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

Found in the comments on that blog from Agony Autie's victim:
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So her filming was more important than looking after her Actually Autistic son, she begs for money for multiple things at once then whines about the amount raised, and thinks that the average physiotherapist has never encountered basically-nonexistent hypermobility.

I wish more people saw through her. Reading O'Leary's blog post i have zero sympathy for her. She's a bully.
 
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sootsprite said:
And here's a screenshot from someone on IG I've been mulling over for a while. They have terminal everything. This post kicked me over the edge. Apparently they had WLS in Mexico (wow what a smart idea!) but it caused medical issues including daily pain, activated a mitochondrial disorder, wiped out their immune system and oh they also have EDS (duh) and chronic Lyme (double duh). They obviously have a GoFundMe for a staggering $36,000 to get a stem cell transplant which will do literally nothing for their "late stage chronic neurological lyme disease" . The GFM also states that their Lyme caused the Mitochondrial Disorder in contradiction to their "WLS is bad!" sperg.

Oh, and they're back to being over 270lbs despite the fact that it's apparently agonising to eat anything since the surgery.

IG here: https://www.instagram.com/leeeeeland/

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They're sporadically milky, but I've condensed the best of it here. Go big or go home, munchies!
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I just scrolled through and didn't see much in the way of medical stuff being mentioned. Maybe stuff got deleted (very possible). Seems like this started as a botched weight loss surgery, then morphed into attention seeking behavior via munching/claimed diagnoses. Googling "Leland Chazen" leads to some cringey poetry readings and some mention of Leland's involvement with the Seattle gay scene. I found some calls to action re: fundraiser so "save Leland's life," but I can't seem to get anywhere. Someone mentioned a life-saving surgery of some sort, but it's all very vague. There's also traces of some events called "Sick Womxn & Queers," wherein Leland does some spoken word something-or-other, advocating for healthcare reform or something. Other than that, not much to see. Might be a munchie, but not a very dedicated one.

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Cold Waffle said:
I just scrolled through and didn't see much in the way of medical stuff being mentioned. Maybe stuff got deleted (very possible). Seems like this started as a botched weight loss surgery, then morphed into attention seeking behavior via munching/claimed diagnoses. Googling "Leland Chazen" leads to some cringey poetry readings and some mention of Leland's involvement with the Seattle gay scene. I found some calls to action re: fundraiser so "save Leland's life," but I can't seem to get anywhere. Someone mentioned a life-saving surgery of some sort, but it's all very vague. There's also traces of some events called "Sick Womxn & Queers," wherein Leland does some spoken word something-or-other, advocating for healthcare reform or something. Other than that, not much to see. Might be a munchie, but not a very dedicated one.

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Yeah I think they've had a lot of clean-outs of the ol' IG over the years.

It's the mito activated from Lyme-or-botched-surgery that gets me, as well as the massive weight gain even with a deformed "doctors don't know how it still works" stomach. Shame they're not milkier beyond the odd post like this, I'll keep an eye out for more though.
 
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sootsprite said:
Yeah I think they've had a lot of clean-outs of the ol' IG over the years.

It's the mito activated from Lyme-or-botched-surgery that gets me, as well as the massive weight gain even with a deformed "doctors don't know how it still works" stomach. Shame they're not milkier beyond the odd post like this, I'll keep an eye out for more though.
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Might be a munchie that has attempted to reform their ways (although they have possibly slipped). Either way, seems like they're not on the interwebz for the munchie points right now. No mention of chronic illness in their instagram bio, even (is it called a bio? I am instagram dumb). Seems like a wash-up poet with weight issues. Might be a cow of some sort in the future, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
 
sootsprite said:
Found in the comments on that blog from Agony Autie's victim:

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So her filming was more important than looking after her Actually Autistic son, she begs for money for multiple things at once then whines about the amount raised, and thinks that the average physiotherapist has never encountered basically-nonexistent hypermobility.

I wish more people saw through her. Reading O'Leary's blog post i have zero sympathy for her. She's a bully.
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Do you have a link to that blog? I'd love to read more.

It looks like her fancy wheelchair is a recent addition paid by her parents

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Maxie said:
Do you have a link to that blog? I'd love to read more.

It looks like her fancy wheelchair is a recent addition paid by her parents


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Wait, does she have another son or is she suggesting that her profoundly autistic elementary school age child can be a carer for her?

Cold Waffle said:
Agony Autie Remove Video Slandering Me Now!

ETA: I found Autie's/Sarah Jane's Linkedin page, wherein she posts her gofundme and patreon. This is truly exceptional. She is so dedicated to her swindling.
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I can't remember if she gets any benefits, but can't wait for them to find this nonetheless. Her activism/sperging/social media self promotion is so constant and involves lots of travel, so she must be able to work - and the income she gets from Patreon is over $1000 a month!
 
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Sooper Speshul Southerner said:
There's a reason all the munchies aren't rushing to get sooper speshul compounded meds.
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Probably because they don't know about them. Compounding pharmacies run about a 70% profit margin but the trick is that you have to get a gullible doctor to market it for you.

Also the compounded topical meds for pain relief are about as effective as placebo. Which should surprise no-one, because there's little FDA oversight, so who knows if they're actually putting medication in it or what? FDA gets off its ass when you accidentally kill 64 people though.
 
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This lady has a lot of social media content posted. I feel a bit ashamed posting this but I am just incredulous for some reason. I also find it curious that when you google fake the main thing people are questioning is her accent. It seems like there is some issue there perhaps some things that could be treated by an SLP. Like she has odd prosody or something? It seems strange to me that she can freely admit that the clown that torments her is currently in the audience, but nothing with her speech is addressed at all in any subsequent videos. Why would people commonly google her name and question if her accent is fake and not just chalk it up to some kind of speech pathology ? like an oddity with her cadence. Isn't it more logical to think maybe her voice is trembling because she is seeing terrifying things?

For some reason, I just can't fathom that she sees these things like the menacing clown all the time and her medical team can't control that symptom.

With jani schofield's case now widely accepted as a case of Munchausen by proxy I just find this account a bit hard to believe.

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sootsprite said:
Altered or abnormal prosody can be associated with damage to the right side of the brain. Maybe schizophrenia too, does anyone else know?

And did she always talk like that?
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My 1st reaction was there is a neurological explanation. The thing I find strange is people seem to question the "accent" as somehow disingenuous but not the fact that she constantly sees all these horrifying things and just goes about her business. I also can't wrap my mind around one article about her where the headline is something about her stating her mental illness should be celebrated. Having the clown from It as your constant companion and fully interpreting him as malevolent should be celebrated? Most of what she has to say seems to be that this is and has been horrifying so why should that be celebrated? wouldn't that imply they should not try to treat the visual hallucinations so they only happen once in a while?

I guess the fact that she has parlayed this into a vocation makes me more incredulous.
 
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c6h1206 said:
My 1st reaction was there is a neurological explanation. The thing I find strange is people seem to question the "accent" as somehow disingenuous but not the fact that she constantly sees all these horrifying things and just goes about her business. I also can't wrap my mind around one article about her where the headline is something about her stating her mental illness should be celebrated. Having the clown from It as your constant companion and fully interpreting him as malevolent should be celebrated? Most of what she has to say seems to be that this is and has been horrifying so why should that be celebrated? wouldn't that imply they should not try to treat the visual hallucinations so they only happen once in a while?

I guess the fact that she has parlayed this into a vocation makes me more incredulous.
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She's the Autie of Schizophrenia.
 
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MunchOff said:
Lol that’s so dumb I bet that’s how the benefits office found out abut her patreon that got her benefits stopped 😂
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What is that? like social assistance? Why is it that so many people in the UK receive social assistance? this topic honestly confuses me. it seems like a disproportionate # of ppl are on what Canadians call welfare and live in public housing.
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also ......what's the word on Judd ? In all seriousness, him residing in that house alone seems a bit absurd, and the unboxing of those housewarming items seemed to just be adding insult to injury, Doubt he would have any use for most of those items. If he has any insight whatsoever he should know that those gifts were from people that Jaq was grandstanding for by making herself sick. This ultimately led to her death. Surely he can't be oblivious to the fact that the various feeding tube surgeries were totally unnecessary, and that an unneeded medical device killed her. aren't police officers supposed to use deductive reasoning to draw inferences? surely he cannot be blind to what was going on with Jaq.

I wonder how true the stories of Harlow crying on Jaq's death bed are. They originate from Jan and the part about the ICU nurses being brought to tears by Harlow's puppy cries somehow rings true.
 
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Samsung said:
So, two of my friends growing up had Ehlers Danlos, and since then I've met another person with it. I suspect I've met a few more who just didn't bother telling me about it because it doesn't matter. NONE of them acted like it was a big deal. They all had their limits and problems and whatnot, but they weren't completely debilitated by it at all. One of them even grew up and went into a career that requires them to carry heavy, unstable objects and be on their feet all day. I didn't think of it as an "illness" until I found out about these munchies.

Why do all these munchies act like it's such a huge ass thing?
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Its because if they have EDS it makes them medical zebras. It means they are special and rare, unfortunately there's so many munchie zebras on insta atm they've made themselves into regular old horses.

sootsprite said:
I can't remember if she gets any benefits, but can't wait for them to find this nonetheless. Her activism/sperging/social media self promotion is so constant and involves lots of travel, so she must be able to work - and the income she gets from Patreon is over $1000 a month!
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MunchOff said:
Lol that’s so dumb I bet that’s how the benefits office found out abut her patreon that got her benefits stopped 😂
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Her benefits were stopped because of her patreon, that's what her most recent I'm not going to be able continue my channel give me money ebegging was all about. I happened about a month ago. She was probably getting carers benefit for her son rather than any sort of disability for herself because she is not disabled and is able bodied enough to work. The reason I say that it was probably a carers payment is because those ones are means tested. It's for people who have a disabled dependent who need round the clock care meaning they could not possibly work too. She was working and earning from her patreon and her benefits were cancelled straight away. I doubt she was getting any sort of disability payment because you need medical proof to get that sort of payment which she doesn't have and it would be a slower process to cancel and much more open to appeal if such a payment was stopped because they saw her dancing videos and crutch abuse and decided she wasn't disabled.
 
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c6h1206 said:
For some reason, I just can't fathom that she sees these things like the menacing clown all the time and her medical team can't control that symptom.
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Common misconception is that psych meds like antipsychotics get rid of psychosis and symptoms like hallucinations. For some people yes they do get rid of hallucinations, for many people they kind of decrease the intensity of these symptoms often decreasing of the intensity of life in general at the same time. Or they sedate you enough that you can't react or complain about the symptoms but they're still there. There are lots of people that just live everyday life and hallucinate all the time but I guess it's so normal to them and they can distinguish reality from hallucinations that it doesn't often impair functioning. They're not always terrifying or disturbing.
Doctors can't always control symptoms with meds. Especially as the side effect profile is often nasty with these types of medication.

Also why would people question her voice? Sounds fine to me, nothing weird about it. Maybe that's because I'm British and she sounds like a lot of folk this side of the pond.

Side note; Yup I'm a lurker, came here as a long time sceptic of Agony Autie and I wasn't disappointed. Her stim dancing has irritated me for ages especially the crutch and leg swinging thing she does with vogue hands.
 
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sootsprite said:
Altered or abnormal prosody can be associated with damage to the right side of the brain. Maybe schizophrenia too, does anyone else know?

And did she always talk like that?
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Schizophrenia, like Autism is more of an umbrella term. Research shows that it is actually more likely to be several different disorders with different causes. The brain scans from people who develop schizophrenia do indicate damage in the language processing region of the cortex though. Research is getting close to being able to see who is developing schizophrenia before symptoms appear. This may sound terrifying, but the cause (many things are hypothesized having to do with incorrect ganglion paring down in adolescence) could potentially be found and corrected, which is the hope. schizophrenia is primarily a genetic disorder, but like autism, the genes haven’t been identified, just areas of suspicion. Some people who have the area of suspicion don’t go on to develop schizophrenia so it is still a puzzle right now.
 
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