must read off the "how to be annoying and the center of attention" playbook.   OSS, SD and YSS in my case all were attention hogs, faked injuries especially on their sports teams that the Gir signed them up for.  When they didn't feel like playing anymore and wanted some attention, they would soccer flop.  And of course the Gir had her Munchausen phase where YSS would come over and try to make a big deal over every scratch he had.

Amazing how biodads can just turn a blind eye to all of this rubbish!

God help you sweetie.  I hope I wasnt a blind bio mom.  I didn't meet DH til my kids were 19& 21 so he didn't have to deal with so much teen drama...and you say she's not even a teen.

Not the same thing I know, but whenever SS16 would go to a public bathroom, he would come out and say that a weird guy was in there looking at him funny and he was scared.  EVER. SINGLE. TIME!!!  The first few times, DH would of course quickly take him back in and tell SS16 to point him out, and then walk all over said place looking for him, which means all eyes were on him and he was hugged and cuddled. 

After the first three time, DH caught on to him and told him that he will take him back to the bathroom and happily sell him to the man.

Even though we stopped paying attention to it, he still does it from time to time.  Drives me crazy!

Your SD should try out for the boys' football team. That would provide excellent injury opportunities, plus the effort required to get onto a boys' team will focus all kinds of attention on her! Win-win.

Make the holidays more interesting...drink every time SDs injuries get brought up or you hear any manner of "poor SD"

Your skid is going to be bitterly disappointed IF she ever gets out in the real world.

My SS17 does the same thing abs has for years .   Only he only gets “hurt” during games where they are losing miserably.  That way he can claim they lost because he was hurt and couldn’t play in the full game.   Even DH has caught onto the act.   It took BM spending thousands on unnecessary testing to get her to open her eyes.   Now they are more likely to tell him to suck it up and sit the bench  than to baby him.

lol. 

Nothing this bad, but at some point in the weekend YSD would always get "a tummyache" and need to be coddled and cuddled. 

Um. DH...she has a tummyache because she eats like crap and sits around watching YouTube. Give her some veggies and make her do some chores and she'll be fine. 

I have a sister like this

It's an actual, medical illness 

Your SD may actually need some councelling for it

About a year or 2 ago we got an urgent call that SD ~14 needed to go to the ER for a lump on her head. BM was out of town visiting friends and she was SO WORRIED about SD possibly having a concussion. SD couldn't remember falling or anything like that. BM issued a bunch of threats so off to the ER we go...

When we get there, the dr says he thinks it's a mosquito bite. I had to step out of the room b/c I couldn't keep a straight face. But just in case, they ordered an MRI. While DH was with SD getting the MRI, admissions came in for $$ paperwork. Lucky for dear ol SM, SD was already in the system so I made sure the bills went to BM.

We had to hear for WEEKS complaints about all the bills coming to BM and dealing w/ copays, office people, blah blah blah but it was so worth it. Maybe play the tape thru next time BM when it's your name on the bills!

I'm comming in real late on this but anywho, I remember as a kid thinking getting a cast would be cool, the kids that did get a broken bone got alot of attention and got their cast signed, ok this is about to get freaky. In Early Dec of 1980 the head of Sunday School at church asked me to play Joseph for the Nativity play, I of course being the smart alec 11 y/o said I couldn't that I was going to be sick, funny guy right?  Dec 18th I became paralyzed from the shoulders down, spent years learning to walk again, fighting for every morsel of normalcy. Lesson never fake or wish for an injury or sickness and when called to play Christ's Step Dad do it !

I know exactly how you feel.  Sd 15 is a nightmare with imagined illness such as most recetly strep throat without needing medical attentiopn.  When SD has her period she wants to stay home from school and hurts too much to do anything but lie in bed being waited on hand and foot (thank God I don't live there).  BM refuses to allow her to participate in sports because "they are too dangerous and sD might get hurt".  And when there have been any major life and death situations with anyone else she all of a sudden has a crisis that she needs to be the center of attention for.  She accused a boy recently of forcing himself on her but refused to goto the police and press charges, she claims because it wasn't a big deal.  Truth is she enjoyed having him to do what he wanted (from what she told my daughter 18 about how good it felt and how much fun it was) and when she got an infection from it she started to claim rape.  I mean she pulled this on the day I was rushed to the hospital because I had a life threatening infection that required me to be in the hospital for an extended stay.  She also threw herself infront of a teachers car at her old high school got hit at approximately 5 MPH speed and claimed the teacher did it on purpose.  But SD claimed she was too hurt to goto school for days and needed to be admitted to the hospital (Doctors said she was not injured in any way shape or form and sent her home to return to her normal routine).  SD and BM the cries about how no one cares and SD is such a victim.  Just gotta love it, it gets worse as they gett older.  SD now threatens suicide anytime she does not get her own way, including if her father goes for a 5 minute walk when she doesn't want him to.  Not my problem, not my obligation to help.  It may seem cold but I flat out tell everyone that she cries to about how the doctors and facts indicate she is lying because they come to me asking why she got hurt.  SD hates me because I can prove her lies are lies.  TOO bad, she needs to get a grip and mov on