Reflections on a Munchausen’s by Proxy Childhood, Part 3

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My senior year of high school I developed a throat infection. It was hard to tell, because it made my head ache (but so did the lights in the classrooms) and my stomach ache (but so did being a bottomless pit of hunger — I grew three inches between September and May that year) and everything I ate made me sick. Eventually I began to run a fever so it was decided I needed a doctor and some…