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

[dopedodo]

Edit: I had a theory that the person who posted about her originally might have been autie herself, didn’t voice it cause wasn’t all that interested in her at first. Now I’m really thinking it. Tin foil hat is officially on.

When was the original post? I've not gone all the way back through this thread yet.

 

[Dr. Celery MD]

Is everyone ready for another new munchie? This one has been on my radar for a while. Adventuresinfibroland, aka Victoria. She's a subject on r/malingering but that sub is basically dead.


Instagram: adventuresinfibroland
Blog: Adventures in Fibroland
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Victoria Murphy, age 25. Originally from Texas, she recently moved to Oklahoma for medical marijuana access. Victoria seems to enjoy her cannabis a little too much. She lives in almost total isolation in an apartment with her self-trained greyhound/bloodhound service dog. She’s currently awaiting disability and seems to do nothing other than get stoned off her gourd and make infantile line drawings she calls “art therapy.”


Victoria claims to have MCAS, POTS, fibromyalgia, migraines AND “cluster-equivalent” headaches, central sensitization, neuropathy, Raynaud’s, Levido [sic] Reticularis, medical PTSD, and hypermobile shoulders, hips, and cervical spine. Despite her assertion that she’s had all of these symptoms her entire life, she’s only accumulated all these diagnoses within the last year. She has seen a buttload of doctors in several states in order to get diagnosed, and seems to drop them when they don’t give her what she wants (which is often). She’s currently gunning for EDS and CCI diagnoses. Many of these diagnoses are from primary care doctors.

@Kate Farms Shill you'll love her! She uses her grayhound/bloodhound as a heavy mobility dog and has allowed her to lick up essential oils.

Spoiler: Massive AIFL Dump

When Victoria started her account in March 2018 she was largely undiagnosed and complained of body pain and dizziness/fainting. As time went on, she moved on to pursing MCAS as well.


She has a totally necessary service dog and a totally necessary wheelchair. She also uses canes and walkers on occasion.


She compares her struggles to those of someone with MS.


She also loves to add a dramatic flair to every single post.


Dressing like a cancer patient? Check!


She encourages strangers to just grab her chair and move her out of the way. I'm not a wheelchair user, so while I can't speak from personal experience, I'm pretty sure most wheelchair users don't appreciate strangers touching their chair unprovoked. Complaining about disability access is a regular occurrence in her posts.


She has constant negative encounters with strangers while out in public. People with legit disabilities do definitely get harassed but this seems excessive.


A few months into her account she started complaining about frequent anaphylaxis and allergic reactions despite never showing any signs of it.


Gotta rep the munchie uniform.


She either has really positive experiences with medical staff, or really negative experiences. No inbetween. Lots and lots of constant difficulties.


She falls all the time, and instead of getting help she asks to get her picture taken.


Claims she is literally allergic to her mom's boyfriend's voice.


Gets really fucking excited about new diagnoses from her primary care doctor. Like really excited.


She's so sick her "mom" has to post for her.


Trying to get oxygen for "cluster headaches" that she can miraculously post on Instagram during.

Once she gets her oxygen as a donation from someone her grandma knows, she totally disregards her doctor's recommendation for how often/long to use it. Despite her doctor telling her to wear it for a few hours per day, she frequently wears it 24/7.

Her doctors are totally telling her she has to move for marijuana. The amount she takes in is astounding.


She absolutely loves being the visibly disabled person in her new apartment complex.


How dare someone come and knock on her door?????

This is really just the surface. She seems to have a lot of mental health problems (anxiety, depression, PTSD, possible ED) that I can't help but think are the root cause of all her problems.

 

[dopedodo]

Wow that's not what cluster headaches are like. (I don't have them, I have a friend who does.)

 

[fweeper]

What she describes sounds like a migraine, not a cluster headache.

Is supplemental oxygen a preventative for cluster headaches? I thought it was used to *maybe* abort an attack.

Why would anyone fish for a diagnosis of cluster headaches? It seems to be an excruciatingly painful disease, and opiates are not recommended for treatment..

Edit: words

 

[large_farva]

Who the fuck says, "i was promoted to chronic migraine, too"
Bitch, is this your career? (obviously, yes)

 

[Munchie_Minder]

I believe I have just seen the newest Munchie trend that’s going to be debuting this Halloween:

Spoiler: Munchie Dreams

Kids’ costumes designed for wheelchairs at Target

Kids sizes and wheelchair costumes? Munchie dreams are made of these.

[/Spolier]

 

[AT 903]

I believe I have just seen the newest Munchie trend that’s going to be debuting this Halloween:

Spoiler: Munchie Dreams

Kids’ costumes designed for wheelchairs at Target

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Kids sizes and wheelchair costumes? Munchie dreams are made of these.

[/Spolier]

Wish jaquie was still alive to wear this to Disney. Already loved her flashing lights and other toys she had on her barbie car, this would have been gold. Skinwalkers read this and take note.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Wish jaquie was still alive to wear this to Disney. Already loved her flashing lights and other toys she had on her barbie car, this would have been gold. Skinwalkers read this and take note.

I legit miss Jaquie's vlogs. What I wouldn't give to watch her run down another toddler at Epcot.

 

[I hate children?]

Who the fuck says, "i was promoted to chronic migraine, too"
Bitch, is this your career? (obviously, yes)

This made me laugh so hard . Unfortunately these Munchausen by Internet shits always manage to make a career out of stuff other people work through or work/live with and with dignity.

 

[Sooper Speshul Southerner]

Wish jaquie was still alive to wear this to Disney. Already loved her flashing lights and other toys she had on her barbie car, this would have been gold. Skinwalkers read this and take note.

JAN JAN ARE YOU LISTENING???

 

[HotpieIsTheNightKing]

Idk. I’ll always use Deaf because it’s medically what I am, so seeing one that acknowledges some hearing loss is better than none at all I guess, but it seems weird to mention 1 aspect of that spectrum and not the rest of it. It’s not called the hard of hearing spectrum, it’s the deafness spectrum. Also it’s the Deaf community, so. Maybe people are just sensitive. Generally actual Deaf prefer it over terms like hearing impaired, and the only people I’ve seen say we shouldn’t use it are hearing people who think they’re rescuing all of us from the horrors of inappropriate language.

I feel like deaf makes more sense to use. If someone tells me they are hearing impaired, I'll assume I just have to speak louder, enunciate better, face them so they can assist with lipreading. If I hear deaf, I think the person is closer to or at the point of total hearing loss. Both gotta suck but they're different. Plus idk, never heard deaf used in a derogatory way, it's not like fag or something where it's used to try to hurt someone, it's just a descriptor, like saying you're diabetic.

She uses the same hashtags no matter what she posts. Cup of coffee with no captions? #spoonie #terminal #cancer #dying #ehlersdanlos #disabled #sick #autism #wheelchair #anorexia #hospice #endoflife #pots #bradycardia #tachycardia #snowflake #literallyactuallyalmostdeceased #fuckyoudad #servicedog #vegan #ocd #tourettes #definitelynotcopyingjaquiebeckwith #port #evildoctors #rabies #scarynameformundaneproblem #lifesavingsalineinfusions #naturalalerter #mobility #taxpayerfunded #notamunchie

This is hilarious. My absolute favorite are the ones that not only do this, but also hashtag shit they don't even claim to have, in addition to the shit they claim that is isn't true or is grossly exaggerated.

 

[iluvmylife]

I FELL OFF CHAIR AND DOWN THE DRIVEWAY (7.23.19)

——My Personal IG: @theadolphuschronicles ——My Project IG: @zebrastrongcarepackages ——My Company IG: @The.Power.Of.10 ——My company FB: @powerof10foundation Ca...

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I can’t right now. Watch for yourselves.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

I FELL OFF CHAIR AND DOWN THE DRIVEWAY (7.23.19)

——My Personal IG: @theadolphuschronicles ——My Project IG: @zebrastrongcarepackages ——My Company IG: @The.Power.Of.10 ——My company FB: @powerof10foundation Ca...

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I can’t right now. Watch for yourselves.

Starts at around 6 minutes in. She tries to make her smart drive push her up a hill and ends up falling over with an incredible sound.
Nothing else about this video is even remotely interesting.

 

[large_farva]

#wheelchairabuse

 

[Toohottotrot]

out of interested if someone pays for their wheelchair,smartdrive etc is it really wheelchair abuse

 

[large_farva]

out of interested if someone pays for their wheelchair,smartdrive etc is it really wheelchair abuse

What I mean by wheelchair abuse is someone like SJ using it without any need whatsoever, just to get attention or use it as an accessory for her vlog. Has nothing to do with her buying it for herself.

Her reasoning was that she wanted to "take her wheelchair for a spin" (direct quote from her IG story about it).
It's not a fucking powerwheel.

 

[Maxie]

What I mean by wheelchair abuse is someone like SJ using it without any need whatsoever, just to get attention or use it as an accessory for her vlog. Has nothing to do with her buying it for herself.

Her reasoning was that she wanted to "take her wheelchair for a spin" (direct quote from her IG story about it).
It's not a fucking powerwheel.

Did you notice when she was in Walmart she was pulling the cart by the front, not pushing it from the handle where it would give her some support should she have a POTS attack? She definitely doesn't need the wheel chair.

Other thing to watch in the video is her doing yoga in the swing. Lots of dramatic changes in positions but no signs of passing out.

 

[large_farva]

Not to mention she fucking gets up after that fall and WALKS inside and then WALKS up some steps.

 

[dopedodo]

Other thing to watch in the video is her doing yoga in the swing. Lots of dramatic changes in positions but no signs of passing out.

And able to support her body weight on her arms, what a brave EDS warrior.

I posted about this one a while ago, Ouch_Mouse whose wheelchair is a literal prop (original post). She's recently been on the news without the definitely-necessary wheelchair or even her cane talking about how even though there's a literal heatwave (what counts as one for the UK anyway) her super serious allergy to cold doesn't magically go away. I have a mental image of her checking the forecast and trying to decide exactly what day will be sufficiently hot to call the network and pitch a "pity me" story.

 

[AT 903]

Autie doing her daily demonstrations of how much she doesn’t need her wheelchair... this time in Paris! Pretty sure that’s another pair of heels.

A while ago, when someone questioned why she is ambulatory user of a wheel chair she claimed her (Undiagnosed) ehlers danlos mainly affects her neck and shoulders. She has videos where she’s showing supposed subluxations (I couldn't see anything) in her shoulders.

Should she be doing that then?