Then you have, goddamnit I can't think of her original name, who claimed to have been at the boston marathon bombing, had a fake pregnancy/child, had an emergency hysterectomy, had been at yet another bombing (or was it uprising), and she was on the boards for YEARS then followed us here. All I can think of are internetexplorer and geoffreythegiraffe as her 2 names. Brahimbride maybe?
I remember hell freezes over? Eagles maybe?
hell freezes over was her name here, I think. She had like 5 names. mikehunt was another one.
Also, didn't she make up her own enemy on the boards? As in she was 2 people fighting each other?
Well, BB was involved with all the Hippy drama and got banned for that.
Then she came back as Geoffrey or IE or whoever. Moved to France. Got "pregnant" with Maggie. Came back to the US. Her husband was allegedly a cheapskate and wouldn't let her spend any money, but he was going to bring her back a Birkin from some business trip.
Had an emergency c/s with "Maggie" and had an emergency hysterectomy the day before Thanksgiving, and then photos surfaced of her from a local newspaper going out Black Friday shopping. Yeah.
Don't forget Razing Ruth, who was also many other online identities. Faking grave illnesses for herself and her kids, faking an escape from Quiverful abuse.
Post by cattledogkisses on Mar 4, 2015 17:34:46 GMT -5
We had one on military brides back in the day when I was a reg there. She claimed her FI or H (I can't remember now) was gravely injured on a deployment, which was an especially cruel thing to fake since one of the beloved regs had actually lost her FI overseas for real. Faker posted various dramatic stories, but it finally started to unravel when she posted about being pregnant with twins and miscarrying one, IIRC. I can't remember her name now.
The Multiples board gets so many fakers. They were a regular occurrence. I can only remember one but she claimed to have micropreemies who were sick. All stolen from a blog.
IRL I had an acquaintance-friend who made up this huge story that kept growing in it's horribleness. She was a social worker and told everyone the father in a family she was investigating killed himself in front of her. Then she got fired because her boss thought she was slacking even though she had PTSD. Then her parents kicked her out because she couldn't pay them rent. Yada yada yada. She got busted when friends hired her a lawyer. Everything including the suicide was a lie.
My BFF in HS faked a pregnancy, then faked an abortion in a desperate bid to win back her exBF. My mom had to sit me down and explain why she was a lying liar who lies. I had no idea it wasn't true. That girl is still cray. (And a psych major IIOY)
I think I need a Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring to understand this. Does this refer to a controversy or did she actually lose a plot of land in NJ and leave the board?
We used to get trip & quad fakers too but we had a "tips for fakers" post that encouraged them to stick with twins because it was too difficult to fake a HOM pregnancy. The freaky thing was the fakers had a lot in common in their posts, even though it was likely a lot of different people (because they would have changed their story otherwise).
This kind of stuff makes me so mad because I feel like it someone undermined my own credibility. What do we need to be able to see? PET scans? Diagnostic reports? Making it even weirder is that my hair will not fall outs using my kind of treatment, so do I still have cancer if I don't "look" the part? I opted not to attend the gtg in person over the weekend because I fel like crap, will that give people, pause and make them wonder if I was trying to avoid closer scrutiny? I am living a nightmare and these other assholes come along and pretend to be in the same situation, making that next person just a little most hesitant at helping out a person who is really sick.
If anybody wants to question you, there is a crew of us who would set them straight real fast -- including me -- having seen even a little bit of what you're going through.
I get what you mean, though. It sucks to wonder if people wonder. And that the fakers very well might mean that real people in hard situations might not get the help they need, or as much of it as they could use.
It's incomprehensible to me that people get an emotional payoff from playing at tragedy, sickness and death. Because when I think about what those things actually mean to real people dealing with them, the pain is so real and so hard that I can't help but wonder why in hell anyone would want to even PRETEND they're going through that.
We used to get trip & quad fakers too but we had a "tips for fakers" post that encouraged them to stick with twins because it was too difficult to fake a HOM pregnancy.
shanbrite2, I feel exactly the same way (and DH does even more so), especially because when you look at DH's past year it does look impossible. Rarest of rare diseases that metastasized into 'innumerable' tumors (direct quote from radiology report) followed by 5 failed treatment plans, multiple hospitalizations and the oncologist's recommendation that we think about end of life planning. Then a final treatment attempt that made him able to go back to work within a month of that appointment.
I actually didn't share a ton on GBCN because I was worried people wouldn't believe me. I mean, @scar posted a scan image & people still didn't believe her.
Don't forget Razing Ruth, who was also many other online identities. Faking grave illnesses for herself and her kids, faking an escape from Quiverful abuse.
I think I need a Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring to understand this. Does this refer to a controversy or did she actually lose a plot of land in NJ and leave the board?
lol, she went nuts.
She was older, right? Did her partner have an illness? My memories of her are really hazy. I seem to recall finding her really annoying (condescending, maybe?) but eventually deciding she was OK because there was something about her personal life that made me have sympathy for her.
Don't forget Razing Ruth, who was also many other online identities. Faking grave illnesses for herself and her kids, faking an escape from Quiverful abuse.
WHAT WHAT WHAAAAT??
Oh yeah. She was a super faker that had been at it for years
She was older, right? Did her partner have an illness? My memories of her are really hazy. I seem to recall finding her really annoying (condescending, maybe?) but eventually deciding she was OK because there was something about her personal life that made me have sympathy for her.
Older woman, older husband, kid around G's age. Such a bitch.
Don't forget Razing Ruth, who was also many other online identities. Faking grave illnesses for herself and her kids, faking an escape from Quiverful abuse.
WHAT WHAT WHAAAAT??
Scammer-in-a-minivan.com
It is a collection of how she was discovered and all the awfulness she got into.
This kind of stuff makes me so mad because I feel like it someone undermined my own credibility.
Well, except that a number of locals know you personally and have visited you in various hospitals. So I think it's that which lends to the credibility. It's the people that no one ever personally knows, or only 1 or 2 people knows that are suspect.
Ditto this; I don't think anyone here doubts you, shanbrite2. It's wonderful that you are here with us
Tk had a poster years ago who faked the death of her kids to cover up them being removed by child services. I know someone has to remember the sn. I am awful at that.