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

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Jamila said:
Knowing the truth about Rose, everything she posts no matter how innocuous it seems nauseates me, but I LOLed at "(I've also been dying for a while)".

Noticed this in her post history.
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I wonder who this "best friend" is that she is "marrying" since The Horse Lord is out of the picture.
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"...pyjamas from my sibling and my sister gave me..."
Is her sister not her sibling? Is she trying to claim one person as two?

"Got some baby toys as I'm losing motor function and my brain is regressing..." Yet she is texting with perfect lucidity, no hint of cognitive decline, nary a spelling mistake in sight. Good motor skills there too.
But no, she needs those baby rattles. Her iPhone is too advanced for her now.
 
failed mist said:
It's very disturbing to think that this thread documents a female suicide cult hiding in plain sight.
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I think suicide cult is an apt term for us observers to use, but I think these munchie see it as nothing less than their very own passion play. The various medical equipment and tubes are their version of the stations of the cross.

Ofc unlike Jesus nobody is redeemed or saved by their antics. In fact I’m positive these are the types of girls that got various people burned at the stake for funsies 330 years ago in Salem.
 
re: Rose's sibling, she has two sisters and a brother. One of the sisters, Katie, blogged about her eating disorder that became celiac somehow and her tremors before Rose started faking sick. Then she went on a gender journey and now she calls herself Leo. That's the one Rose calls her sibling.

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Kate Farms Shill said:
Merry Christmas! Here's some more quick presents before I go celebrate with my family. This isn't how this year was planned to go and I still have like 5 more posts I didn't get time for but I wasn't expecting a bunch of them to choose the nuclear option in such a short time.

1) We now kind of know how Allyson died thanks to one of the residents of her home for wayward weirdos. Someone checked the reviews for the facility she was in and found someone talking about how her bipap malfunctioned and they told her to just sleep without it. So yes, dead by obesity-related diseases exacerbated by her drug use.
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2) Paige was spotted in someone's comments claiming she's going to VSED (pulled from Reddit)
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3) So is Rose. According to a medfag what likely happened here is they know she doesn't need all these interventions she's gotten and she's using them to keep herself sick, so she's been told no more. Now her options are go home and eat or die in a hospice. Everyone is expecting her to starve for a while, disappear, and come back pretending she's jesus's favorite little miracle child.
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Enjoy this unintentional comedy gold from her.
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if you’re still doing update batches can you squeeze in Bee Crisp?

Also, your recaps have been the best farms gift ever—we appreciate you.
 
I forget to check for 5 minutes and Allyson goes and dies on me. Ffs.
I'm amazed that the sepsis goblin that is lobster-hand-NZ's-saddest-walrus has outlived the big old zeppelin.
Stranger things have happen.
 
I think we all know or at least suspect this by now, but even if someone has a degenerative illness that makes them mentally digress, you still get things that are age appropriate. You wouldn't give your Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother a goddamned baby rattle. There are cups with handles and drinking spouts (teething toys are fair game if the demented person in question has a tendency to try to eat their fingers, but that's a different situation than this).
 
Maybe it’s a bit off topic, but I need to get this off my chest. Anytime anyone on the internet claims to be terminally ill, I’m immediately going to assume they’re a Munchie farming for sympathy and/or have a financial incentive to do so.

I used to fall for the scams back in the day, until I realized that most genuinely terminally ill people have next to zero energy to bother using the internet. The very act of picking up your phone to doom scroll is just too exhausting for the terminally ill who could die at any given moment.

If they comment, their comments will be brief and without detail. Because their brains are literally start to deteriorate as their illness rapidly gets worse. Most of them would rather spend whatever time they have left with family members rather than internet strangers. It’s why in genuine cases, family members handle online communications on their behalf.

It’s beyond sickening to fake being terminally ill. You have to be a special kind of sociopath to do so.
 
Kiwisee said:
Maybe it’s a bit off topic, but I need to get this off my chest. Anytime anyone on the internet claims to be terminally ill, I’m immediately going to assume they’re a Munchie farming for sympathy and/or have a financial incentive to do so.

I used to fall for the scams back in the day, until I realized that most genuinely terminally ill people have next to zero energy to bother using the internet. The very act of picking up your phone to doom scroll is just too exhausting for the terminally ill who could die at any given moment.

If they comment, their comments will be brief and without detail. Because their brains are literally start to deteriorate as their illness rapidly gets worse. Most of them would rather spend whatever time they have left with family members rather than internet strangers. It’s why in genuine cases, family members handle online communications on their behalf.

It’s beyond sickening to fake being terminally ill. You have to be a special kind of sociopath to do so.
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I think the modern internet ruined self-help groups. Maybe I remember the old internet with rose tinted glasses, but I feel like it wasn't always that way. I can imagine that it would be genuinely nice for someone to talk to someone who has the same terminal illness. I know there were fakers from the beginning, but I also think that social media is now so much more about ego and self-portrayal and less about community.
The red flag for me is that their illness always seems to be their whole identity. Even the interests they pretend to have outside their illness seem so incredibly surface level.
But I also think that, just like the chronically ill, there are probably also quite a few true and honest terminally ill people, who behave just as bad as the fake ones...
 
Breadbear said:
You wouldn't give your Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother a goddamned baby rattle.
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When you start looking for dementia-specific toys and tools, a lot of them do look like larger versions of young children's toys--and the manufacturers know this, and are careful to keep them dignified and adult-appropriate.
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Real progressive dementia isn't clean and well-demarcated; the worst part is when the person is self-aware enough to know something is wrong, and to sense when people are patronizing them, even intermittently.


This situation is just an adult baby getting off in public.
 
Aunt Carol said:
When you start looking for dementia-specific toys and tools, a lot of them do look like larger versions of young children's toys--and the manufacturers know this, and are careful to keep them dignified and adult-appropriate.
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Real progressive dementia isn't clean and well-demarcated; the worst part is when the person is self-aware enough to know something is wrong, and to sense when people are patronizing them, even intermittently.


This situation is just an adult baby getting off in public.
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I've also seen dementia patients being given toys from their childhood, not really to play with, but so they might be able to remember something familiar. (This is just anecdotal, could be "not a thing".)

I typed a long paragraph about how much Rose disgusts me, but then I remembered that that is what gets her off, so I won't.
 
Breadbear said:
I think we all know or at least suspect this by now, but even if someone has a degenerative illness that makes them mentally digress, you still get things that are age appropriate. You wouldn't give your Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother a goddamned baby rattle. There are cups with handles and drinking spouts (teething toys are fair game if the demented person in question has a tendency to try to eat their fingers, but that's a different situation than this).
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I would give my Alzheimer's suffering grandmother a goddamn baby rattle, who are you to decide what I should do?
 
More anecdote though I have heard similar things said by nurses and social workers who deal with dementia patients. I've heard that, at least with some types of dementia, they go back to a specific period in their lives. If you can figure out what this period is and adapt to it, its less difficult for them.

I've seen two people decline with dementia to the extent neither remembered they had children, It was really difficult to watch. Neither seemed to be in a specific place and time, but would respond to certain people and objects, so I can see this working.

Polychromos said:
I've also seen dementia patients being given toys from their childhood, not really to play with, but so they might be able to remember something familiar. (This is just anecdotal, could be "not a thing".)
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Thanks KFS for the excellent Christmas presents despite your corporate overlords making you do more work than expectef.
 
Kiwisee said:
Maybe it’s a bit off topic, but I need to get this off my chest. Anytime anyone on the internet claims to be terminally ill, I’m immediately going to assume they’re a Munchie farming for sympathy and/or have a financial incentive to do so.

I used to fall for the scams back in the day, until I realized that most genuinely terminally ill people have next to zero energy to bother using the internet. The very act of picking up your phone to doom scroll is just too exhausting for the terminally ill who could die at any given moment.

If they comment, their comments will be brief and without detail. Because their brains are literally start to deteriorate as their illness rapidly gets worse. Most of them would rather spend whatever time they have left with family members rather than internet strangers. It’s why in genuine cases, family members handle online communications on their behalf.

It’s beyond sickening to fake being terminally ill. You have to be a special kind of sociopath to do so.
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I am not a sickly person IRL, but I have had online friends I believe are genuinely sick. It hasn't been their whole identity, and often the internet has been a source of escapism. Sometimes, they have even gotten better and gone onto better things.
 
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Stumbled across this on reddit and it tickled my munchie funny bone... especially the part where she is both unconscious passed out and also somehow totally aware of people stepping over her. Also seems very histrionic for someone who has a history of fainting, and it's pretty telling that the employees were avoiding her - if there is a real fall or medical crisis in most of these corporate chain stores, they don't just ignore it for liability reasons (manager has to fill out an incident form and corporate gets witness statements from the employees, because Americans are litigious as fuck).

And lmao "I just thought I would've been taken care of better" okay but please don't leave your house if a lack of attention is THIS traumatizing. Normal people prone to fainting just sit down when the clammy waves hit and wait for it to pass, or quietly ask a nearby person to grab them a water or something. Idk though, maybe this thread has turned me into a hardcore judgey ass cynic, and fainting dramatically in a drugstore then crying about a lack of strangers fawning over you is totally normal.

Their comments also made me lol. This person seems convinced that fainting is a medical emergency, despite their claim they have a known history of it.
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Aunt Carol said:
When you start looking for dementia-specific toys and tools, a lot of them do look like larger versions of young children's toys--and the manufacturers know this, and are careful to keep them dignified and adult-appropriate.
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Real progressive dementia isn't clean and well-demarcated; the worst part is when the person is self-aware enough to know something is wrong, and to sense when people are patronizing them, even intermittently.


This situation is just an adult baby getting off in public.
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i spent the last three or so years being the primary caretaker for my grandma who has fairly slowly-progressing dementia but is physically very healthy. It took me a real, real long time to realize when she constantly complained to me that she was bored and had nothing to do after having just had visitors for hours, what she meant was after a lifetime of caring for her own multitude of children, then us, then her dying husband, she had nothing that made her feel useful anymore. All the little hobbies she used to enjoy when she was killing time either became too difficult or pointless and she didn't have a household to manage or a family to feed anymore. She was definitely aware she was losing her memory and was being treated like she was helpless. I tried to keep her occupied, sat and watched baseball games or Murder, She Wrote or whatever she wanted and talked to her like she was an adult, never let her know she'd already asked me that question 10 times in the last hour. But I did all the cooking, cleaning, and yard work and wouldn't let her help me. The one time I allowed her to help me weed the gardens she stuck her hand right in poison ivy and i felt like an asshole. over the years she had started to really resent me being there because I did everything.

We finally realized when my mom would relieve me for work trips, her mood would be much better because my mom would hand her a project related to her home business and it would be something where the end result was useful. Cut these thank you notes out. Now put one in every package. Now tape every package shut. It was just something to keep her from driving my mother insane and if it didn't get done right it didn't really matte. But it kept her moving, thinking and most importantly being industrious for a few hours a day. So that's what they do now even if there's no packages to ship out. My mom will print out a bunch of pictures flowers or holiday objects or something, give my grandma a little pair of scissors, and have her cut them out, then she'll use the ones that aren't mangled to make thank you notes to her customers. My grandmother has been so much better since they started doing that a year ago it's unbelievable. Her memory is still going but her personality is so much closer to what it was before the illness.

TLDR if the dementia monster comes knocking give your loved ones a job and don't ever let them know it's not really helpful. You'll feel like a real dickhole making your elderly, sick relatives do work you could do yourself, but it makes them feel like they're needed still.

Thread tax, rose has gotten "married" to some guy and says this is her last video ever. I like the regrowing hair fuzz because it shows off not just how healthy she is but how little of her hair actually fell/was pulled out vs. how much she shaved.
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Dani is insisting she broke her hand again.
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Tricia continues to be dancing on this side of the dirt.
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I'll have time this weekend to post more of the content my stupid gay job cucked you guys out of.
 
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Kiwisee said:
I used to fall for the scams back in the day, until I realized that most genuinely terminally ill people have next to zero energy to bother using the internet.
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Polychromos said:
Maybe I remember the old internet with rose tinted glasses, but I feel like it wasn't always that way.
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I remember when the Kaycee Nicole thing broke on Metafilter and ever since then I've been automatically skeptical of anyone making illness a major facet of their personality. It's been nearly 24 years and I haven't been wrong yet.
 
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