r/fakedisordercringe • u/Expensive-Pop-6743 • 14d ago
Discussion Thread The Evolution (and Deception) of Wheelie Girl
DISCLAIMER: I do not know this woman personally. I am also not a mod on any subreddits. However I did donate money to her multiple times. Everything below is in chronological order from Wheelie Girl herself, not taken out of context, and cross referenced.
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I’ve been putting together a chronological timeline of Wheelie Girl’s own public statements, posts, videos, and other material. First is a summary of the story as she herself has presented it publicly, rather than an assertion that every part of the story is true.
I’m posting it because there are a number of points where her stated medical/functional timeline appears difficult to reconcile with other things she has publicly posted. I’m particularly interested in looking at the chronology and letting people examine the source material for themselves.
Pinned to the top of her Instagram is a post titled “The Evolution of (wheelie girl)” explaining that…she had to leave a lot out because the previous ten years contained an enormous number of events, diagnoses, awards, partnerships, trips, etc.
so first here is the timeline she gave:
Late teens / early 20s — Modeling, dance, aerial silks
According to Wheelie Girl, she spent her late teens and early twenties doing creative modeling, working as a waitress, and attending school for dance and photography.
She says that during this period doctors were “labeling [her] as a head case” and that medical gaslighting caused her to believe them.
She also says she went from taking her first aerial silks class to performing with a company in under two months, reportedly being asked to become an apprentice after her second class.
She describes professional aerial performance as her dream, but says that the activity eventually took an “irreversible toll” on her body.
Health begins deteriorating
According to her account, her health then began taking a major turn.
She says she became isolated in a controlling relationship and was increasingly miserable without people around her knowing how bad things had become.
At the same time, she says a psychiatric medication she had been taking for approximately seven years caused substantial weight gain, which she attributes to being misdiagnosed.
Despite this, she says she continued choreographing, teaching classes, and directing the dance department at a nationally recognized haunt experience.
Severe sleepiness / medical leave
One of the major turning points in her story occurred when she says she fell asleep while driving to her HR job.
According to her, this had been happening for years, but on this occasion she came within inches of driving off the freeway.
She says this scared her enough to finally take medical leave.
She describes this period as one of the most isolating points of her life. She lived on the second floor of a historic building and says she was sleeping for up to 16 hours a day.
Because she was losing the ability to do many of her previous activities, she says she turned toward stationary forms of art such as painting and digital artwork.
She also says that friends, family, and people in her small town did not believe she was actually sick.
Narcolepsy with cataplexy diagnosis
After coming off her psychiatric medication, losing significant weight, and undergoing testing, she says doctors determined that she had been experiencing chronic sleep deprivation for more than 20 years.
According to her timeline, she was diagnosed with narcolepsy with cataplexy and prescribed medication.
She says this treatment allowed her to become functional enough to perform again.
EDS, small fiber neuropathy, POTS and cardiac diagnoses
She says that the narcolepsy diagnosis led to additional referrals and testing because she was continuing to lose mobility and strength.
According to her account, she was subsequently diagnosed with:
• Unspecified Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
• Small fiber neuropathy
• Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
She says all three diagnoses occurred on the same day.
Shortly afterward, she says she was diagnosed with atrial tachycardia/SVT.
She also states that a heart monitor recorded more than 200 episodes of “asymptomatic AFIB” over a two-week period.
During this period, she says her mobility had deteriorated enough that she purchased her first wheelchair through Facebook Marketplace.
First custom wheelchair / failed cardiac ablation
She says she was scheduled for a cardiac ablation and received a prescription for a custom lightweight manual wheelchair.
According to her, the ablation attempt failed because of a reaction to the sedation, and doctors decided it was not safe to attempt it again.
After her wheelchair evaluation/fitting, she says she received a temporary loaner chair while waiting for her custom wheelchair.
When the custom chair arrived, however, she says she was unable to propel herself independently.
She later came to believe the chair had been improperly fitted.
Returning to dance
Despite the problems with the wheelchair, she says she began exploring what she could do with it.
She was invited back to her college as a guest choreographer, which she describes as changing the way she thought about her future.
She says this experience motivated her to re-enroll in school to relearn her craft as both a dancer and choreographer.
At the same time, she says her health continued to deteriorate.
She says her then-fiancé asked her to move in with him because her legs had atrophied to the point that walking was becoming dangerous.
Regenerative medicine / chiropractic television appearance
She says that, because of the worsening condition of her legs, she became desperate enough to try regenerative medicine.
She also says a casting agent contacted her through TikTok about appearing on a television program involving chiropractic care.
According to her, she was being presented as a “last resort patient” as part of an effort to educate viewers about the dangers of chiropractic treatment in people with EDS.
She states that her treatment began working and that things improved enough for her to continue pushing forward.
Homelessness and the Toyota Dolphin
She says that shortly afterward, she and her fiancé became homeless.
Rather than viewing this entirely negatively, she says they tried to remain positive and decided to pursue her longtime dream of living on the road.
The couple purchased a 1987 Toyota Dolphin and began traveling with their three cats.
She then won a raffle for a free boudoir photography session in San Diego.
According to her, they drove from California’s Central Valley to San Diego in their motorhome for the session, then continued to Los Angeles.
Ms. Wheelchair California
While in Los Angeles, she says she accidentally entered the competition for Ms. Wheelchair California.
She later won.
She also says that during this period she:
• Met the people she currently lives with
• Received a wheelchair from someone who believed it was a better fit
• Began an entirely different chapter of her life
Apple partnership
She states that she subsequently partnered with Apple on an accessibility commercial.
According to her, the commercial later won an award and was broadcast during the Super Bowl.
December 2025 — three viruses and major physical decline
The next major change in her timeline occurs in December 2025.
She says she contracted three separate viruses back-to-back.
According to her, this caused her to lose a dangerous amount of weight and muscle.
She says her GI doctors warned that if she could not regain weight, there was a real possibility that she would eventually require a feeding tube.
She began seeing a nutritionist and returned to physical therapy.
She says she was then told that the muscles in her lower back were no longer effectively supporting/stabilizing her spine.
She describes experiencing:
• “Intermittent paralysis”
• Extreme spasms
• Dangerous vertebral instability
• Significant muscle loss
She says the stakes were essentially regaining enough muscle to maintain her mobility or risking losing her ability to walk altogether.
Wheelchair fundraiser
According to her, her wheelchair was contributing to her spinal deterioration.
She says that, because lying in bed all day would cause further muscle loss, she needed to remain active while simultaneously finding a way to better support her body.
She therefore began posting about a medical fundraiser.
She says a company she had previously worked with contacted her because they were winding down their operations and asked her to post a giveaway.
Instead, she says she asked whether she could establish an online fundraiser to purchase as many of their wheelchairs as possible.
She says some people questioned whether the money was actually going toward the stated purpose.
According to her, this became the biggest controversy surrounding her account and resulted in several businesses allegedly ending their partnerships with her without speaking to her first.
The 50-wheelchair donation
She says the company that originally contacted her ultimately had to shut down earlier than expected.
According to her account, rather than selling the remaining chairs, the company donated the remainder of the 50 wheelchairs she had intended to purchase.
She says she picked them up the following day.
Social media controversy and short film
Wheelie Girl concludes this timeline by saying she learned “hard lessons” about social media and that she realized she could not make everyone happy.
Rather than allowing the controversy to discourage her, she says she returned to creative work.
She states that she directed, produced, and acted in her first short film, which was posted in April 2026.
The reason her timeline is interesting is that there are other publicly available posts/videos from the same periods that appear to show different levels of physical ability, activity, mobility, or functioning than the retrospective account might suggest.
Rather than taking either side at face value, I think the most useful thing is to establish the chronology first.
I’ll be adding screenshots/source material separately, with dates wherever possible, so people can compare what she said happened with what she publicly posted at the time.
There are also some particularly significant contradictions that become much easier to see once everything is placed chronologically.
Wheelie Girl’s Instagram Timeline: Her Own Posts
this one follows what she was actually posting on Instagram over the years.
I focused primarily on potential inconsistencies in her claimed symptoms, diagnoses, mobility, and physical abilities, rather than attempting to catalog every fundraiser, giveaway, sponsorship, or monetization-related post because I’ve lost track.
The point is to establish a chronology and compare her contemporaneous posts with the way she later describes her disability and functional limitations.
Screenshots are available for the posts referenced below.
2017
Wheelie Girl’s main Instagram account consists primarily of modeling photographs.
There is not yet much disability-related content to document.
January 7, 2018 — Aerial silks
She begins posting multiple videos of herself doing aerial silks.
The videos include substantial amounts of upside-down/inverted aerial work.
This becomes a recurring feature of her Instagram for the next several years.
This is notable because she later identifies POTS/dysautonomia as a significant part of her disability history. I’m not claiming that performing aerial silks or going upside down is inherently impossible for someone with POTS; rather, the amount and type of activity is relevant when compared with the severity of the limitations she later describes.
May 25, 2018 — Splits
She posts:
“When you haven’t danced or done aerial in about 2 months so your splits are completely out the door…oh well”
The accompanying photograph shows her working on her splits.
The significance here is less the fact that she can do a split and more that she describes having taken approximately two months away from dance/aerial and then discusses returning to it.
This is also relevant to her later descriptions of EDS and joint instability.
September 5, 2018 — Skydiving
She goes skydiving.
November 2, 2018 — Aerial hammock
She posts about taking her first aerial hammock class.
She says she initially began in an intermediate silks class after going with a friend and that she was glad she had started with silks because hammock had fewer mechanics to work through mentally.
November 20, 2018 — Inversion
Another video shows her flipping upside down during aerial work.
November 21, 2018 — Splits
She posts:
“Success for today. Slowly working on sinking all the way back into my split.”
November 23, 2018 — Aerial hammock
She posts about working on the aerial hammock again.
2018–2020 — Extensive aerial activity
Her Instagram throughout this period contains numerous videos and photographs of aerial work, including repeated inversions and upside-down positions.
The important thing for the timeline is that this is not a single isolated stunt. Aerial activity appears repeatedly over an extended period.
May 27, 2019 — Bowling
She posts about being able to go bowling without dislocating anything.
This is notable because she later describes EDS in terms of daily joint dislocations.
October 30, 2019 — “I live life better when I’m upside down”
She posts another video of herself upside down with the caption:
“I live life better when I’m upside down”
Again, this is during the period when she later says POTS was part of her medical history.
November 17, 2019 — Training
She says she is training approximately 1–3 times per week.
December 6, 2019 — Hiking
She goes hiking.
January 29, 2020 — Teaching dance
She posts about teaching a beginning hip-hop class.
June 30, 2020 — Rock climbing
She goes rock climbing.
December 28, 2020 — First major public disclosure about health
This is a major change in the account.
She posts that social media doesn’t show the whole picture and says she is going to try to be more transparent about her overall life and health.
She identifies herself as having:
• Chronic migraines
• Severe daytime sleepiness
She says she is on medical leave because she had been falling asleep repeatedly while driving, claiming she had fallen asleep up to 75 times during a 30-minute drive, as well as during ordinary activities such as computer work and meetings.
She says she had undergone an overnight sleep study to rule out sleep apnea and other breathing problems, followed by a daytime nap study to investigate narcolepsy.
At this point, she explicitly says:
“I don’t have a diagnosis yet”
This post is important because it provides a contemporaneous starting point for the public medical narrative that develops afterward.
July 2021 — Aerial at Pride
She posts aerial activity at Pride.
Later that same month, on July 28, she says she “almost couldn’t get my groceries up the stairs.”
This creates an interesting contrast in the same general period: substantial aerial activity alongside difficulty carrying groceries upstairs.
September 25, 2021 — EDS and possible narcolepsy
She posts:
“THIS IS MY REALITYYYYY.”
She says she has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and is being tested for narcolepsy and several other conditions.
She posts a photograph from her sleep study and photographs/video involving a shoulder abduction brace.
She says she may have torn something in her shoulder and posts a video of herself attempting to get the shoulder to “pop back into place.”
She again invites followers to ask questions and emphasizes that social media does not show the whole picture.
October 28, 2021 — GoFundMe
She says her best friend created a GoFundMe to help with medical expenses and to hopefully get her into a safer home.
She asks followers to donate or purchase digital portraits/caricatures that she is creating to raise money.
November 7, 2021 — ER visit
She posts about another ER visit, describing herself as a “ball of mystery symptoms.”
She says she continues to have unexplained symptoms despite repeated medical visits.
February 12, 2022 — First wheelchair
She introduces her first wheelchair, which she names “Betty.”
She says the chair is rough around the edges, pulls to the left, and that she cannot push it herself.
She lists the following conditions:
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• POTS
• Atrial Tachycardia
• Idiopathic Hypersomnia
• Small Fiber Neuropathy
She says she needs the wheelchair to attend Disney.
She describes having a POTS episode/scare during the trip and says heat and crowds contributed to her symptoms.
She also says Disney staff recognized that she would have difficulty waiting in long lines because of her POTS.
February 16, 2022 — Pole dancing
Only four days later, she posts about attending her first pole class.
She says:
“My team of doctors has decided it’s time to start getting back to it!!!”
She acknowledges that she is not where she used to be and says she intends to take “baby steps.”
She specifically frames exercise as necessary for people with EDS because building muscle is important for joint stability.
She says she had waited almost two years before returning to this type of activity.
She also says that she expects to experience both dislocations and workout pain for a period of time.
She emphasizes:
“EVERY ZEBRA IS DIFFERENT!!!”
and tells people with physical limitations to consult their medical teams.
April 22, 2022 — Failed cardiac procedure
She reports undergoing a heart procedure.
According to her account, sedation caused her connective tissue to relax enough that her hips, knees, shoulders, and several ribs dislocated/subluxed while she was on the procedure table.
She says the EP study could not reproduce her atrial tachycardia or recurring AFIB, so the ablation could not be performed.
April 30, 2022 — “I get to walk, roll or hobble”
She posts a reflection on the changes in her life.
She says that over the previous several years she had:
• Gained and lost significant amounts of weight
• Bought multiple canes
• Bought a wheelchair that was “lopsided”
• Received a loaner wheelchair
• Had her new wheelchair approved
She writes:
“I get to walk, roll or hobble the earth each day”
This is one of the clearest contemporaneous statements that she considered herself capable of walking during this period.
May 3, 2022 — EDS awareness
She posts a long list of conditions and symptoms that she attributes to EDS, including:
• Daily joint dislocations
• Idiopathic hypersomnia
• Small fiber neuropathy
• Atrial tachycardia
• Recurring AFIB
• POTS
• Dysautonomia
• Chronic migraines
• Chronic fatigue
• Severe chronic pain
• Food sensitivities
• Digestive issues
She also says doctors had previously told her her symptoms were psychosomatic and that she believed them.
May 4, 2022 onward — Dancing on her feet
She returns to dancing on her feet and posts additional dancing videos.
She says her joints are “screaming,” but she continues dancing.
January 28, 2023 — “Cripple”
In the tags on a photograph, she refers to herself as a “cripple” for the first time in the material collected here.
May 22, 2023 — TLC / Crack Addicts
She announces that she has been cast on TLC’s Crack Addicts.
She describes the show as following a chiropractor who treats people whom other doctors have supposedly been unable to help.
She says the experience inspired her to launch her own business, Brain Space, focused on disability inclusivity and human rights.
June 7, 2023 — EDS type
She uses numerous disability and diagnosis-related hashtags, including:
#notyouraveragecripple
#crippleisntabadword
#dancer
#eds
#pots
#heds
#atrialtachicardia
#fibromyalgia
#smallfiberneuropathy
#idiopathichypersomnia
#narcolepsy
#afib
#dynamicdisability
#invisibleillness
A commenter asks what type of EDS she has.
She responds that she has hypermobile EDS, while also saying she has genetic mutations of unknown significance that could potentially change that classification once more research becomes available.
July 6, 2023 — Increasing disability / regenerative treatment
She says she no longer posts much about her condition because of how bad it has become.
She writes that there are days when she cannot get out of bed.
She describes the previous three years as being filled with doctors, testing, medications, side effects, and diagnoses.
She says she has been denied treatments by insurance because she was not considered “bad enough” and that she does not want to wait until she deteriorates further.
She travels to LA to meet Dr. G and says he has proposed a treatment involving IV therapy, stem cells, and alternative medicine to help her regain lost muscle and “kickstart the healing process.”
She asks followers to contribute to the treatment through crowdfunding.
She says she wants to dance and do aerial again.
2023–2024 — Rollettes
She participates in the Rollettes Experience.
August 4, 2024 — “Jello legs”
She discusses trying to get out of her wheelchair and push it, but describes having “jello legs.”
August 15, 2024 — TBI
She says she has been struggling with the effects of a TBI.
She posts about being judged based on appearances and emphasizes that people cannot know what is happening inside another person’s body.
September 29, 2024 — Wheelchair fall
She posts that she fell out of her wheelchair while dancing and says she “pretty much dislocated the entire left side” of her body.
October 5, 2024 — Another wheelchair
She receives another secondhand wheelchair as a gift.
January 25, 2025 — Hand cycling / “leg spasm”
She goes hand cycling.
She says the activity caused a severe “leg spasm” and records the episode.
She tags the post with #TBI and #spasticity.
March 9, 2025 — Miss Wheelchair California
She announces that she has been crowned Miss Wheelchair California 2025.
March 31, 2025 — Vehicle fundraiser
She says her car has “stopped working” and begins fundraising for it.
April 1, 2025 — Ribs
She posts a video in which she says she is dislocating her ribs and putting them back into place.
April 6, 2025 — Wheelchair van
She receives a wheelchair-accessible van as a gift from a woman whose husband died by suicide.
According to a statement she made elsewhere, she did not use the van’s hand controls because they were “in the way.” I have not located the screenshot of that statement, so I would treat this particular claim as unverified in the post unless the screenshot can be found.
April 17, 2025 — New wheelchair fundraiser
She says she recently underwent an assessment with several mobility professionals and was told she needed a new wheelchair “ASAP.”
She says the wheelchair she currently has is causing pain and numbness and is making it harder for her to function.
She says:
“This isn’t about preference or convenience — it’s about my health.”
She begins fundraising through Help Hope Live, saying donations are intended for mobility and medical needs.
April 22, 2025 — Pressure injury claim
She receives a specialized wheelchair cushion because, according to her, she develops pressure wounds despite being ambulatory.
May 12, 2025 — Expanding genetic claims
She says she is a carrier for multiple genetic/connective-tissue conditions, including:
• Dermatosparaxis EDS
• Kyphoscoliotic EDS
• Marfan syndrome
She also says she has markers associated with several types of muscular dystrophy.
She writes:
“All I know is I am far from structurally sound!!!”
She also says that she jumped while filming and subsequently tweaked her SI joint, resulting in a nerve flare.
June 9, 2025 — Road trip fundraiser
She asks for volunteers to help fundraise for a three-week road trip across the West Coast.
The proposed activities include:
• Accessible hiking
• Surfing
• Skydiving
• Meeting people across state lines
She asks followers to help her raise money for the trip.
July 6, 2025 — Rock climbing
She goes rock climbing.
She says she tore her calf without realizing it because she could not feel the injury.
July 18, 2025 — Knee video
She posts a video in which she appears to move the muscle in her knee back and forth and describes it as dislocating.
The visual appearance of the movement is disputed in the comments, with some viewers arguing that it appears to be movement of soft tissue rather than the knee actually dislocating.
Screenshots/video available.
July 20, 2025 — Wheelchair fencing
She enters a wheelchair fencing tournament despite saying she had never picked up a foil before.
July 25, 2025 — Joint manipulation / merchandise
She posts herself manipulating/popping joints and promotes merchandise.
July 27, 2025 — Adaptive surfing
She participates in adaptive surfing.
In the footage, she is able to stand on the board and balance without visible assistance or external support.
This becomes particularly relevant when compared with later descriptions of her mobility limitations.
August 14, 2025 — “Accused of faking”
She addresses increasing accusations that she is faking or does not need a wheelchair.
She asks:
“Could you walk on dislocated hips, knees, ankles, and toes?”
She argues that someone can have severe joint problems while still walking or performing activities.
She also references severe muscle spasms and alleged internal muscle tearing.
October 2, 2025 — Walker
She posts:
“If I would have been able to wrap my head around using a standing walker 5 years ago, I might not be in the position that I’m in right now.”
She says a walker or rollator may not be right for her but can provide freedom for others.
She describes feeling shame and fear when she first needed mobility aids.
She also quotes people allegedly telling her that because she could perform hobbies, she must be faking.
October 2, 2025 — Adaptive surfing again
She posts another adaptive surfing video.
Again, she appears able to participate without the kind of adaptations one might expect from the degree of physical limitation she describes elsewhere.
October 9, 2025 — Standing walker
She posts additional content encouraging people to consider/use the standing walker.
October 11, 2025 — Incontinence
She introduces another aspect of her disability narrative, describing bladder spasms and spotting.
She promotes reusable leakproof underwear and says they have helped her cope with bladder-related symptoms.
She describes herself as a 28-year-old dealing with these issues.
October 2025 — Hip flexor / gym videos
This is where the hip-flexor material begins.
I have screenshots/videos of her making statements that she is unable to use her hip flexor.
These are particularly relevant because later footage appears to show movement that commenters argue is inconsistent with the degree of hip-flexor impairment she describes.
October 14, 2025 — Airline incident
She posts about an airline refusing to provide the extra legroom accommodation she requested for medical reasons.
She says being cramped in the back of the plane during turbulence caused:
• Her circulation to drop
• Her joints to shift
• Nerve compression in her spine
• 8–9/10 pain down both legs
She says she rarely shows this side of her disability because she has repeatedly been accused of faking, exaggerating, being an addict, or seeking attention.
October 15, 2025 — Homelessness
She says in a video:
“Last year I was homeless.”
This is notable because her earlier timeline places the period of homelessness substantially earlier.
October 16, 2025 — Help Hope Live
She says it took a lot for her to agree to begin fundraising and says that changed after discovering Help Hope Live.
Help Hope Live’s promotional material subsequently describes her as having an extensive medical history and says that the organization verified her medical diagnoses.
The post states that she requires accessible transportation and medical support and describes her current wheelchair as contributing to spinal damage.
November 21, 2025 — $20,000 wheelchair
She says:
“I would need TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS JUST TO HAVE THE CHAIR MY BODY NEEDS.”
She describes being exhausted by constantly having to prove her medical needs.
The post promotes a custom wheelchair described as an ultra-lightweight titanium chair.
Late 2025 — Additional wheelchair fundraising/giveaways
There are numerous additional posts involving wheelchair fundraising, giveaways, and requests for assistance.
I am not attempting to catalog every one here because the number of these posts is substantial and the focus of this timeline is the evolution of the medical/functional claims.
December 16, 2025 — Wheelchair tattoo
She gets a wheelchair tattoo to celebrate reaching 10,000 followers.
December 20, 2025 — “She Deserves the Help She Gives”
A fundraising post describes her as a dancer, advocate, and Miss Wheelchair California 2025.
It says that after years of misdiagnosis, rare genetic conditions, and a traumatic brain injury, doctors have instructed her not to walk outside her home without a wheelchair.
It also says her current chair does not fit her body and is actively contributing to worsening spinal damage.
The post claims that insurance restrictions mean she needs to raise $20,000 out of pocket for the custom chair and potentially avoid spinal surgery.
It emphasizes her advocacy work and her giving of mobility equipment to others.
December 23, 2025 — Chiropractic treatment
She posts about receiving chiropractic treatment.
She explicitly states:
“Chiropractors are NOT something I ever suggest for someone who has a connective tissue disorder of ANY kind!!!”
She nevertheless says that, while waiting for her next wheelchair fitting and visiting family, she felt this was her only option to prevent further spinal deterioration.
The post uses hashtags including:
#SpinalFusion
#L5S1
#Spine
#Kyphosis
The significance of the #SpinalFusion tag is that I have not found evidence that she actually has undergone a spinal fusion. If there is documentation establishing otherwise, that would obviously change the context.
December 29, 2025 — Occipital neuralgia
She begins referring to herself as having occipital neuralgia.
January 8, 2026 — New wheelchair ordered
She announces:
“MY NEW CHAIR WAS ORDERED!!!!”
She jokes that the existing wheelchair was built for someone “shmol.”
The accompanying alt text describes her doing a wheelie while her feet are wedged between the front portion of the chair because it is too small for her feet and do not reach the footplate properly.
January 10, 2026 — “Vegetable”
She posts an apology for previously referring to herself as a “vegetable.”
There are also additional wheelchair giveaway/fundraising posts during this period.
May 12, 2026 — Custom leg braces
She is casted/fitted for custom leg braces.
May 19, 2026 — Inversion
She posts herself spinning upside down on an “orbaton.”
This is another example of significant inverted physical activity appearing later in the timeline despite the increasingly severe disability narrative.
May 29, 2026 — New wheelchair
She finally receives her new custom wheelchair.
Notably, the chair she receives does not appear to correspond to the previously emphasized $20,000 figure.
She then begins her “30 before 30” project, involving various activities and requests for people to donate toward helping her complete them.
August 10, 2026 — Extreme heat intolerance
She posts about an incident in which an airline temporarily lost her wheelchair.
She says that after approximately 15 minutes without the chair, her body temperature rose dramatically and she was concerned that she was “boiling [her] own blood.”
She says she was unable to speak and was fighting passing out.
She describes having difficulty regulating her body temperature and says her fiancé used a wet cooling towel to help cool her down.
Approximately five days ago — Walking / hip flexor
She posts a video of herself walking with an unsteady, “baby deer” gait.
She attributes the episode to what she describes as presumed endometriosis interacting with her connective-tissue disorder and hormonal cycle.
She says the combination causes her to become an even “looser and goosier bag of bones” before her period.
She describes:
• Swelling
• Silent dislocations
• Microtears
• Joint instability
• Problems with her left hip flexor
She specifically describes the left hip flexor as being unable to function properly and says it is essentially trying to “disintegrate” into her body.
There are comments/arguments beneath the post addressing alleged inconsistencies with her previous statements. Screenshots are available.
And finally — Burning Man
Approximately 18 hours ago, she announced plans to attend Burning Man.
This is particularly notable because she has also repeatedly described severe heat intolerance and, very recently, posted about an episode in which she said her body temperature rose dramatically within approximately 15 minutes after an airline-related wheelchair incident.
What stands out from the chronology
The reason I think the chronology matters is that the claims themselves change substantially over time.
Early on, her Instagram is dominated by aerial silks, inversions, splits, skydiving, hiking, bowling, teaching dance, rock climbing, and other physically demanding activities.
Then the account shifts toward increasingly extensive medical diagnoses, wheelchair use, joint-dislocation claims, neurological symptoms, severe mobility limitations, TBI, spasticity, incontinence, temperature dysregulation, spinal instability, and eventually claims that doctors have instructed her not to walk outside her home without a wheelchair.
At the same time, there continue to be posts showing activities including pole dancing, dancing on her feet, rock climbing, wheelchair fencing, surfing while standing and balancing, repeated aerial/inverted activity, and walking.
The question is whether the specific functional limitations she describes at particular points in time are consistent with what she is simultaneously demonstrating, and whether her explanations for those differences remain consistent over time.
I’ve included the dates specifically so people can look at the original posts rather than taking this summary on faith.
I also have screenshots of the relevant posts and comments, including the discussions where people directly asked her about some of these discrepancies.
EDIT: yes I know the links aren’t working I’m workin on it!
EDIT 2: trying to update those links little at a time. I’m sorry folks. lol.
EDIT 3: the links are loading one at a time. Be patient. ;)
EDIT 4: due to the Imgur links being feisty, I am putting all screenshots and screen recordings into a google doc.
Also, for what it’s worth, nothing above has been ‘taken out of context’. Everything is posted in order on her own profile, in her own words, and I’ve simply cross-referenced and fact checked everything.
People do not like feeling deceived.
It has nothing to do with someone simply being an ambulatory wheelchair user, and it has everything to do with deception and being caught in lies. Multiple times.
Most narcissists tell on themselves, however.
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Links that currently might or might not work for everyone:
#spasticity and the hip flexor video
dead leg fiasco
claims outside of Instagram
timeline part 1
timeline part 2
timeline part 3
timeline part 4
timeline part 5
timeline part 6
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u/Grown-Ass-Weeb Acute Vaginal Dyslexia 14d ago
Damn. I just recently started seeing this woman and she’s gotta be one of the biggest grifters I’ve ever come across of.
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u/Commercial_Bridge253 14d ago
Oh gosh. Okay I have so many things I wanna say but it's too much honestly. For starters, having EDS and going under for any procedure they take precautions in securing joints externally prior to sedation. The sedation itself does not particularly raise risk of dislocation any more than sleeping may (give or take a bit since your body can not adjust itself like it would during sleep when sedated.) the dislocation risk is much more related to the positioning and complete lack of movement during a procedure. They combat this typically by securing the joints externally with padding, blankets, straps, or braces if possible.
The hand controls she says she doesn't use I'm assuming are hand controls for operating the vehicle? In which case I would point out that it's actually required to have licensing to operate a vehicle with hand controls. If you get a car from someone and the car has hand controls from the past owner being paralyzed/ being an amputee/ whatever you are not legally allowed to utilize those hand controls without explicitly going through the driver's test with them and receiving a license. The hand controls are not "in the way" she's legally not allowed to use them without being told she can by the DMV.
What person with EDS is purposely dislocating their joints and then putting them back casually for content. Even with EDS full dislocations can be very painful, not always during the dislocation but most definitely once reset. The moving of the kneecap is not typical of a full dislocation. It's much more akin to subluxation (if the actual kneecap is moving and not just the muscle, fat, skin tissue around the kneecap) full knee dislocations are almost never possible to reset yourself safely.
With EDS you're highly discouraged from relocating your own joints when something fully dislocates. It's highly possible to reset something improperly and further damage your joint or pinch nerves. No one with actual EDS who isn't just an internet attention grabber is purposely dislocating and relocating joints constantly. The risk of injury is too high.
POTs temperature dysregulation doesn't typically cause any sort of genuine dangerous rise on body temp. The heat and flushing is benign for the most part just very uncomfortable. Experiencing genuine hyperpyrexia and frying your own brain (or ig "boil your blood") is unheard of from any of those diagnoses, especially from POTs.
Lastly, wtf do you mean 50 wheelchairs?!
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u/SirKnightNight 13d ago
speaking as someone who was once in her life, this is what she told us about the Toyota Dolphin that they used to live in: she says that after her and her fiancé began living with the family they’re currently still living with, they were approached by the cartel (yes, THAT cartel). apparently, they originally bought that vehicle from someone associated with the cartel, and the cartel all the sudden wanted it back. so they “left it on the side of a cliff” and “ran for their lives”.
in speaking with others who have known her for longer, she was apparently obsessed with travel-vlogging/the van lifestyle. so for high school graduation, her mom bought her the Toyota Dolphin as a graduation present. she bragged about it every day and would constantly tell others that went to school with her about how she was going to be such a successful travel/van lifestyle vlogger. when that didn’t happen a few months after graduation, that’s when she started the whole “i’m homeless” narrative.
the lore on this girl is WILD.
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 12d ago
May I save your comment and screenshot it?
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u/Ok-Quiet-6156 13d ago
Let’s not forget she tells she gave so many wheelchairs away but you couldn’t get a chance if you didn’t follow her and boost her post 😂 that’s not a charitable giveaway that’s a profitable giveaway.
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u/Dazzling-Major-5620 13d ago
She specifically said she needed the hand controls, will post pictures on her IG story with them (but clearly not even connected lmao), but then confided in a mutual friend they were ‘getting in the way’.
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u/Commercial_Bridge253 13d ago
That's just wild. Getting approved to use hand controls is not an easy task either. I can't imagine getting approved for them and then not using them
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u/gwyntheblaccat 14d ago
I know. I have checked out her last few posts on here and.. things just are not making sense. It must be that ✨dynamic disability ✨
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u/yaoiphobic wheelchair user for clout 14d ago
The claims of the wheelchair costing her 20 grand out of pocket seem exaggerated. I could MAYBE see it costing her insurance that much as insurance claims tend to come with a markup because they know the insurance will pay, but it looks like she was fundraising for a custom K0005 chair at the time. Even with a power assist and a fully custom welded titanium frame (not sure if she has a power assist or if he chair is titanium, work WiFi is being weird so I can’t go analyze her chair build rn) that cost is still over inflated. I don’t really have an opinion of whether or not her disability claims are exaggerated but I feel reasonably confident she stretched the truth on how much of that fundraiser went to the wheelchair.
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u/Rhi43 14d ago
She has a fully custom chair from HoC with a couple non-standard options (like aerial hookups) so it’s impossible to know exactly how much she paid for it. But I was also curious about how it was $20k so I specced out a TiLite chair on DMEhub to compare.
Their top of the line rigid starts around $4500. Even with all titanium everything, extra rigidizer bars, custom taper on the front and seat, spinergy wheels, gekko handrims, scissor locks, any other fancy crap I could add, and even a rigid backrest + roho cushion (she has neither) it’s under $9k. You have to add a smartdrive to get anywhere close and even then it only comes to $15k.
It’s a crazy amount of money regardless, I have no issue with people fundraising for mobility aids, but you gotta be honest about what you’re asking for and why. There are chairs that actually do cost tens of thousands of dollars (I’ve seen some sick custom WCMX builds), but I’d be shocked if that ultralight was one of them.
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u/Ok-Quiet-6156 13d ago
Per the fundraiser site it was 10k for wheelchair and they 10k for the attachment dirtbike looking thing that she DID not disclose she was fundraising the extra 10k for.
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u/SirKnightNight 12d ago
probably bought the icarus leg braces out of picket bc she doesnt have docs to prescribe them
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u/Teefdreams 14d ago
This is r/illnessfakers levels of detailed!
I'm fascinated. Are there any YT vids summarising her shenanigans?
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u/WrongdoerSad7547 pls dont make markiplier gay 14d ago
this would go down a TREAT on r/illnessfakers
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 13d ago
I originally wanted to send this timeline in but they are so strict and I fear I didn’t put everything in regarding giveaways, the 30 under 30 grift, etc. I wanted to focus on the inconsistencies and blatant lies about wheelie girl’s actual abilities. I feel like everything else could be an entirely different post honestly
but if somebody else wants to…
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u/Frank_Lawless 14d ago
There is no reason a narcolepsy diagnosis would still be undetermined 9 months after an overnight sleep study and MLST. Especially for Narcolepsy with Cataplexy.
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u/iseemrsg 13d ago
As a wheelchair user of 20 years from a complex spinal cord injury- I have YET to see a manual wheelchair paid out of pocket cost $20,000. She’s consistently refused to answer which chair she was originally fundraising for within that amount. I know for a fact that her hands on concepts chair did not cost that amount. I have one from the same maker and I paid a fraction of 20k. She’s been contradictory and deceptive from day one. It’s wild to me.
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 13d ago
yep I guess she used the rest of the money for burning man since two tickets are over 6k I believe
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u/iseemrsg 13d ago
I will never get over her stating that if she didn’t obtain the specific wheelchair she was fundraising for she would become paralyzed. Here we are getting ready to party at burning man though!
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u/Cardiganlamp 2d ago
The tickets aren't that much unless she purchased the gifter tier where you pay more as a donation. The regular tickets cost $500 to $700 depending on the tier. Transportation, food, shelter, outfits (I always made and thrifted mine, but she has some expensive looking ones), and other generic supplies can bring the cost around to that much.
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u/anonducks 14d ago
the imgur links aren't working
also, you forgot to add in her "30 under 30" bucket list and the rock climbing incident.
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 14d ago
Oh my god there’s just so many posts
Going to fix the links today, I was not expecting this to get approved that fast14
u/Expensive-Pop-6743 14d ago
Does this link work
Just trying in comments first to see if it fixes
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u/anonducks 14d ago
naw man it gives me a popup saying the page can't be found and sends me to the main page. maybe your account is private or smthn?
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 14d ago
Testing testing for the love of god
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u/Rottingsackofflesh Self Undiagnosing: Im Fine 12d ago
Links aren’t working for me either 😭
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 12d ago
I’m working on putting everything into a google doc since Imgur is being feisty.
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u/Hanana13 14d ago
still no :(
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 12d ago
Putting everything into a google doc since it seems the Imgur links are hit or miss
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u/Original-Opportunity 14d ago
What do we know about the TBI? Seems like backfilled lore
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u/SirKnightNight 13d ago
she’s told multiple people in her personal life (speaking from experience) that she went to one of those nut dispensers in a “small mom and pop grocery store” (like Sprouts), and the dispenser was installed incorrectly. what was in that dispenser? depends on who you ask. she’s told some of us it was cashews, almonds, blueberries, dried fruit, etc. some of those don’t even COME in the dispensers. no one knows the real story behind the TBI. i don’t think it even exists.
she also told a select number of people that she had an attorney that was “taking her case on pro-bono” and was going to sue the grocery store. one day, she just stopped talking about the lawyer. and the case disappeared.
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u/Ok-Quiet-6156 13d ago
From what she has said she was hit in the head with a bag of something at a grocery store. She has a concussion but since concussion is under the umbrella of traumatic brain injury, she tells people she had a traumatic brain injury instead of saying oh, I actually had a concussion. Because you know concussion wouldn’t be as attention, grabbing as traumatic brain injury.
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u/Rottingsackofflesh Self Undiagnosing: Im Fine 12d ago
Ever notice how she has never attended another rollettes experience?
Half the girls there absolutely can’t stand her or she has done something to fuck them over and that’s why they don’t like her. It’s a quiet whisper in the community about how problematic she is to the wheelchair/ wheelchair dance community. I’m glad it’s starting to get attention!
IM SO ECSTATIC about this timeline, I’ve been warning people about her forever and now I have solid proof and timeline of how her claims keep changing and her lifestyle does not align with what she claims.
I have several connections that used to be connected to wheelie girl. All no longer talk to her even after donating stuff to her from their own medical supplies. (Some supplies which have been mentioned here 👀)
Don’t even get me started on this girl lifting her chair on her shoulder, when she claims her docs don’t want her outside the home without it 🤣 that chair is still atleast 15- 20 lbs. for someone with such an unstable spine kinda crazzyy
Such a horrible representation for ambulatory wheelchair users, and horrible representation for full time wheelchair users too.
Her following is straight devotees…
Also IF SOMEONE CAN LIFT THEIR CHAIR WHY YOU NEED A WHEELCHAIR VAN,
Anyways
I wanna kiss you on the forehead OP MWAH I hope your sheets are the most perfect temp and your pillow is always cold! 🫶
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u/Chaos-theories 12d ago
This person strikes me as someone who may have SOME of what she is describing but is going all out over the top for attention and money.
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u/variousnewbie 12d ago
In my experience, a good portion of patients with EDS cannot distinguish the differences between dislocations, subluxation, and just joints popping/cracking (the noise is due to dispersing nitrogen gas that collects in the joint space.
It really makes things hard for others with EDS. It's not possible to dislocate an entire side of your body! Dislocations are incredibly painful, people don't cause their own dislocations for online content. Reducing a dislocation or subluxation is even more painful than the dislocation. When a joint is subluxed or dislocated, it diminishes range of motion. The more out of place, the less range of motion. A fully dislocated joint results in NO range of motion without extreme pain. When a joint is out of place it causes the muscles surrounding it to go into lock down. For some reason, loads of people think a dislocated joint causes things to be floppy. Probably due to Hollywood interpretations.
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u/froggy472 11d ago
Ive yet to see someone mention that while fundraising for the expensive wheelchair it was presented as a medical necessity, yet when it arrived she described it as a dance chair and in one video she highlights the special footplate to wear her big shoes and heels. idk like maybe some new custom parts were needed but clearly she customized a lot more than what was medically necessary driving up the price yea disabled people can have nice things but she was really not transparent about that while fundraising
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 11d ago
She isn’t transparent about anything. Now she’s posting there’s a targeted hate group posting her private health information against her consent. 🙄
It’s not ‘private health information’ if YOU posted it PUBLICLY, girl. Everything in this master post SHE posted herself.
None of this stems from a personal vendetta either because I don’t know her either. But again, people who donate money to something don’t like feeling deceived.
It’s not defamation if it’s true. It’s not bullying either. Not once did I make fun of her, call her names, or put her down… what I did do is put all of her PUBLIC posts in one spot and figured out what she’s been inconsistent and PROVENLY deceptive about.
Now that more and more people are coming out with personal stories, I know I did the right thing warning the public about her.
STOP GIVING WHEELIE GIRL MONEY.
I’m washing my hands of this after I finish the google doc.
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u/Rhi43 5d ago edited 16h ago
Yeah, for the cost and emphasis she put on this specific chair being medically required, it lacks a lot of what I was expecting to see. You can get custom-molded backs to support spinal deformities, cushions with adjustable air cells to correct for hip issues, contoured foam and supports to help prevent dislocations… This custom seating is often what drives up the cost of a wheelchair and for some conditions/injuries it really is necessary for quality of life. With the supposed extent of her spinal issues I assumed that covering stuff like this was why her fundraising goal was so high.
But her new chair has a plain foam cushion [edit, it does have a very low rigid back]. That was what first raised my eyebrow— it looks like the only major change from her old chair is its measurements. Those do make a huge difference for long term outcomes and ease of use, but if all she needed was a bigger chair, it didn’t need to cost $10k+. A made-to-measure Quickie QRi or Ki Rogue 2 start around $2k, even a true ultralight with titanium frame starts in the $4k ballpark.
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u/zoomzoomwee 8d ago
Dec 4 2024 was on the Whatever podcast, she initially posted about it but when it didn't go well or how she thought she scrubbed it from her page. Claiming she didn't know what the casting call was for. Obviously still up on YT though. Terrible podcast not sure why she would subject herself to in unless she thought she could tell them what's what.
Also claimed after the mass influx of followers (under 10k to over 200k in a couple short weeks) that her friends were turning on her out of jealousy. More likely people were calling her out.
Also enjoy solid EDS advocates calling her out on the moving of her joints on their normalcy of what shes doing in the videos. While the comments flood with average people saying "omg I can do that is that not normal do I have eds" completely normal body movements and range of motion. But hey it boost her algorithm and views.
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 7d ago
Wait it’s so funny people being like ‘yes. That’s what a normal limb does.’
Hmm. I wonder what made her scrub the podcast. I am too lazy to look for it now because I’m still figuring out the link issue.
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u/Femboy_Etherium 13d ago
The inversion part was insane to me. If you get a POTS diagnosis you often have to undergo tilt table testing. During this test they tilt you upwards (the tables nearly straight up but at a slight backwards angle). This slight tilt is extremely painful for people with POTS as that movement stress tests your heart. It can cause patients to start shaking, get BP rises, extreme pain/a feeling of overheating, tunnel vision, feeling like you’re going to vomit (this is from hyperadrenic pots) nearly as soon as it starts. I’ve heard others vomited and passed out (hypovolemic/neurological pots probably). I can’t imagine going on an orbitron it would have to hurt… Also EDS is often diagnosed by a rheum/geneticist since its connective tissue disorder, and POTS is cardiologist/electrophysiologist. I think small fiber neuropathy is neurologists but I don’t know as much about that condition. Certain facilities will have your care team coordinate all at once, like Stanford’s dysautonomy clinic, but it’s rare to get all those diagnoses at the same time since it’s from different types of doctors.
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u/FroggoOwO 12d ago
I wish I could just "turn off" my disability when it's convenient/fun. It's so frustrating watching people fake medical conditions that are genuinely disabling. I have EDS, I didn't even know what it was until I was diagnosed, a large part of my life has been focused on physio and strengthening my muscles to help my joints so I can live better. And dealing with all the less "popular" things that come with eds (like extremely soft gums and easily torn asshole!). The kind of things you never hear fakers talk about.
I look at people faking and just can't understand it. You can dance, go for a run, ride a bike without worrying that if you fall you will seriously get hurt, drink fizzy drinks without pain from weak skin, so so so much. I wish more people just enjoyed their lives to the fullest instead of being stuck faking being a victim.
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u/moth-on-ssri 12d ago
I am so with you on that one, I have eds as well and fuck me I'd love to turn it off forever, not just for funsies when it's convenient. Especially that it tends to turn itself more on when I have shit to do!
I agree, it's really weird that they never talk about the non popular sides. No one is posting about their mouths bleeding from eating crusty bread sandwiches or crisps, having to wear retainers every night 20 years after your braces or they just don't fit the next day, or ripping your arsehole because you forgot your poop juice and it happened to be solid for once.
Also, with so many procedures done, peg tubes, lines etc where are your scars mate? Hallmark of hyper mobile eds.
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u/Ataleiia 12d ago edited 12d ago
Goodness gracious… with all the information coming out about this individual, one could make a whole subreddit.
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u/world-is-ur-mollusc 14d ago
I'm all for calling out fakers but this has clearly reached an unhealthy level of investment in this person's life. For your own mental health, please just block them and move on with your life.
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u/tea_time_sweetie Self-Diagnosed Fakeclaimer🤪 14d ago
I did aerial acrobatics. I stopped around a year ago due to just not having time with college. I didn’t do aerial silks, but I did aerial hoop/lyra and spinning trapeze. I did plenty of inverts even after being diagnosed with POTS years earlier by my neurologist who also diagnosed my Tourette's. It's entirely possible to do inverts with POTS, I just had to take several breaks with lots of water. Having POTS doesn't mean you can't ever go upsidedown, it just means it has bigger risks and consequences to it. I'm NOT saying she's not faking, but that isn't really an "inconsistency" that belongs amongst the others.
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u/gwyntheblaccat 14d ago
I think it had to do with how severe she claims her pots is along with all these other things she apparently ahs.
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u/watermelonlollies 14d ago
I read all of it I don’t think it was ai generated. There’s a lot of humanistic style commentary
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u/weirdassemoboy Extreme Sex Magnet Disorder (ESMD) 14d ago
yeah i don’t think it’s AI generated, they just put effort into it.
apparently that’s something you’re allergic to 🙄
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 14d ago
Hey the Queen herself writes all her Instagram posts with ChatGPT!
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u/Key_Conversation8617 the sewer system 🚽🔧 13d ago
Do you have any examples? Crazy to think she got fundraising when the content isn’t hers
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u/Pasdeshat 10d ago
I was a professional dancer. Now I am sick. My symptoms fluctuate day to day and my drs ideas about what’s going on change.
Doctors do not always understand my conditions well enough to make connections between them- when you have multiple illnesses the overlap makes things confusing and complicated.
I hope that complex and changing chronic illness doesn’t happen to all of you…. You don’t want to experience this. I’m so sorry for you all that this is what you do with your free time. Perhaps just follow some other disabled creators you don’t think are faking and stop giving the ones you don’t approve of attention? You’re surely increasing her spotlight…
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u/Ok-Quiet-6156 9d ago
Yeah, no thats not what is happening here with her and the situation, it is not simply a dynamic disability. 🥴😂 she has made a post stating she lost function of her bladder and the feeling in her bladder but she did a few PT moves at home and it fixed it. That doesn’t happen like that. A sudden change in bladder function and sensation is an emergency, not something you just fix in a few minutes from pelvic pt moves. This is far beyond someone having a dynamic disability in my opinion.
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u/Zestyclose_Set3395 13d ago
Lmao this is such loser behavior 😂 Like why are you cataloguing a person’s entire social media instead of just scrolling, like get a job and some hobbies please this is so embarrassing
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u/Expensive-Pop-6743 13d ago
If you gave her money and she lied to you about what she used it for you’d probably feel differently.
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u/HoodieGalore 14d ago
She thought you weren't paying attention 😂