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

[FreeFlirty]

I do actually think Aster likely has some SMI, but the persistent selfishness and refusal to understand the purpose of a domestic violence shelter is astounding, even for her. She really thought this was going to be a slumber party.

Aster thinks she'd prefer staying with her mom over the DV shelter.

OBVIOUSLY! Because you needing to wash your stuff before staying there is not abuse (also she herself even admitted shelters make you do this too). Shelters are cold, clinical places where you get way less than a whole room to yourself. And EVERYONE is "activated" all the time because they're escaping a situation where their partner could bash their head in at any time.

Aster implies the DV shelter has already gotten upset at her for purchasing too many household items.

Because shelters are supposed to be temporary, Aster. Not an ingenious solution for indefinite free rent.

Aster misses food delivery, which she isn't allowed to order at the DV shelter.

This one is so self-explanatory, and the same goes for why she can't have a nurse pop in, and also why she absolutely should NOT be making tiktoks in the house. If any of these people come and see someone they know, actually very violent men could come looking. People's lives are at stake with the privacy of DV shelters.

It's so clear from the way she just assumed she would get special privileges like a private room because she's disabled, that this is just the ultimate scheme for free stuff. Again, this girl actually needs serious help. More serious than a DV shelter is equipped to provide.

 

[JacksSenseOfDread]

This one is so self-explanatory, and the same goes for why she can't have a nurse pop in, and also why she absolutely should NOT be making tiktoks in the house.

Making TikToks in a domestic violence shelter is sociopath behavior. She'll get someone killed in the name of getting social media asspats.

 

[OrSoHelpMe]

She asks for money to go the ER. She maybe doxes her location and the location of the DV shelter. (Censoring is hers, I didn't screencap the whole image.)

She posted the prices to take an uber at 3:30 am, even though she'd be ordering the uber at 7:30. Uber has dynamic pricing. Once I checked how much it would be to Uber home at like 11 PM and I guess it was a pricing surge, because it was almost three times as expensive as usual. I walked to the corner of the next street, waited five minutes and checked again, and it was back to normal pricing.

Her Uber definitely ended up being half of what she asked for, which is why she had extra money to get lunch.

Edit:

OBVIOUSLY! Because you needing to wash your stuff before staying there is not abuse (also she herself even admitted shelters make you do this too). Shelters are cold, clinical places where you get way less than a whole room to yourself. And EVERYONE is "activated" all the time because they're escaping a situation where their partner could bash their head in at any time.

A lot of shelters will actually make you go through the delousing powder during intake. Is that how she finally got rid of the bedbugs, or did she get the shelter infested, too?

 

[The Judean People's Front]

Sunny's father also has bedbugs.

How. HOW do these people all have fucking bugs? I get that they're insidious and spread quickly, but Jesus.

Someone requests money from Aster on cashapp and she gets mad

Fucking hilarious.

Serious Mental Illness insurance doesn't cover planned parenthood

Good thing PP operates on a sliding scale for people without insurance. She's so willfully stupid and/or thinks her audience is stupid.

Aster needs to pay both her storage bills again. She also desperately needs 4-5 pairs of $30 compression socks.

I do not understand this storage thing. She "desperately" needs to keep her "necessary" medical devices . . . That have been locked in storage for 2+ years. She needs them REALLY BADLY though.

She's a fucking hoarder. Her poor roommates, especially the ones who have lived through genuine DV and have to deal with her piss-leaking buggy ass.

The moment she thinks anything (“my port is infected,” “my roommate hates me,” “I’m starving,” “my mom is abusive”) it becomes 100% True and Real to her, and convincing her otherwise is nearly impossible because she is constantly ruminating on her feelings. She might actually benefit from mindfulness therapy and learning how to separate herself from her thoughts, if she has enough intelligence for that.

Textbook BPD, man. Also why we can't actually trust anything she claims other people say to/about her. She filters everything through her incredibly skewed perspective. I highly doubt her Mom does anything worse than yell at her for spreading bedbugs everywhere. Which, understandable!!



Her list of mental illnesses is literally nonsensical. There's no way she's got Schizoaffective disorder, for one. And if she did, that's not "caused" by trauma, that shit is genetic/chemical. Saying otherwise is, gasp, ableist

Her Uber definitely ended up being half of what she asked for, which is why she had extra money to get lunch.

Classic grifter move. I can't believe she ever raises any money considering how often she just buys something else entirely after fundraising for a particular item.

And her obsession with Doordash is so egregious. Like, I know Kids These Days can't fucking cook, but she claims she can't buy any substantial groceries for $20-$30 so she must Doordash. It's bonkers. I'd sperg about cooking on a budget and the meals she can make with that budget, but it's been done a ton and there's even a Poorfag Kiwi recipe thread, so I won't. But she's up there with Polissa, Corissa/Jay and Vicky Markhoff on level of Doordash entitlement

Ugh she's so obnoxious! And I can't stop reading! More! More!

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

What the fuck are those hashtags?

#so scared SO scared so SCARED
#we are certifiably insane

 

[Junebuggy]

I highly doubt her Mom does anything worse than yell at her for spreading bedbugs everywhere.

I believe her descriptions of her unusual childhood (even if they are likely exaggerated). As others have noted, her mom seems cool as hell, but I think we’re seeing the possible negative consequences of having a cool as hell mom who took you to Burning Man every year when you were in elementary school, dealt weed, and treated you like a friend instead of a child. I’m sure Aster saw things that were inappropriate and was given too much responsibility to help care for her disabled brother. I can believe her mom was neglectful. I just don’t believe she was physically abusive and Aster’s attempts to paint her as a monster for smacking her as an adult are lame.

But she's up there with Polissa, Corissa/Jay and Vicky Markhoff on level of Doordash entitlement

Have you read the Mem thread? Mem claims that she needs $27,000/year for Door Dash or she will die.

 

[The Judean People's Front]

Mem claims that she needs $27,000/year for Door Dash or she will die.

Time to make a cup of tea and settle in for a good read. Link? (The search function isn't helping)

Edit, nvmd, found it!

 

[Reddit Refugee]

This might be the stupidest series of questions ever, but how do the spoonies determine how many spoons they start with..are they all assigned a predetermined amount or is it different for each one? Like when you decide you're a spoonie do you sign up and get a welcome kit? How do they know how many spoons each activity uses? I'm so confused about the spoonie lifestyle. I'm guessing, though, that being online incessantly either costs no spoons or maybe increases the supply? 1 asspat=1 spoon?

Easy. You learn spoon theory from another spoonie, find out how many spoons they have then one-up the poor sod who used a spoon to teach you this by saying you have less spoons at baseline

 

[OrSoHelpMe]

What the fuck are those hashtags?

#so scared SO scared so SCARED
#we are certifiably insane

certifiably, "aesthetically" insane.

 

[FarmVille]

Meet Julia Dawn, 27 year old chronic illness influencer from Vancouver(?) Canada who claims to have post-concussion syndrome, chronic migranes, and hyperacusis.

Thank you. I want more illness influencers and fewer smelly cat pee girls who post every fart that enters their minds to an audience of no one

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

who post every fart that enters their minds to an audience of no one

Oh, come on now, don't be mean. We're the audience and we demand more!

 

[The Judean People's Front]

Lol Katrina got dumped


I know it's probably not true, but I like to imagine him searching her name, finding this thread and

 

[noonnoodle]

tardive dyskinesia, sub-type TAD (Tardive Ahegao dyskinesia)

whatever that chick’s got going on is definitely just pure retardation

For anyone else curious like my why she may have been taking Abilify in the first place., here is what Dr. Google had to say: Abilify (aripiprazole) is an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, major depressive disorder, Tourette's disorder, and autistic disorder in certain patients.

She appears to have her tiktok locked down and I refuse to download (more) Chinese spyware onto my phone but here is what I was able to glean from google:

She appears to have a tard younger sister (Aster 2?):



She's an ex(?)-Mormon (L):



And is the product of mixed parents (L):



From what I can see, the rest of her posts appear to be about how Atlanta twerk classes help her mentals or something (no links sorry, its nothing special anyways). I for one am shocked that shaking her ass hasn't cured whatever the fuck she got going on and that her doctors went straight for the good stuff.

 

[FarmVille]

For anyone else curious like my why she may have been taking Abilify in the first place., here is what Dr. Google had to say: Abilify (aripiprazole) is an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, major depressive disorder, Tourette's disorder, and autistic disorder in certain patients.

Abilify is frequently given off label in small doses as an add on to typical antidepressants—which I am super against because the side effects can be really nasty. I’ve seen people gain 60+lbs on abilify which does not help with depression.

 

[Scoia'tael]

Hmm I wonder why that is? I think there's a word for it... some kind of term... hmm it's just escaping me right now...

 

[kudzu quiche]

This could fit here and/or potentially the Munchausen's by Internet thread. The video itself is in German, but I first came across the auto-dubbed version with a translated title. Unfortunately, AI auto-dubbing is fucking terrible so it's difficult to understand. I put the transcript through google translate, which was good enough.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OD_B2HTpNnc

Spoiler: Translated transcript

I left some of the time stamps in so that it's easier to follow along with the video, if you so desire.

Solid food is forbidden for Edda.
Edda is fed an entirely liquid diet. Specifically, it consists of amino acids.
It used to be Mom who did it.
"Yeah, wait—I just have to tell you something very briefly."
Instead of receiving support, the family also faces insults online.
Instead of taking a closer look—of trying to understand and help—people simply pass judgment. And in real life...
Man. Like, if someone calls you a "loser" or something—that’s usually what they say to me, too.

0:33
Edda loves helping out in the kitchen. That’s good. Yeah. Are you back down? Yes, down.
Yet the eight-year-old [music] doesn't know what the food tastes like—the very food she’s cooking here with her mom, Annika, and her sister, Hayy.
She’s never known anything else; as for us, we try to include her in everything. That means we’re always there for her. Except when it comes to her cocoa—that requires very little effort,

0:55
because this cocoa is Edda’s only source of nutrition—and has been since the day she was born—and it comes from a bottle. She drinks one bottle every hour. A six-pack of this specialized nutritional formula costs €500.
Paid for by the health insurance provider. One pack lasts for a single day.
If we were to give her solid food now...
...she would choke and die. She has no gag reflex. She can't even stick her tongue out. It just doesn't work.
There were complications during Edda’s birth. She had to undergo surgery. Edda’s ordeal may well have begun right here.

1:30
There are two sets of symptoms: for instance, the esophagus [music] is inflamed, the stomach is inflamed; or we have epileptic seizures; or we have a variant where
we experience muscle failure. But as for the *why*—the *how*, the *wherefore*, and the *where it even comes from*—we know absolutely nothing.
Some doctors prefer not to speak on camera—they simply know too little, and have too little to say, regarding Edda’s rare condition. Annika is married, has two other daughters, and is
employed as a self-employed elderly care provider. It is a balancing act that often demands a great deal of her. "I’m the 'all-rounder' in the family,"

2:03
I’d say.
"I’m constantly jumping from point A to point B." "Are you going back to school tomorrow?" "Yes? Good."
Edda has the cognitive development of a three-year-old. She attends a special needs school, accompanied by a medical specialist. Annika [music] found that specialist online. She also
occasionally posts photos of her family’s daily life. Annika says that 95% of the reactions are positive—but then there are the "haters."

2:28
"Well, just last night, someone messaged me [music] saying, 'This mother is absolutely despicable—she’s still using her child on the internet to make money,'
'essentially offering her up to pedophiles.'"
By now, she has a lawyer who handles such posts. But why does she go public with Edder at all, if such reactions are the result?
Simply—[music]—to raise awareness about rare diseases; to show that there are children out there who may look incredibly cute, but who are still fighting every single day.
13-year-old Haley is also bullied because of Edder. She is even labeled a "victim" herself, the student recounts. She has even already changed schools.

3:05
But it continues, Haley says. "Most of the time, I just get so angry..."
"...that I’d really just want to punch most of them." "You really would?" "But you don't."
"No, I really don't."

3:21
We reach out to the school for comment. What are they doing to address the bullying Haley is facing?
The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport for the State of Brandenburg responds to us in writing.
In her class, a "Class Council" is held regularly, during which sensitive topics—such as bullying and classroom dynamics—
are addressed and facilitated by the class teacher in a fair and appropriate manner. For her family, Annika wishes to be accepted just as they are—
without hostility, and with greater understanding. And what does she wish for Ed?

3:54
—that we receive optimal care,
that we find a doctor who can help us—someone who can tell us exactly what we are dealing with, who can finally give the illness a name—so that she isn't always dependent on this monotonous diet.
No one knows what the future holds for Edder...

Edda cannot eat solid foods and has been relying on the same formula since she was born. She drinks her formula from a baby bottle. She has some sort of undiagnosed (probably genetic, imo) disorder - she is eight years old but functions on a three-year-old level, has no gag reflex, GI inflammation, epilepsy, and "muscle failure."

But the red flags abound. I'd imagine that even in Germany, if an eight-year-old cannot eat solid foods at all and has been dependent on the same formula for her whole life, they would at least place a feeding tube for the formula. Maybe Edda enjoys the bottle, but someone has to prepare one for her every hour.
Then there's the fact that Haley, the other daughter, has been bullied relentlessly at school because of Edda and called a "victim." The mother, Annika, is accused of offering her daughter up to pedophiles and posting about her online just to make money. She has a lawyer to "handle this." Kids can be cruel, and so can equally-intelligent internet users, but that seems a bit too specific to be explained away by simple bullying.

I posted about this MBI-adjacent mother in another thread, but it's relevant enough to crosspost for those who don't keep up with it. Annika, the mother, seems suspicious. She's doing whatever the fuck this is with her disabled daughter, and she's a self-employed elderly caregiver.

 

[FarmVille]

Feeding tubes are meant as a last resort. Any open line to the body increases chances of infection and other complications.

 

[Systems All The Way Down]

Aster: Part 10​

0:15

Aster got an offer to move in with some random people in Portland. Can she raise enough money and stay out of the hospital long enough to do it? Let's find out!

Spoiler: July 2024

Aster reveals she is $593 in Klarna debt.


Aster screams at her mom. It works.


Aster says she intends on contributing nothing at all towards the household.
(I left out a quick ER visit at the end of June because Aster vomited once and felt bad. Nothing happened.)

She then analyzes her and her mom's personality disorders.


And she thinks about their relationship.
In short, Aster defends her medical symptoms. She's always dismissed because doctors just don't understand her disease, doctors always love her personality, she's only applied for social security insurance once because you have to apply a lot of times before you get accepted, she has so many medical devices so she can't possibly be motivated by attention, etc etc.



Aster can't cook because the pots and pans are dirty. (She also makes a weird claim about her mom "throwing" the dirty dishes into the backyard.)

Aster suspects her risperidone is contributing to her hypersomnia and wants to stop taking it.

She has also been regaining mobility.

Aster looks into getting a hotel room. She only has $80.

She plans to drop $20-25 dollars on breakfast.

But the serious mental illness clinic insists on having Aster come for a wellness check.

Aster's mom gets back home with Sunny. Sunny tells Aster that Monique was crying in the car.
Monique tells Aster that she needs to give Sunny his bed back, but Aster doesn't want to. She thinks he doesn't even need it, anyways.

Aster wants to kill herself.

And picks at a bug bite too much.

Spoiler: Aster vs. THE GASH

Aster gets mad at random e-beggars claiming to be Palestinian asking her to reblog their dono posts.



THE GASH replies and calls her selfish.







Aster apologizes to all her followers.



But the next day, Aster is mad about it.


But she apologizes again after losing a few friends.





But she goes back to seething about it privately.

Aster calls THE GASH "white presenting" and accuses her of antiblackness.






"it/that thing pronouns"

Spoiler: July Continued

Aster has a $111 Klarna payment due tomorrow.

But her situation at home isn't great. Her mom really does not want her to sleep inside.

Her mom accuses Aster of being "sexually exploitative" for wearing Walmart pajama shorts.



Aster tells her mom she's a bad parent.

She blames an alter for saying that.

Her mom uses torture tactics.

Aster and Sunny practice handstands. We can see the sexually exploitative shorts.

0:31

Aster wears the shorts again.

Another fight.



Aster gets enough to pay for her storage and is only $60 away from being able to purchase the ticket.

She gets the money and orders the ticket. It was only $245, so the rest of the $795 is just for travel-related expenses like Ubers, a cat carrier, and checked bags.





Aster tries to move the flight up almost immediately. But a sooner flight is more expensive.

Aster needs even more money for, uh, something.

Aster's little brother is really sad that she's leaving.




Aster's mom is sick in bed. Sunny locks the cats out, and her mom yells at both her and Sunny.

Monique goes through Aster's phone and finds her socials.


Aster postpones her flight by 5 days. She'll explain more later.

We learn the reason. Her mom has been hospitalized for chemical pneumonia. Aster needs to take care of her brother for a little bit.


Aster is glad that she gets to spend more time with Sunny before she leaves.


Aster buys a $218 rollator with Klarna.

Aster seethes about her friend breakup with THE GASH. She accuses THE GASH of antiblack racism again.

Aster finally posts her Pride month group dono post that she started working on at the beginning of June. It's halfway through July, so it's now a disability pride dono post.

Aster has spent a bunch of money on Doordash for her and Sunny while her mom is in the hospital. She makes another dono post.

Aster buys a new air mattress.
She didn't end up buying one the last time she mentioned it, so the "Air mattresses wasted" count is still 9.

Aster spends $30-40 a meal for three people. Her food stamps come in, so she can use some of that money.

Aster prepares to fight with her mom when she's out of the hospital.

Aster is worried she'll sleep too long, leaving Sunny on his own.

Aster's mom threatens to send Sunny's social worker to check on them because she suspects he's not being taken care of. Aster is upset that she's expected to take care of her brother while her mom is in the hospital.






Aster finds glee in her mom having a bad experience at the hospital.



Aster tells her mom that she risks getting blacklisted if she leaves AMA. She later finds out she's wrong.


Aster feels bad about how she acted.

Aster gets a lot of bug bites. She thinks it's a lingering infestation.

In Portland, Aster is going to hang out with the girl who tried to kill her when she was 4.

Monique thinks she's going to be sent home today. Aster sees her labs - her potassium is Wack and she has metabolic acidosis. She thinks there's no way she's getting sent home.

Aster takes Sunny to the pool.

Monique comes home later that day.

Aster's mom asks her to leave sooner.

More fighting about Aster's ailments





It's not clear what exactly leads up to this. Aster says her mom spit on her and threatened to call the cops.
Aster finds a motel to stay in. She needs money for it.


Aster ubers to the motel, but it's overbooked.

Aster is truly ready to kill herself.

Aster gets to the new motel. The receptionist changes her room to one the 1st floor and lets her stay without presenting a physical ID.

She doesn't like the hotel

And she thinks she got swimmer's ear

Aster winds down at the hotel. She doesn't have her storage keys or a few of her debit cards.

Her abandonment issues are flaring.

She is going to miss Sunny. But maybe he's better off without her.


Aster unfriends her mom on Facebook after being vagued.

If Aster kills herself, it's the system's fault.

Aster finds a hotel. It's $755 for the week including the deposit.

Aster moves to a less shitty hotel, but it turns out it sucks too.

Aster's urine has "chunks" in it

Aster texts her mom.








Aster thinks she's sick.

And wastes more money for entirely avoidable reasons.

Aster makes a TikTok from her hotel.

0:18

She goes to urgent care for her ears.

Aster begs for more money the next day.

And is still short on money a few days later.

Piss spilled everywhere count: 20
Aster probably isn't getting her deposit back.

Aster self-mythologizes


Aster's actually leaving! So long as she gets like $800

Aster does the calculations. The official number is $1065

Aster decides to take Artemis to the vet. She never mentions it again, so it probably didn't happen.

Aster has "trashed" her hotel room.

Aster apparently spent $40 on a medical alert bracelet for her flight. Her mom can't find the package.


She taunts her mom over text






Aster learns she has TWO super bugs growing in her bladder.


Insurance won't cover the antibiotic

She goes to the ER and gets admitted.


Aster regrets fighting with her mom because it means that she won't have a chance at getting a free laptop.




Aster makes someone watch her fix her supposedly dislocated hip. She has to because she has a bed alarm because she's a fall risk.

Aster is bored.

She films two dancing TikToks. The first one is at the top of this post. Here's the second:

0:15

Aster figures out that she's so antsy because she's taking modafinil with 0 tolerance while confined to a bed.


Aster buys a cheap laptop. (I think she ends up forgetting about this.)

It's the 21st, the day Aster was supposed to fly out. Aster wants to reschedule but needs to pay fees. She needs a lot more money.

Aster thinks about people in palestine. And makes it all about her.

Aster needs $1020

Aster thinks she has a neurogenic bowel

Aster is about to be released from the hospital!

Aster considers leaving her cat behind so she can afford the flight

Aster suddenly has a health concern right as it's time to leave the hospital.


She gets two oxycodone. Her pain tolerance is sooooo high.

Aster complains about having to make posts for money online

Aster asks for money so she can wear adult diapers for her period.

Aster is reminded that when people give her money, it's not being materialized out of thin air. This makes her defensive because she feels guilty.

Aster has also posted maybe 5 or 6 times about which mobility aid to bring on the plane with her.

Aster books the flight for Monday! It's happening!

Aster thinks that discontinuing her risperidone has gone really well so far. It really has helped her sleep problems, and she feels really stable. (But Aster doesn't really think about how badly she has blown up her relationship with her mom.)

For some reason, the hotel deposits are adding up.

Aster's cash reserves are very low again.

and she thinks her intestines are shutting down.

Aster decides to bring her wheelchair on the plane. (It's common discourse on Tumblr at this time to talk about how wheelchairs ALWAYS get destroyed when taken on planes.)

Aster needs to pick it up from her mom.


Aster complains about how badly her mom hurt her feelings.



Aster's mom tells her that bringing her wheelchair to Oregon could give her new roommate bedbugs. This makes Aster want to die.



Her friends comfort her. Anyone could have bugs! And it's their fault for offering their home to you if they get any.

Spoiler: Donation post spam drama

Someone gets upset at Aster's donation post spam. They're specifically mad that she typically asks rebloggers not to use words or tags like "donation" or "dono" so that people can't use extensions to block them via tag or keyword. Aster knows how this system works, but she pretends that she thinks that the person is complaining that she added spammy tags to the post.



Aster takes the chance to play the victim



User "cowisshortforcoward" responds.

Aster's friends jump in.


Aster decides to post proof.

Spoiler: Lots of stuff we've seen before.

Interestingly, Aster's last name on the La Quinta receipt is slightly wrong.



"cowisshortforcoward" doesn't see what has happened for a few hours because she isn't chronically online. She responds.
(Her blog background is also lavender.)



(Terrible resolution is my fault.)


Aster responds:

She tries to put some users on blast. strangeauthor and sharkboyry are both friends/former friends of Aster's.




But overall, Aster feels like she lost. Privately, she's upset that people who claim to be her "victims" have reached out.




Her friends tell her it's just white woman tears.


Aster asks her friends to stop "approaching" (harassing) that person.

It doesn't seem like it worked.

(Nearly a week later, she's still getting hate.)

Aster tries to see if she can juice the situation a little bit more.

Aster realizes that her friends who she thought liked the EVIL post were actually just liking a response to them. This is an extremely well known quirk of Tumblr's interface. Oops!

Spoiler: July continued again

Aster is in a lot of pain.



She goes to the ER.




Aster is still feeling stung by the drama from a few days prior.


Aster finds out how her mom found her socials. Aster was logged onto TikTok on her iPad all along.

The doctors don't find anything wrong with her urine.


But she does find out that she has colonic diverticulosis.

and a kidney stone.

Aster is back on the nutcracker syndrome theory


She is almost entirely sure she has it. She is also pretty sure she has Superior mesenteric artery syndrome... or just the "anatomy," non-syndromic version of it.


Aster's mom says Aster made Sunny gain 6 pounds in a week.


Aster tries to unblock her catheter.
Piss spilled everywhere count: 21



It's not draining as much urine as it should be.

The next day, Aster misses her urology appointment and asks for more hotel money.

She also has a $112 Klarna payment that's past due.

But she does get a new catheter.

And she gets her urine cultured. No growth.

She reschedules her plane ticket again, this time for Saturday, August 3rd. It's July 31st.

The hotel is overcharging Aster and she's losing money left and right.

Spoiler: August

Aster reschedules the flight again.

She still feels ill.

Her temp is a whopping 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit (37.5 degrees Celsius)

But it's lower when the nurses check it.

Someone on TikTok tells her she should go to the ER. Aster gets mad about it.



Aster reschedules her plane ticket again.

This means she needs more hotel money.

Aster's mom calls her up and tells her that nobody believes she's actually going to leave Phoenix anymore.
(She's like a video game antagonist who hacks your comms to tell you that the plot is progressing.)



Aster thinks the hotel is still randomly charging her.


Another ER trip.

Her temp reads as 99.5 while she's there. Maybe they'll believe her this time.

She bleeds after getting her blood drawn.

Aster fights the temptation to lay down on the hospital floor.


Aster waits around in the hospital. The person Aster is supposed to be staying with puts in their 1 month notice on their lease. They tell Aster she should still be able to stay, though.

Aster wants to die.


Aster's mom texts her. She says that she gives up trying to be a parent to her.
The texts are heart-wrenching.



Aster waits for her test results to decide her fate.

The test results tell her to go home, and she's discharged.




Aster's mom texts her again.


Aster wants to cut contact with both her mom and Sunny.

The next day, she resumes her normal daily life and Ubers to the laundromat. Her driver tells her that a woman recently self-immolated in the hotel she's staying at.


Aster hears that her urine culture grew another superbug, but the count is low.


Her urologist doesn't want to treat it.

But the hospital prescribes her something. Aster says she can't take it because of her EDS.

Aster pays for more nights at the hotel. She's back at $0/375 for flight fees.

A few days after her previous ER visit, Aster throws up "literally everywhere" while trying to clean up her "disgusting" hotel room. She goes back to the ER.
(She's also not letting room service into her room during her stay.)


She goes to a different hospital so she can get another culture.

Her doctor agrees to do what Aster wants. Therefore, she is a good doctor.

Aster gets admitted.

She's looking a little rough.

Aster and her mom get into an argument over the anitbiotic that Monique is taking. Aster thinks it isn't EDS-safe.



Aster gets discharged on IV antibiotics. She'll have to stay in Arizona for another 14 days. This will cost about $1000.


Another Klarna payment declines.

Aster asks for $30 for a smoothie and some soda.

She gets it. The smoothie slaps.

Aster is feeling better.

She posts some more documents as proof.




Aster kind of wants an elastometric IV pump.


Aster also wants a Nintendo Switch.

And she wants to spend $60 to get the sides of her head shaved.

Aster briefly tries and fails to go on a self-prescribed all liquid diet.


Aster also wants $30 for a lunch treat.

She gets the haircut and asks if someone can buy her masks.


More money down the drain.



And more surprise regularly occurring monthly charges.

Aster has a genius idea: Use Klarna to pay for her hotel.

Aster has given up on even trying to get on disability.

Aster calls the pharmacy. She thinks she's allergic to her antibiotic, but she really really hopes she's not.

She goes to the hospital.

And feels seizure-y

The shit-ass doctor thinks she fine. Aster is mad.


Aster needs to order a couple of pajama sets online.

Aster's friend buys her a portable, foldable, mini washing machine. It's literally lifesaving.


Aster keeps missing the (probably free) hotel breakfasts.

Aster has been feeling she/her pronouns.

Piss spilled everywhere count: 22

Aster needs benadryl for her anaphylactic reaction to IV antibiotics. Her finances are spiraling out of control.

Aster just can't get any help at all, despite jumping through so many hoops. (She has only applied for disability once, like 4 or 5 years ago now.)


She complains about her mom.

Aster switches to a new sad alter and feels down. This sad alter has been fronting a lot, lately.


She starts to reconsider going to Oregon. (Turns out, the EDS doctors are all slammed, because Tumblr and spoonie culture are super popular there.)


Aster thinks that without a urostomy, she'll continue her downward health spiral.


Aster posts in the Oregon EDS group. They tell her that the waitlists are crazy.


It seems like Aster is giving up on going to go to Oregon.

She starts looking for apartments.

Her friends encourage her. One of them tells her to gets her cat registered as an emotional support animal so she can't be charged pet rent.


She wonders if she could lie about her mom being an imminent threat and stay at a DV shelter again.

Then she picks up some packages from her mom. She hopes her mom finally gives her that laptop she's been promising her.

Aster doesn't even have enough for the application fees.

Aster has a fever.

And she has blood chunks in her urine.

Aster asks her mom to cosign for an apartment for her.

Aster's mom instead suggests a conservatorship or guardianship. Aster freaks out.


Later, Aster gloats about being right about scaring her mom about taking her antibiotic because her mom experiences achilles tendon pain.

Aster can't think of any jobs to do. Well, she can, but they wouldn't pay well. So why bother.

Aster is keyed up on steroids. She thinks they triggered hypomania.

Aster successfully sells her flight credit.


Aster takes half a leftover risperidone so she can sleep.

Aster maybe gets banned from Venmo

It gets resolved.

She's not having much success cleaning piss off the carpet. This is probably from her previous two spills.

Aster goes in for an MRI

Another $20 smoothie.

Aster thinks she's gonna get sent to the ER for pus and pain at her suprapubic catheter site.


The nurse line tells her to just monitor it. Aster still wants the $20, but for delivery tylenol, now.


She doesn't really feel supported by her friends and followers. She apparently has a hotel payment in 10 hours.

Aster lies about a telemed appointment to her nursing company so that they don't come earlier than she expected.


Aster spends some time cleaning up before the nurse comes.

The nurse still thinks it's filthy.


And the nurse thinks her port looks fine.

Aster thinks that the flavor of potatoes changed a few years ago. Now, most of them (except baked potato insides) taste a little like dirt.

More health troubles

We learn that Aster did indeed get an elastometric IV pump. Probably through insurance. Poking around, it seems like they're around $400 without it.


Aster deserves to know whether or not her followers are white or nonblack so that she knows if they're a threat or not.

Aster goes in for her urosurgery consultation at the cancer institute.



She won't be able to get the surgery until March or April.


Aster is mad that she still hasn't gotten that spare laptop from her bitch mom.

She posts the details of her urosurgery consultation. There are a lot of risks, and it could kill her. But it's her only choice.
She dismisses the danger of infection, saying that she already has infections all the time anyways.
It could reduce her intestinal motility further, and Aster doesn't want it to get worse, but she's familiar with the risk, so it's OK if it happens.
It's permanent. But Aster already needs some permanent solution to her urinary problems, so that's fine.



I'm pretty sure this is her doctor: Dr. George Kallingal, MD


- Associated with the Army
- Does robot-assisted surgery
- Cancer urosurgeon that also does non-cancer operations
- The only urologist at the Dignity Health Cancer Institute, which is in a Phoenix hospital. (The only other "cancer institute" in the area is "Phoenix Cancer Institute", but they seem like a small organization that doesn't have surgeons.)


Aster feels discouraged by unsolicited advice she received about removing her bladder. (Aster deleted the comment right away, so we don't get to learn what it said. Probably something like "holy shit don't remove your bladder for no reason, jesus fucking christ.")


Aster binges on some snacks that she bought with food stamps.

Aster can't move hotels because Klarna won't allow her to use pay-it-later.


Aster re-explains why she's worried about finding another apartment. The main reason is that she surrendered an apartment due to mold, and the remaining payments went to collections.

Aster goes to a homeless shelter to ask about resources.

They don't take her seriously. She wonders if they would have taken her more seriously if she had kept her port accessed.

Aster asks about getting a debit card that's not attached to her real identity so she can hide her account balance and donation income from Social Security Services.


More texts between Aster and her mom. It seems like Aster asked if she could move back in. Her mom tries to set some rules. The most important rule is that Aster can't post about her negative online, as it's effectively "witchcraft" and invites "mass curses" on Monique and Sunny.









Aster looks into long-term care, but finds out she has to be on SSI first.

She thinks she has found an apartment.



Aster gets evaluated for autism for some reason.





Aster's PCP is trying to save her from the out-of-state neurosurgeon that charges $100k to treat occult tethered cord.

But Aster finds out they probably don't take medicaid anyways.

Aster makes a joke: "got my suprapubic catheter placed at claire's". It gets very few notes. She repeats it over and over ad nauseum for the next two years.

(A month later)

Spoiler: September

Aster thinks she might die soon.


Aster has had a bit of trouble trying to get her MRIs done. There's just problem after problem.

She does the "Trauma Candy Salad" TikTok trend, but adds a twist where she also goes through her medications.
Lamictal for unstable moods.
Hydroxyzine for anxiety, but it doesn't help with that, but she takes it anyways for MCAS.
Montelukast and Cetirizine for the same reasons.
Electrolyte tablets, Nadolol, and IV fluids for dysautonomia.
Zofran, Senna-S, and Miralax for her GI system that has gone "kaput."
Catheter securements, leg bags, bed bags, a suprapubic catheter for bladder failure.
Oxybutinin, d-mannose, and methenamine for bladder issues.
Cyclobenzaprine for chronic joint pain (and currently bladder spasms).
Antibiotics for infections, and steroids so she doesn't go into anaphylaxis when she takes the antibiotics.

3:52

Aster lets us know that her bra size is technically 40j.

Aster sees a mom and her black child in the hotel lobby. Aster learns (or decides) that the child has autism, and her day is made.

Aster gets approved for the apartment! She screenshotted her bank statements to prove that she has sufficient income.

She needs the $300 deposit right away.

Aster thinks that applying for long term care made her lose access to medicaid.

But that wasn't the case. She's rescinding her long-term care application anyways for some reason.

Aster doesn't like when other munchies try to compete with her. It's NOT a competition, and also, her symptoms are worse, even though her vitals are better.

Aster doesn't pay for the hotel in time and has to pay yet another deposit.

Aster feels bad that she'll be confining her cat to a small apartment. She says she wishes she had trained Artemis to wear a harness so she could take him on walks.

Her friend chimes in. Their cat (who uses fae/faer pronouns), is fully harness trained, even though fae wasn't taken on walks until fae was around 1.5 years old.

September 7th: Moving day! Aster needs a bunch of stuff.
Apartment tour!

0:37

She also has both her autism evaluations today.

Aster isn't online much for over 24 hours because she has a friend helping her move. This gives her empathy for people who aren't terminally online and don't respond to her messages as quickly as she would like.

0:15

Her bathroom smells a little moldy. She also wants to self-pay for an appointment with a new PCP so she can get referrals for specialists in Oregon.



She deals with some spiders. She briefly worries that she has a brown recluse infestation.



Aster isn't getting her 6 hotel deposits back. She has spent over 2.5k on this hotel.
(This situation doesn't make any sense to me, and I've read dozens of her posts about it. LaQuinta isn't the most respectable institution, so maybe she really is getting fucked here. Or maybe she just doesn't understand how deposits work.)



Aster lies about her past experiences with mold a little. She claims mold has caused her to get "growths in lungs sick" in the past. (She had one tiny growth in her lung, it was not linked to mold, and professionals tested her room for mold, and the test came back negative.)

Aster uses ExtraSpace Storage in Phoenix, unit 3000.

She decides she definitely has to move because of the mold. Luckily, she hasn't signed a lease yet.



Aster shows off an old gymnastics routine she invented. She's pretty sure she could have done well in the bronze division.

0:39

Aster's main blog is at 700 followers now. (Not bad: that's like an instagram account with 10k followers. Especially impressive since she remade recently, so her followers are almost all active users.)

Surprise diagnosis of mild thoracic scoliosis

Aster has to go to the ER for a suspected SPC issue. She's been complaining about it for weeks.



Aster has more "weird seizure things" but her doctors don't care

But the infectious disease doctor is going to help Aster get a tunneled line.

Aster asks if she can just move units.

Her room is already messy enough that it needs to be "detrashed."

CPS is getting on Monique's case because Sunny has bedbug bites all the time.

Aster senses that she's going to die young.

Aster gives up on moving.

Aster pulls off a catheter securement, and some of her skin comes off with it.

She says she looks awful all the time now.

Aster explains why she doesn't keep taking her stimulants.

Another fight with her mom.





Aster has two strains of gram-negative bacteria grow in her culture.
(She mistakes them being gram-negative for them being superbugs. She has probably been making this mistake every time she's talked about having "superbugs" in her cultures.)


She decides to skip her antibiotics later that day.

Another air mattress destroyed, finally!
Air mattresses wasted: 10

She gets her neck MRI done.

Everything looks normal. But Aster thinks they probably missed something.

Aster HATES spending money.

It's time for her final autism evaluation.


She's diagnosed with level 2 autism. A true retard.
(Surely she wasn't diagnosed with moderate support needs because she constantly emphasizes how unable to support herself she is and has memorized every single symptom of autism.)




(Honestly, I'm a little surprised that this seems to be a new diagnosis. I was certain that she had actually been diagnosed with autism at some point, as she's mostly maintained that she was diagnosed with autism around age 20, sometimes implying that it happened earlier. I didn't think that Aster was in the habit of telling straight lies, just that she was very comfortable stretching the truth and self-deluding. But maybe I'm gullible.)

Aster posts about her new diagnosis on Facebook. They nitpick her word choices and piss her off.



Aster regrets skipping her antibiotic. But maybe it's just the deflated air mattress that's making her feel like shit.

Piss spilled everywhere count: 23

Aster sees the urosurgeon. She's going to get a cystectomy (bladder removal) with ileal conduit (cutting up your intestine to make a tube from your ureters to your outsides) in April 2025.

Aster barely raises enough to pay her first month's rent on time.


But then, her Venmo account gets frozen.

Spoiler: Summary

Piss spilled everywhere count: 23
Air mattresses wasted: 10
Aster gets enough money for the plane tickets to Portland, but has a bad fight with her mom and stays in a hotel for a month and a half. This, going in and out of the hospital for suspected infections, and her terrible spending habits drain her savings over and over. She formally gives up on moving to Portland after she hears that Portland EDS specialists have very long waitlists.
Aster gets her urosurgery consult. She schedules a urostomy (cystectomy w/ ileal conduit) for April 2025.
Aster is diagnosed with level 2 autism after a formal evaluation process.
Some poor idiot accepts Aster's application for an apartment. Aster is upset that it's moldy at first, but eventually decides to just deal with it.

Bonus: The event that makes THE GASH DFE.

Spoiler: It's really dumb

THE GASH's blog got banned for this message at some point, but she makes another blog and refollows all the people she used to know.

Some MtFs get in a fight. "sakowin" and friends claim that goddess-athetos-unkillable is in possession of child porn and even sent it for some reason.


THE GASH is known to be friends with goddesss-athetos-unkillable and gets dragged into it.
She tries to concern troll by pretending to be offended that he dared to say the name of one of her sideblogs, "gookzipperhead."

She then compares socially ostracizing pedophiles to blood libel.

She's then chased off of Tumblr and she deletes everything and never returns.
Yes, that's it. But it's a whole thing and becomes a massive witchhunt. This friend group is all "pro paraphilia," which is a sphere of discourse I am blessed to not know much about, but basically, they try to destigmatize having weird fetishes, which includes pedophilia to varying degrees. A pro-paraphilia associate being exposed as a pedophile who has actual images of child sexual abuse makes other pro-paraphiles look bad. At least one of THE GASH's friends tries to evade the issue in a similarly retarded way.


This makes them look even worse, and THE GASH quits the website and doesn't come back, as far as I know.
She even stops fulfilling orders on her Etsy.

 

[RNTard]

I’ve seen people gain 60+lbs on abilify which does not help with depression.

calories cannot enter your body without your consent, sorry but i fucking hate every little whiny fatty claiming their pills made them a fatass, bitch you were fat beforehand.

But on a side note I've been seeing a lot more PTs getting Metformin with their antipyschotics, which is apparently the new guideline to reduce metabolic syndrome.

She appears to have her tiktok locked down

that's coz ur not logged in and it thinks ur a bot, this interesting character has instead doubled down with double the proof she has TAD.

2:26

0:26

sooooo she took 2, 5mg doses of aripiprazole and presented to ED with spasms to her head, progressing downto her body, "all of it was crazy" you can see this best in the 2nd video, ED diagnosed her with acute dystonia, and give diphenhydramine, after discharge she saw a new neurologist who put her on deutetrabenazine, but i'm not too sure abt this "neurologist" who apparently quickly diagnosed her with TD, which is clearly a mistakes.

In summary, she has a history of taking lithium, and quetiapine and was just trialling the aripiprazole to replace her lithium when it "happened" but don't worry, the TAD only comes on later in the evening or when she's stressed/anxious which causes her blood pressure to spike and triggers the spasms, so she's fine to drive and live her best life unaffected unless theirs a camera rolling which is a well known symptom of TAD.

 

[VisceraNexus]

Aster is horrible and also hilarious. Her blood pressure barely leaves the normal range and she calls it "concerningly low." I also love that every time she has a "symptom" she runs to the ER and when they find nothing she privately threatens to not go in the next time so she can just die from an organ exploding or something but she never has followed through on that even once. Every time she mentions an issue, she sees a doctor without delay.

This is a big part of what I love about munchies like this, documenting every single thought they've ever had and every factitious malady they have makes it so easy to see this ridiculous pattern they fall into over and over. It's like a giant tapestry of histrionics and mental illness and the person creating it is too deluded to see it. Thank you so much for sharing these shenanigans and archiving them properly @Systems All The Way Down you are an angel!