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🤝 CommunityMunchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention
There is currently an Australian tik tok creator with DID describing in detail how she is a pedophile and how she was attracted to a 4 year old while working with kids - but it’s ok, guys! No adult parts of her are attracted to children! She came to realize that it was a child part inside her making her feel attracted to children. So she’s fine with it, and continues to work with children.
She also has a toddler of her own that she was convinced was possessed to assault her and retraumatize her. Apparently the kid is no longer with her. We can hope.
There is currently an Australian tik tok creator with DID describing in detail how she is a pedophile and how she was attracted to a 4 year old while working with kids - but it’s ok, guys! No adult parts of her are attracted to children! She came to realize that it was a child part inside her making her feel attracted to children. So she’s fine with it, and continues to work with children.
Heres the best, full 21 minute clip of her i could find, 05:17 – 05:50 Is when she talks of loving a child
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Xir deserves everything that's coming to them, so many horrible people want absolutely 0 accountability to get away with the most horrific and vile actions, then blame it on their "muh mental illness" fuck off, i'm sick of everyone acting like their unaccountable, their not and never have been, rename it whatever you want a pedo is a pedo.
There is currently an Australian tik tok creator with DID describing in detail how she is a pedophile and how she was attracted to a 4 year old while working with kids - but it’s ok, guys! No adult parts of her are attracted to children! She came to realize that it was a child part inside her making her feel attracted to children. So she’s fine with it, and continues to work with children.
She also has a toddler of her own that she was convinced was possessed to assault her and retraumatize her. Apparently the kid is no longer with her. We can hope.
I'm very unsurprised that Denae (my phone wants to correct to Dense ) is Mormon. I keep thinking about the kind of familial system that would support something like this, and Mormons make sense to me. They're already pretty ok with magical thinking and they're a theatre-loving group as a whole. She is doing a huge improv scene with her whole family and they're yes-and-ing away. They're all enjoying this on some level.
I am surprised by how little God/Jesus comes up in her posts. Seems like a lot of the FND "girlies" are super religious and enjoy thinking of their trials as something sent from on high. They can be extra EXTRA special that way.
Wanna get MATI? Check out this one I found who tells her toddler she's going to have a seizure and then leaves the kid screaming while she takes a nap on the piano. For some reason, my usual site won't let me download this one. But here's another:
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This chick became paralyzed at the ZOO GIFT SHOP two weeks after getting married. It's hysterical.
You may notice at the bottom there, she also has a book to shill!
I just noticed that she absolutely tells on herself in the video showing her placing the camera and walking away from it. Her first few steps are much more stable and then she remembers she "needs" the cane and kinda uses it, but not at all to the extent she's leaning and wobbling in the part she used. Not to even mention the clearly strategic edits. Fucking hell.
She moves like a goddamn Looney Tunes character. It's so painfully, obviously contrived.
Have they tried mentioning the song "O Happy Day" while she's flailing around like a scenery-chewing chorus member in the local community theater troupe? Supposedly doing so triggers her "preacher man" ticK - Maybe that might slow her down?
It's just so stupid and embarrassing, how on earth can her family agree to play along with this and even let her upload it to social media? Also, is ANYONE in the comments believing her?
It would be fine if people like this didn't inevitably go on disability, so society ends up paying for it. I would be curious to know how many munchies like this are on the govt dole. Seems like the number has increased recently but that may be b/c of more visability.
Oh hello long time no sneed. I had a post all drafted in October then suddenly got absolutely swamped at work. My already pretty much at-max-capacity workload more than doubled between when I made this account and the winter holidays and hasn't really calmed down at all. They just keep throwing more money and fringe bennies at me to keep me from killing myself but don't actually reduce my workload any. The last thing I feel like doing after 15 hours of deep frying my retinas at my work computer is to stare at a different computer doing a task that feels like work.
But the girl I wrote about and never posted? She wasn't one of the poopoo caca in my port, ultraskelly ana-chan sepsis warrior hospital-cloggers. I actually wrote about her because she was so extremely average she was somehow anomalous, as if she studied other munchies academically and made herself the absolute dead center of all their traits and stereotypes without ever committing to any of them. I found this very funny. And so it was with peals of riotous laughter that I opened my messages one day recently and read that out of the blue, despite not even being "munchie sick", she has gone to that great cardiologist in the sky. She was about the last one I expected to shuffle off to Buffalo! She was already in her "get bored and get boring" era. I thought for sure she'd fizzle out and reappear in a year or two married and pregnant to tell me that Jesus cured all her health problems. But i guess if we're talking taking the average of munchie tropes, dropping dead from your own stupidity tracks.
In the interest of not wanting to run out of motivation/time by being an insane perfectionist who spends 9 hours revising a single paragraph, I'm going to publish it almost exactly as I wrote it when she was still alive. I also think it is funnier that way because it shows just how convinced I was that this one was going to get bored of her little damsel in distress act and get a hobby, a hubby or both. Enjoy!
I feel like I need to christen my new account with something special. I couldn’t find something special, so take something so incredibly average it’s somehow extraordinary.
Lydia Arina Barron d/b/a lydia.arina,, is like, if you asked me to describe the most stereotypical munchie I could possibly pluck from my imagination, this is the person I would describe. She checks every box. I’m talking blonde affluent suburban preachy Christian girl in her first year of college develops a for-attention-only pseudo-eating disorder and starts “fainting,” and also she has a twin sister who is skinnier, more successful, has a whole-ass beautiful man by her side, and everything else she wishes she was. There’s horses! She has boundless energy and disabilities that fuck off when she wants to go on vacation! She gets all the toys by aggressive doctor shopping and asking other munchies which doctors are the most compliant! She has seemingly unlimited unquestioned access to money despite not working! Her trajectory is like... if we took a survey of the paths these girls take from normal teen to maximum munch and calculated it down to an average, it’s her. She’s the average. I’d say she’s boring but somehow the thought of a munchie Everyman who is just the pure unadulterated distillation of their most common traits is somewhere between bewildering and fucking hilarious to me.
Make yourself a White Russian with Creamy, Delicious Kate Farms Ready-to-Drink Medical Food Product (Coffee Flavor) and affordable Polish vodka and let’s see what havoc this new account can wreak.
We start with a white, blonde, affluent, ultra-Christian, suburban teenage girl from the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas, a true needle in a munch-stack. She had a previous Instagram account lydia.barron but it’s all photography, travel, and teen girl antics, no sickposting. The closest we get is a taped knee but it was just an athletic injury. She competed in multiple sports when she was in grade school, as did her twin sister.
She got on Tiktok for some dance videos in 2019 and this is the first hint of where we’re going, a dramatic video where she shows herself in the ER with a vog mask on while a voiceover plays about how just because she acts normal people think she’s cured. After this the account goes dead.
We pick up on her new Insta in June 2020. She has apparently lost enough weight or bitched enough to get investigated for various GI issues. It’s quarantine and of course, it can’t be an eating disorder or stress or attention-seeking from a girl whose whole little world just came screeching to a halt. It’s gastroparesis and she totally wants to eat but can’t, our typical cope.
She starts a youtube here to share how she was diagnosed. Summary below if you don’t want to watch.
From this we learn that she was at college at Baylor, a Christian college in her home state of Texas, and she was working out every day and eating healthy until she was nearing the end of her first semester. In November 2019 her heart rate started to spike and she lost her appetite. She went to the campus clinic where her resting heart rate was clocked at 170 and wouldn’t go down, so they sent her to ER. Diagnosis: dehydrated and anemic. She sees a cardiologist who was very very mean and dismissive towards her, so she went to a holistic doctor her mom knows who told her to take apple cider vinegar which made her worse. She wasn’t going to class and because Baylor college cruelly had an attendance policy, she had to drop out. Totally not fair. Schools, do better!!
She sees a family doctor who says it sounds like celiac, followed by a gastro who scopes and tests her and says it’s not celiac. She kept refusing to eat and drink and turning up at the ER dehydrated and anemic and says it turns out she has GP, POTS and the umbrella condition connecting them all is EDS. She has the most delicate soft skin of all time, constantly tearing from bandages and EKG adhesive. You will never see any proof of this in her entire account, as I’m sure you all know already. She shows off some benign hypermobility, nothing to write home about.
She then takes us along to her GES. Her face after it speaks volumes: her scan came back normal. This is bad because she didn’t get immediate answers. Yes she did. The answer she got is, “congratulations, you do not have gastroparesis.”
She then has a antroduodenal manometry test which is to measure how well the muscles in her stomach and duodenum work. It involves threading an NG tube with a bunch of sensors on it down her throat then doing things like giving her medication to make her stomach muscles move and having her eat something. Her stomach wasn’t moving at all without the medication so that’s how she got a gastroparesis diagnosis. From this she says the manometry is much more accurate and if your GES comes back normal you should ask for it instead. But… If the tracer meal moved through without a delay why does it matter what the manometry said? Whether her stomach muscles worked on the scan or not, she’s moving the food through her system.
Just for fun here’s some of her posts from her Baylor days. Nothing about illness at all, and she was studying geology.
(If you noticed that her mouth seems to pull to one side when she talks, that’s not just a habit. Her jaw is actually crooked. She says in one post it’s from her twin crowding her in the womb but I don’t know if she was joking.)
A few days later she makes a get to know me video where she says she’s 19 and now studying geophysics in college. the best part of being chronically ill is it makes you more empathetic and the worst part is missing social events. Yeah I’m sure that’s what those people with severe epilepsy or congestive heart failure or ALS would tell you is the biggest drag of their disorder. Her remedy for when she’s feeling super nauseated is to go to sleep.
In August she posts a vlog about going back to college and we learn she’s now at Montana State in Bozeman, Montana. It’s really boring except for the part where she says she has POTS. She just needs to be tested to confirm it but she’s sure she has it and it’s totally flaring. She dances, she eats takeout food with her new friends, and then retreats to her dorm where she whines that she feels terrible. She shows off her potsy heart rate on her apple watch but then goes for a hike because it helps. You know what else helps? Not being dehydrated, she explains, telling us all that electrolyte powder in water improves her symptoms.
Illness hashtags start on a pic where she's out for a hike, jesus wept.
Over on youtube she’s already dropped her calculus II class and is considering changing her major to photography in the first week of school. She goes to the campus clinic and the doctor she sees there “pretty much” diagnosed her with POTS based entirely on self-reported symptoms and no testing. He starts her on a steroid dose to see if it helps. I should point out that this girl posts herself drinking coffee all day. I have to imagine it’s all she’s really drinking. The rest is just about sorority nonsense I could not possibly care less about. There’s one more video, a travel vlog, then the youtube goes dead for two years.
Over on instagram she joins a cult, hikes a lot.
In July 2021, a little more than a year after she is super disabled, she hikes in Alaska!
For almost two years of college antics, there is no mention of these alleged illnesses while she just has fun with her sorority sisters, hikes, travels.
The youtube comes back in January 2022 with a video where she talks about how she just went skiing oh and also she’s getting a puppy to train as a service dog. I love when these girls get into their little social media echo chamber and do shit like this. It’s a kind of confident stupidity I can appreciate. She gets a banana bag at the school clinic and also spergs about blood sugar. In a clip of her trying on an ugly bikini we see she got a Dexcom continuous glucose monitor. So she’s inducing hypoglycemia by not eating, cute.
On instagram she posts about how she learned to listen to her body and take care of her mental health which is why she seems so functional now and can travel and hike and have fun. Almost like traveling is more fun than pretending to be sick all day but you still want an attention-dog.
Our first health video in a while. She says she’s on a cycle where she goes to doctors, gets tested, trials medicines, sees no relief, and is told she’s crazy. Now she’s looking outside the medical world for relief and she’s decided to go vegan because of a Netflix show. She tells people she was on antibiotics for nine months straight and knows her gut biome was probably decimated and that’s why she thinks this will help. She’s also started seeing a naturopath and also says all of this is autoimmune and a vegan diet cures autoimmune disease. Yeah be sure to tell the guy with Crohns that he just doesn’t need his Remicade anymore. He can just eat fruit and seeds and he’ll be cured.
She returns to Tiktok with a dramatic video about how you only see what she shows you, not how sick she truly is. Over in the bio of her youtube she has a different tiktok handle that’s been disabled, abundantly.arina, and I don’t know if that was an account she had and deleted or if she changed the handle on this one, since it only appears in the bio after she starts posting here again. Prior to this there was the username dinosaur.nuggie but that’s a dead link too.
Her next video she’s skipping and jumping on the beach
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And then she says the quiet part out loud: she’s gained weight and is now being driven insane by a few extra millimeters on her thighs. Shes going for ten mile walks, but she misses when she starved herself and laid in bed all day for attention. Mmmmm gonna guess this more than the animals or healing her alleged autoimmune disease is why she went vegan. Tagging shake-shake-shakey Courtney and Ashley Carnduff.
Right after she mentions she misses when she was starving herself, her blood sugar drops. Mystery for the ages.
Ahh yes. Gastroparesis-friendly ramen full of bean sprouts and mushrooms, eaten with another girl who claims she can’t eat. It was worth it!
After telling us she was getting a puppy to train in June she suddenly has a full grown adult retriever in March to be her new accessory. She’s been waiting almost two years for him even though she just announced she was getting a dog a few weeks ago. Maybe she's just saying that's how long she's been wanting to get a service dog to be her attention accessory, but it could also be a program dog. Maybe from one of those scammy ones that doesn't really care what your alleged diagnosis is as long as you have cash.
This post implies during the long gap she was posting on Tiktok and it was mostly illness content. She either got embarrassed of it or tired of people pointing out inconsistencies or something and she deleted it all, most likely in early 2022. Don’t worry, she’s going to go back to posting sick content. Also lol at the girls being mystified by the idea of people wanting to watch people be sick. Why did you all watch Jaquie?
We are now in our “chasing a feeding tube” era. She’s back to Seattle to see if “some old man will let me get my stomach pierced.” Caption says she wants a gastric pacemaker. Nah no one can see a pacer. You want a tube.
She’s afraid she’ll be told she’s too fat to get help for her paralyzed stomach. Well sweetie let me explain how this works: a few weeks ago you were complaining that you gained weight and talked about walking 10 miles a day. You constantly post lattes and show yourself going out to eat, making mac and cheese, splurging on meals on your many trips… And your GES was normal. All of this means you can eat and digest and absorb nutrients just fine. At best you have disordered eating but not an actual eating disorder, but I don’t even think that’s the issue. I think it’s all attention-seeking she can't even commit to and every doctor can see that.
That is what happened lol. He’s a ONE STAR DOCTOR. Everyone in the comments points out he has one review on Google
Great redacting, btw. His name is Pierre Blais and his reviews are actually excellent. He just blew you off, munchie.
Her reasons for why this doctor was bad: he interrupted her too many times when she was delivering her tale of sorrow, her home GI office never sent over the notes that she was there for a gastric pacemaker consult, he blew off the celiac she was already told she didn’t have but she was already gluten free so that’s why it didn’t show up, and he doesn’t think she has motility issues because her GES is normal. He thinks she has some H. pylori variant she’s had in the past. And we learn she was adopted from Russia, that’s kinda interesting. He threw an omeprazole script at her and told her to fuck off. Omeprazole is OTC in the united states. You can pick it up in any drug store or Amazon, whatever.
Look at this super real tremor from her super real low blood sugar. I like the part where it stops shaking as soon as she puts the food in her mouth. Also that’s a nice hearty portion of whatever that is for someone who supposedly has a paralyzed stomach and can’t eat and needs a tube or pacemaker.
Peanut butter cups make her sick but It Was Worth It!
Like two weeks ago she was crying because her celiac test is only negative because she’s been gluten free for a year but now she forgets she has celiac and eats gluten all the time. The seemingly real celiac-haver in the comment says she has nightmares about her food getting cross contaminated. (how does one get banned from Tinder?)
She’s on another trip and she’s all gassy. I hear raw broccoli is recommended for every GP warrior, really digests easily.
She went to Utah so she can go hiking with Oversaturated Courtney lol.
On youtube she posts a video about traveling home from Montana to Texas and stopping along the way. Boring except for the part where she lets her super trained service dog dig a giant hole in the Garden of the Gods, a US national natural landmark, and does absolutely nothing to stop him. Instead she films and laughs about how he isn’t behaving like a service dog. Because he isn’t one.
Over on Tiktok she’s posting that her sorority discriminated against her and her service dog. You mean the girls you spent all your time with for two years watched you hike and live off coffee and fried takeout food and go on vacations and do everything you wanted to do and know you don’t need a service dog and just want attention? Or is it just that some of the girls don’t want a dog in the house? Not everyone likes dogs. Oooh, maybe one of them is Muslim, Allah says petting a puppy dog is haram but impregnating your 9 year old first cousin is a-ok.
In this video, Arina lets us know she would like vanity saltwater infusions for her self-induced dehydration and you are wasting her hard-earned saline. You remember, during the pandemic when there were supply chain issues everywhere and there wasn’t enough to go around for the actually critically ill people in hospitals and doctors and nurses were having to decide who needed it more? Yeah, her self-induced dehydration is way more important than those people’s real diseases.
This is her showing off her EDS transparent skin. LOL. She admits she’s not diagnosed. It seems she suffers from a terrible disorder called “being ethnically Russian.” She’s not a bottle blonde, ftr, that’s her natural hair color and her brows and lashes match. She’s just fair overall and her skin is “transparent” because she’s so pale that her blood vessels are a striking contrast.
Bradycardia apparently looks like my two year old niece being mad at me because I said no more iPad. I love how everything she posts her comments are full of people saying “I have this but much worser than you!” Sicktok is such a fucking cesspit.
She starts vanity salt water and it’s not going as planned. Her IV blew and she has an ouchy head.
Training the dog for “blood sugar alert” which he is, of course, a natural alerter to. She has a dexcom. Bit more accurate than a golden retriever.
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GIVE ME A PORT WHY HAVEN’T YOU GIVEN ME A PORT YET? All the cool girls on tiktok have ports.
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Literally dancing because they signed her up for a PICC… but she no longer has insurance coverage.
One short week later, whoops never mind she totally is getting it. A lot of them seem to pull that insurance thing. Abrea did it with her IOP program wailing that it was going to be like $400.00 a day and insurance didn’t cover a dime and then it turned out it was like $45.00 a day with her insurance. Andie is constantly crying about how something she needs isn’t covered. With andie and Abrea it was a cash grab though, this one I think just said it to make people post heart emojis in her comments for a quick dopamine hit. And just proof this was her only account. She duets herself and it uses her old username.
She gets and immediately decorates it.
Yeah my dad loves my dog too. If I slapped a vest on him and said he was my life saving service dog he’d still want to play with my retarded furry wrecking ball when I visit. He’d just probably shit talk me on Xitter. (this kinda runs in the family.)
Got a few things to say here. One is that she’s pretty much giving away that she knows she’s a fraud and is afraid the public sees her as one too (yes). Hiding her own mobility aids in her own bedroom suggests she’s either aware her family isn’t buying it – perhaps the same reason she was worried to bring a service dog home from college – or she’s actually feeling shame or anxiety about it. If you were lying about who you were to everyone around and constantly worried they’d find out then when you’re at home alone, where no one can see you, relaxed and not playing the part for a while, being suddenly confronted with the evidence of your lies can be really jarring. Some of us just hide empty bottles. Two, these girls usually work their dogs unvested because they want ACCESS ISSUES!!! to scream about but I kind of think this one is afraid of that happening. I think she knows he doesn’t pass muster as a service dog. See also Garden of the Gods. If this isn’t an outright lie, then she’s not working him most of the time because she’s terrified someone will confront her. I also think that’s why she wiped out her old content. Not the dog obviously, but clearly she did not actually want to rebrand because here we are again. I can believe she did something so egregiously fake she got dogpiled or got people telling her to just accept she’s healthy.* Maybe I’m totally off-base here. And finally 3) is that a wheelchair lol
as I was cleaning this up I asked around a little and got some answers from other gawkers.
This is the same account that used to be dinosaur.nuggie/Dino Nuggies. She used it as a medical diary and made it painfully obvious she was doctor shopping because she wanted certain diagnoses and toys like all the other cool munchie girls have. Specifically, she wanted a feeding tube. Real, real bad. Prior to the GI appointments where she had the GES and manometry and supposedly got diagnosed with gastroparesis, she went to three others in very quick succession who all said she did not have gastroparesis and shot down her demands for a feeding tube. She was extremely dramatic and getting called out all the time and making high-profile social moves like hanging out with Courtney when she was still popular did not help things. Since then she’s been trying to keep a low profile. Not low enough, evidently, because she caught my attention somehow. Unfortunately I asked a few of them and none had any back ups of her old content before she wiped it.
She’s still friends with Courtney but Courtney is no longer the darling of the spoonieverse since she rarely posts about her made up health problems and instead posts about her normal healthy full-term pregnancy and lack of complications in childbirth. Her TT videos rarely get more than a few hundred views and over on Instagram, once her best platform, she was getting basically no traction anymore until the pregnancy. So even continuing to post pics with Courtney doesn’t really boost Arina’s profile too much these days.
EDIT: haha, postmortem KFS here. I obviously wrote that before she croaked. Court posted about her death and finally got her that attention she was so desperately seeking. Her last posts are full of comments to the tune of "I wish I had found your page while you were alive!"
She and Courtney went to Hawaii together! Aww they’re so sick and disabled, it’s a sin really.
She needed that vanity salt water so desperately that she was able to have her PICC out so it didn’t stop her from having fun in Hawaii. Also can we please bring back shame and stop walking around with our entire asscheeks out on the beach where my kids are trying to play? Thanks. I noticed this got much more common after covid. Before covid maybe one tone deaf chick would be out like that but post-covid? The annual family beach vacation looks like a damn porn convention.
No, this is what happens when you do a strenuous activity you do not typically do.
don’t forget she’s sick! She’s not just off having fun and traveling in some beautiful places around the US, she’s taking a semester off for her very poor health.
Home and praising God because she prayed for a port and He scheduled her for surgery! Why do they never learn that normal people don’t act like they won the lottery over diagnoses and surgeries?
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...she feels prettier when she’s (making herself) sick. I know we all think they’re thinking these things but this one’s a real G for just typing it out for us.
There’s a kind of interesting pivot here. After she gets the port, the hard proof that she’s sick because no one would do that unless they needed it she starts being a lot more liberal about acting out the illness role publicly. Also normal reaction to a central line is not to name it. It is to look forward to getting it out ASAP. (also lol @ thinking a dexcom would explain why you were acting lazy and being useless, as if there aren’t two million t1ds in my country alone, the vast majority of them living extremely normal lives and not talking about their illness unless they have to. Not to mention all the people who use them for T2D, reactive hypoglycemia, gestational diabetes. Hell, there's an over the counter version marketed to athletes and health nuts.)
This is a stupid video about when it suddenly starts raining and you have to tuck your port extension in to keep it from getting wet. Why was it out in the first place unless you wanted people to see it? Just a question.
September brings us the obligatory disney trip and pic of all the garbage she now generates daily while claiming to be a huge environmentalist. And of course, infusing at the germy filthy theme park for maximum attention.
Over on Insta she finally tells us what her dog supposedly does other than “natural alert” for something she already has a dexcom for. Standard munchie shit: “deep pressure therapy,” retrieving dropped items, learning to alert to pre-syncope (how?) and mobility tasks.
Wow! the magic psychic dog can also predict her blood sugar changes. He’s not detecting them, he is telling her they’re going to happen before they happen! That’s why she needs him even though she has a dexcom! I love that these girls just repeat and further embellish the lies the rest of their little echo chamber is saying without once stopping to think if it makes any sense.
The ultimate It Was Worth It post.
Lol grandma knew it was because she was starving herself. That’s funny
Her blood “looks weird” but her port is fine so now she wants to see hematology. Based on context she means the actual blood in her body has a strange look, not that her bloodwork is off. I don’t even want to know what this nutbar is doing with the port and her blood. Also lol maryfreyshirt.
A very weird story about how she passed out at home and was taken to the ER where bloodwork showed bacteremia. She claims she got a midline cath and they were giving her medication but her dad didn’t think it was enough so he demanded they discharge her, and she went home where she just recovered on her own.
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Dancing around once again because she’s getting another medical appointment she’s been after. She doesn’t update which probably means they said it was nothing or told her to stop fucking with her port. Or perhaps 'you do not need a port for salt water who the fuck prescribed that?"
In October her long-dead Youtube comes back to life to post about her central lines. First a very boring video about PICC tips and tricks she learned in the two minutes she had one, and then one about her port. It starts with her all aglow as she tells us she’s getting her port placed and preparing for the big day. She brings another presumed munchie along for moral support and describes her port as “a brand new friend [that will be] with me forever”.* After the surgery she complains that it’s lower than she expected, which I’m guessing is a problem because she wants it to be visible to the general public when she’s wearing everyday clothings and if it’s that low it’s hidden. A month later she comes back to tell us she showered for the first time since surgery. Ew. (*lol post-mortem KFS here! Arina here got real real light on the details as time went on which is part of why I genuinely thought she was planning to quietly back out of her bullshit. Courtney has mostly done the same now that she got knocked up and had a healthy full-term pregnancy and uncomplicated whelping of pup. Spoiler but her cause of death is somewhat mysterious and there's no indication of whether she did or did not still have her "friend" or if it was involved in her becoming an ex-parrot.)
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She also does this really boring pack-my-bag video. It’s her second most watched video for some reason, at 4.5k views. Then the account goes dead again.
In late 2022 she decides she’s going to rebrand as a chronic illness gymtok account, showing off her workouts with her service dog by her side, complete with preworkout. She claims the brand she got only has 125 mg caffeine and she’s diluted it by adding gatorade powder so that it’s about as strong as a cup of coffee. We’re just going to have to take her word on that because she doesn’t give a brand or show the original packaging. There are some that are that low, but most of them are significantly higher ime. The brand Mrs Shill buys is 300mg per scoop and a lot of the ones that are girl-coded like Ailani and Bloom are in the 220-ish range.
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I know when I’m feeling like I’m about to vom the first thing I do is grab my phone to record it for posterity
Day 5 she pretends to almost faint but really just sits down.
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In this video, she pretends she’s scrolling through her feed describing all of the terrible content it shows her. Hey kiddo did you know that algorithm is based on what you interact with? Yours is feeding you misery and Pro ana content because that’s what you engage with and post.
Like this. You’ve been going to the gym for 2 minutes. You’re not trying to show off your sick abs, you’re showing off that you’re already skinny and actively trying to lose weight because you want a feeding tube.
A funny story about how she didn’t know she was in chronic pain until she got drunk for the first time and it felt good. LMAO. Cheers, kiddo.
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In December her house caught on fire. The whole garage burned up and the rest of the house had substantial smoke damage.
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Haha. Ha. She doesn’t work. She’s not in school. She lives at home with mommy and daddy who seem to foot the bill for everything. She doesn’t have people relying on her to take care of them. Her only outings are brief gym trips where she does basically nothing and the occasional doctor appointment. She’s tired because she’s bored and spends all day in bed scrolling social media.
Oh I’d absolutely lose my shit if my wife did this. Even if she was drinking them, it’s just such a waste of money. We got a moka pot, a tin of Bustelo, and I even bought that bougie Fairlife milk. You march your ass in that kitchen and make your own coffee.
And now the woman who claims she’s too tired and passes out constantly is trying to rebrand as a running account. After this the tiktok goes dead for a while, or at least any content that was there is gone.
This one does go back to school unlike many of our others, but not in Montana. She’s back to a STEM course as far as I can tell and attending somewhere in Texas.
There we go. In a very boring Youtube video, she shows off her college campus. Mayfield School of Engineering is at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX. She didn’t bring the dog to school. I’ve noticed quite a few times where she’s been running around all day and the dog’s at home, and she didn't take him with her to Hawaii either.
In the next one she tells us that she’s infusing fluids in class and bought a rollator. The rollator isn’t as fun as she was expecting. Then she films herself crying while driving down the highway after a doctors appointment but its a performative “look how sad I am that my doctor agreed I’m very sick” rather than the expected tantrum. “I would rather be healthy and crazy than this!” Good news! The prior 45 doctors told you that was your issue. In this video she did bring the dog to school one day, but not anywhere else. And her daddy buys her an oxygen concentrator at the end. She doesn’t need it, but just in case. It’s absolutely insane to me that you can buy things like that without any kind of doctor approval. Like the Sams twins buying themselves custom wheelchairs on 1800wheelchair.com without a script. I went on that site and “built” a wheelchair picking options that sounded semi-plausible to me as someone who does not know anything about wheelchairs or like, the dimensions and specs thereof, and it never once tried to stop me from purchasing it. Even Zenni Optical, when I was trying to recreate Jessica Riley/rollingonwards’ super thick fake blindness glasses, told me my parameters made no sense but not that site! They just let me build whatever frankenchair I insisted I needed.
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In this mind numbing video she drinks multiple lattes and her brother sends her a box of vegan gluten-free junk food. Truly a gastroparesis warrior if we ever saw one. She tries to transition to jaquie-style vlogging around here but she’s so insanely boring it’s impossible to watch the videos.
Fellas, she cracked the code. It’s not that she’s lying. It’s that we don’t have her very special illnesses so we can’t know what it’s like. I’ve never had a seizure but I can tell you there’s a big big difference between these girls claiming they know the nurse ignored them while they seized for hours and Katie Stanina almost dying when she had a real seizure that lasted a few minutes. I’ve never had an anaphylactic reaction to anything, but I know there’s a big difference between the obvious anxiety, induced stridor, or rubbed cheeks these girls call anaphylaxis and the peanut allergy kid who needs to be intubated because his food was cross-contaminated. I’ve never dislocated anything but I know there’s a big difference between a hip that is real ouchy and pops sometimes and a real hip dislocation that requires medical attention to reduce and quite often surgical reconstruction of the joint and has a long recovery period.
The story of her dog – she contacted a breeder about getting a puppy to be her SD and they instead asked if she wanted an adult that had to be rehomed. Magic psychic dog is a natural alerter to blood sugar changes. So that explains both his age and why he’s not actually trained
She loves showing off her scar. Remember when she said her skin was so delicate any kind of tape would tear it, her scars would spontaneously rip open, even normal friction could cause gaping wounds? Yeah not so much.
In this post she says she lives alone, so she's no longer with her parents but still does not have a job.
So this is where she’s staying. It’s not owned by her family and she’s not listed as a resident of it. Her mother is, however. I’m guessing this is a rental property and mommy signed the lease. It’s right outside Stephenville where her university is, much closer to school than her family home.
The whole family left that house anyway. Her parents are listed at two addresses. One is a mid century duplex and I'm not sure if they own it and are renting it to tenants or they moved there temporarily after the fire. The other is this monstrosity of EIFS and shame at 9856 Lake Haven Circle, Fort Worth that looks like something I built in The Sims 1.
This is the house they were in before, 1 Fairview Lane, Aledo, which is still listed as her permanent address in the phonebooking sites.
You can even see the fire damage on the garage in this older street view. Sold for about a million greenback dollars in 2024
So what do her parents do that they can afford this and are most likely also paying for Arina to live “independently” when she has no income? Well. Mom Shawne is a dentist and dad (James) Andy Barron is an orthodontist. They own what appears to be a very very successful practice. So much for “my parent quit their job and now I have no insurance” line, huh?
Here’s another pic of the twinsies from dad’s facebook.
Here’s more confirmation the address is right and also that her dad is a batshit conspiracy theorist.
Oh hey Arina sort of admit she caused this accident. She said she was the reason their car insurance premiums were so high.
Here’s when they moved into that house.
Before this they lived at 4004 Bent Elm Lane in Fort Worth
Neat. In 2017 they went to Uganda on a mission trip. Now I have Book of Mormon in my head for the rest of my life.
More totally normal childhood pics. Riding bikes in colorado...
Running...
Here’s her cheerleading. Keep all this in mind because of course she's going to retcon that she has been sick her whole life.
Jesusing.
Both of the twins medaled at the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation Regionals, a track and field event, in 2013
Amazing what you can find online. One of Hannah’s was for the 400m although I don’t know what the others were and Arina was for discus. I’m having a real hard time not calling her Lydia right now but she’s been Arina this whole time so like Tilly-Kate she shall remain Arina. Hannah also ran cross country and if you dig enough you’ll find her winning track events and holding records for her school, but not Arina
Well she did get into Baylor but I don't think she was recruited or anything.
Soccer was apparently more her thing and from this we learn the girls attended Fort Worth Country Day School. I don’t really need any more information just based on the name but...
...yeahhhhhhh that’s actually way more than I even expected. $60k a year in high school tuition to send them both there. Imagine you spent all that to give them the best shot at success and your adult child pulls an Arina and lays around refusing to do anything but spend your money, lmao.
Her dad also holds mineral rights all over northeastern Texas. There really wasn’t a point to this other than to prove they are very wealthy and I do not think paying rent for their fail-daughter to play grown ups is a real strain on the ole’ budge, since they also seem to be paying for everything else in her life. Also just to tie shit up, Hannah is a functional if not painfully vain and conspicuously wealthy (read: likely racking up debt) 23 year old. She has a boyfriend she’s been with since high school, lives in a nice place, worked for her parents’ clinic and dabbles in modeling on the side. In 2023 she stopped working for her parents and got a job working at a plastic surgery clinic, so she’s no longer even dependent on them for her paycheck.
Arina would like to share how she got doctors to diagnose her with things she does not have. She left out the part where you have to spend a lot of money seeing many different doctors in the same specialty, some many states away, and also induce symptoms by doing things like deconditioning and dehydrating and starving yourself. And she still doesn’t have a feeding tube.
“Doctors are just people who bought expensive textbooks.” ...and spent 12 years studying them and attending lectures and labs and passing many many exams on the material, some of which are pass-fail and if you fuck up you’re done. The last two of those years are primarily spent learning how to put what they studied into practice on real humans, followed by a residency period done under the guidance of a senior physician which can last from three years for something like family medicine up to seven for neurosurgery, followed by continuing education for the rest of their working lives, to say nothing of the firsthand experience gained by diagnosing and treating patients for however many years. They actually do know your body better than you. It’s really good practice to be totally honest with your doctors so they don’t give you something that, in conjuncture with something you neglected to tell them, will kill you. 100% of the medical doctors i see know that my drinking is not tee hee occasionally having a cocktail with the gals but "I drink an entire bottle of hard liquor, sleep for 20 minutes, then log into work and do my job properly" functional alcoholism, because I'm not cool with dying of a polypharmacy whoopsie-doodle. (Rend not your garmies, I don't know how to drive and don't have any interest in learning. Your loved ones are not collateral damage to my self destruction.)
She laughs while saying her tummmmmmmmmy feels like she ate a brick, then urgent care tells her to go to the ER.
The next video, smug mugging while the caption talks about good doctors who listen. Hmmmm.
Here’s her life goals! Run an ultramarathon, finish an ironman, run a sub-7 mile (her record was around 7:30 and she’s currently at 12ish), get her central line out, run a Disney marathon, get back into weightlifting she wasn’t into to begin with, go to a rave, graduate college after dropping out twice, get certified in assistive technology, dye her hair hot pink temporarily, be able to do a standing back tuck which she’s wanted to do since she was a cheerleader in middle school, move back to Montana, hike in Glacier National Park, do large format photography and printing, pull the sword from the stone at disney, have kids and homeschool them, start a garden and grow fruit trees, get married in the mountains in the rain, play indoor soccer, and be the orange slice mom at her kids’ games. (Post mortem KFS here! Guess how many of these she accomplished. Did I hear "none of them?" You're correct! It's just such a fucking waste. Dead in her mid-20s because she wanted attention from strangers who don't care about her.)
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That back tuck comment got me gigglin’ because here’s her doing one off a picnic table in 2016 from her old insta. I know she wouldn’t have been able to land this if she was standing on the ground but she also says it’s been two years since she did one. If she’s telling the truth that she never landed one, then she got so close that had she stuck with it a few more weeks, she’d have gotten it. But like everything else, she quit instead and it’s clearly not because she was sick if two years later she can still flip off a picnic table.
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If it wasn’t fun, cute, and trendy in certain circles, there wouldn’t be so many of you carbon copies.
Crying on tiktok because she signed up for a half marathon then didn’t train for it because that’s like, effort and stuff. Five months prior would have been the new year, when everyone sets lofty goals they know they probably won’t achieve. I do have to wonder, though. In November she started the brief gym babe era, late December she posted her running goals, then the next tiktok video isn’t until March when we start the feeding tube chase, and we know she deletes content because she had that post in 2022 where she says she lost a ton of followers when she stopped posting illness content and by that point, there was no old content at all on her account. She’d deleted everything from 2020-21. I like to imagine what kind of commentary they were getting at the time, because I don’t think it’s just a spontaneous decision to post something like that. I think she had to have been getting some response she didn’t like and was reacting to that response. I can imagine when you run in these circles, the problem is not just that you lose the followers, but that your “friends” and other illness influencers use it to make digs at you, like “oh wow you ran two miles without stopping? That’s incredible. Of course, I could never do that, I can barely stand up without fainting.” There’s some evidence left that this happened. In the gym babe era she posted about doing yoga and got someone asking how she possibly did this with her POTS and (still undiagnosed) EDS without dislocating anything, the implication being the commenter is so frail and delicate she could never do so much as a downward dog without needing an ambulance.
you knew it was coming.
And oh boy does she ever love it. Three days after she gets it she’s already decorated her pump with the vinyl name sticker they all love.
And she got this done at Children’s for some reason. Back in June 2020 when she made her first YT video she said she was 19. It’s now late May 2023, so she’s what, 22? I know some children’s hospitals will take adults up to 23 if they were already being seen there as a child for a long term complex condition, but she was already over 18 when she started this.
She’s now claiming she’s diagnosed with hEDS after repeatedly saying she wasn’t diagnosed yet and just strongly suspected it. Can someone please explain to these girls that pulling on your neck skin a little is not poof of abnormally stretchy skin? Most people who aren’t obese can do this.
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This is Felix Wehrle, a sideshow performer with Barnum & Bailey.
And his contemporary counterpart, Gary “Stretch” Turner. Turner is confirmed to have cEDS and it is strongly, strongly believed Wehrle did too. They’re extreme cases, Turner being the stretchiest skin ever recorded…
But here are some more examples of Classical and classical-like EDS, which has a very similar presentation to classical. The difference is with classical the error is a COL5A1/COL5A2 mutation affecting specifically type V collagen and with CL it’s a TNXB mutation disrupting synthesis of the protein tenascin-X, which affects collagen in general. This hobby makes me sound a lot smarter than I am, I assure you I am damn near retarded and if any of that information that sounded right is wrong, blame Google. Anyway, it’s pretty much impossible to find real examples of hEDS these days because it’s been flooded by 23 year old girls like Arina showing off totally normal skin laxity relative to their age and size.
Don’t worry, some other munchie who got the HSD boobie prize wants her to spell out how she got diagnosed hEDS so she can also get diagnosed, and Arina’s gonna tell us. Or rather, she’s going to lie and claim she did not pursue certain diagnoses with laser focus and chimp out when she was told that was not what she had. Arina has made videos where she instructed other girls to do a ton of research and show up with information backing up the diagnosis you think you have and what treatments you need and bring a friend to advocate for you. Basically don’t take no for an answer because you know your body better than they do. Now she’s saying she merely brought up her concerns but would never want to advocate for a specific diagnosis and have it be wrong. She says she saw a geneticist but hEDS still doesn’t have known gene mutations, so all they’d do is diagnose her on self-reported symptoms and the Beighton. From what I understand the current thought it’s actually a constellation of minor gene mutations, physiological quirks, and environmental factors that contribute instead of one mutation in the other forms and it’s arguably not even "true" EDS but just the extreme fringe of the hypermobility spectrum, but we may never know because attention-seeking idiots like this muddy any real research that could go into it.
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In this video, Arina, who has POTS so severe she needs IV saline infusions and faints constantly, spins in a circle because she's so happy with her toys.
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Interesting if true. She applied to the US Air Force Academy with the intention of becoming a military pilot but was evidently not accepted. Their admissions rate is 14%, compared to 50% at Baylor and 87% at Montana State. Now she’s claiming the disorder is what prevented her from reaching that goal, but she didn’t start ‘getting sick’ until she was almost done her first semester at Baylor.
If you can “yeehaw” around Disney world without the chair, consider you're just out of shape. An average full day in Disney is 20k steps according to the Disney World subreddit. For someone who is moderately active, walks the dog every day or works on their feet, that might be no big deal. But now imagine some 40-something year old from suburbia who goes from couch to car to cubicle to fast food drive through and back again, who decides to take the kids (or herself) to Disney for a few days. Now instead of sitting in her cushy little central air conditioned bubble she's marching for hours in Florida's hell-sauna climate. There's a reason exercise-induced vasculitis is sometimes called "Disney Rash" and there is a trope about fatasses renting mobility scooters for the week rather than endure the agony of walking. That's essentially what these girls do to themselves. This isn't a special spoonie problem. It's a lifestyle one and it is absolutely pathetic that they're WALL-E-ing themselves.
Now claiming an “unknown neuromuscular disorder”. Shelby Lynn Logsdon is that u.
Faith in the comments has it: the reason no one takes hEDS seriously is a bunch of little girls with social media accounts have turned it into a dumpster fire diagnosis that is the new fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome, wildly exaggerated and overwhelmingly claimed by women who can afford to lay around doing nothing all day.
Now she has a second central line. Her port is still in situ but she has I guess a hickman now too. And smiling ear to ear!
In this hilarious totally not planned video about how she’s walking soooo sloooowwwww someone comments that getting her wheelchair is going to be a game changer!!! And in the comments she says she’s seeing an EDS specialist in 12 months… but she just told us she’s already got a hEDS diagnosis from a geneticist and she's already getting a wheelchair so why?
Make tube pads for children with real disorders that make them PEG/PEG-J dependent? Nahhh, munchies only. (are these even sized for age? Weird.)
But first the requisite #sepsissurvivor after a two week posting break. There is something really unsettling about these girls all saying “proud of you” to this post, like she just hit some major life milestone.
I guess we'll stop here for now. I usually give these girls so much benefit of the doubt that any one of their claims might be real because of the Stanina Factor. This one was just so, so obviously cribbing everything from chronic illness “influencers” that I couldn’t do that. She makes it very apparent in a few posts that she’d been watching this content for probably years before she went to college and got to reinvent herself however she wanted, which is in itself a munchie trope. For a lot of them it’s the first time out of their little enclave where they knew the same people their whole lives and now they get to be whoever they want to be for an audience of strangers. Plus they’re stressed and finding out they’re not special like they thought, etc etc, it becomes a way to make failure not their fault or to become the most special girl on campus, depending on which way they fall academically.
I didn't think I was going to write about this one. But the more I read the more I got this fucking weird deja vu feeling. It was like putting on my regular "focus at work" playlist, where I already know what the next song is going to be before the one I'm listening to finishes because I've played it so many times. She’s reading from a script she cribbed from Jaquie and Cheyanne and Amy Lee Fisher and all the other popular now-dead girls of the era. She had it all planned, what to do and in what order to pursue each diagnosis and prop. And she died just like them.
You know the deal. I’ll be back with part II whenever the corporate overlords loosen up the leg irons a little.
Ok, so everyone that’s been curious about Laura Winn the Angriest Munchie and her stalking charges in Texas; this is long, but gives some insight on what it’s like to be involved with her, and why she’s being charged with felony stalking.
And scariest of all: she was pregnant at one point.
These are between her and the guy she stalked.
She left a 409 area code in one of them, and that corresponds to Southeast Texas.
Waiting for that tell all Laura, sounds like she’s got a court date for the felony stalking.
And cluster B?
Laura is a textbook example of the BPDemon.
LOL I had to add this because Laura is the *definition* of crazy eyes with absolutely no self awareness
I’m sure this is for pity, but I also think that she genuinely thinks she was pregnant by the guy she’s charged with stalking.
Only munching lately; she’s been riding the high of “being victimized by a sociopathic narcissist” instead.
The internet makes it so weird how you can get a really close look things like factitious disorder and other mental illness, but not so close you personally suffer from being near it like if they're members of your family or an acquaintance.
This is a huge post, and I’m going to do my best to organize it as a phonefag.
Stumbled onto this one in the wild, and she’s become one of my favorite munchies to watch.
We have endless bed and hospital princesses that go on and on about not being able to do anything, but have we had a professional indie WRESTLER that talks about having CRPS in every post??
Meet Paige Collett, who experiences the most painful pain known to man but gets slammed to the mats, thrown into ring ropes, thrown onto metal ladders, and goes through tables multiple times a week at the same time.
Her gimmick in wrestling is her ass, and having CRPS.
She wrestles for Juggalo Championship Wrestling (yes that’s a thing).
Her story:
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, take a shot every time she talks about the most painful pain ever known to man while wrestling and constantly going to the gym.
And a Gypsy who told her she’s going to be Cinderella.
She’s really fixated on that Gypsy story.
Actually don’t, because you’ll end up dead.
Are you watching???
Constantly showing her ass and endless thirst traps in tight constricting outfits
“Ring rat” has long been a derogatory term in wrestling for women that will sleep with any wrestler, basically wrestling groupies that are easy.
So what does she do?
She takes it as a ring name.
But keep in mind that even someone touching her skin causes her the most painful pain ever known to man:
My personal theory is that something (psychologically) traumatic happened to her, caused a deep depression, and during that time she became fixated on CRPS because that’s so much more interesting.
But the INCREDIBLE juxtaposition of claiming CRPS and being a professional (indie) wrestler is what gets me.
@Snack Cracker thank you so much for the Laura Winn info, I keep checking her court case and nothing is happening, not since 8.22/25 when she was granted bail. Do we have a legal update at all? Thank you again for all this, I was insanely curious...
@Still a Shill girl we missed you so badly. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, ok? But we absolutely get not wanting to stare at a screen after you worked all damn day. Your presence is always such a treat.
) is Mormon. I keep thinking about the kind of familial system that would support something like this, and Mormons make sense to me. They're already pretty ok with magical thinking and they're a theatre-loving group as a whole. She is doing a huge improv scene with her whole family and they're yes-and-ing away. They're all enjoying this on some level.
