So this particular rant is kind of off-topic to the Wiki (and to Creepypasta in general), but I felt like this needed to be said and oh boy, there are plenty of edgelords in this fandom so there's a high chance that some people do this kind of crap.
And, that is... People who fake having mental illnesses and disorders because their friends have them.
Ah. The toxicity.
Smell that? That's called ruined friendships.
Just because you have a friend with a mental disorder doesn't mean you can suddenly bandwagon on it and say you have it too.
But, let me be clear about something. I'm not saying that all people who share the same mental disorder with their friends are automatically lying or that they can't be friends with each other. Almost all of my friends are paranoid shut-ins that have a past of a substance abuse disorder like me.
So, we have that in common, I guess.
But like, okay. I'm going to give you a real-life example here. Now, I do not care if the people I know read this and get mad because it's the honest truth. I'm exposing ya'll asses.
I had this group of friends on Skype and Discord and this one girl said she had Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED). It's basically an impulse-control disorder characterized by sudden episodes of unwarranted anger.
Now, I didn't think anything of it at first. I still treated her with the same respect and courtesy as everyone else because people who have disorders should be treated as normal people.
But then all of her friends said that they had the same disorder as her, and that sounded a bit suspicious to me. A group of people who had mentioned having this disorder when she discussed it suddenly had it too on that very same day.
They also had no idea what it was even all about. Most of them just kept parading that, "I hAve aNgEr iSsIeS tO!".
Sigh. No, you don't. You are just being a copycat.
Also, there's much more to IED than just getting angry all the time. Plus, most of the people that were in this chat who claimed to have IED were damn teenagers, so that's practically normal for any moody teen to experience random outbursts of anger. Like, have you never heard of the expression 'raging hormones' before?
I mean, if you're gonna fake a mental disorder, you should at least know your shit about it.