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

I just saw a post on Facebook from "Stuff That Works" advertising communities for a bunch of conditions...and our munchie trifecta (+more) are listed in the post. The comments section is a potential munchie gold mine. Lots of EDS and whining about how no one listens to them. I'd be willing to bet there are at least a few that are lolcow-worthy.
 
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Brittany Tatum
Sep 28, 2020
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Oh my goodness! He's soooooOoOooooo cute and soft and fluffy and squishy. So amazingly realistic. I literally gasped when I wrapped him from the box. Very well done. A lot bigger than I expected as well... I feel like I actually have a real live rat. I love him so much! Thank you!

Soft Mount Etsy seller site

And he has an Ed Gein shadowbox for sale with "real skin tattoo, hair and bones." :cryblood:
 
What the fu
Brittany Tatum Sep 28, 2020
5 out of 5 stars
Oh my goodness! He's soooooOoOooooo cute and soft and fluffy and squishy. So amazingly realistic. I literally gasped when I wrapped him from the box. Very well done. A lot bigger than I expected as well... I feel like I actually have a real live rat. I love him so much! Thank you!

Soft Mount Etsy seller site

And he has an Ed Gein shadowbox for sale with "real skin tattoo, hair and bones." :cryblood:

Reading these reviews, and even the item descriptions themselves is a trip and a half. Some of it is people who want an animal, but can't raise one for whatever reason, so they get a dead one instead? Very strange, very fascinating.
 
There's an interesting account on tiktok garnering a lot of attention lately, but for different reasons than what we usually discuss here. Thought maybe the drama would be entertaining to some of you fine people
@msashycat is claiming to be a sober empath who sells online tarot readings. the issue is she fucking nods out constantly. twitter doxxed her after some wild claims that she contributed to someone's death (who tf knows)
She's amassed a following of almost 40K people, and sells a lot of readings a day, charging between $10-$20 each, and also gives "private readings" She frequently nods out during lives, and even posted this video a few hours ago where she is clearly fucked the hell up. I was surprised I didn't find a thread on her already, considering the following and the mega chimpouts daily trying to prove she isn't using when she is obviously on something.


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You can hear the opioids buzzing in her voice.
 
Anelise blessed reddit today with this picture of her and her lines covered in headless pigeons on one of her many alt accounts

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Also this thirst trap

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How common is it for munchies to be into older dudes? It makes sense since they like being coddled I suppose.
I can’t think of anyone other than Anelise off the top of my head who’s into dating older partners but there’s probably others

It does make sense but it seems more common to me that they never move past relying on their parents
 
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Anelise blessed reddit today with this picture of her and her lines covered in headless pigeons on one of her many alt accounts

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This has taken a sharp turn for the weirder with Tina. I got bored around the time she had that weird drama with the much older actor who was airing their dirty laundry on Facebook. Has anybody been keeping an eye on this one? Has she done anything else interesting lately?
 
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Anelise blessed reddit today with this picture of her and her lines covered in headless pigeons on one of her many alt accounts

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Wow, this ties with that stupid bitch who stomped her cat's head in after it "fell off the balcony" for most fucked up shit I've ever seen in this thread. I would say I hope she gets AIDS but she would probably enjoy it.
 
That was some of the jankiest taxidermy I've ever seen. The foxes were hilarious and the rats in the traps were horrifying.

Why are munchies so awful to animals, be it their 'service dogs' or their foster cats or, I guess, a bunch of pigeons who had to die so they could be draped all over your body to 'treat' a totally real 'condition'?

I usually don't comment too much with munchies, but sometimes some fresh new hell inflicted on some innocent animal draws me out of lurking. Today it was those pigeons. Pigeons are cool birds, they deserve better than to die for a photo op.
 
Anelise blessed reddit today with this picture of her and her lines covered in headless pigeons on one of her many alt accounts

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What is this even supposed to accomplish? I can't tell if this is some esoteric practice or something that's supposed to be "legit medicine". It looks unhygienic af.
It's almost as if she is trying get sick on purpose while acting as if she is trying to heal herself*cough**cough*
 
That was some of the jankiest taxidermy I've ever seen. The foxes were hilarious and the rats in the traps were horrifying.

Why are munchies so awful to animals, be it their 'service dogs' or their foster cats or, I guess, a bunch of pigeons who had to die so they could be draped all over your body to 'treat' a totally real 'condition'?

I usually don't comment too much with munchies, but sometimes some fresh new hell inflicted on some innocent animal draws me out of lurking. Today it was those pigeons. Pigeons are cool birds, they deserve better than to die for a photo op.
Because people who dont care about faking diseases and what not lack the empathy needed to have an animal. Tina actually strikes me as borderline.

Animals are precious creatures that are at our mercy. Some animals dont even vocalize much (like my rabbits) so it is up to me to me and all animal owners to read their body language and advocate for them.
 
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Hello all, I thought I'd bring some fresh munch over courtesy of u/Coach-Genghis

your.bendy.egirl/ Sydney Saylor/ Rowen is your average Disney obsessed, shamelessly drug seeking, trifecta claiming munchie who likes to parade herself over Instagram half naked for oppression points.
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TL;DR
  • Claims she was formerly a child actress, who was in dozens of national commercials for McDonalds, Apple, Capital One, Sears and Nissan. (Though she's never been able to prove this is true
  • She posts a letter from a outpatient geneticists clinic in 2016 diagnosing her with hEDS although she freely admits she wasn't in any pain.
  • Her instagram starts off in 2017 as a standard "Basic White Girl" account and quickly devolves into attention seeking hospital posts.
  • Oct 2019: Sydney's mum finds her NSFW photos meant for her "bae", and claims that her mum put a "VPN lock" on her phone causing it to lock her out after an hour of use (among other things).
  • Also in Oct 2019 After getting into a fight with her mum about needing saline infusions, she ends up on psych hold after a suicide attempt.
  • After being released from psych hold, her mum takes her to a faith healer, who miraculously cures her. She spends the next 6-7 months working minimum wage jobs and spending large chunks of time at Disneyland.
  • Nov 2019 as her symptoms re-appear she moves to New Mexico with her "bae", and becomes estranged/disowned by her family.
  • Her "remission dates" range between early fall 2019 - mid winter 2020 but change as she sees fit.
  • She states somewhere around Nov 2019 that she was nearly homeless when first arriving in New Mexico.
  • March 2020 is when your.bendy.egirl was officially born and she tells her followers "never let anyone tell you how you are". In that same month she purchases herself a pair of leg braces, foreseeing a future where they're necessary. This future is almost immediate, and these miracle braces allow her to walk 3 miles unassisted.
  • In April, she has been officially approved for Medicare and has been looking on eBay for a cheap wheelchair to use. She's stated that she has accepted that at age 21 she will never be able to work again, and begins referring to herself as a sick cripple.
  • During this month she starts her journey to being a sexy disabled person, and leans more heavily into her POTs symptoms and claims eating is too painful.
  • After being denied Medicaid in May 2020, she somehow was able to get free healthcare (but doesn't elaborate as to how). This free healthcare allows her to pursue a Lyme Diagnosis, and see an orthopaedist.
  • In May she decides she has OCD, and has a moth-induced panic attack. Her pet fish died, and she's pissed people care more about sad animal stories than her.
  • June 2019 she diagnoses herself with Functional Neurological Disorder due to her off/on again paralysis. The doctors in the ER are very dismissive of this. A clearly non-prescribed neck brace appears during this time. She also claims a UTI lasting years, an E.coli count of over 20K, suggests that she has Turner's syndrome and a heart defect.
  • In July she both pays $800 for a used wheelchair she hates, and posts photos of all her banking apps being overdrawn. She starts begging for donations and providing links to venmo/cashapp,
  • She gets genetic testing officially done, which all come back negative (shocker)
  • August 2020, given that she has no fancy genetic disorders goes in on a diagnosis of a 1cm cystic lesion on her brain. She says it is calcifying her brain and putting pressure on her peripheral nerve, causing her paralysis.
  • By the end of August she's been in and out of hospital so frequently that she's labeled a drug seeker, and given a diagnosis of AMPS (amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome). She's now doing fetish pics for money as well.
  • Sept 2020, she now claims in addition to AMPS, she has fibromyalgia, and allodynia. Everything from a gust of wind to a stray hair causes her intense pain. She sees a pain management doc this month and she makes it clear that she wants the heavy stuff. “I want opioids. I don’t care about my organs, they’re fucked anyway because EDS is a thing.”
  • Somehow despite her intense sensitivity to pain, she manages to get her septum and nostril pierced.
  • In Oct 2020 after having been denied the good drugs, she suicide baits on Instagram saying that all patients with chronic illness should have easy access to opioids, and that MMJ is not an option for her. Of the replies on this post about 1/3 of them are automatic reply bots suggesting a collab.
  • December 2020 she gets her catheter named Peter that she wanted simply because she was "too frail to get to the bathroom". By her own admission this was not medically necessary. She proudly admits that she is embracing her tics (that were somehow never mentioned before) and was approved for saline cardiology infusions.
  • Janurary 2020: After 6 cruel pain doctors, 5 incompetent psychs, and 2 abusive PCPs, Sydney has finally succeeded in her quest for pain meds. Her profile is posted on the IF subreddit, and she claims that she is officially leaving social media.
Compiled timeline dumps can be found in these four imgur albums.
 
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In the ones I've watched, no. They often don't like when shit is out of their control but it doesn't really slow their roll. This is a notoriously difficult condition to treat.

Not to bring it back to Jaquie but she got a roux-en-y surgery a little over a year ago that caused her real pain and complications for the first time in her life. She was visibly very shaken by it in the days immediately after the surgery and looked like she genuinely regret it. Instead of it being a wakeup call that she needed to stop, she got addicted to pushing narcotics through her J-tube or running to the hospital to get IV dilaudid. It's the combination of narcotics constipation, the roux-en-y and other surgeries disrupting the natural barriers that keep your organs where they're supposed to be, and the feeding tube that killed her.

There is one that was heavily profiled back on /snow/ (Robyn Brown) who hasn't reappeared online except to occasionally express embarrassment over how she acted on social media, but no one has a way of knowing what she's like IRL. She could be pretending to have Lou Gehrig's Disease for all we know.

"Spoonielife.Amanda", Jaquie's skinwalker who made a big show about how she got into therapy and was getting off social media and working hard to overcome her munchie behavior, came back worse than ever. She never changed her behavior IRL, just shut down her online presence for a while. And in the meantime gave herself sepsis and dislodged her own central line to get hospital stays.

r/illnessfakers users thought Jaq's bff Jan was getting better while she was on a prolonged social media break after she had some serious meltdowns over painful procedures. She also came back worse than ever, and even after her "sister" died from unnecessary medical interventions she's seeking the same kinds of radical procedures.

I'm sure there are some who have a come to jesus moment and get real help but it seems like the majority just fall back into their behaviors.
 
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