Faking illnesses

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Did you ever fake one? I tried this for the first time at the age of 10 - I borrowed a children's novel "Kajtuś the Wizard" (I'm rereading it now) from our school library and didn't want to go to school the next day because if I didn't, I would be allowed to go to bed later than normally for I wouldn't have to wake up so early the next day, being ill and staying home. I could sleep as long as I wanted to. So I would be able to read the book as long on that day as I would want to. As I thought, so I did - I faked having a cough and feeling weak. Mom believed me.

I used this method many times afterwards. With a good result. In high school in turn, I used to pretend a diarrhoea attack instead from time to time which is the safest choice of an illness - no parent in their right mind will send their child to school with a diarrhoea .

Did you ever have a similar experience?

I'd fake being sick in Elementary School so I wouldn't have to go to school and face my bullies.

At first, I thought you meant Munchhausen's but this is about faking being sick to get out of school or whatever.

I faked being sick in second grade. That was it.

Once I left one biology lesson as a girl of 17 because I wasn't prepared and excused myself at home claiming that I had a heart ache and that's why. My mom was worried and took me to a doctor who... indeed detected something wrong with my heart during an echocardiography and I had to go to hospital to have it checked. Yes, strange but true

It reminds me of some teens' book in which one girl was faking appendicitis and when the doctor was called, he decided a surgery was needed and it turned out her appendix was close to bursting indeed which she wasn't aware of when she was telling her lie to avoid some class.

The fact that I spent much of childhood in a near-constant state of stomachache and low-grade fever made it very easy for me to say I wasn't feeling well and get out of school or spend time in the nurse's office. I hated school, so I did this from time to time. Most of the time I was telling the truth, though.

I was accused of faking illnesses a lot to get out of school because I usually felt better latter on that day but a lot of it was caused by anxiety & stress or lack of sleep. I would feel nauseous, get stomach cramps or I would get headaches. I had a history of migraines & getting car sick. After puking on the way to school or the school calling my parents up rite after I got there for it when I was really little; my parents listened to me when I told em I was sick. They usually complained at the end of the day about how they should of made me go to school instead but they still wouldn't force me when I played being sick hard enough. I had lots of sinus infections & was on meds or getting shots a lot for extremely bad skin allergies to so I was kinda sickly. I missed at least one day every two weeks on average my senior year & I did not get sick or say I was sick one time except when I had the flue. I have a rare vision disorder that I was born with that was not identified till my senior year; I missed a lot for medical test & stuff. I'd miss the next couple days of school after because my vision was slightly blurry or my eyes were sensitive to the light or I was feeling tired & dizzy or whatever after the test. I was also missing for results & seeing different people about trying get a game-plan for after graduation with things; I got the runaround.
One Wednesday morning my dad called the school up to tell em I wouldn't be coming in that day; I had a dr appointment on the Tuesday & they had injected me with some dye & some machine took pix of my eyes while they were open so I was kinda still worn out & my vision was kinda weird Wednesday morning. The office gave him a hard time about how he didn't give em advance notification about how I was going to be out Wednesday; he had only told em in advanced for Tuesday because we had no way of knowing I was going to be be missing Wednesday in advance; my dad got frustrated with the office about it & told em I would be out the rest of the week I was back to my old self by the end of the day & the next morning he asked me if I felt up to going to school sense he had already told em I'd be off; I said no & he said OK then. The classes were shorter Friday because we were going to be getting off early due to a faculty meeting/workshop or something so even thou my parents knew I was feeling fine; I got to stay home sense my dad already told the office I'd be off

my elementary school sent me home for 2 months due to extreme stress on my part. they sent my schoolwork home for me to complete. i wish i coulda stayed at home until i graduated.

Yes, I've taking sick days from school and from work when I have been perfectly healthy. I think though you're asking about avoidance. I struggled for a while with this too. I used to have trouble forcing myself to give presentations back in school and called off sick a couple of times. I would get real queasy from anxiety doing that sort of thing, but I eventually willed my way through it. I do still make excuses for not doing something that is essentially the same thing as faking illness. If someone wants to go somewhere and I am not up to it, I will say I already have plans when I don't. What can I say, I am work in progress.

Yes, when I was a freshman high school I did play sick alot. When in school, if I got overly anxious, depressed, or scared, I would go to the nurses office and say I felt bad. It got me out of a few class periods when I'd do it, or sometimes I'd just say I wanted to go home. It wasn't quite lying... it was just that I didn't feel physically bad I guess. I guess the most humiliating part about it was that pretty much every time I'd go in, the nurse would say something along the lines of "Oh what's wrong? You look terrible." >_<.

I was to go to a distant city this week but I pretended a food poisoning which helped me avoid this

I've done it before.

I faked spontaneous combustion for 5 years just to get out of doing P.E.

I faked sick a few times in primary, although I was often genuinely sick with stress.

I've faked being sick many times, and am pretty good at it. But now that I do school from home, it doesn't matter if I'm sick or not, I still have to do it.

luckily i didn't have to fake anything to get out of P.E. - i was so inept at any sports task that nobody wanted to play with me, so i was usually assigned to to the P.E. teachers' paperwork that they were glad to get me to do for them. it beat the hell outta having to be shirts or skins.