Some people make it up

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Some people read up and self-diagnose themselves (mainly because they like the nice positive spin some articles use), not realizing that they most likely don't have it if they're married/social and working like anyone else -- these people also get a tentative diagnosis for said disorder when they really shouldn't (often with saying that they were worst when younger -- well, if you've improved to be functionally normal now, you don't have the disorder anymore). This is manipulation too.

Munchausen by proxy by Internet?

There is such thing as body dysmorphia where a person feels incomplete because they don't have a missing arm or leg or body part. It's like gender identity so perhaps it's the same with a mental disorder too. Some people feel they need to have one or they are incomplete without it. I wonder if it has a name. There is Munchhausen syndrome but that is when they are doing it for sympathy and attention.

There is such thing as body dysmorphia where a person feels incomplete because they don't have a missing arm or leg or body part. It's like gender identity so perhaps it's the same with a mental disorder too. Some people feel they need to have one or they are incomplete without it. I wonder if it has a name. There is Munchhausen syndrome but that is when they are doing it for sympathy and attention.

I have never heard of this. I had terrible body dysmorphia when I was a kid. I used to compare every square inch of my body to everyone else's, in an OCD-type way sectioning out small portions to compare, and conclude that I was disfigured and the ugliest person on the face of the planet, and that I should die because I couldn't stand the shame walking by people, feeling their eyes on me and believing they must always be pitying me because I was so ugly. Every little blemish or imperfection was amplified a thousand-fold. I had absolutely no part of myself that I could find that was attractive. It was all horrible and disfigured. I would walk with my head down so people wouldn't have to see my ugly face.

I have never heard of the type of body dysmorphia you describe.

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Do you think the doctor meant he or she thought you do that, StarCity? I have trouble understanding how this idea could help anyone, and hope this was just an offhand remark.

grooming tends to be related to children but its a term also regulary applied to people with disabilities known as 'grooming of a vulnerable adult'.
its where a person takes advantage of someones vulnerabilities
and manipulates them,they imitate their behaviors and interests to make it look like they are relateable so are more likely to trust them.
they use the grooming to get any information they want out of them, that guy was always asking for info on any medications am on,adaptions and equipment am using,the living situation am in,and the next minute he woud be posting the same thing word for word as his experience, stupidly didnt realise he was doing this for several years and didnt realise was being stalked by him across different forums including a hacking one; was threatened on them and was told am a useless ret*d who shoud kill self,one time after abusing he posted on the blog under a sockpuppet asking how the abuse felt,he was determined in making self feel as rotten and worthless as himself.
it was a bunch of fellow friends on a mixed disability board that looked into this and confirmed what was going on after had realised he posted a sentance of mine as his straight after PMing him.
there was one time he asked a disability forum about severe tonic clonic seizures;he asked how long the seizures went on for,he then went and pretended to have severe epilepsy and status epilepticus on an autism forum for pity.
in the UK,what he did to self is a serious criminal offense but because of lacking the communication to tell people what was happening was unable to tell those around self,and just before got sectioned had actualy been making an organisation for adults with intelectual disability on how to spot grooming and cyber bullying and get help as there is no information for us yet we are easy targets,a irish cousin of mine who also has intelectual disability has been badly bullied and groomed over facebook to the point she went into crisis and has now deleted her fb so we dont speak anymore.
-sectioning is when we are forcibly detain in a hospital/secure unit and there are different levels of sectioning;each section has a limited amount of time attached to it and they have to legaly apply for the next section if the time runs out.
think there are four sections and was personaly on a section three which meant they legaly were allowed to detain for up to six months;was kept detained for four months in a intelectual disability hospital which is far worse than pysch wards in terms of length of stays and what theyre allowed to do when a patient has challenging behavior.
-was given placement in that hospital because his actions had caused a massive surge in challenging behavior,and after being discharged in january was put on a 'after care section' it has a number attached though am not sure what, it just means it has a lot of things that have to be followed by care services and by law cannot be restricted by it;had asked advocate this.
nearly ended up sectioned last sunday again but not due to him.

In the past there were threads on WP that with some people symptoms got more pronounced after receiving an ASD diagnosis, because of not masking symptoms any longer, and maybe the same can happen, if someone reads and researches about ASD and self-diagnoses and they more go back to their true self, but then I guess they are being autistic, because I don't know if a truly non-autistic person can truly mimic being autistic.
Maybe in an one or two hour assessment one can mimic being autistic, but this in the first place speaks against one or two hour assessments.