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

[Spunt]

“as sOmEoNe wItH a tBi…”

They're on Reddit. That information is redundant.

 

[failed mist]

Of all the stupid ass questions I'd never thought I'd ask (and it's strangely topical given Rose's "husband's" presence)...but is there a diagnostic distinction between those who pretend to be sick, and those who pretend to be retarded?

A Natalia Rijos versus an Andie Proskus, e.g. Is it any different? Clinically?

They go hand in hand more often than not. Most of the munchies here who claim physical ailments will tack on an ADHD and autism diagnosis as well.

Some munchies are just dumb and make stupid mistakes and don’t care if their lies are transparent. Others (often those with rich parents) really do hustle in their pursuit of the sick role. They’re consistent, energetic, and can be pretty ingenious about the social norms and expectations that they exploit. Funny enough, this is the class of faker who is most likely to claim to be retarded in some way.

Amanda Baggs (now dead) is a great example of the smart rich kid who pretended to be retarded. You can check out her lengthy tumblr posts where she’d insightfully philosophize about how retarded she definitely was. But she had all the physical ailments and tubes as well, because ultimately it got her to the same place of being part of a special class of people with a unique voice and social role, which is what it’s really all about.

 

[TismFarmer]

They go hand in hand more often than not. Most of the munchies here who claim physical ailments will tack on an ADHD and autism diagnosis as well.

Some munchies are just dumb and make stupid mistakes and don’t care if their lies are transparent. Others (often those with rich parents) really do hustle in their pursuit of the sick role. They’re consistent, energetic, and can be pretty ingenious about the social norms and expectations that they exploit. Funny enough, this is the class of faker who is most likely to claim to be retarded in some way.

Amanda Baggs (now dead) is a great example of the smart rich kid who pretended to be retarded. You can check out her lengthy tumblr posts where she’d insightfully philosophize about how retarded she definitely was. But she had all the physical ailments and tubes as well, because ultimately it got her to the same place of being part of a special class of people with a unique voice and social role, which is what it’s really all about.

I always thought Baggs' retard claim was insanely poorly researched.
If you look at her baby photo in the thread, she looked like she absolutely had cri du chat syndrome. Those wierd as fuck eyebrows are like the most obvious sign. Even doctors etc who saw that photo would believe, at least until they examined her properly.
And it comes with retardation as an effect of the disorder so she could still keep the LARP.

 

[Polychromos]

Yeah, good clarification — I tend to think of pinkish/bloodshot eyes as just… blood shot, and not actually changing color.

The first thing I'd think of outside of the munchie thread is liver disease.

 

[RookTheFanatic]

Shall we see how tricia is doing?
Maybe she's taken up a hobby?
Nope. GI tract bleed.

Spoiler: TMI, Tricia

Aughhhh. Eurggghhhh.

Well... was it worth it, Tricia?

Edited to fix formatting because I'm retarded.

 

[Oracular Slug]

Well... was it worth it, Tricia?

"My body is exhausted. I just want to go home."

I'm guessing not.

 

[It's Never Leprosy]

Tricia and her pasteurella absolutely fascinate me. Tilly's still my fave because of the balls on her/terminality of her middle classness, but Lord help me the zoonotic marvel that is Tricia Melland is just...wow. She's the internal medicine version of Kelly Nolegs. Her intestines are literally melting and she's just like 'meh, I wanna go home.' I fucking bet you do, fam.

Spoiler: KATE FARMS PL OMFG

My mom's geriatrician recommended Kate Farms for her meal replacement yesterday since she's allergic to fucking everything and it took every literal fiber of restraint in my body not to shout "TRY USING IT AS A LEAVE IN CONDITIONER!" at him when he suggested it. Then I giggled like a 5 year old the whole way home and thought of y'all.

 

[Rich Evans Simp]

I always thought Baggs' retard claim was insanely poorly researched.
If you look at her baby photo in the thread, she looked like she absolutely had cri du chat syndrome. Those wierd as fuck eyebrows are like the most obvious sign. Even doctors etc who saw that photo would believe, at least until they examined her properly.
And it comes with retardation as an effect of the disorder so she could still keep the LARP.

Baggs is my #1 favorite munchie of all time and one of my most cherished lolcows. At first I thought you were saying that she wasn’t only pretending to be retarded, but yes, you’re right - she was an FLK and could have milked that. Instead we got sudden late-onset low functioning autism and a cornucopia of mentuls.

 

[unwieldy_object]

I could do a deep dive on her in about a week

Please do, I would really enjoy a bpd munchie even if she's not the most interesting.

 

[Oracular Slug]

Her intestines are literally melting and she's just like 'meh, I wanna go home.' I fucking bet you do, fam.

Fren, I think she meant permanently. I took that as "I just wanna die already"

 

[RookTheFanatic]

Fren, I think she meant permanently. I took that as "I just wanna die already"

Tricia's been like this for a while. Her nose could fall off and she'd rather be at home doing tiktok dances.

 

[eat your greens]

"My body is exhausted. I just want to go home."

I'm guessing not.

The option of palliative care, hospice, going ‘home’ to ‘Jesus’ is right in front of her.

 

[uwaga! aooga!]

My mom's geriatrician recommended Kate Farms for her meal replacement yesterday since she's allergic to fucking everything

Wait...what?!? (After some quick googling) Wow, so "Kate Farms" isn't just a weird oblique reference to Kiwi Farms that I figured I'd never understand for whatever reason?

Huh. I feel like I need time to process this for some reason.

 

[huge boobs]

long time lurker, first time posting to this thread. i've been following this spoonie warrior for the last few years and wanted to share here. i will have to do this in multiple parts because she's a very prolific poster and has a ton of background that i think is important to discuss first. please forgive me and have mercy on me if my formatting sucks, hopefully the content makes up for it. excuse the newfaggotry i had to figure out the attachments.

reverend tiffany diane moon (aka @rarediseasepatient) is a 54 year old vegan, asexual, psychic, minister, mensa member, metaphysicist, linguist, high IQ, holistic wellness educator, former piano and opera instructor, pain management advocate and professional gofundme fundraiser living in california. she faked her death in 2015 (died by stalking, more information on that below) and has been posting "anonymously" under the account @rarediseasepatient on instagram and X/twitter for the last few years. she has claimed a myriad of illnesses over the years including (but not limited to) EDS, POTS, MCAS, CFS, sjogren's, addison's disease, lupus, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, chronic pain, chiari malformation, CCI, herniated discs, synesthesia, IgG deficiency, hypogammoglobulinemia, sinusitis, chronic UTI's, various protein and vitamin deficiencies, IBD, gastroparesis, liver disease, ovarian cysts, GERD, urinary and fecal incontinence, dry eye syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, plantar fasciitis, chronic venous insufficiency, hemangiomas, lipomas, foraminal stenosis, desiccating disc disease, multilevel spinal disease, and carpal tunnel.

tiffany was living in an SNF with psychiatric beds up until being kicked out earlier this summer. the threat of eviction had been going on over a few years after she voiced complaint after complaint about being mistreated by all the staff in the facility and being the target of fierce medical abuse and malpractice. she admits that she was placed under a conservatorship in 2017 for munchausen's syndrome and/or psychosomatic disorder. she is now living temporarily in a board and care after being kicked out of the SNF, and is at grave risk of dying due to homelessness and is begging for gofundme donations to buy "urgently needed survival items" such as a mini fridge, toaster oven, portable air conditioner, and money for rent. she recently managed to finesse her way into getting a port and IVIG infusions earlier this year, and was warned by the SNF that they could not care for her port and that she would not be appropriate for their facility if she somehow managed to get one. there were also many issues with her accessing her narcotics which led to conflicts with staff at the SNF, accusing them of stealing her oxycodone. during her time in the SNF, tiffany did nothing but complain that her life was at risk due to medical malpractice, negligence, and every single person in the facility wanting to kill/harm/abuse her in some way. aside from the kitchen staff trying to kill her by feeding her soggy wet fruit, pureed vegetables, and dry tofurkey roast on thanksgiving, literally everyone was out to get her including various doctors, the ombudsman, social workers, nursing staff, transportation services, other residents in the facility, insurance companies, medicaid, the director of the board of nursing, the halloween and christmas decorations the SNF put up in the lobby, and basically everybody who looked at her or existed within her vicinity.

tiffany is an accomplished crowdfunder, and has made thousands of dollars over the years via gofundme campaigns. she is also a prolific instagram story poster, posting near daily, and at this point has posted hundreds upon hundreds of stories showcasing the difficulties she faces in her everyday life because she is very chronically ill, on death's doorstep, and nobody is listening or taking her seriously. you may be asking "hold on huge boobs, how are you sure that this tiffany moon and rarediseasepatient are the same person? and how do you know she was in an SNF with psychiatric beds?" well, because she's posted pictures of amazon packages that her followers have sent her and accidentally forgot to blur out her full name and address. unfortunate mistake, especially considering her history. if you aren't sold yet, here are just a few snippets of some of her stories. reminder that there are hundreds of stories and highlights just like these- each story highlight is maxed and she has multiple categories she files them under.

Spoiler: this is the tip of the iceberg

Spoiler: social media links

active links
instagram (archive) @rarediseasepatient
x/twitter (archive) @rarepatient
threads (archive) @rarediseasepatient
active gofundme (archive)
youtube (archive) @rarediseasepatient

inactive links
x/twitter (archive) @tiffanymoon
personal facebook (archive)
foundation facebook (archive)
inactive gofundme (archive)
studio tiffany website (archive)

Spoiler: PART 1: who is tiffany moon??

based on the wealth of personal information she has posted online over the years, it seems as if tiffany was a well accomplished woman with a university education and a keen interest in teaching, classical music, activism, and human and animal rights. she was heavily involved in music instruction, teaching, and academics prior to becoming a professional grifter and malingerer chronically ill. to save myself from typing for the next twenty years, i've attached a screencaps from her CV below outlining some of her skills. in summary, she knows how to use norton antivirus from 2004, can play ghanian percussion instruments like the agboba, and studied spanish for 3 years in high school. she is also a member of mensa and the international high IQ society, though she does not specify what her IQ is. i will admit this is a very impressive list for someone who endured so much hardship throughout her early years.

Spoiler: just a snippet of her credentials/skills

2010-2011 seems to be around the time where she became obsessed with psychokinetics and bending objects with her mind. this is what a true spoonie is, in case you were wondering.

Spoiler: spoonie activities

most of her posts during this time were a little eccentric, but nothing about chronic illness. lots of posts about veganism, animal rights, classical music, literature, women's rights, harry potter, and other smart person things that a normal non-mensa member wouldn't understand. here's a collection of facebook statuses from around that time. oh also she thinks a vegan diet can cure cancer and that losing a piano is worse than losing an arm. matter of opinion, i guess.

Spoiler: facebook posts

here's a pic what she looked like around this time.

Spoiler: looks pretty normal i guess

in march of 2012 (while she was gearing up to launch her foundation) she made a post sharing with her facebook friends about how she experienced abuse as a child. this was the first mention i could find of it on her page. the comments at that time were largely supportive and encouraging. i would like to note that i don't doubt that she definitely suffered some kind of trauma in her childhood and potentially in her adulthood as well.

Spoiler: PART 2: tiffany creates the tiffany moon foundation for abduction recovery, then dies

the tiffany moon foundation for abduction recovery was created in 2012, and was described to be a non-profit organization of which tiffany was the executive director. tiffany claims that as child, she was kidnapped from her school by her step father who took her out of the classroom, took her to a restaurant, and then gave her to a taxi driver. she then returned to class unharmed, was accused of lying by her teacher, and went home from school with her grandmother. years later tiffany continued to seek justice for this traumatic situation. she claims that she endured 8 years of domestic violence, rape, trafficking, drugging, gun violence, pornography, and animal torture, before being placed into foster care with her grandmother. here are the details of her kidnapping in her own words.

Spoiler: kidnapping story (facebook version)

Spoiler: kidnapping story (website version)

from 2012-2015, tiffany frequently posted to social media requesting monetary donations to urgently save her life and help victims of kidnapping. she created a gofundme that earned almost $10k in donations, titled "kidnapping support fund." she claims that in 2013 her landlord in escondido, CA was given an emergency homeless-prevention grant so she could get long-term housing and rebuild her life. instead of helping her with her cause, the landlord terminated her tenancy after two months based on "false information" by her perpetrator in a police-misconduct case. even worse for tiffany, this made her crippled and she began being stalked by a person who somehow had knowledge of the case and was sharing information that put her in grave danger. note that she was previously denied disability, victim compensation, and other social services as mentioned in the gofundme description below.

"I am a disabled kidnapping survivor, and a current victim of violent crime and police misconduct. I need your help to save my life. I pay your help forward with support services for all survivors of kidnapping and abduction. I spent my childhood in abusive homes. In 1980, after being placed into kinship care at age nine, I was kidnapped by my abuser, who escaped conviction due to negligence by the San Diego, CA elementary school he stole me from.

As an adult, I have needed a quiet, stable home and lifestyle to care for the disabilities caused by child abuse. But in 2009, my life was destroyed by domestic violence: I was abused and injured by a man who invited me into his home during a financial crisis. The result was financial destruction and home loss, and despite evidence, San Diego Police supported my perpetrator. I never recovered, financially, physically, or emotionally, and all of the home security I needed to cope with my past was stripped away. By 2011, I began to face my past, and to seek justice, compensation, and the disability aid I now needed to survive. Since I began seeking justice and treatment, however, I have been stalked and threatened by my perpetrator, maltreated by law enforcement, and denied state Victim Compensation, Social Security disability, and other social services, causing additional strain and trauma, making me increasingly unable to function well enough to earn income, and leaving me impoverished and struggling to survive. I worked my way out of a domestic-violence shelter and homelessness, and back into housing, but I still continue to face regular crime, civil-rights violations, and hardship: In 2013, I received an Emergency HUD Grant for housing from the County of San Diego to help me recover and rebuild, but the landlord who took the government funds given to him to provide me with stable housing, instead terminated my tenancy only two months after move-in, while I was still injured and without resources. The resulting actions caused more harm, the move nearly killed me, I was forced to take a quick rental that is harmful to my health, and I have faced additional stalking and threats of violence by a man with intimate knowledge of the tenancy case and my domestic-violence case.

I am now crippled, critically ill, and unable to pay for urgent, basic expenses, such as rent, car payments, utilities, and grocery items. These years of additional, prolonged trauma have resulted in increased disabilities, permanent injury, and autoimmune disease, including severe Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), advanced Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Fibromyalgia, adrenal hyperfunction, adrenal exhaustion, chronic pain, complications to childhood rickets deformities and Maledung’s deformities, chronic trapezius strain, spinal nerve damage, and dental nerve damage. I cannot afford treatment. It is crucial to my disability needs that I remain in a stable home and retain the use of my car, but today, without immediate help, I will lose my home, my car, and my life. Please help me to stay alive until I can receive the compensation and aid I need to survive.

While I seek help for myself, I am serving other crime victims who have experienced the same hardship I have. When attempting to find help, I found that my kidnapping was a complex, unsupported problem, and that I was not alone. While there are many services for victims of domestic violence, rape, stalking, and child abuse, there are almost none for victims of kidnapping. Survivors of kidnapping experience a unique trauma and particular hardships when attempting to find treatment and navigate the justice and social-service systems. We are an underserved population, and we all need help. So, when you help me now, I pay your help forward with peer support services for other kidnapping survivors: I and other volunteers are building what is so far the only US organization to provide international support services for all survivors of kidnapping and abduction. We have the potential to make a difference in the lives of thousands of kidnapping survivors in the future, but I need your help to save my life first.

Will you please help to save my life, so that I can finally gain stability, medical treatment, and continue to support other kidnapping survivors? Will you please donate right now?"

here are some various posts from her "foundation" page on facebook related to the fraud and abuse perpetrated by her landlord. she then went on to claim that her landlord and his attorney, as well as a corrupt police officer, stalked her on social media using fake profiles. she appears to have a lengthy legal record, but i'm not a lawfag so i can't tell you many details and what the verdicts were. based on my reasearch a lot of these are civil suits filed against her and many of them are related to landlord or property disputes.

Spoiler: legal troubles & landlord issues

in early 2015, the gofundme was updated stating that donations were closed because tiffany died! her cause of death was stalking, HUD fraud, harassment, intention to cause disability injury, and intention to cause violence of murder. who caused her death, you may ask? well, it was her previous landlord (jesus contrera, see above) and the attorney karen boulais who was involved in the case. as you may have suspected, there is no obituary that exists for her supposed death, aside from the graphics that she created herself to post to her social media pages. the crazy part? she didn't even die.

Spoiler: proof of death

Spoiler: PART 3: resurrected from the dead, please donate to my GFM!

tiffany resurfaced in late 2019, with a new instagram under the name @rarediseasepatient. it's important to note that this new GFM is anonymous, and does not mention her name or past in detail. she wasted zero time starting a gofundme and began to request donations that would (you guessed it) save her life. she claims that she became sick in 2013, after being in a victim program in 2012. the stress caused some crazy, totally plausible things to happen like the slowing down of her organs, unexplained neurological symptoms, weight gain causing her to gain 100 pounds, pain all over her body that was untreatable with narcotic pain medications, and difficulty doing normal everyday things like brushing her teeth. she was then diagnosed with addison's disease.

she admits openly that she was accused of being a drug seeker and that doctors believed she was suffering from munchausen syndrome, psychosomatic disorder, or conversion disorder with no evidence of physical illness whatsoever.

in 2015, she entered nursing care. the details surrounding this aren't specific and she's an unreliable narrator, so i can't tell you much more than what she wrote here. she got evicted, her car got repossessed, and had to get rid of all of her belongings. those sound like totally reasonable consequences that would happen when you don't pay your rent or your bills, but i digress.

she claims that in 2018, she finally was given a checklist for a rare genetic disorder called EDS. how life changing!!! she had genetic testing ordered by a rheumatologist and was determined to have hypermobile EDS, even though there's no genetic testing for that type. BUT she actually doesn't have the hypermobile type, she has unspecified EDS because hypermobile EDS isn't special enough she has symptoms of both classical and vascular EDS. she's still waiting to be tested, of course, because the tests never got authorized and her geneticist retired. how inconvenient! jesus christ for someone so sick she sure can type a lot. tldr she's in a nursing home, not receiving the care she needs, can't take care of herself, is dying, and nobody believes her.

she needs money for defaulted medical bills, student loans, emergency wheelchair repair, eviction debt, a disability-accessible laptop, natural medications, EDS-approved soaps and lotions, vegan food, and a home. how much money, you may ask??? over a hundred thousand dollars. also, this GFM is not under her name at all; it's completely anonymous. she says she needs to stay anonymous because she is a crime and stalking victim and is still in danger. definitely not because she faked her death and a simple google of her name would expose her fraudulent activities.

Spoiler: PART 3.5 - joining the IG spoonie community, 2019-2020

tiffany moon rarediseasepatient began posting to instagram in 2019, around the time she started the above gofundme. majority of her old grid posts are her shilling her zebra merch, requesting donations to her GFM, and posting summaries of what she thinks is going on with her health. she started to engage with other people in the spoonie community, even purchasing her own stuffed zebra plush from ellen (@mysteryelles) like a true EDS warrior. she's never been much of a grid poster, instead opting to post a million story uploads and highlights a day instead. i've included some of her early grid posts here.

note that this note lists off what she is concerned she has, not what she's diagnosed with. this begins her obsession with neurosurgical intervention,

40mg of oxycontin, what a flex! forget what she said in her GFM about narcotic pain medications not working f

or her.


by this point, she's had a billion MRIs and xrays with nothing pertinent in the findings, and still is in disbelief when the doctors are dismissive. she claims that the radiologists are wrong. she has a high IQ, so she can't be wrong, remember?

she was upset that the nursing home wouldn't participate in rare disease day. what do you mean you won't wear zebra print scrubs and force the other old people in the SNF to do activity worksheets about EDS?!

had to include this one, sorry

here's some of her "merch" that she tries to sell to fellow spoonies. i'm not being dramatic when i tell you this is the fugliest shit i've ever seen

Spoiler: PART 4 - more instagram, COVID, 2020

here are more grid posts. she started to ramp things up in 2020 during the pandemic, and got a ton of imaging and tests ordered by doctors outside of her SNF. at this time she was still asking for GFM donations. similar to many of the other spoonies discussed on this thread, tiffany recognized that COVID was the perfect time to milk her fragility and chronic illnesses to her followers and let everyone know how close to death's door she really was. the difference between her and many of the girls discussed here is that tiffany is in her 50's and is significantly overweight and deconditioned, so she likely has some legitimate medical issues due to being old and morbidly obese. she posted this nice reminder to tell her followers and disbelievers that she is stronger than you, and smarter than you, and she is NOT your sacrifice!

here is the post where she says she was placed under a conservatorship for munchausens syndrome, placed under control of the county, locked up in a psychiatric facility/SNF, and denied medical care for her totally real issues. now claiming that she became sick in 2013 because of her spine collapsing and a new diagnosis of addison's disease.

she insists that a pediatric butterfly needle is used for her blood draws because anything larger than that will puncture her fragile EDS veins and cause some kind of serious complications.

around this time, she was getting a significant amount of imaging and tests done. reminder that none of this was arranged through the SNF and that she takes private transport to attend these appointments on her own time. a common theme with her is things going wrong or being delayed due to COVID or other people being incompetent. it's really unfortunate how often her imaging records get lost, tests accidentally get denied, and things get forgotten about by her insurance and various providers. unfortunately she often will have test done just to find out they did not read her previous records, or the wrong test was ordered. this is just one of many many posts like this.

doesn't take me being a medfag to tell you that everyone has intracranial pressure and if you didn't have any you would be dead. cerebellar/cerebral atrophy and atherosclerosis can be normal findings in older adults, but she did not accept this answer and believes the findings are due to paraneoplastic neurologic disorder or chiari malformation.

claims IgG deficiency, but posted normal immunoglobulin results.

since she can't trust the radiologists that spent 10+ years in medical school/residency learning how to interpret scans, she asked some people on the internet to interpret her results and has now come to the conclusion that she has pseudotumor cerebri, a CSF leak, eagle syndrome, jugular vein compression, and spinal instability.

hopefully you have enjoyed reading her journey up to this point. as i mentioned above, she is no longer in the SNF after being kicked out and is finding herself struggling with the idea of homelessness, which she claims will likely kill her. i have hundreds of screenshots of her stories and posts that will take a long time to go through but if there is interest i am happy to post more and give updates on her current saga. i would also like to add that i am not a stalker and that all of the information gathered here was posted by her and is publicly available on the world wide web.

 

[pensacola]

i have hundreds of screenshots of her stories and posts that will take a long time to go through but if there is interest i am happy to post more and give updates on her current saga. i would also like to add that i am not a stalker and that all of the information gathered here was posted by her and is publicly available on the world wide web.

This woman is insufferable. I love her. Please keep updating us!

Her CV is really funny to me. I’m sure recruiters were throwing themselves at her for an opportunity to hire a 500 IQ gong ageng-player who used McAfee antivirus once in 2008.

 

[Zemblan Physics]

Can’t quote for some reason but great work documenting this specimen, @huge boobs .

Just wanted to marvel publicly at the Oxycodone dose she’s on - 40 mg every 12 hours - which is the equivalent of roughly 120 mg morphine a day. That’s… a lot.

I don’t think she’s actually in physical 19/10 pain, but still, opioid-induced hyperalgesia is a thing. If I were her doctor and she kept complaining about non-cancerous pain on that dose, I’d taper her to zero mg/day (and make a friend for life, surely!).