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  2. List of fictitious people - Wikipedia

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    Alan Smithee, name used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Andreas Karavis, nonexistent Greek poet. Araki Yasusada, fake Hiroshima survivor and author; B. Traven, adventure novelist. Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist created by Sacha Baron Cohen, see also Ali G and Brüno Gehard.

  3. List of Munchausen by proxy cases - Wikipedia

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    Esme Stoller from Love You to Death: a fictional cosplay fan and victim of her mother's Munchausen by proxy, told that she has cancer and developmental delays; Esme is loosely based on real-life victim Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. Pauline Whittier from Everything, Everything (film) treats her daughter Maddy for the immune disorder SCID. A doctor later ...

  4. List of impostors - Wikipedia

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    Cartoon of the would-be explorer Louis de Rougemont, who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. An impostor (also spelled imposter) [1] is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often through means of disguise, deceiving others by knowingly falsifying one or more aspects of their identity. [1]

  5. Factitious disorder imposed on self - Wikipedia

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    Experiencing vision loss in one eye after being fired despite having normal eye functions on physical exam Factitious disorder imposed on another , also referred to as Munchausen's by proxy, occurs when an individual induces symptoms or feigns illness in someone else to receive some form of psychological satisfaction for themselves. [ 52 ]

  6. A Therapist Explains Why a Narcissist Will Fake Being Sick - AOL

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  7. Factitious disorder imposed on another - Wikipedia

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    Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), also known as fabricated or induced illness by carers (FII) and first named as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP) after Munchausen syndrome, is a mental health disorder in which a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person – typically their child, and sometimes (rarely) when an adult falsely simulates an illness or ...

  8. Netflix's 'Hit Man' is inspired by a real story about a fake ...

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    Yes, and no. “Hit Man” is inspired by the October 2001 Texas Monthly article of the same name written by Skip Hollandsworth about the real Gary Johnson. According to the article, Johnson was ...

  9. Sperm donor ‘used fake names to father more than 60 children’

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    Parents at a get-together questioned why their kids all looked so similar