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Do narcissists find strange and creative ways to seek attention? Mine went through a stage of walking around on crutches. He was not injured.

Yes, indeed. I remember such things from the NPDs I've known or met.

My brother’s ex wife faked fainting/seizures and nausea before she was even pregnant. Her episodes always seemed to be in the middle of everything, with everyone watching and not so bad/nonexistent at home when it was just the family/household. At one point she laid down in the middle of a busy street while my brother was trying to manage her other 3 kids (by three different men) and get everyone safely out of traffic. Another time, they came for a family gathering and she went in the bathroom and stuck her finger down her throat to make herself sick so that they would have to call her doctor and get a prescription and all this attention and drama, creating a huge problem of trying to reach her physician and find an open pharmacy and forcing everyone to rush around trying to get her meds, all on a holiday. (I went to college and lived in the dorms, I know the sound of a girl gagging herself to force herself to vomit. It is a different sound than just feeling ill and puking without forcing the gag reflex!)

My other brother’s spouse read a series of fantasy novels when she was younger and from reading those books, decided that she was similar to a character or characters in that book. Based on the storylines in the novels, she told lies about being adopted, being telepathic, having magic abilities and all of this other crazy nonsense.

When she was younger, prettier, and thinner, she would dress provocatively. Even when she got older, she’d go out without bra and panties, sometimes in ripped or see-through clothing so that she would be flashing her top and bottom parts at anyone passing by. She also made a habit of talking about sex acts, the health of her sexual parts, and other vulgar things in a very loud tone, in public places such as parks and restaurants, in mixed company, in front of children & such.

Now that she is older and no longer attractive, she still does the ‘I’m a witch/pagan high priestess’ thing, and also either pretends to have or actually has many different illnesses and disorder: fake broken bones, sprains and strains, ‘focal emotional seizures’, TIA, POTS, migraines, etc. She is usually wearing a dirty old neck brace and/or walking with a cane. She is morbidly obese, so she may actually be sick. There’s really no way to tell.

She also has an exotic pet that she takes with her everywhere and calls it her ‘service animal’. It is not well trained, including not potty trained, and it is noisy.

She also goes through phases of extreme and outlandish dietary restrictions which forces people to cater to her whims, either by having to serve expensive food, go to expensive restaurants, or the other members of her household have to go without good food or just eat ramen in order to afford to let her eat the things she ‘needs’. She also apparently has a bucket full of vitamins and supplements that she 'needs'.

It’s always some crazy thing with these people; they just have to be special, interesting, and the center of attention, even if that means being completely ridiculous and bizarre.

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