Rae1889
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Always seems to need the attention, but you can catch them in a lie when they mess up their story?
The reason I ask is this:
I just saw that Munchausen thread, and I think my real life friend has this. But I'm not sure how to tell him that, and I'm sure he will be offended. So here are my reasons why i think he has it and tell me what you think and what i should do. This would seem much easier telling someone you dont personally know over the internet, than possibly watching him cry, and thinking this is an attack.
So shortly after I first met him I got told I have ovarian cysts (no biggie but they sure hurt during that time of the month) and when everyone was making sure I was okay, *i ended up in the hospital because one rupture* and when I went out with him and a group of friends, they were all asking how I was doing, and his response was, "oh I know it can be rough with hospitals. I have lung cancer." Just up and out of nowhere, and nobody heard of this before. And suddenly he's had it for 4 years and it was getting worse. (he was only 19 at the time, which would have made him 15 when he had it, and he said it was from being a heavy smoker and drugs. )
Now I'm sorry, * should have said something when I clued in* But here in Canada, anyone under 18 with a serious medical condition must have parental consent for the tests, and if the doctors knew, and he refuses treatment *which he said he did* Child and Family services would come down and check for child abuse, because it is usually the parents that tell a child not to get treatment for whatever reason (usually religious reasons). And he said his parents dont know he has it because he never told them.
Those test are long, tiring and painful *I know cuz when I had another issue, they tested me for lukemia and that is a painful needle thing in your hip* so his parents would have known.
Then later on we sort of grew apart, until just recently when he broke up with a girlfriend none of us liked for her attitude. He was a security gaurd at the greyhound bus depot, and said he has been stabbed 3 times and survived. We were still friends with some of his other friends, and not one of them mentioned him being stabbed, going to the hospital, apparently "barely making it" etc etc.
We went swimming, and sure enough he has no scars. His excuse was he heals real nice, yet from the cuts he got when we knew him, he actually keloids really bad.
He has said while working at the bus depot, he has been hit in the head by a baseball bat *which changes to a crow bar every once in a while* hes broken ribs, thrown people out by there hair when they are drunk and homeless *fairly sure he would have lost his job for that* and the list goes one.
He tries to be a regular bad ass. trying to show me up with all the drugs i used to do when I was younger. Yet when I use street names for drugs, he has no idea what I am talking about.
What to do, what to do? and HOW to tell him?
The reason I ask is this:
I just saw that Munchausen thread, and I think my real life friend has this. But I'm not sure how to tell him that, and I'm sure he will be offended. So here are my reasons why i think he has it and tell me what you think and what i should do. This would seem much easier telling someone you dont personally know over the internet, than possibly watching him cry, and thinking this is an attack.
So shortly after I first met him I got told I have ovarian cysts (no biggie but they sure hurt during that time of the month) and when everyone was making sure I was okay, *i ended up in the hospital because one rupture* and when I went out with him and a group of friends, they were all asking how I was doing, and his response was, "oh I know it can be rough with hospitals. I have lung cancer." Just up and out of nowhere, and nobody heard of this before. And suddenly he's had it for 4 years and it was getting worse. (he was only 19 at the time, which would have made him 15 when he had it, and he said it was from being a heavy smoker and drugs. )
Now I'm sorry, * should have said something when I clued in* But here in Canada, anyone under 18 with a serious medical condition must have parental consent for the tests, and if the doctors knew, and he refuses treatment *which he said he did* Child and Family services would come down and check for child abuse, because it is usually the parents that tell a child not to get treatment for whatever reason (usually religious reasons). And he said his parents dont know he has it because he never told them.
Those test are long, tiring and painful *I know cuz when I had another issue, they tested me for lukemia and that is a painful needle thing in your hip* so his parents would have known.
Then later on we sort of grew apart, until just recently when he broke up with a girlfriend none of us liked for her attitude. He was a security gaurd at the greyhound bus depot, and said he has been stabbed 3 times and survived. We were still friends with some of his other friends, and not one of them mentioned him being stabbed, going to the hospital, apparently "barely making it" etc etc.
We went swimming, and sure enough he has no scars. His excuse was he heals real nice, yet from the cuts he got when we knew him, he actually keloids really bad.
He has said while working at the bus depot, he has been hit in the head by a baseball bat *which changes to a crow bar every once in a while* hes broken ribs, thrown people out by there hair when they are drunk and homeless *fairly sure he would have lost his job for that* and the list goes one.
He tries to be a regular bad ass. trying to show me up with all the drugs i used to do when I was younger. Yet when I use street names for drugs, he has no idea what I am talking about.
What to do, what to do? and HOW to tell him?
