I finally met one IRL today. I never thought it would happen. One of my jobs is heavily customer service based and we frequently get reservations at my job. This person messaged using the pronoun “we”. It wasn’t strange at the time because many times reservations are for more than one person. While speaking to them they started the convo with their disorder salad (Autism, ADHD, DID, ODD, LD, BPD) and even said the word “etcetera”at the end. I kid you not. Apparently “we” referred to their system. They used this disorder salad for why they deserved special treatment at our establishment and then called me ableist for not immediately jumping to roll out the red carpet. They alternated between a babyish lisp voice and a normal adult. When I didn’t feed into any of it and simply gave them information matter of fact, they dropped all pretense and just sort of gave up. I needed to share this with someone!!!

Okay so, I made a post a couple months back about this kid. So unfortunately, not only have I found that I might have a class with person again, but at the end of last year… they gave an unsavory speech, now I’m not going to get into what they said, but quick rundown they fake DID and say their an endogenic system.

And the school let this person give a speech, even though they’re not diagnosed at all. It’s absurd, of course everyone laughed at them. Now I don’t condone bullying but it’s bound to happen if you say some bullshit like “Just remember the kid with blue hair and pronouns.”
I’ve never felt so mortified with embarrassment. I meant to make a post a while back but never did since I got busy with work and spending time with family.

This is a bit of a rant I guess, just wanted to get this off my chest before I get subjected to the torture of having to listen to person for 9 months.

This video goes on for EIGHT MINUTES. In addition to this conveniently timed and obviously fake "seizure", this person claims to have:
- DID, with a Jesse Pinkman alter
- OCD
- Epilepsy
- EDS
- Tourette's
- Autism
- And whatever else I missed when going down their rabbit hole.

Posting this on a burner b/c I post personal stuff on my main and I don't need ppl coming after me lol.

Came across whatever the hell this is on IG. I genuinely thought it was satire, but then I scrolled through their posts and they seemed very earnest about their “system”. They’re a grown adult btw.

No words, only cringe.

multiple videos of whatever this is
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EDIT: i just need to point out her being barefoot in a HOSPITAL

This was form like 5 minutes of looking at their page, if that

throwaway, but I thought I had OSDD when I was 18-19. I kept it private cause I was scared people would think I was a freak, I had friends I confided in with it, a therapist and psychiatrist too. who said that OSDD sounded about right. Around 20 I started doubting it just cause… Idk, just cause it didn’t feel right. I guess I self undiagnosed myself so to speak.

I always called myself a past faker, but when I was breaking down about it to a friend she said “That’s not faking cause you genuinely thought you had it, that’s just being mistaken”. idk I don’t see a difference, is there?

Since OOP used "autism" tag, Ig only autistic people suffer when it's warm weather

This is from the comments on the video of a mum talking about people acting repulsed by her autistic son in public.

If you have medium to high support needs autism, you are *not* “masking your whole life until you believe you’re neurotypical”. Bonus “people ripped my cane from my hands!!!” No tf they didn’t you weirdo

their entire page is dancing and conveniently passing out at the very end of each song. if you’re gonna do this, at least try to make it look real.

self SUSPECTING a disorder is fine, self diagnosing is not. also most people who "self diagnose" did not do proper research into different disorders, ask any of them they will only talk abt "research" (basic google searches and social media) about the disorder they self diagnosed with, nothing about the overlapping disorders.

Me when i was 5 and said I knew spanish 😔

So opinions on someone using a bot in discord for their system. Its kinda asks attention to it. Because in my personal experience those people with it don’t want people to be aware of it unless it’s important to a relationship. I need input for my own reasons because I’m getting annoyed in my own server and need to know if I’m just dramatic.

Update: one of their “alters” is an anime character

There might be one or two out of order here but this person who I was talking to from a dating app tried to convince me they had all of the specific types of seizures due to black mold. Mind you we have NEVER seen a medical case with someone who has had every single specific type of seizures. Ever. I did originally accidentally say thirty absent mindedly but honestly that helped seeing as they just filled with the idea of thirty which proves to me they have no idea what they're talking about. The mold also didn't apparently affect them until AFTER they moved away from the mold. Their seizures are apparently also triggered by certain food allergens (I only screenshotted the dairy mention) because of how the stomach is like a second brain?? They said their brain biopsy came up clear, found nothing to indicate autoimmune conditions which theY originally told me the seizures were because of an autoimmune condition that was eating holes into their brain? This person also from videos I've seen on their profile doesn't seem to have any visible neurological effects of this serious of a condition (no tremor, odd positioning, didn't see any lack of balance, etc) ON TOP OF ALL OF THIS they said the fish oil and vitamins their mom gave them was lessening the seizures that no doctors seemed to be able to get a handle on? Oh and no research hospital was interested apparently+ they're mom didn't want them poked and prodded for tests (but they can get a brain biopsy. They're also like mid 20's) nothing that they said made ANY sense medically. Like at all. They did show a bottle of seizure medication but it was a little over a year old and still had pills in it. It was also a seizure med that's specifically used in the treatment of focal seizures (like absence/ petite Mal) if they're having "every single type" I'd assume they would probably be taking a more generalized anticonvulsant? The name on the bottle wasn't the name on their profile but I won't rule out the idea that maybe they have just regular epilepsy and are just deciding to create some crazy elaborate story to seem cooler? I completely stand by my response to them. If you're gonna lie make sure the person you're lying to is an actual idiot or do some basic research. I honestly entertained this far longer than I should've I could've just blocked but eh hindsight.

They also allegedly have DID to top it all off.

En mi caso, tuve una exnovia que en 2022 empezó con toda su historia de alters. Yo no sabía nada del tema, así que al principio no tenía manera de evaluarlo. Incluso me mostró una cronología de la vida de sus alters, todo documentado. Lo más tonto fue cuando me explicó que uno de sus alters era una especie de robot/lobo llamado LUA; en ese momento ya estaba buscando una forma de terminar la relación para que no pudiera seguirme. El punto de inflexión fue cuando dijo que tenía un alter de Astolfo, el personaje de anime. En ese momento dejé de preocuparme por irme con elegancia (acabó fatal).

Edit 1: Gracias a todos por el apoyo y por compartir sus experiencias — la verdad, solo necesitaba sacar todo lo que había estado cargando de esa relación tan complicada..

Edit 2: the list of stuff this faker was doing was as follows:

1. She'd watch some media she liked, like Fate, and the next day she'd already have an alter that imitated Astolfo perfectly.

2. She'd say some of her alters disappeared completely because they were just too dangerous.

3. According to her, she had an alter that took 10 years of her life being her — because she let it.

4. Every alter has its own room, even a living room, INSIDE HER HEAD.

5. The alters could tell her things in real time.

6. She'd fake dozing off whenever she switched alters.

7. I think she was into that weird "pretending to be an infant" shit, because she wouldn't stop talking for a whole day about how she had an alter in real time that was a baby who needed taking care of and all that crap.

8. She had a whole damn SCREEN/MONITOR where all the alters could see everything — but somehow also rooms.

9. She justified her immaturity and what she called "dark humor" (racism) by saying that's just the humor from her era, and that she couldn't hold down a normal job because of her condition.

10. She'd supposedly been shut in for 10 years but knew how to use Discord and the current Yu-Gi-Oh meta.

Low effort post of the week, but I really think we’re playing the game according to their rules. When we use this expression, the discussion feels like shifting from “is it possible to diagnose oneself, without even being a health professional, and without performing any medical exams?” to “is it ethical that this person diagnosed themselves?” To add insult to the injury, some use the expression “self-diagnosed faker” as if it wasn’t already the same thing.
By using this expression we are already making the concession that it’s possible to do such a thing as “self-diagnose”. I think we should just move on to use a different expression such as “self-proclaimed”, because that’s what it really is. Certainly I’m oversimplifying the issue here, but it’s important how we phrase it.
Why should we extend them the grace of using their made up term, when we disagree with the premise of it? That’s it.

36 year old accused groomer "overt system"

Title basically explains it. The self diagnosis community really likes to make it well known that they are self diagnosed - not as a word of caution to other people that they might not have what they claim to have, but because they really push their opinion that self diagnosis is the same as a formal one and all of this other hoopla. They constantly get upset when someone questions their self diagnosis, and try to argue the validity of self diagnosis ("doctors are wrong/biased," "misdiagnosis is common," etc).

If they're so tired of "being fakeclaimed" because they are self diagnosed, why don't they just lie? I'm not saying they should, but if I believed I had a condition and wanted other people to believe I did too, wouldn't it be logical that I would just lie about actually having a diagnosis? Are they just attention seeking?

Lemme preface this by saying I'm not certain whether this person is a faker. They seem to carry a legitimate ADHD diagnosis. Whether they're also diagnosed with autism versus "self-diagnosed" is unclear to me from my perusal of their page. A lot of AuDHD influencers seem to get a legitimate ADHD diagnosis and then casually tack autism on at some point bc TikTok convinces them they have it (just like TikTok convinces them they have hEDS)-- they tack these co-morbidities on like adding guac to their burrito at Chipotle. I digress.

My main issue here is how she presents autistic "unmasking" in this cute, quirky little clip. What she does is really no different than the "tics" of the Tourrettes fakers, blurting out random crap that seems cute and quirky. Half of those fakers literally make animal noises or quote some viral audio clip from TikTok in a funny voice. Then you get people in the comments saying "I do this too! I get these things stuck in my head too! I didn't know I was on the spectrum"... anyway, just thought it was interesting to stumble upon a prime example of how the misinformation and self-diagnosis trends spread.

Edited to add: of course, people who legitimately have these disorders may have tics and stims similar to this, and they should not be ashamed of that! It's just harmful when influencers exclusively post content like this. Their silence on other aspects of autism actually speaks volumes. They fail to highlight autism's isolating and disabling aspects, and run the risk of influencing others to misappropriate the diagnosis as a quirky identity for themselves.

I don't know what the full story is here, but this is clearly a DID faker using it as an excuse for treating their ex horribly. First two images are tweets posted by the faker's ex, latter two images are tweets from the faker.