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Originally Posted by Five-hole
My guess is that he started the cancer thing to provoke sympathy and caring and attention from the people around him. He desperately needs people to pay attention to him and care about him and this probably seemed like a good way to do it. It's possible it wasn't even a totally conscious decision to begin faking it. Then it spiralled out of control.
He's been arrested, btw.
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Yeah I really think it was about the attention more and he just kinda schlepped into scamming the money.
First, he'd faked those other illnesses before seemingly without an endgame. He started living with a new girlfriend after he started faking the Cancer, which wouldn't make sense if scamming money was the bigger priority. In the one detailed article it sounded like he was kinda faking symptoms like vision loss occasionally for a while and talking about his sisters having Cancer before he even went to a doctor. Although it's obviously hard to tell just as an observer, and I do think he has some kind of psychological issues, to me it still sounds like he was consciously deciding to do these things though.