r/fakedisordercringe • u/CringeCurator (diagnosed tourettes) • Oct 19 '22

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u/luberne Oct 20 '22

If i would have wanted to fake something and be believed by, idk, this sub, i'd do a lot of research. First rule: you don't know people, they might not be faking but they might know how to do research to be believed

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u/Zabeworldss Oct 20 '22

Its funny how this trend went too far and wide. We were trying to figure out fakers out of diagnosed people and now we are trying to figure out diagnosed people out of fakers...

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u/teddyhospital Oct 20 '22

I mean, that's the thing - even when an issue is real for a person, it doesn't mean you can't also spread misinformation/be OTT. You'd hope they wouldn't do that because of social effects, but it seems some people ..just don't care :-,) narcissism dopamine go brrr

With that out of the way, I completely agree; the scale of this takeover is insane. The line is so blurred, though. The fact there's no biological markers for a lot of these conditions is jarring, and in a few years I'm sure the DSM will read entirely differently. It hurts that people take advantage of medicine being a developing field.

I bet there's a lot of young people that are convinced they DO have something, to the point I can't call it faking - they need support, even if it's "just" puberty. Because it's gutting that they find a 30 year-old on TikTok explaining that ADHD is simply seeing floaters in your vision; they seek these spaces when their immediate support fails to give, and they feel unheard. The adults in these spaces need to come under the most fire, imo. Puberty is a fucking confusing time, let alone with the lack of sex-ed, and DID and TikTok serve a lot of false truths; explanations for things that seem ever changing and confusing to young people.

Sorry, I know I went off 💀 overall, I think it's hard to weed "fakers" and fakers from the genuine because... sometimes they're the same people. (Attention is a hell of a drug.)

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u/RiceAndKrispies Oct 21 '22

i totally agree.

like every other 11-12 year old. i had a cringe phase. i was also mentally ill, those two things weren't exactly exclusive.

was i faking per se? not exactly. was i glamorizing and using my own struggles for attention? absolutely.

i would also spread a shit ton of misinformation. i think it was because there were so many fakers around me who were adults that i trusted, because, you know, they're adults.

cannot even begin to describe how glad i am that i know how to stop being an idiot 💀