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Attention-seeking behavior can appear in various forms, such as acting out, excessive displays of emotion, and continuously seeking praise and affirmation.
To learn how far people are willing to go, Reddit user MelodicFishing8899 posted a question on the platform, asking everyone to share the worst examples exhibited by their friends and relatives.
Perhaps it was the anonymous nature of the internet, the desire to empathize with others, or both, but many did. Continue scrolling to read some of the most memorable stories from the thread.
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#1
For context, my aunt always needed the spotlight, always an attention seeker. This was at her own daughter's wedding for context where she didn't get attention.
Aunt: "I'm gonna k**l myself"
Me with anger issues and tired of this s**t
Me: *hands her a knife that was meant to cut the cake* do it, I want to watch, do it, right now, I dare you.
She never said that s**t again in front of me because I would keep doing it. I had enough of her bullshitting. I got in trouble but it was worth it to call her out.
Brandi🧚 10 months ago
Did the same with my mom and an ex, I was the crazy and insensitive one. It’s a serious thing, not to be said because you’re upset about not getting your way or not having enough attention. So please do me the favor!
Regina Holt 10 months ago
I had a "friend" move in with me years and years ago. I knew she was not the most stable person, but she promised to leave immediately if I asked her to. She promised she wouldn't off herself in my house. Well, one day, she threatened to off herself. My response to that was "well, you told me you wouldn't off yourself in my house, so since you're in my house, I am not going to take you seriously" and walked away. She later told me she was mad and upset with me with my response. I immediately told her to leave. It took her a couple days to get her stuff out, but she was gone. She had made an extra key, and one day let herself into my house to do laundry! I reminded her that laundry facilities are for residents only, so nope. And I got that key.
ILoveMySon 10 months ago (edited)
Wow! My friend let a person sleep on his couch because he felt sorry for her. She shot herself in his bed when he was at work. Crazy stuff. Too bad he didn't relay that message as you did.
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KombatBunni 10 months ago
I had an ex threaten suicide one too many times so just told them if you do it, do it right and quit talking about it. He never mentioned it again. Harsh yes but it stopped the threats.
Kelli Wilson 10 months ago
My mom did this with her ex SIL. Ex SIL threatened to kill herself because she had to have a hysterectomy and she wanted a daughter but "only" had two boys.
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
Yup, anyone who uses suicide as a threat deserves to be called out and offered ways on how to do it because it's an empty threat. People actually contemplating don't talk about it.
HardBoiledBlonde 10 months ago
Some people actually contemplating Do talk about it.
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sturmwesen 10 months ago (edited)
Did that at 17ish ..friend gnawed at her wrists,everyone pittied her, I offered my knife-that got her to stop.
Tara L. 3 months ago
I did the same with my narcissistic uncle. Anytime my dad got a promotion my uncle (his little brother) would have a crisis. My mom & I started screening dad's calls after each promotion because uncle Dbag would call to say he had cancer (he never has had cancer). Anyway, I wouldn't let him talk to dad & he whined "I should just k*ll myself. Nobody would even care!" . Me: "we'd care, because then we could just mourn & move on with our lives without your whiny a$s lying about fake cancer all the time. It would be a relief! So go ahead & do it." . He never spoke to me again lol
Ralph Vanloton 10 months ago
My mother always threatened to throw herself in front of a truck, one day I told her to go ahead, no one would miss her; the beating was worth it...
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#2
My ex-wife staged a fake pregnancy for April Fools, instead of it being just one day of April Fools, she turned it into a week long prank. All her friends and family sent her money, gifts, and guidance for the fake baby. I told her not to do the prank because it's mean but she didn't care. Thought it was funny and to test how naive people were. After about a week, she finally said it was a prank and kept all the money and gifts. Her family didn't talk to her for a few months after that and her friends dropped her. Anyways, one of the reasons why she's my ex.
winterwidow87 10 months ago (edited)
Reminds me of a recent event that happened here in Italy. A woman faked a whole pregnancy and then kidnapped a newborn baby from the hospital. Her family and husband didn't know anything about it and were waiting for her at home, ready to celebrate the "birth". Luckily there were cameras in the hospital, she was caught and the baby brought back to their real family.
Lyoness 10 months ago
That woman is severely mentally ill. Hope she got help as well as being charged.
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KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
I think by day 3 I would have exposed her and apologised myself. Then moved out.
Papa 10 months ago
I'd like to think I'd have exposed her on the first day. Telling friends and family that you're pregnant is not a prank, but it is cruel.
Load More Replies... Little Bit 10 months ago
I hate pranks. They're rarely funny. People who play them never know when to stop, they think they're so funny, yet they can't handle it and throw massive tantrums when somebody pranks them.
Heather Eastwood 10 months ago
I announced my pregnancy on instagram on April 1st. Was during the pandemic and id seen barely anyone outside my family and midwives throughout the first 2 trimesters, so thought it would be funny. It was actually taken well, although few believed me at first until I posted a photo with my giant bump.
Ginger ninja 10 months ago
So why did OP not expose her immediately and why did he not put a stop to people giving her gifts and money?
#3
My dad’s first cousin’s second wife (giving you all that context to properly DISTANCE myself from this horrible woman i share no blood or bond with) lived in the same hometown as me and worked at our elementary school as an aide. I’m long out of the school at this point but knew her as a faculty member. It came out a couple yrs ago that she was impersonating her 13 yo daughter on instagram to sext with other 13 yo boys in her class. She was literally taking nudes of the young girl and sending them out to children as her. The daughter didn’t find out until a boy came up to her in class and showed her the conversations with her own explicit pictures. absolutely despicable. The daughter reported her to administration and she was arrested. Her reasoning was, quote, “to make her daughter more popular”. So disgusting to involve your own daughter in your ploy for attention from minors. I think she’s in prison now but we don’t talk to them anymore … for obvious reasons.
Maisey Myles 10 months ago
That is absolutely horrific. I hope she stays in prison for a long time
Regina Holt 10 months ago
And hopefully she is on the sex-offender list and can't be near children anymore.
winterwidow87 10 months ago (edited)
That is beyond disgusting. I hope that poor girl is well.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 10 months ago
"to make the daughter more popular" she's 13 tf when I was 13 I had drama going on I just needed my mom. Gross
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
My daughter just said "this girl on tiktok posts her toddlers having seizures" and I thought it was appropriate timing
Zander Porbanda 10 months ago
Munchausens Bullying. I anticipate she sought to comfort her daughter too.
#4
A cousin of my best friend at the time (1999?) became close to me for a summer, knew who I had a crush on for my entire teen life, encouraged me to profess my love for him and ask him out.
Took months of encouragement and I did it!
Turned out that she was secretly dating him the entire time.
She apparently told him that she had cancer and only had a year to live…
The sheer insanity really shook me in my early adulthood.
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
A d.i.c.k.h.e.a.d. move from anybody, but I cut a tiny bit of slack for a teenager because they all have the potential to be a k.n.o.b. due to immaturity. An adult of, say, fifty, will have seen people they know die of cancer and have witnessed the grief and suffering of those that love them before, during and after the death. A teenager may know it's a bad thing but not have that experience under their belt yet. I don't really understand the encouraging her best friend to ask out her secret boyfriend though.
#5
When i was a freshman in high school my friend and her 2 older brothers had a house party. Well she and her brothers dr**ged me. They put their little brother's anti seizure medication in my beer. They did that so her 2nd oldest brother could sleep with me. Luckily that did not happen because one of the brother's friends thought it was f****d up. Needless to say i was not her friend after that one.
Regina Holt 10 months ago
Thank goodness someone stepped in and stopped it. That was horrible.
#6
My cousin pretended to have a seizure at her own sister’s wedding & ruined the whole thing.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 10 months ago
bro as someone with epilepsy, I think I would just..not talk to them anymore lol. I mean I make plenty of jokes about my life and epilepsy but FAKING IT??? Hell nah
K. LNU 10 months ago
This was from an AITA on Reddit. The cousin didn't have epilepsy or any other condition. I believe it was proven she did it because all the attention was on the bride and groom.
Load More Replies... Maisey Myles 10 months ago
Why?!? Just why? Jealous much? I’d be sending sister the bill for the wedding.
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
I remember reading about this from the bride. Just like that, I have no cousin.
#7
My ex MIL insinuated she had cancer every time she couldn't have her way. If you couldn't make a family dinner- she had news she wanted to share from her hospital visit. That kind of thing.
She also tried to stop the wedding by faking a "medical emergency " for which an ambulance had to be calked. Right in the middle of the ceremony.
F**k that b***h. I sometimes Google for her obituary , hoping one day soon I'll find it.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
I'm betting eventually she will actually get cancer and nobody will believe her. Boy who cried wolf and all that.
#8
Pretended to be me on a facebook account and messaged herself as me saying that I was using my bf to get over an ex and she took a screenshot of it and sent it to him. He broke up with me and didn't tell me until we became friends again a few months later.
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
She wanted that boy herself, only reason you deliberately break up a relationship. b***h.
Chuck 10 months ago
Not the only reason. I've seen people intentionally break up, or try to break up, other people for sport.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
My sisters took over my Facebook account. I stopped going on after rehab in 2008 and made a new one in 2021. No one will speak to me now that I used to be really good friends with. I just found out last year because I was going through my old page and they announced my pregnancy without my permission and gave themselves away by bragging about losing weight by working out so much. I never work out. I went to my grandma's aerobics class and threw up. I would have been bragging about losing mega weight from breast feeding. Actually I wouldn't have been bragging at all. It's mortifying. God knows what they have said and done. They have ruined my life since the day they were born
#9
I might have a few that include my MIL.
1. She vomited during our wedding cake tasting
2. She passed out when I was trying on wedding dresses
3. She decided during our reception dinner she could no longer walk up stairs. She got put in a chair and carried up the stairs. (She has done stairs before and after this)
4. The day of our wedding she decided she needed to be in a wheelchair and only the groom was accepted to push the wheelchair
5. At the wedding reception, she gave a speech. She said her older son was unfortunate as he just got divorced, and wished he could be more like her younger son getting married. She then proceed to say if anyone in attendance was rich, she was single.
6. When my husband and I bought our house, she came in and said it was all wrong. Then said she was having some financial troubles with her house and left all emotional. Upon my husband researching, there were no financial issues
7. We were all having spaghetti one night and she kept putting it on her shirt and looking around to see if anyone would notice / say anything. I kept my mouth shut.
This was all over a decade ago, and her behavior has gotten much better.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
Dear God the spaghetti one. Take notes. Shouldn't be too hard to have her committed with this behavior loo
#10
My brother pretended to have a back problem until the doctor pulled my mother aside and told her that he was clearly faking.
We were extremely poor, and could not afford doctors. We probably spent our rent money just to get the doctors to talk to him, and I bet it was years to pay off all the bills.
My sister was maybe worse than that by calling me, crying, telling me that our mother had forced her to abort her baby. After an hour of consoling her on the phone, I called my mother to yell at her. My mother responded 'What the hell are you talking about? She's sitting right here, big as a whale!'. So, I told my mom to give my sister the phone, and immediately said 'What the f**k?', and she explained that she was just bored and wondering how I'd react if that had happened.
Paul C. 10 months ago
Young guy at the pub clearly pretended to pass out, just for attention. I lifted his hand over his face and let go, he made it flop to the side, pretty much a sure sign of faking it. Others called an ambulance and the paramedic did the same. He then said " I think we need to put in a large intravenous drip, I'll get the needle" Queue matey boy to miraculously wake up!
Jan Moore 10 months ago
Had a patient throw himself into a large heavy metal screened window. After he bounced off he pretended to be unconscious, did a good job, didn't respond to chest rubs or earlobe pinches but when I tried to check his pupils I couldn't get his eyelids open. He miraculously responded.
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#11
Girl I went to high school with. The cheerleading coach took her own life. The girl broke into her house, put on her jewelry and clothes and took pictures posing as the dead body.
#12
Told the newspapers that the people helping her out on the emergency line was rude and was putting her in danger. Ended up in a national paper, the recordings popped up. Guess who was rude and unhelpful, and also drunk?
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
All emergency calls are recorded, what a f*****g stupid thing to do.
#13
He (27) self harmed then sent me a video with no caption. When I called him out for being immature, inconsiderate, and generally just saying like hey don't do that (I have a history of s*******m and it was very triggering) he flipped out saying I was a bad friend and it was a cry for help. I told him to just be a mature adult and message me that he needs some support right now.
Later on he sent me another snap just labelled "single life" which I didn't respond to and he once again flipped out. Blocked him after that one, f**k that. I don't need that in my life right now.
rainy_days (fae/faer) 10 months ago (edited)
I can't stand those types. Everyone who's really struggling gets called attention seeker because of them.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
My cousin used to get really jealous and moved to my town in high school. Every time she found out I was at my friend's house she would find the house number in the phone book and call over and over saying she was going to kill herself. I would have lost all my friends if I had invited her. She came to school with me in 6th grade and read my diary to my friends. She had a lot of issues at home.
Binky Melnik 10 months ago
Whew, I came up with the same thing. I’m glad I’m not the only one lost in the weeds.
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#14
My cousin faked a proposal at my grandma's 80th birthday party just to get Facebook likes. Classy.
Sue Denham 10 months ago
You say "Classy". I say the same except without the C, L and Y and with "hole" on the end.
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
Me, I'm losing "lass" and replacing it with "unt"
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#15
Step 1: My cousin went off her birth control without telling her boyfriend so she'd get pregnant and guilt him into marrying her.
Instead, her boyfriend offered to share custody when the baby was born.
Step 2: My cousin said she had a miscarriage to emotionally manipulate her boyfriend into marrying her.
Her boyfriend marries her out of guilt.
Step 3: Oh-wow, my cousin gave birth to a healthy baby just 5 months after their wedding. Coincidently, the due date was just three days off from the due date for the baby she miscarried.
Yeah, she didn't have a miscarriage. He sued her for divorce after their daughter graduated.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
Why would you fake a miscarriage to get married? Wouldn't a pregnancy work much better for that?
#16
This girl I used to be friends with had multiple fake pregnancies during our senior year of high school. Lucky me I had mostly distanced myself from her at the time, but it was infuriating watching how she got people to fawn over her for every fake pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage story. She also got one of our mutual friends arrested and sent to juvenile hall for falsely accusing him of a**ault just because she felt like it. She was a nightmare.
Multa Nocte 10 months ago
BP is well known for having hilariously inaccurate accompanying photos.
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#17
He pretended to be deaf. He thought all deaf people were mute, and tried to communicate using sign language and the notes app on his phone.
winterwidow87 10 months ago
People pretending to have disabilities/health issues they don't have make me particularly furious.
Callie27 10 months ago
same, and when people make fun of people with disabilities.
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My friend staged a fake breakup on social media, complete with dramatic screenshots and sob stories, just to get sympathy likes.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 10 months ago
that just sounds like someone addicted to social media likes
#19
Friend of a friend, our senior year, called in a b*mb threat. He wanted to do something so epic that he'd be remembered. Almost 30 years later, I still remember him as the dude who scored a suspension his senior year and had to spend a fifth year in high school.
Ralph Vanloton 10 months ago
They get their name in the News and that's what they want. The Newsies abet this behavior.
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Cecilie Hammershøy 10 months ago
Well mission accomplished: He wanted to be remembered and he was
#20
My childhood bestie wore a white, backless sundress and a white flower in her hair...
To my father's funeral.
Maisey Myles 10 months ago
This isn’t that awful. I see funerals as more of a celebration of life.and should be more joyous than morbid depressing event. Maybe dad would’ve liked it.
kissmychakram 10 months ago
In some cultures and religions white is the colour of mourning. This isn't the thing I would be focusing on at a funeral.
Moana Manana 10 months ago
I agree with most comments, that this not that bad, IF it wouldn't have been intentionally, which was the case, I assume and therefore rude.
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
In the infamous words of my aunt about funerals "what the f**k [s]he care - they're not there". This was in response to my possibly not attending my mother's funeral (I didn't). Sadly my aunt went first but these words were a comfort because I couldn't attend - but also watched online dressed in the hippiest clothing that we had in common. Also wore an arsenal shirt with harem trousers to another funeral later that year - it was official dress code - arsenal or orange clothing. Miss those two.
Therese Clarke 10 months ago
My mom has said if anyone where's black to her funeral, she is coming out of the coffin and taking them with her. When a friend said "But I look really good in black" (which she does) the response was, "But you have that electric blue suit I really love, wear that!" (BTW, mom is still alive)
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
It is no longer only socially acceptable to wear black to funerals. Many people don't, because it is a celebration of like, or just because the dead person wouldn't care what they wore.
Fire Singer 10 months ago
And that's 100% fine if it is agreed upon. Sounds like in this case it was not. For my grandmas funeral we all wore purple because that was her favorite color, but we all agreed it didn't need to be just plain black.
Load More Replies... ILoveMySon 10 months ago
My mother wore a dress that my father liked her to wear to his funeral. It wasn't black and it was in 1979.
Swetha Jayakumar 3 months ago
Different culture approach this differently, I grew up in a culture were white was what was worn to funerals, or other light pastel colors, Black was definite no!!1 such a culture shock
Amanda Reinstatler 10 months ago
These days, people will do ANYTHING for attention - good or bad. It's disgusting
#21
Led a convoy to the nation’s capital. She’s a conspiracy nut who yearned for an audience. She used to spout conspiracy theories and post cheesecake photos on FB to friends and family.
Jo Firth 10 months ago
And now she has probably been pardoned by the orange turnip - excellent!!
David 10 months ago
The Convoy was in Canada, to Ottawa, not the US. The 2021 riots were different than the Canadian Convoy
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winterwidow87 10 months ago
I love cheesecake, why do conspiracy wackos have to ruin good things?
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I saw a convoy go down my road on the 4th of July. The fireworks kept going and going and going. Then it seemed like the entire town left. I live in BFE MD the road I live on goes nowhere. We have a post office and a stoplight. Anyway. The fireworks kept going and going and all these cars were leaving. I was really scared. Then I saw 10 giant tan military convoy trucks and the last one had Christmas lights in the shape of an American flag. It scared the s**t out of me. They looked like human confinement vehicles. There is a summer camp down at the end of my street (like 20 miles down) 2 schools and some churches. This really happened I'm not making it up. Also all of the homeless people in Charles county MD are not wandering the streets as usual. The encampments are gone. This just triggered that memory and I am now putting it out in the world. Weird s**t is going down around here.
Disgruntled Panda 10 months ago
I looked it up, it's something like pin-up photo's or semi-nudes
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David 10 months ago
you do know the Convoy was in Canada? a different protest than the US 2021 Riot
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#22
Sister had a baby with a rare condition. The community rallied together to fundraise and support her. It was a big occasion and a great night.
This is a very small community where everyone knows everyone. She had everyone's support and attention because of her child.
She later falsely claimed another family member sexually a**aulted her, abandoned her baby after finding out it also had autism, and disappeared to another state to hide after using my name for her debt collectors.
Years later, it was discovered she spent most of the fundraiser money on herself. She crawled out of wherever she was hiding only when our pop died so she could suck money out of our grieving nan.
She got the attention she wanted alright. Everyone in that community now knows to never trust her. Some are out for blood if she ever returns.
Family has cut all contact. Any attention on her or her name is bad news now.
Betsy S 9 months ago
Sorry. Calling b******t here. You can't get an autism identification as a baby. You can have inklings that something might be up. But until the child can assert itself and has some sort of milestone delay (or exceptional advancement) there is no way to identify autism.
PandaGoPanda 9 months ago
a) Yes, there is. and b) you have no idea of the baby's age, some people call children babies until the age of two or more.
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#23
Classmate in high school faked a b*mb threat that got classes called off for the day while investigators raided every classroom checking for explosives. None were found and the call got traced back to him and he was presumably kicked out as we didn't see him the following semester.
#24
Pretended to lose their voice for three days just to seem mysterious. 🙄.
Sue Denham 10 months ago
I'm calling that a win. Three days without a drama queen talking - priceless.
#25
A coworker used to have convenient crises to steal the attention of the other co-workers.
She had a fake lawsuit with her ex-boyfriend about being thrown down the stairs. Completely fabricated.
Updates would continually happen as there were announcements of other co-workers being pregnant or getting married.
She had to take time off cuz her mom died. She wouldn't return anybody's calls.
When we called her sister, her sister had no clue what we were talking about and cleared everything up.
This was after I'd already moved on from the company.
My former co-workers took me out to dinner to apologize for believing all the slanderous things that were said about me.
I was always curious why there was a change of heart by people and they started being really mean.
KatSaidWhat 10 months ago
Yeah, if suddenly there is a whole attitude change in the office, you know someone has been trashtalking you - or discovered your ugly secret.
#26
Friends younger sister announced her pregnancy at my friends wedding, she wasn't pregnant. Funniest thing is she only said that after the rest of my friends family got on her a*s about it and she tried to play it off as a joke.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
Even my socially awkward self knows you're supposed to be on your best behaviour at weddings, and that includes not trying to draw attention away from the happy couple. Sheesh.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
My best friend was pregnant at another friend's wedding and didn't want to tell the bride because she didn't want to take the attention away from her. The bride's cousin asked my best friend if she was pregnant (she was only just showing) and when it was confirmed she went and told the bride. Pretty sure she told the cousin that it wasn't common knowledge at the time but she shared it anyway. Even if she didn't, it wasn't her place to say anything.
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My cousin's uncle (not my dad) was visiting her. He went upstairs and was gone for ages. She went looking and found him lying naked on the bed unresponsive. Called an ambulance, they came out and he tried to pretend to be in a coma because he lost his job, started gambling and got in debt and some people were looking for him.
Pink kitty 10 months ago
Of all the available options and that's the one the Uncle went with. I get that he needed help but did he think the medical professionals were going to say "we got your back. We'll tell everyone you're in a coma when you're not'
Sanfransweety 10 months ago
At least he didn't hurt himself. Gambling addiction has highest rates of all addiction for unaliving oneself. Don't do something permanent for temporary problems.
Disgruntled Panda 10 months ago
That's impossible. He will look the same for all eternity
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#28
Paid to have a girlfriend.
Beak Hookage 10 months ago
Isn't that the plot of at least one romantic comedy? "He Thought He Could Buy Love... Until She Gave Him A Refund!" Cash Love, coming out on Valentine's Day 2025. Buy your date a ticket now!
#29
My husband’s ex (they broke up 2-3ish years before we met) sent weird messages to me after we got engaged. She created fake profiles that were quite convincing they were real.
Then a month or two before our wedding she started unsending a ton of messages in their fb messenger conversation from years ago. I’m talking like from 2014-2017. This happened in 2023.
We had to give security and everyone working the event a photo of her. My brides people also knew what she looked like. She didn’t show, but through mutual acquaintances we found out that she was in the area of our wedding when we got married. This place was across the country from her and our wedding website was private for that very reason. None of the mutual acquaintances were invited to the wedding as well….
#30
Not a friend of mine but a colleague got dumped by his girlfriend. He came into work the next day saying he missed her and wanted to get back with her. She was having none of it so he decided to take some pictures of empty packets of paracetamol and phoned her and said he took an overdose. It didn't work out for him as planned and she rang the store and he was fired shortly after.
Huddo's sister 10 months ago
It really pisses me off when people use threats of self harm/suicide to manipulate friends or family. I have a friend who's boyfriend would do this, while on the phone to her and her sister and I told her to break up with him, because once he succeeded with getting his way/attention he would use it again. She didn't listen and married him. I have worried about her ever since.
#31
My best friend lied about being r*ped and then faked a pregnancy from it.
Depressy spaghetti 10 months ago
I dont get why people would lie about something like that for clicks and sobs. SA isnt and will never be something to joke or lie about take it from someone who still hasn't gotten over the disgust and self hate resulting from the trauma.
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Amanda Reinstatler 10 months ago
I think any woman that lies about rape should be LOCKED THE F**K UP. Even when their names are cleared and they are exonerated, you have ruined their reputation and created doubt in peoples minds. Also, F**K YOU for using one of the most devastating, terrifying things that can happen to a woman, and use it to get your sorry a*s some attention.
Fire Singer 10 months ago
Yes! Whatever punishment the other person got should go to the false accuser.
Load More Replies... Binky Melnik 10 months ago
She’d better hope she isn’t raped for real, as no one will believe or support her. This is why we learn the story about the boy crying wolf when we’re kids, so we learn not to eff with peoples’ trust. Once you lose it, you’re not getting it back. This is one of the lowest of the low. 🤬
Some guy 9 months ago
Exactly! And people like her just give ammunition to the pathetic little apologists who claim "women lie about that all the time!".
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#32
My aunt. Pretended to have MS for 20 years, even though the doctors ran every test and they all came back looking normal. And she told me that, but because I was a child and she said she had MS and s****y doctors, I believed she had MS and s****y doctors.
Her “MS” stopped very suddenly 10 years ago (I think she said some diet cured her???) and now it’s one of the things we’re not allowed talk about at family dinners.
Mike F 10 months ago
Gotta eat a ton of those rutabagas everyone, that's what cured Auntie Griselda's MS, remember?
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#33
My friends daughter faked having cancer in school....even got a fundraiser out of it to help for medical bills.
Cydney Golden 10 months ago
There's a docuseries on Peacock about a writer for Grey's Anatomy that faked her cancer for years. Also an article in Vanity Fair.
#34
My aunt, at her own mother's funeral wake, gleefully proclaimed she was engaged and the wedding will be later in the year.
Then got huffy when everyone looked at her in shock & disgust.
I am the rat in your walls 10 months ago
i really want the wedding to be just her and no one else came :)
#35
A member of my high school friend group faked brain cancer.
Her boyfriend told me she was very scared and not to talk about it to spare her anxiety and not to spread it around school. He said she was starting treatment but it was too soon to say if she was at risk of dying. Being the gullible idiot I was, I followed orders and didn't speak of it to a soul. If I caught her alone I'd ask innocuous questions like, "Hey, how are you feeling?" And she'd give me an equally vague answer back, and I thought that was as supportive as I could be while respecting her wishes.
It wasn't until YEARS LATER that one of the other friends in the group casually threw out "Wasn't it crazy how (friend) faked cancer for so long?" And I was like "she f*****g WHAT? None of you were going to tell me??"
I'm a little upset that we stopped hanging out long before I found out she was a lying piece of s**t, so I didn't even have the chance to call her out on it. Last I heard she married a pastor, had a couple kids, and became a stereotypical tradwife.
Maisey Myles 10 months ago
Well, something must have been wrong with her brain to think like that
#36
A friend went out on a date with a man one time. Once. She changed her name on Facebook to having his last name.🤣.
#37
Told me she was depressed. It was shortly after she told me I’d die alone (guess which one of us was recently left), unless I get married to a toaster or pet.
I told her she’s cruel and didn’t text again.
And then she had depression and the next day, she lost her phone.
Can’t say I cried a ton when her boyfriend left her.
Edit: she conveniently had „very bad thoughts“ after being this cruel to me and me no longer responding, which seems a bit of a stretch on the believability scale.
Also who cares? If someone is cruel to u, let them be depressed.
Zander Porbanda 10 months ago
And if you have lingering frustration with someone as a result of them not growing, heads-up: they’ve tricked you into not growing too.
#38
Someone I used to know recently told me they are waiting for a cancer diagnosis. He said the blood tests only show stage 4, so even though the blood test didn’t should anything to do with cancer, the doctors still suspected a tumour…..
Maybe I don’t know enough about diagnosing…. But I just felt this was all very off.
Undercover 10 months ago
Blood tests mostly don't indicate cancer (except leukemia and similar cancers). That's why doctors do biopsies and radiology
Laura S 10 months ago
Tumor marker blood tests can reveal a cancer presence, but no stages or types or anything like that
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Ronna Black 10 months ago
My cancer was not disgnosed until it was stage 4. The type of cancer I have can be hidden by the body as a janky period or yeast infection. It was diagnosed utilizing the tumours appeared on the exterior of my lady bits. If you feel like there is something wrong down there, get it checked. I am stage four and cannot ever be “cured” it can go into remission if I’m lucky, but it will come back.
Nikki Gross 10 months ago (edited)
I've been through Cancer twice and it f*****g infuriates me that people actually try lie about it just for attention. I'm covered in scars from surgeries, am a human pin cushion, have had cameras shoved in every opening in my body and should be glowing in the dark from all of the X-Rays, scans, ultrasounds, etc. and that doesn't even include Chemotherapy and all of the side effects from that and the Cancer. It caused me to go into Peri-Menopause at 39, full blown Menopause at 40 and I'm still in Menopausal hell at almost 50 years old. My entire body is a wrecked mess and after working for over 25 years straight, it still took 3 years to get Disability and the little bit of Medicare that I have now. I'm getting a FRACTION of what I made when I was still working. I have to take 2 different kinds of Morphine just to be able to get out of bed and function every single day. So, ANYONE that fakes that for sympathy or attention needs to be strung up and set on fire.
Susan Robinson-Collins 10 months ago
Wait….what is this picture…I don’t see the arm attached to a body…
Sophia Pandia de Delphia 10 months ago (edited)
The person having blood drawn is wearing a white, shirt sleeved shirt against a white wall.
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I haven’t ever talked about this one, but in my teen years I was heavily involved in a very niche internet fandom. One individual who was also active faked a s**cide attempt. Her “friend” logged into her account to post about it and also shared “updates from the hospital” for several days. I started getting individual emails as a “close friend” of this person, which they asked me to share with the rest of the fandom. When the emails started up I felt a little off, because they sounded exactly like the writing style of the individual supposedly comatose in the hospital. At one point the “friend” mis-used a phrase that I had noticed the person using before. I never wound up calling them out (felt screwed up to go “hey I think they faked a s**cide attempt for attention!”), but the individual made a remarkably quick recovery and spent weeks responding to messages from others wishing them well. Still wonder if anybody else caught on to the ruse or if it was just me.
OzymandiasTheManokit They/Them 10 months ago
you should never ever do this. it makes suicide seem like a cry for attention, not help.
#41
I'm pretty sure my sister crashed her car for attention. She was at least decent enough to hit a stationary object rather than another vehicle.
Binky Melnik 10 months ago
Some of these demonstrate that there’s apparently no such thing as bad attention, either. Any attention is attention, I guess. Now that I think about it, that’s what a lotta social media is: bad publicity that nets bad attention.
#42
Some girl I met when I was in middle school ran away from home when she was 18-19 and made everyone think she got kidnapped.
Birma Gustafsson 10 months ago
If she's 18-19 she can't "run away", she's an adult, and can leave as she pleases.
Sophia Pandia de Delphia 10 months ago
Rephrase: she left home but pretended she was kidnapped. Is that better?
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Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I don't like the polls. I'm not shocked, amused, indifferent or sympathetic. I'm appalled and disgusted by it.
Neopet22 10 months ago
I'm not sure if this was done for attention, empathy or just to miss work but I have one. I worked as a team lead and had 1 new agent under me. She was already with the company for a few years but new for me. Anyways,she was just assigned to me and few days later tells me that her child disappeared,I obviously was very empathetic and even worked with my manager to ensure she gets time off to handle all of that without any issues. But the story sounded so weird to me that I kept checking on google for any amber alerts,and nothing. They did find her,and she got more time off to be with her child and help them with the trauma but in my city,literally Everytime a child goes missing it will be online. I thought this was a crazy thing to lie about so trusted her.
Neopet22 10 months ago
But then,every month something awful happened to her and I was trying my best to be empathetic but I didn't believe her anymore because everytike she would get a week off for various quite serious things. The reason why I also didn't believe her? In the past 2 years,her attendance never met the expectations and her previous team lead was also empathetic to her situations and said it was mostly similar issues as she told me. So I don't know if it was for attention or just to miss work,I never truly found out if it was lies but my gut feelings are pretty damn accurate and if it was lies,some of them were very awful things to lie about
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I don't like the polls. I'm not shocked, amused, indifferent or sympathetic. I'm appalled and disgusted by it.
Neopet22 10 months ago
I'm not sure if this was done for attention, empathy or just to miss work but I have one. I worked as a team lead and had 1 new agent under me. She was already with the company for a few years but new for me. Anyways,she was just assigned to me and few days later tells me that her child disappeared,I obviously was very empathetic and even worked with my manager to ensure she gets time off to handle all of that without any issues. But the story sounded so weird to me that I kept checking on google for any amber alerts,and nothing. They did find her,and she got more time off to be with her child and help them with the trauma but in my city,literally Everytime a child goes missing it will be online. I thought this was a crazy thing to lie about so trusted her.
Neopet22 10 months ago
But then,every month something awful happened to her and I was trying my best to be empathetic but I didn't believe her anymore because everytike she would get a week off for various quite serious things. The reason why I also didn't believe her? In the past 2 years,her attendance never met the expectations and her previous team lead was also empathetic to her situations and said it was mostly similar issues as she told me. So I don't know if it was for attention or just to miss work,I never truly found out if it was lies but my gut feelings are pretty damn accurate and if it was lies,some of them were very awful things to lie about
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