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Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and manipulation.

From two concerned citizens who've actually experienced it, I am Lola Blunk. And I am Megan Elizabeth. Today our guest is

Andrea Dunlop, novelist and host of the podcast Nobody Should Believe Me, which is all

about Munchausen by proxy. She's going to talk to us

about Munchausen by proxy or medical child abuse from a new point of view what it's like

being related to the perpetrator. She'll tell us what her sister was like growing up, how she had exhibited

Munchausen behaviors from a very young age, making herself seem to be sick before she had children,

and how common that and other forms of deception are among people who later develop

munch hasn't by proxy. We'll talk about how her sister fake pregnancy and

miscarriage and how the discovery of that warped Andrea's reality, the

overlap of characteristics

with people who exhibit signs of narcissism and psychopathy

and how actual medical misogyny complicates the whole thing.

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