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

[Spunt]

I can't be the only one who thought of this, surely?



Also how do you "not notice" you've left hospital with a cannula? They're really uncomfortable and that one was right in her field of vision. I'm guessing she self-discharged when she wasn't "validated" and kept it for pity points, and/or to make it easier to inject god knows what into herself.

Those are some gnarly SH scars on that arm, though. Looks like it had to be stapled shut, which is impressive given the usual attention-seeking chicken scratching we usually see.

 

[Elderly beef taco]

Finally figured out why some of my images won't attach, so i can finally share this with you:
A tiktok all about telling internet addicted kids that having a slightly wider range of mobility = EDS, and that EDS leads to POTS. Since i looked at this page, almost half my tiktok feed is now related to these topics.

 

[Flourishing Pinecone ❧]

A tiktok all about telling internet addicted kids that having a slightly wider range of mobility = EDS, and that EDS leads to POTS

Don't ask me why, but I looked at her profile pic and immediately thought "she looks Australian" (she is).

 

[Equus quagga]

Big day for Rad Zebra's TikTok!

From my initial post:

After a single lonely post in 2022 and a whopping five in 2023, something truly unhinged happens on April Fools’ Day 2024 (fitting, right?). From that point on, she starts spamming the platform like it’s a full-time job—with benefits—posting almost daily, skipping only 15 out of 104 days. Then, because apparently moderation is a foreign concept, she launches into a streak on July 14 that’s still going as of today. That’s over 280 consecutive days of content.

As of July 14, 2025 Christi has posted on 365 of 365 days.

She really posted every single day, multiple times a day, for an entire year. Countless hours of prancing around as TikToks most sickest advocate. Its miraculous with 50+ diagnoses she has so much time to create the same tiresome videos over and over.

Since she admits all over TikTok to reading here, Happy Anniversary Christi!

 

[RookTheFanatic]

The Overly Excited Meerkat. I'm fascinating and horrified by her.

The Incurable Optimist. Has been claiming for years to be terminally ill.

The incurable optimist, I have no idea what's going on with her health wise, but she has some wonderfully eccentric fashion and isn't that annoying. She is also in the UK and was (as far as I know) under children's hospice, so I'd assume there is actually something going on. We have a bit of a take-no-shit attitude with hospice care.

The meerkat woman is one of the only munchies in the FND crowd who elicits such a visceral disgust from me. I can probably pull together some screenshots and such as a small intro but I'd rather eat glass shards.

For those unaware: white woman FND munchie, but on steroids. She's completely coherent in most of her videos, sporting a crash helmet, but insists on being carted around in a tard chair with limb restraints and a chest harness to wail and scream and thrash about whenever she feels like she doesn't get enough attention. I do really pity her doctors.

 

[It's Never Leprosy]

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?

 

[grimacefetishist]

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 are both an insult to actual retards, who have an actual medical condition they can't control

 

[VisceraNexus]

is there a diagnostic distinction between those who pretend to be sick, and those who pretend to be retarded?

They are both considered Factitious Disorder. One of the books I was reading about it ("Dying To Be Ill," very clinical but absolutely fascinating) cites cases of people in psych wards pretending to be pedophiles just to keep getting medical attention. It's the same motive, same behaviors, etc.

 

[Polychromos]

As BPD chicks go, judging only from the screenshots since I haven’t seen her before, she’s mostly just pitiful to me. She does seem to grasp that she’s brought the poor treatment she receives from HCPs on herself, which is sympathetic. It must be pretty grim to realize that you need to change but also be self aware enough to grok it’s not gonna happen.

Then again, how old is she? Some people with even level 11/10 BPD have been known to age out of it. Granted, they’re few and far between but it does occur.

I guess she’s worse than the caps show, though. I admit to being kind of a Positive Polly about personality disorders, but more so if they don’t post incessantly about it online.

I think she is around 30?
I could do a deep dive on her in about a week, if no one else does it. But the thing is, while she's definitely a munchie, first and foremost she's a BPD Queen, so I don't now if she really fits the thread.
Don't believe any of her "self reflection". She'll mirror the things LCF says about her, but she doesn't change. She goes to the hospital several times a week, and like the comment below implies, she sometimes does stupid shit like swallowing batteries, or calls the ambulance before a "suicide attempt". All doctors that have ever dealt with her, are completely sick of her.

She's currently claiming to be an alcoholic. I think it's because it's a new market to tab into and they kind of can't refuse her.

She's 60+ battery swallowing incidents and an obstructed oesophagus deep in her disorder. Has a decent care package both from DVA (strange and traumatic discharge) and the national disability scheme.

Unfortunately many in this country refuse to treat personality disorders and she lives regionally so she is SOL in terms of effective treatment. Despite that, she's been given a lot of opportunities with some excellent treating teams

She's a qualified nurse and has worked in the industry post military but I am not sure if she is 30 yet.

The NDIS precludes recovery - Any positive change or using less supports results in loss of package. She's very isolated and has the distress tolerance of an avocado which isn't helped by having all her daily tasks managed by disability workers. The hospital is managing her the way they do, with a quick turnaround and little hospitality.

So yes. Pity, in short.

Has she actually worked in the field? As I understood, she only started to pick up "degrees" in nursing after finishing her psychology bachelor.

I can't be the only one who thought of this, surely?

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Also how do you "not notice" you've left hospital with a cannula? They're really uncomfortable and that one was right in her field of vision. I'm guessing she self-discharged when she wasn't "validated" and kept it for pity points, and/or to make it easier to inject god knows what into herself.

Those are some gnarly SH scars on that arm, though. Looks like it had to be stapled shut, which is impressive given the usual attention-seeking chicken scratching we usually see.

She sometimes has several hospital admissions a week. I think this story is fake and just a way to show off her arm, but I could imagine someone with that many admissions not noticing the cannula. It's probably more normal having it in to her.

 

[Dharma bump]

Yeah, she did in Cairns for a couple of years across primary care and corrections.

She's accepted as having done so by her lecturers and the people who she has worked with on academic papers, so I am inclined to believe her But she isnt currently registered. There's limited internet presence from the time, which suggests she was doing something other than making fairy lights out of pill bottles.

I'm mostly interested in how the relationship wit her lecturer turned nurse turned co-author worked and broke down. CLPNPs weird me out as a group precisely because of this kind of blurring of boundaries.

Edit: she has won awards only open to registered and currently practicing nurses which are verified in nursing newsletters, so she definitely worked.

 

[Damn Dumpster Fire]

I don’t suppose anyone here has been following aur0ra on tiktok? Munchie claiming 16 TBIs, seizures, flatlining, and a whole host of other things (including that her eyes changed colors due to lack of oxygen)… apparently she has scammed people out of almost $50k on gofundme I discovered her through a snark sub when I was browsing Reddit. The sub is also hilarious (the power leveling is almost on par with illnessfakers), so if you want a laugh, give it a browse. Attached some of the highlights from the subreddit, but I get the sense this one would make a particularly funny deep dive (Sorry if formatting sucks, obligatory mobilefag disclaimer)

 

[Oracular Slug]

She's currently claiming to be an alcoholic. I think it's because it's a new market to tab into and they kind of can't refuse her.

Good, AA's a cult, maybe her insanity will let a few sober alcoholics realize they don't need to spend the rest of their lives fellating Bill.

 

[Greedy Fly]

(including that her eyes changed colors due to lack of oxygen)

The whites of your eyes will turn pinkish or bloodshot if the eyes are not getting enough oxygen (corneal hypoxia). Eyes normally get oxygen straight from the air, if you block that by wearing contacts too long, they'll try to form new blood vessels into the eye, which will fuck your vision up in the long term. (Solution: wear contacts less, keep them very clean, get newer types that allow better oxygen flow)

The idea of color-changing irises a la a 2000s Mary Sue fanfic is hilarious though.

 

[poopinmy_line]

Update on Diana Cowen Physics Girl: Sadly her father passed last month but suddenly was well enough to jet set to Hawaii to be with him before he died. She also recently traveled to Alaska! We've come a long way from her "first time standing up" in December.

She's also collected a shiny new diagnosis, the munchie staple: MCAS.

 

[Damn Dumpster Fire]

The whites of your eyes will turn pinkish or bloodshot if the eyes are not getting enough oxygen (corneal hypoxia). Eyes normally get oxygen straight from the air, if you block that by wearing contacts too long, they'll try to form new blood vessels into the eye, which will fuck your vision up in the long term. (Solution: wear contacts less, keep them very clean, get newer types that allow better oxygen flow)

The idea of color-changing irises a la a 2000s Mary Sue fanfic is hilarious though.

Yeah, good clarification — I tend to think of pinkish/bloodshot eyes as just… blood shot, and not actually changing color. One of her responses to someone calling her on the color changing irises was also hilarious and peak middle school girl… it’s in the original post I made, but the person commented with “so close! Eye color is actually related to the amount of melanin you have in your eyes and is completely genetic. Oxygen saturation only impacts the color of your sclera, not your iris.” To which aur0ra replied “so close! I’ve had 16 tbis and my brain and eyes aren’t getting enough oxygen and blood flow.”

I noticed that the subreddit mods had to make a post telling people to stop talking about their health issues, apparently it’s turning into the suffering Olympics over there… the number of “as sOmEoNe wItH cHiArI mAlFoRmAtIoN…” and “as sOmEoNe wItH a tBi…” apparently got out of hand. I’m not on tiktok and don’t care about aur0ra, but the subreddit is giving me immense entertainment.

Update on Diana Cowen Physics Girl: Sadly her father passed last month but suddenly was well enough to jet set to Hawaii to be with him before he died. She also recently traveled to Alaska! We've come a long way from her "first time standing up" in December.

She's also collected a shiny new diagnosis, the munchie staple: MCAS.

Oh wow, the timing! You’d almost think that she wasn’t really sick! wonder how her new munchie staple will fit into the saga…

 

[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.