#faking disorders

It's like

High alter count? fake

Low alter count? fake

Positive, healthy relationship with alters? fake

Negative, unhealthy relationship with alters? fake

Traumagenic? faking trauma to harm traumatized victims

Endogenic? faking a disorder, even though they never claimed to have it

Tulpagenic? cultural appropriation.

Enjoys problematic media? oh god they can't have interests!!! They *must* be faking

Stereotypically cringe/2020core? fake.

Basic person(people) functioning in life and working a job? fake.

Struggling to function properly? fake.

Stuck living with abusers/still being abused? fake.

Easily triggered? fake.

Hardly ever triggered? fake.

Vivid memories of trauma? fake.

No memories of trauma? fake.

Mixed origin? fake.

Undiagnosed DID/OSDD? fake.

Diagnosed DID/OSDD? fake.

Minor? fake. (which is odd, considering DID is known to form in early childhood)

Adult? fake.

Had more than one account of trauma/abused by more than one person? fake.

Ritually abused? fake.

Abused sexually/verbally/emotionally, neglected, gaslit or manipulated (any form of abuse besides or alongside physical)? fake

As someone who's actively in the process getting diagnosed with both POTS and EDS (I'm already two doctors visits in and was told by a rumitoligist) it's really disheartening to see people call out others for "faking the disorder". While I'm aware that in the chronic illnesses community there is a bit of a problem with faking disorders and inaccurate self diagnosis among individuals, most people that say they have a chronic illness (more common or not) truly do have it!

The reason I'm ranting about this is because both POTS and EDS are seen as very popular chronic illnesses right now and it makes me feel really terrible. I'm going through all this trouble to find out what's wrong with my body just to have a disease that people love to fake claim. I'm not saying that I'd rather have another chronic illnesses if that's the way you're interpreting it, what I'm saying is; I wish that people would mind their own damn business about other people's chronic illnesses, ESPECIALLY if they do not have one themselves.

If someone is self diagnosing a disease, maybe that's what they need to help them get through the day because most times doctors refuse to listen.

If someone is faking than maybe it's because they just want to feel a little bit different or special. This isn't the right thing to do but generalizing the diseases they're faking only ends up hurting the people that actually have the disease.

DID or OSDD systems, im curious if this is similar to your experiences. People who know stuff sbt this im curious to hear your thoughts too.

(Remaking this bc the og sent in a community)

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(Disclaimer: we're anti endo)

Most systems who know about r/systemscringe hate the subreddit, no matter what stance on syscourse they have. We also hate it and we wanted to explain why.

~This is made for educational purposes, and in no way is meant to target or slander anyone!!!

I dont think people realize how faking mental illnesses affect the people who actually have it. I have diagnosed Tourettes syndrome (it also runs in my family) and it was pretty bad before i learned how to hide it better.

I held myself back a lot from telling people because of the amount of people who used to fake it on tiktok during 2020-2023/4, because i knew that they probably weren’t gonna believe me. But i seriously didnt blame them at all for not believing me, faking it was so common and normalized because people wanted to be “quirky” or “different”.

This can make people, not only with Tourettes but other mental illnesses that are commonly faked (DID, BPD etc.), feel like they cant open up to anyone about it in fear of being slandered or worse.

Advice! :

1) To the people who feel that way, my advice is to realize that you’re being true to yourself, and if someone doesn’t believe you then it’s not gonna affect you anyway. This mindset admittedly takes a while to adapt, but when you adjust to it, it helps a ton.

2) Be honest about whether you’re diagnosed or suspecting. Its the best thing to do for yourself and will spare you from people trying to make up their own theories about you. If you are suspecting, make sure to do proper research. (Recommended websites will be at the end)

3) If its something similar to Tourettes/tics, then dont try to hide it unless you NEED to. It can hurt rly badly, especially for motor tics, so just let them out. Again, people will judge you no matter what you do so might as well.

4) Dont try so hard to prove yourself. Its exhausting and isnt really rewarding. If they dont believe you then…oh well!

5) If someone’s bullying you for it, just ignore them. Theyre spending their sweet and valuable time making fun of someone for no reason, dont fuel them by reacting. However if it gets bad then you can report it so someone of power (teacher, boss, parent etc) and let them sort it out)

Websites:

1) Mayoclinic.org

- very understandable and simple but accurate

2) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

ninds.nih.org

- more in depth