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

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Kate Farms Shill said:
That nasty one on her right is sodium thiosulfoaurate which she says is gold. No, gold is… gold. I actually googled the term
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I was curious about this because it has "aur-" in it which means gold (eg. staph aureus = golden staph), and it appears the correct name for the substance is sodium aurothiosulfate and if you're allergic to that you might get contact dermatitis from some gold jewellery.

Kate Farms Shill said:
the one who stalks a boy band from the 90s including traveling internationally to see them
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When I read this I was going to make a joke "if the band is Hanson I might know her irl", but uh, yeah. Also the person I know is also in her late 30s and travels to these events, when I found out I thought it must have been a joke.
 
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Zemblan Physics said:
Man, that resting Eurobitch face - she looks exactly like every annoying Italian/Greek exchange student I met at Uni.

Anyway, being a eurofag myself I have a question about US disability insurance: is it temporary or permanent? I remember reading an interview with dr Sally Satel where she discussed VA policy for PTSD, which was basically lifelong disability and benzos till you die (for real). I assumed it was a VA thing, but from reading this and about other munchies (e.g. that nutcase Disabled not defeated) I guess disability is permanent? If so, is it always 100 % disability or can someone be considered able to work maybe 50 %?

Sorry about my retarded questions but I’m trying to understand the endgame here. Seems like it would take less spoons to just work and go about your life independently instead of… this.
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There's several different kinds of disability in the US.

VA disability is only for veterans and is a percentage of their final military salary for life plus free healthcare and they are allowed to work full time in addition to it. If you see a percentage, it's probably VA disability. There's a bunch of malingering involved ($500 a month for life for tinnitus?) but they're not so online about it.

There's also SSI and SSDI. SSI is a very low monthly disability payment and is for people who haven't really paid into social security at all. It also has strict asset requirements. SSDI is based on how much you've paid in and is for people with a longer work history. SSDI is typically still pretty meager but livable. Both are handled by the government and are always 100% disability with low limits on other income.

In addition, many people have long term disability insurance either through their employer or a plan they've paid for out of pocket. This is a whole other process and can be as much as their full final salary, often stretching into 6 figures. Most of our munchies have never had the kind of job that offers this. One specific kind that gets interesting is "own occupation" disability insurance, where you don't have to be totally disabled to pay out, just unable to do your specific job. This is popular with surgeons. But, in general, the kind of people who hold down the kind of good high paying job that offers this don't tend to go full munchie. But a lot of them will abuse short term disability benefits.

A lot of tech companies (most notably Amazon) have short term disability that's really easy to get for 2-3 months paid off work. Most people don't abuse it because it can look bad in performance reviews, but for people who are in the process of getting fired a standard move is to get a BS note from some therapist saying you need FMLA leave for 3 months. This means they technically can't fire you for 3 more months and at some companies you get full pay for this time. Search on Reddit or Blind for Amazon PIP FMLA and you'll see tons of posts of how to get a BS doctor's note.
 
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Attention whore needlessly brings "anxiety alerting" dog to interview.


I have a job interview this Thursday! I haven’t really worked since March 2020, so this is my first time in any sort of professional environment since becoming a service dog user.

My dog is trained to alert me for anxiety so I can redirect before a panic attack, and to intervene by distracting me when I am having a panic attack. He’s under 20 pounds, and I am more comfortable handling him by wearing him in a baby sling or sitting him in my lap than having him on a leash. This method has received mixed reactions, and I do worry about how it will impact my appearing “professional” for the interview, but it’s what works best for me.

The interview was scheduled through the application portal, so I haven’t really talked to anyone there, but I have an email address. Should I contact that person to let them know ahead of time that I will have my service dog with me for the interview? If so, what details should I include?
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There's an update! Of course she didn't get the job.

The short version is: I didn’t get the job.

I ended up being so focused on preparing for the interview as a service dog user that I failed to prepare for the interview as an interviewee. I made my service dog a new bowtie so he would look professional (very cute, zero regrets), and spent an entire day working on new training so he would sit calmly and silently beside me during the interview (he did great during the interview and we have never used that skill again). I forgot to do basic things like prepare an answer to “What do you know about our organization?” I used to be great at interviewing, but this one was a disaster. I would like to think part of that was the setup (a socially-distanced panel of five, making it hard to know where to talk), but definitely a lot of it was just that I was ill-prepared and worried about how people would perceive my service dog.

I think what I really needed to hear was that it may not be the best optics to show up to a job interview with a service dog in a sling, but that if the interviewer took issue with that, the job and employer likely were not a good fit for me anyway.

Since then, another identical position at a different location of the same employer opened up, and I applied again. I asked the hiring manager from the first position if they had any feedback before applying and received a positive form letter from HR, but I was not even offered a screening video interview for the new opening.

Ultimately, just the process of applying for two positions and interviewing for one of them was so stressful that I don’t think I am ready to go back to work. I haven’t looked at job listings again since.
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melty said:
There's an update! Of course she didn't get the job.
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I think what she needed to realise is that the world of work isn't looking for someone who can't function in life without their fake service dog.

No one will ever tell her that thought because no one can be arsed with her unhinged REEEing about ableism so the best she can hope for is being stonewalled.

Also call me callous but get the fuck over yourself. A service dog that helps you with your anxiety? Get some cbt and suck it the fuck up. Anxiety is something that pretty much everyone deals with in some way or another and it's sink or swim. Completely counter intuitive to rely on another living breathing being to "manage" it. You might as well bring your mum or your boyfriend to job interviews. It's about the same level of pathetic.

I've met some fake emotional support dogs in my line of work and some of them would give you a nervous break down, not emotionally support you. The sooner we can stop pretending to tolerate and accept this line of thinking the better.
 
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Jupiter Doughnuts said:
This means they technically can't fire you for 3 more months and at some companies you get full pay for this time.
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Just one thing to add about FMLA, if you don't come back after that prescribed period, the pay you received (and any medical expenses you've racked up while on company insurance) is now a debt you owe to the company.
They're also not required to offer you the same job role that you left, only that it's of "comparable" pay. So you may very quickly come back after and find that you're now a shit-scrubbing janitor on the graveyard shift rather than a cushy office worker from 9-5 on weekdays, and you will be their indentured toilet-polishing bitch until your debt is paid off.

It's a bad idea to fuck around with FMLA.
 
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athousandrustynails said:
I think what she needed to realise is that the world of work isn't looking for someone who can't function in life without their fake service dog.

No one will ever tell her that thought because no one can be arsed with her unhinged REEEing about ableism so the best she can hope for is being stonewalled.

Also call me callous but get the fuck over yourself. A service dog that helps you with your anxiety? Get some cbt and suck it the fuck up. Anxiety is something that pretty much everyone deals with in some way or another and it's sink or swim. Completely counter intuitive to rely on another living breathing being to "manage" it. You might as well bring your mum or your boyfriend to job interviews. It's about the same level of pathetic.

I've met some fake emotional support dogs in my line of work and some of them would give you a nervous break down, not emotionally support you. The sooner we can stop pretending to tolerate and accept this line of thinking the better.
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"Service dog for anxiety" types don't have anxiety at all. It's absolutely ridiculous, especially in the context of society anxiety, to say having every eye in the room on you and your dog "helps." They are universally people who have so little experience with anxiety, they call a little worry a "panic attack". They are ironically deconditioned to the concept of stress because they've experience so little of it.

But that's the point. The dog is for attention, it's a histrionic wonderland to them. Not only does everyone look, they get to have an animal emblazoned with their "I'm so sick" flag in the form of a fake vest. Every store, every appointment, everyone sees a poor victim. And if they get confronted? Oh, now we have extra attention points and a self righteous wrath. There is no downside here for a cluster B person.

Watching a narcissistic behemoth with no psych diagnoses slog around with a giant "service dog" for years. All she did was bitch about the stress of preparing and dragging the dog there, then all she did was bask in attention once she was there. She'd even refuse to let the dog shit outside, so it would shit in the store, and she'd get to have the employees rushing to help. Ironically, this forever child seems to have no clue everyone assumes shes retarded. When the dentist puts your picture up to make you feel special, it's not a good sign.
 
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Guess this kind of fits here. They have proven that Natalia Grace was a child all along and when they age changed her and kicked her out she was actually eight years old. They also have proof that her age was known to the family and that they lied about the documents and edited them to show older ages.
 
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Dnein said:
"Service dog for anxiety" types don't have anxiety at all. It's absolutely ridiculous, especially in the context of society anxiety, to say having every eye in the room on you and your dog "helps." They are universally people who have so little experience with anxiety, they call a little worry a "panic attack". They are ironically deconditioned to the concept of stress because they've experience so little of it.
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Now dogs work great for anxiety but you can't take them everywhere you go, that's just being a dick head. But for sitting around the house dogs do wonders for anxiety and depression, definitely healthier than taking a bunch of xanax for anxiety.
 
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GenociderSyo said:
Guess this kind of fits here. They have proven that Natalia Grace was a child all along and when they age changed her and kicked her out she was actually eight years old. They also have proof that her age was known to the family and that they lied about the documents and edited them to show older ages.
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Well yeah, it was clear to everyone with eyes that she got taller as time went on. Adults don't.
 
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A little off topic, but can someone give me the skinny on ““”Chronic Lyme”””?
Why is it so popular with munchies and drug addicts, and why do the Lyme munchies always seem to have five hundred other things that they say is wrong with them?
I’m not going to PL and explain my deep hatred of munchies, but what is it about Lyme in particular that they love so much?
 
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VeteranOfTheRetardWars said:
A little off topic, but can someone give me the skinny on ““”Chronic Lyme”””?
Why is it so popular with munchies and drug addicts, and why do the Lyme munchies always seem to have five hundred other things that they say is wrong with them?
I’m not going to PL and explain my deep hatred of munchies, but what is it about Lyme in particular that they love so much?
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It's invisible, little research has been done, any symptom ever can fit it, and people are freaked out by ticks.
 
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