Alright, y’all can trash me all that you want to, but I tried reaching out to Christine about a month ago when I first came across her page. While she seemed batshit crazy from the get-go, I thought that talking out her health anxiety with her could actually be helpful and get her to reassess her claims of 'undiagnosed lupus.' It seemed to go well when we messaged; she had never heard of somatoform disorders before and didn't realize something else could be causing symptoms like fever and joint pain. I used up a year's worth of empathy and patience and messaged with her for a couple of hours, sending her medical articles/research hoping that they would get through to her, but it turned out to be a complete waste of time. A few weeks later (last week) I saw this thread, and that she was commenting directly on it. I logged into my throwaway IG account for the first time since I had messaged her, and asked her what the fuck she was doing on KF.
If you want to see how fucked up her reasoning/mind is,
you can click here to read our messages from that night.
Here are some of the key points if you don't feel like reading through the screenshots:
- upon finding her name on KF, Christine refers to herself as a
public figure.
- when I told her that she was not a public figure, she says: "I just got upgraded to an audience of about 300 from an audience of about 5, so excuse me if I feel like a minor celebrity while I get used to this. There is a bit of a transition here."
- she tells me she has a 'plan' and asks if she can trust me, which I never said 'yes' to
Christine's "Plan" Verbatim:
"Next month I'm going to subscribe to Jan's patreon. The tier that allows for Skype sessions. Maybe I'm having delusions of grandeur right now but I feel like if she gets to know me-- disabled, possibly autistic spoonie sickbed princess-- she'll love me. I don't have enough of a following to be intimidating but I can say the right things and name-drop Mary Frey and compare her favorably to MF, and then... maybe, I dare to imagine, I'm in the circle. Kiwifarms is immediately discarded and forgotten as I have regular communication with chronic illness social media royalty and my insta followers soar."
Yeah. Just take that shit in.
- I tell her that she's narcissistic, manipulative, fucked up, and needs help
- Christine gets back on her bullshit immediately
- another direct quote: "But what if a chronic illness instagrammer is who I am in this phase of my life? What if this is just the world that I have to navigate to have a place? I'm in my late 20s now, which is astonishingly the prime age group for CI Instagrammers and YouTubers. They say that to be an expert at something you have to dedicate 10,000 hours to it and I can think of nothing I've dedicated more hours to than the pursuit of glorified and romanticized illness."
Yeah, I genuinely don't even want to type up more of it because it's so fucking gross. Needless to say I have blocked Christine on IG and will never privately speak with her again.
Or any other munchie for that matter.