, name changing, was selectively mute
April, now this is the tea, Emma starts faking down syndrome, POTS, Cerebral Palsy, Arthritis and is now confined to a wheelchair, unable to ever walk again.

Mid may Emma stops faking down syndrome and cerebral palsy focusing more on her conversion to Judaism and has a whole arc over why its a literal hate crime to help push them in their wheelchair + trying to explain her ass out of faking down syndrome + she also started her Patreon. Theirs tons of stuff they've done idk where to put on the timeline, she was catholic and Mormon too at some point, had tinnitus, then suddenly can't hear anything. They've been a trans man, de transitioned, was Anne Frank reincarnated??? nonbinary and changed their legal name.

Seriously this girl has done wayyyyy too much for me to ever create a cohesive timeline and constantly deletes/privates vidoes so piecing it all togther is a total nightmare, my ears are bleeding from listing to her voice, the mute arc was soo nice coz it gave me a chance to recover from her voice anyway im gonna leave it there.

 

[Breadbear]

TL;DR: Crazy bitch be crazy. Wonder what she'll come up with next

 

[OrSoHelpMe]

It looks like all the face tattoos were starting in December 2024. All that in just this year. That is wild.

 

[glioblastoma multiforme]

It looks like all the face tattoos were starting in December 2024. All that in just this year. That is wild.

Its odd to me cos she is barely tattooed from what I've seen in the pics here. In general artists that value their good name require you to "earn" face and hand tattoos, though the latter less so these days. They don't want the hassle of people regretting them and coming bugging them, and don't need the business. So you need have relatively high coverage already to show you know what being tattoed visibly actually entails before putting them in places you can't hide.

I wonder if this Muslim larp isn't cos she's realised how dumb she looks and wants an excuse to cover up.

She could LARP as having recieved a blood borne disease from the dodgy tattoo artist she used to get her doodles done/

I'd love someone to LARP giantism or whatever Elephant Man had.