Victor Markhoff / Ana Victoria Markhoff / vvictorman_uel - Powerchair faker pooner, has every illness, allergic to Krebs cycle, bed mayo enjoyer, kicked out of house and mental hospital, constant ebeggar, applesauce heiress paid to yeet her teets

Victor Markhoff was born in Belgium, raised in Pennsylvania, and is now facing homelessness in New York City when he loses his on-campus housing on Wednesday. The 20-year-old transgender student was told by NYU that he has to leave his dorm in Broome on May 15, and has set up a GoFundMe page to avoid ending up on the street.

He said the predicament came about after he started struggling academically, resulting in the loss of his financial aid, which meant he could not afford school and thus was not eligible for student housing. An NYU psychiatrist then deemed him “noncompliant” and refused to sign off on a medical appeal that would have extended his scholarship after he missed an appointment due to chronic pain, he told NYU Local.

“Because I couldn’t get financial aid, I couldn’t afford school, and therefore housing, anymore,” he explained. “I rely on school for housing, and you need to be a student in order to be in housing.”

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Several days of hunger pangs prompted Gallatin junior Victor Markhoff’s decision to seek help from NYU’s Student Health
Center.

“I’m starving,” he told the staffer on the receiving line. “How can I get food?”

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Nearly two months into the spring semester, Markhoff has yet to attend a class. He can’t keep up with his grade-point average. He can’t figure out a major. He can’t even complete class registration until he secures a financial aid package that provides housing.

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Victoria is a wheelchair user. During the early covid lockdowns, she developed some pain in the hip. A "physiatrist" (pain management doctor, basically a great way to get scheduled drugs and munchie disability devices covered by insurance) told her she could use one for a labral tear (not something any actual sane doctor would do). She insisted the physiatrist do what she says (see the Bernie meme below) and got her therapist to sign a letter that her depression was caused by her lack of a wheelchair (for a problem no one needs a wheelchair for).

She continues to go up and down the stairs to her fourth-floor walkup apartment with her wheelchair.



She got her loaner chair and wore it out, then prayed for a power chair so she wouldn't have to make any effort.



But don't worry, this wasn't some new psychosis driven by lockdown. Before any of that started, she was already sure 2020 was her year to start living her best rolling life.




Before she got her chair, she dreamed of wheelchairs.




Somehow, no one in her life ever seems to think she needs it, but she's very, very insistent in spite of insurers, many clinics, transit agencies, and of course, her abusive parents all saying she does not need it. The only people who are in her corner are the occupational therapists who make money from her munching.

Yes, she can walk, but see, since most wheelchair users can do a step or two, she's just as heckin' valid as any other chair user.



How crazy for anyone to think using a chair would make a person less mobile over time. That wouldn't ha-

In 2023, she got a power chair. This was the ultimate for her, because it's wrong and ableist to expect anything, ever, of a power chair user. Receiving the power chair is evidence her disability is so big and so real she actually needs eight full hours of care per day, and can't ever do chores or have any responsibilities.



Once you have a power chair, you never again have to explain yourself, because insurance wouldn't give a chair out to just anyone. Now you're legitimized!



Once you have a power chair, you can get the state to hire someone to clean your room. Best chair ever!

Now, most regular ol' disabled people with cerebral palsy or paralysis or whatnot can use a power chair bought a lot of places, and only upgrade to a crazy custom if they've got Christopher Reeve money. But not our fair heroine. Only the most expensive wheelchairs will do. Get your filthy Amazon power chair out of here, parents! Spending a mere thousand dollars on our princess? Only a $60,000 chair will do! Let's hear about this Cadillac of chairs and why it's better than what the filthy peasants have:

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She leaves lights on all night, leaves the place filthy, and owes back rent. Her dad brings money to pay it and she says the dad can't go negotiate with the landlord because the dad's not a lawyer, so it's legally not allowed to negotiate with someone with a lawyer(???). Her dad thinks this sounds like bullshit and made-up, for some reason.



Leaves all her doors and windows open and then demands the landlord keeps the place nice and toasty all winter.

According to her, the landlord pushed her down the stairs in Fall 2022. She says there was a warrant and clear video evidence of what happened.



In spite of acting like this was criminal, she later says the landlord "settled" and allowed her to stay until January 31.

She kept accusing him of physical assaults, so he decided to film any interaction. This was also harassment, of course.



Didn't pay rent for an extended period, called cops repeatedly on landlord, she and landlord exchange accusations of harassment.



With all that experience in the monkey cage, she knows that if she ran the zoo, it'd be so great.

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EDS, check!



POTS, check!


ME/CFS, check!



Cranial cervical instability, check! Actually, in 2022 she says that's only tentative, in 2021 she said the doctor she paid OOP to diagnose her with it said no, but in 2023 it was totally real. You know how these things are. She asked all her followers to tell her how they got diagnosed so she could fake...er, express the right symptoms.



Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure-like episodes, sure!



Gastroparesis, check! Her gastroparesis means meat is the only thing she can eat, and she's also "allergic to most fruits and vegetables," so it's lucky she's fat because that's "protective against gastroparesis flares":




Self-diagnosed autism, check! (Here's a case of her stopping an appointment that isn't going her way, an ongoing pattern you'll see with this cow.) She's also decided just this year (2024) that she "goes nonverbal" and needs assistive communication devices.

Vague pain complaints and "rare spine problems," check! "Adrenal crisis," check!

Weirdly, a lot of people don't believe her about her health problems? Even though there are so many! And it's really hard to shop for...I mean, find...a doctor who understands her very real problems.


She's also on opioid pain medications and can't use anything else. Only strong opioids will do! She is the "perfect pain patient." Some doctor shopping below.



Ugh it sucks when you want high dose opioids but something else helps your pain and it's no longer as easy to get someone to sign off on it.

The tweet at the bottom of this is the first time she mentions opioids. Not for pain, just to get high. Shortly after, she starts looking for a way to get them all the time.


Victoria is "allergic" to everything. She believes she has several allergic reactions daily. She claims to be allergic to many inactive ingredients in medications, giving her a medical reason to switch formulations and brands to more expensive compounded versions while likely pocketing the previous prescriptions. She regularly consumes things she claims to have severe allergies to.


Her "allergic reactions" involve her taking a 3 hour nap and claiming catatonia. Even her allergist thinks this is insane.



Her "allergic reaction" indicators also seem to include skin lesions that look like picked-at acne.



Only one thing doesn't exacerbate her allergies.

She's also on amphetamines, of course.


In the past, Adderall gave her psychotic/manic symptoms she didn't identify as such, but she's sure Vyvanse is much better.

Victoria's understanding of her own health is extremely limited, and seems to extend exclusively to understandings that enhance her ability to live the way she wants to.

She believes that her hyperinsulinemia, for instance (common for fat people and women with PCOS) means she should eat far more than a normal person, or else her blood sugar won't be "safe."

Left the hospital when an ER visit wasn't going her way...oh wait, no, it was to avoid monkeypox. Watch out for that hospital buttsecks.



After trying out a CGM briefly, our heroine decided that her blood sugar is always low and that the solution is to constantly drink soda.


Typically, if you have low blood sugar, doctors recommend the 15/15 rule: 15 grams of carbs then wait 15 minutes, then repeat if you're still low. You can get your 15 grams of carbs from foods like 15 good-sized grapes, an apple, banana, or orange, or a half-cup of fruit juice.

Or if you're our cow here, you could just drink a full bottle of Coca-Cola every time it happens, with about 70g of sugar, because there's nothing natural or unprocessed that could possibly give you 15 grams of sugar. She needs her sugary drinks! You don't understand!




Sugar can't cause problems. It couldn't be sugar.


Her actual hospitalizations seem to have been psychiatric in nature.

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Maybe someone will just buy her a power chair! Corporations are Santa Claus if you're a disability influencer.



Influencers don't have to give up social media when they check in to the booby hatch!

She took a Masterclass so this should be fine.

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It's actually more accessible than a hospital, according to her.



She of course is very grateful and gracious about the attention and money they have spent on her accommodations.

Haha, just kidding.




Most recently, our heroine has had florid fantasies about psychiatrically imprisoning her mother.




If mommy doesn't bring the tendies up to her room and provide her with opioids whenever, that's abuse. Her yelling at her mom is just good clean fun.


For a while they fund it all. Pain doctor appointments from an out of state prescriber where the doc charges hundreds for a monthly 5-minute appointment? Sure. Why would anyone have a problem with that? When the funds stop, a hissy fit ensues. They're wealthy enough to help, so they need to! It's that simple!



Her parents became more and more exasperated with her continuing drama and eventually, despite all the changes to the house, kicked Victoria out (after trying some tough love with removing meds and allowance just made her roid rage). She went to a mental inpatient facility costing (according to her) $50,000 a month and got kicked out of there, too.

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Here's a fun case report about a similar case. (Archive)
Our cow decided she had Addison's disease in 2022 and immediately started having adrenal crisis after adrenal crisis. It would appear from the case study that the low blood levels and symptoms she's having could be from surreptitious self-administration of steroids.



It would appear that she likes to be on steroids, and bottoming out her blood levels is all about ensuring she gets steady access.

Diana Moon Glampers said:

It would appear that she likes to be on steroids

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Diana Moon Glampers said:

She continues to go up and down the stairs to her fourth-floor walkup apartment with her wheelchair.

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Sixteen-year-old Victoria Markhoff is a Solebury School junior, immigrant, activist, and filmmaker, and she is apt to speak of a typically taboo topic: mental illness. She battles with depression and anxiety herself and still has achieved success in both high school and the University of Pennsylvania’s Young Scholars Program. Victoria stands against the stigma of mental illness through speaking, her short film “Before I Go To Sleep At Night,” and even lobbying in front of Congress with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Victoria helped start the local Lean-In Circle for A Woman’s Place to help women succeed. She also volunteers in political campaigns and runs a political discussion group, PolitiChat.

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So let’s start with a question you might have right now.

“An apple watch? Why would you be fundraising for an apple watch?”

It’s a fundraising request that feels a little weird to put up myself—but an apple watch is an excellent accessibility tool for disabled people and a tool I desperately need right now to manage my health conditions.

In the past, I’ve been open about having Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a connective tissue disorder where your body doesn’t correctly produce collagen. Since collagen is the building block of the body, EDS is systemic and impacts the entire body. This means that there are many common comorbidities that come with having EDS.

One such comorbidity is Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, otherwise known as POTS. The name is quite self explanatory—Postural Orthostatic, which means you’re affected when you sit or stand up, and Tachycardia, which is when your heart beats very fast and is out of proportion to your level of exertion or activity. The syndrome belongs to a class of disorders called Dysautonomia, which is when your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) doesn’t work as it should. In the case of POTS, that means the ANS doesn’t tell the body to constrict the blood vessels when you get up, so your blood pressure doesn’t rise as you rise.

Lately, I’ve been dealing with some really severe symptoms with my head, including a potential brain aneurysm and potentially too much pressure in my head, so I’m starting medication that will make my POTS worse. I need to be able to track my POTS and distinguish my symptoms from which condition.

Since I have ADHD, an apple watch would also be very helpful for reminders, including for medication and things like OT and PT.

On top of that, and very importantly, the apple watch allows you to call for help—and as a fall risk, that’s a very necessary safety device I need.

As you can imagine, being so severely impacted by my disabilities means I can’t work and support myself, and there is no one else to support me since I left home at 18 due to being trans. I’ve been so sick I haven’t even had the time and energy to find a lawyer to apply for disability—not that a paltry $700 a month and an asset limit of $2000 would help me get the accessibility tools I need anyway.

The apple watch is an expense I can’t afford but an accessibility device I desperately need.

Any additional money will go directly towards funding for my OT materials; I’m currently unable to do OT consistently because I’m lacking them. If you’d like to help purchase materials for my occupational therapy, here is a link to my amazon wishlist. link

Thank you in advance for your help. I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate it

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These allegations were brought to the committee’s attention when Gallatin sophomore Victor Markhoff, a graduate of Solebury School, came across the story, which he had first read directly after it was published, last month.
“I googled my old school. The court case came up. I browsed the news articles. Then, I saw that there was a John Ward Regan, described as a ‘professor in New York,’” Markhoff told NYU Local on Monday. “Out of sheer curiosity, I googled the name because I was like, it would sure be a coincidence if he worked at NYU. And sure enough, he popped up as an NYU professor.”
Markhoff then brought this to the Diversity Committee’s attention, leading the committee to first discuss the matter via email on March 19; the committee met with the LS Dean on April 2. Mostov did not return requests for comment.

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