Ok not claiming credit for any of this just did some slight alterations & will edit this post as I do them. Will try to go back & find the larger timelines kfs has done on people & link next to the glossary as well.
The Basics:
Munchausen's Syndrome is a psychiatric disorder listed in the DSM. The disease causes the sufferer to draw attention or reassurance to themselves (whether this effort is conscious or not on the part of the sufferer is still debatable). It is named after the fictional character (who was loosely based n a real person) Baron Munchausen, who would frequently tell tall tales of his own struggles in life.
There are a couple of subcategories. These are "Munchausen's by Proxy" and "Munchausen's by Internet". This thread will focus on communities built by and for people who have this and asspat each other in online circlejerks instead of getting actual mental/medical help for the root of their issues.
Why Are They Also Called "Spoonies"?:
From lolcow.farm, "What Is A "Spoonie"?
People who identify as 'Spoonies' are referencing 'The Spoon Theory,' written by a woman with lupus to explain the chronic illness experience to a healthy friend who asked her what it really feels like to live with her medical problems.
https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
The 'Spoonie' Community is, in general, a legitimate supportive network for people dealing with chronic illness. In recent years, however, it has become polluted with SJW types and has attracted a new breed of attention-seeking catfish: people who lie about, fake having, and/or exaggerate existing medical problems and crises for no benefit other than to garner attention.
Links:
current /snow/ thread
Wikipedia Page on Munchausen's by Internet
Time Magazine Article
Guardian Article
Reader's Digest Article
the Stranger Article
Website about the Disease (Written by Psychiatrist Dr. Mark Feldman)
http://www.rd.com/health/conditions/munchausen-syndrome-by-internet/
Examples:
Kadeelyn Konstantino, was possibly the most famous lolcow to come from this community. She died early in 2017 from an undisclosed cause, possibly related to her often inaccurate diagnoses.
Belle Gibson is an Australian woman who was covered in a Guardian piece after being caught faking a battle against Cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson
There is a lot of former posters of the /r/illnessfakers subreddit. For those that stumble straight in here: It will be discussed a lot. It is a munchie echo chamber and us kiwis like to sit here and mock the mess that it is.
Here is an alphabetical directory of people who are discussed in this thread:
Abby/Abby Cappleman/Abby the Aspienaut:
Has her own thread. Autism/EDS faker and service dog sperg who throws a scene at any business who doesn't let her pet Shih Tzu come in with her. Parents know she's full of shit.
Amanda Baggs:
Has her own thread. was a gifted but weird teenager, did a lot of drugs, now claims to have severe, non-verbal autism and gastroparesis that requires a PEG-j despite being enormous. Wears her dead dad's clothes. Actually has PCOS and a healthy beard to prove it.
Amanda/Ren: Only sometimes comes up here, usually by IF veterans. Fakes literally every disease she hears of, poorly. Her own family constantly tells her to quit her bullshit.
Amanda/Skinwalker: Former Jaquie acolyte, anorexic, munchie combo plus Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Used to copy Jaquie to a terrifying degree until Jaquie tried to steal GBS from her.
Amy/Chronically Amy: anorexic, exceedingly stupid Jaquie-clone nursing student. Once claimed to have CF and be terminal but dropped that lie. GFM scammer.
Amy Lee Fisher/Chronically Ams: EDS/POTS/GP/MCAS and hypokalemic periodic paralysis faker on TPN who likes to purge through her tubes and then drink champagne and eat burgers when no one's looking. Shoops herself skinny.
Anelise/Tina/ts.fight: super duper anorexic, often suicide baits, claims the typical munchie combo platter, fucks with all her tubes and lines.
Anna/Ginge/Fit Vegan Ginger:
Has her own thread. jesus freak skelly who claims to have cystic fibrosis and just got an ostomy. Formerly known for making absolutely atrocious low calorie vegan foods that Kiwis had a fun time making and torturing ourselves and our loved ones with.
Anqi/Angie/Skagra:
has her own thread. Claims complex regional pain syndrome after falling down some stairs and is totally bedbound and will DIE IF YOU DON'T DONATE TO HER RIGHT NOW. Inactive.
Ash/Ashley Isaacs/Lich Queen:
Has her own thread. not a munchie. Just a hardcore anorexic who refuses to die or seek help. Used only as an example of how much abuse a human body can take. Do not feel pity for her as she is a hateful human being who sabotages other ana-chans' recovery efforts and was so insufferable her mother moved across the country to get away from her.
Aubs/Aubrey's Lyme Journey:
has her own thread; Lyme/cancer/EDS/GP faker. inactive.
Cassie/CassieMNolin: former godawful ballerina, claims the combo platter plus complex regional pain syndrome, also claims to have recurring bouts of amnesia that cause her to forget her husband and have to "fall in love with him all over again." Had a party when she got her port.
Christine/SickbedPrincess: has lupus her stupid doctors are too dumb and mean to diagnose. Obsessed with Victorian-era tragic suffering, purple prose, downvoted to oblivion wherever she posts. Came here to sperg and
Got her own thread out of it. Where people ignored her and talked about Victorian corsets, radioactive candies and anything but her.
Courtney/ChronicallyCourt:
has her own thread; gerson therapy idiot, claims a vaccine gave her Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which is not how genetics do. Tried to make a very sick puppo be her service dog.
Dani/LifeofDani/ChronicallyDani: legitimately re.tarded former anorexic, drug-seeker, fakes gastroparesis, POTS, fibromyalgia, et al and now Rheumatoid Arthritis. Inserted her own NG tubes that she bought off the internet because her doctors wouldn't tube her. Chimps out if you question anything she does. Regularly DFEs so check recent posts for current sicksta.
Jan/the raw life: Jaquie's best friend turned Single White Female. Made an appalling performance of Jaquie’s funeral and is in control of Jaquie's social media. She wears her clothes and has also inherited her barbie car/wheelchair.
Janeye/servicedogcolt:
has her own thread. Primarily fakes epilepsy, famous for taking selfies of what looks like chocolate pudding coming out of her mouth and claiming it's blood. Superficially sliced her head open and stapled it back together to make it look like she had a craniotomy. GFM scammer.
Jaquie/ChronicallyJaquie. Former queen of the munchies, now rendered to ash after she munched herself to death.
Has her own thread, inactive/dead.
Julian/thedisabledhippie: FTM transgendered former BFF of Jaquie, claims all the same disorders Jaquie did but also demyelinating polyneuropathy. Julian and Jaquie traded diagnoses like baseball cards when they were friends.
Kat/KatVonWheels: went from skinny to morbidly obese and married to divorced in the same time frame, all because she wanted to be on TPN but also to continue to eat junk food. Bought a hospital bed for her house.
Timeline: from skinny bitch to whale
KaydeeLynn:
has her own thread but she's dead. Morbidly obese anorexic, faked the most insane crises ever like multiple pulmonary emboli and a coma, but her family would confirm she was on the couch eating cheetos while she claimed this. Died of a heroin overdose while trying to make it seem like she was a hardcore addict for internet sympathy.
Katy/ Invisiblei/ invidisible Katy: Asbergers and Fibromyalgia, welsh chronic illness Youtuber, used to post a lot of videos about how to navigate the benefit system.
Kelly Carragher/Palette Face: Kaydee's friend. Anorexic, now claims to have hundreds of seizures per day unless she wants to go on vacation.
Kelly Ronahan/Vampire Kelly:
has her own thread. DO NOT POST IN HER THREAD UNLESS YOU HAVE NEW CONTENT because she's fucking crazy and posts her dox/gossip all the time trying to bait us into talking about her. Used to drain her blood through her port to get transfusions, now picks at her necrotic legs and fakes Behcet's. Has a whole subplot about a satanic pimp who stalks her, forced her to eat a dog, and crazy glued her hand to her vagina. As of July 2019 an amputation is looking likely as her docs refuse to help her because they wasted time on a previous skin graft for her.
Morgan/Morgan's Medical Journey: Claims to have "Brain on Fire" autoimmune encephalitis. Weirdly codependent relationship with her mother.
Nicole/JustbreatheNicole: admits she has a psychosomatic vomiting condition and has never lost weight from it, but needs a feeding tube anyway because therapy is hard. Inactive?
NinaJean/kittenbread: founded /r/Illnessfakers to hide the fact that she's a gigantic munchie herself. Screeches about disability access and tries to sue people to get into the papers.
Timeline of the munchie mod
Robyn Brown (better known as LifeUndiagnosed and HybermobileGeek) is a Munchie case that was once described by a lolcow.farm anon as "Kadeelyn on Steroids". She is a British woman who has been blogging about her supposed illnesses for years upon years, and frequently hops to a new alias once people catch on to her fakery and she loses her sweet asspats. She is likely to deserve her own spinoff thread in the near future.
Sarah-Jean Claims she has a condition that is illegal to diagnose. A badly trained service dog and is currently gunning for an EDS diagnosis
Timeline of her here and it is LONG because she truly is a goldmine.
Tara: dead as fuck and no1curr.
Tina: see Anelise
In the incubator
AgonyAutie. British, claims autism and is yet another EDS faker. Autists have came here and said her autism looks fake too. Has meltdowns on trains on the regular so she can get in the papers.
Carly/Chronicarly: athlete turned spoonie. Has a port between her tits for some reason. Likes to paint on her body for "awareness". Turns out she is BrochureAnon another ex-mod from illnessfakers because the internet is full of jokes. Great photos of her
here including one with a giant dildo.
Janina/AssistanceDogAdventures: friends with Amy Lee Fisher. Service dog sperg. Walks out on any doctor that doesn't tell her exactly what she wants to hear.
Kiera/AdventuresofaZebraSpoonie: Has a list of diagnoses longer than your entire CV. Former ballerina. All the usual tubes and lines.
Tubefedtraveler: insta name says it all with this bitch. Made a big deal once
because she ate something and was fine and how she was scared she would end up on “the Reddit” for it.
which is exactly what happened
Victoria/Lemons 'n' Lyme: as the name suggests, "chronic lyme" sufferer. Tries to fix her non-existent health problems with a toxin-free existence.
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