25 of The Most Inappropriate Things People Have Done To Get Attention

As kids, we all thought the world revolved around us. With time and age, however,  most of us grow out of such immature habits and thinking patterns. Unfortunately, Some people don’t like letting go of the spotlight even into adulthood. These attention-seekers seem to believe they are somehow the main character. One  Reddit user MelodicFishing8899 was curious as to just how far some people will go to be the centre of attention and inquired, “What is the worst thing your friend/relative did to get attention?” From dramatising their lives, fictionalizing medical situations and generally misleading people into continuously giving them attention, some people just don’t know how to show up authentically according to these accounts. 

#1

Image source: Jiggly_Love, Bridjett Renae/unsplash My ex-wife staged a fake pregnancy for April Fools, instead of it being just one day of April Fools, she turned it into a week long prank. All her friends and family sent her money, gifts, and guidance for the fake baby. I told her not to do the prank because it's mean but she didn't care. Thought it was funny and to test how naive people were. After about a week, she finally said it was a prank and kept all the money and gifts. Her family didn't talk to her for a few months after that and her friends dropped her. Anyways, one of the reasons why she's my ex.

#2

Image source: Aphid61, Elise Wilcox/unsplash My childhood bestie wore a white, backless sundress and a white flower in her hair... To my father's funeral.

#3

Image source: EmoElfBoy, Jordan González/unsplash For context, my aunt always needed the spotlight, always an attention seeker. This was at her own daughter's wedding for context where she didn't get attention. Aunt: "I'm gonna k**l myself" Me with anger issues and tired of this s**t Me: *hands her a knife that was meant to cut the cake* do it, I want to watch, do it, right now, I dare you. She never said that s**t again in front of me because I would keep doing it. I had enough of her bullshitting. I got in trouble but it was worth it to call her out.

#4

Image source: Impressive_Love4586, Daniel Martinez/unsplash My cousin pretended to have a seizure at her own sister’s wedding & ruined the whole thing.

#5

Image source: notallamawoman, Scotty Turner/unsplash Girl I went to high school with. The cheerleading coach took her own life. The girl broke into her house, put on her jewelry and clothes and took pictures posing as the dead body.

#6

Image source: oymaynseoul, Giang Vu/unsplash A cousin of my best friend at the time (1999?) became close to me for a summer, knew who I had a crush on for my entire teen life, encouraged me to profess my love for him and ask him out. Took months of encouragement and I did it! Turned out that she was secretly dating him the entire time. She apparently told him that she had cancer and only had a year to live… The sheer insanity really shook me in my early adulthood.

#7

Image source: j_fearlessfaith, Jonah Brown/unsplash When i was a freshman in high school my friend and her 2 older brothers had a house party. Well she and her brothers dr**ged me. They put their little brother's anti seizure medication in my beer. They did that so her 2nd oldest brother could sleep with me. Luckily that did not happen because one of the brother's friends thought it was f****d up. Needless to say i was not her friend after that one.

#8

Image source: buchabitxh, Daniele La Rosa Messina/unsplash My dad’s first cousin’s second wife (giving you all that context to properly DISTANCE myself from this horrible woman i share no blood or bond with) lived in the same hometown as me and worked at our elementary school as an aide. I’m long out of the school at this point but knew her as a faculty member. It came out a couple yrs ago that she was impersonating her 13 yo daughter on instagram to sext with other 13 yo boys in her class. She was literally taking nudes of the young girl and sending them out to children as her. The daughter didn’t find out until a boy came up to her in class and showed her the conversations with her own explicit pictures. absolutely despicable. The daughter reported her to administration and she was arrested. Her reasoning was, quote, “to make her daughter more popular”. So disgusting to involve your own daughter in your ploy for attention from minors. I think she’s in prison now but we don’t talk to them anymore … for obvious reasons.

#9

Image source: DueStill1908, Solen Feyissa/unsplash Pretended to be me on a facebook account and messaged herself as me saying that I was using my bf to get over an ex and she took a screenshot of it and sent it to him. He broke up with me and didn't tell me until we became friends again a few months later.

#10

Image source: JennHeinz I might have a few that include my MIL. 1. She vomited during our wedding cake tasting 2. She passed out when I was trying on wedding dresses 3. She decided during our reception dinner she could no longer walk up stairs. She got put in a chair and carried up the stairs. (She has done stairs before and after this) 4. The day of our wedding she decided she needed to be in a wheelchair and only the groom was accepted to push the wheelchair 5. At the wedding reception, she gave a speech. She said her older son was unfortunate as he just got divorced, and wished he could be more like her younger son getting married. She then proceed to say if anyone in attendance was rich, she was single. 6. When my husband and I bought our house, she came in and said it was all wrong. Then said she was having some financial troubles with her house and left all emotional. Upon my husband researching, there were no financial issues 7. We were all having spaghetti one night and she kept putting it on her shirt and looking around to see if anyone would notice / say anything. I kept my mouth shut. This was all over a decade ago, and her behavior has gotten much better.

#11

Image source: WankYourHairyCrotch, Andrej Lišakov/unspalsh My ex MIL insinuated she had cancer every time she couldn't have her way. If you couldn't make a family dinner- she had news she wanted to share from her hospital visit. That kind of thing. She also tried to stop the wedding by faking a "medical emergency " for which an ambulance had to be calked. Right in the middle of the ceremony. F**k that b***h. I sometimes Google for her obituary , hoping one day soon I'll find it.

#12

Image source: Mystiax, Toa Heftiba/unsplash Told the newspapers that the people helping her out on the emergency line was rude and was putting her in danger. Ended up in a national paper, the recordings popped up. Guess who was rude and unhelpful, and also drunk?

#13

Image source: AwayExchange2629, Luke Porter/unsplash My friend staged a fake breakup on social media, complete with dramatic screenshots and sob stories, just to get sympathy likes.

#14

Image source: Heroic-Forger, Marek Studzinski /unsplash Classmate in high school faked a b*mb threat that got classes called off for the day while investigators raided every classroom checking for explosives. None were found and the call got traced back to him and he was presumably kicked out as we didn't see him the following semester.

#15

Image source: Silver-Parsley9770, Andre Jackson/unsplash My cousin faked a proposal at my grandma's 80th birthday party just to get Facebook likes. Classy.

#16

Image source: tangcameo, Naomi McKinney/unsplash Led a convoy to the nation’s capital. She’s a conspiracy nut who yearned for an audience. She used to spout conspiracy theories and post cheesecake photos on FB to friends and family.

#17

Image source: User1539, Getty Images/unsplash My brother pretended to have a back problem until the doctor pulled my mother aside and told her that he was clearly faking. We were extremely poor, and could not afford doctors. We probably spent our rent money just to get the doctors to talk to him, and I bet it was years to pay off all the bills. My sister was maybe worse than that by calling me, crying, telling me that our mother had forced her to abort her baby. After an hour of consoling her on the phone, I called my mother to yell at her. My mother responded 'What the hell are you talking about? She's sitting right here, big as a whale!'. So, I told my mom to give my sister the phone, and immediately said 'What the f**k?', and she explained that she was just bored and wondering how I'd react if that had happened.

#18

Image source: Worth_Box_8932, Getty Images/unsplash Friend of a friend, our senior year, called in a b*mb threat. He wanted to do something so epic that he'd be remembered. Almost 30 years later, I still remember him as the dude who scored a suspension his senior year and had to spend a fifth year in high school.

#19

Image source: Lamington_Salad, Igal Ness/unsplash Sister had a baby with a rare condition. The community rallied together to fundraise and support her. It was a big occasion and a great night. This is a very small community where everyone knows everyone. She had everyone's support and attention because of her child. She later falsely claimed another family member sexually a**aulted her, abandoned her baby after finding out it also had autism, and disappeared to another state to hide after using my name for her debt collectors. Years later, it was discovered she spent most of the fundraiser money on herself. She crawled out of wherever she was hiding only when our pop died so she could suck money out of our grieving nan. She got the attention she wanted alright. Everyone in that community now knows to never trust her. Some are out for blood if she ever returns. Family has cut all contact. Any attention on her or her name is bad news now.

#20

Image source: WatchingInSilence, Getty Images/unsplash Step 1: My cousin went off her birth control without telling her boyfriend so she'd get pregnant and guilt him into marrying her. Instead, her boyfriend offered to share custody when the baby was born. Step 2: My cousin said she had a miscarriage to emotionally manipulate her boyfriend into marrying her. Her boyfriend marries her out of guilt. Step 3: Oh-wow, my cousin gave birth to a healthy baby just 5 months after their wedding. Coincidently, the due date was just three days off from the due date for the baby she miscarried. Yeah, she didn't have a miscarriage. He sued her for divorce after their daughter graduated.

#21

Image source: Keawave, Getty Images/unsplash Pretended to lose their voice for three days just to seem mysterious. ?.

#22

Image source: MeatballsRegional, Victoria Romulo/unsplash He (27) self harmed then sent me a video with no caption. When I called him out for being immature, inconsiderate, and generally just saying like hey don't do that (I have a history of s*******m and it was very triggering) he flipped out saying I was a bad friend and it was a cry for help. I told him to just be a mature adult and message me that he needs some support right now. Later on he sent me another snap just labelled "single life" which I didn't respond to and he once again flipped out. Blocked him after that one, f**k that. I don't need that in my life right now.

#23

Image source: Willing-Strawberry33, Getty Images/unsplash This girl I used to be friends with had multiple fake pregnancies during our senior year of high school. Lucky me I had mostly distanced myself from her at the time, but it was infuriating watching how she got people to fawn over her for every fake pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage story. She also got one of our mutual friends arrested and sent to juvenile hall for falsely accusing him of a**ault just because she felt like it. She was a nightmare.

#24

Image source: Successful-Mine-7343, Clay Banks/unsplash Paid to have a girlfriend.

#25

Image source: Butt_Stuph, sign language/unsplash He pretended to be deaf. He thought all deaf people were mute, and tried to communicate using sign language and the notes app on his phone.