my half brother has musclur dystraphy, however, I was self-harming before he was born.
My aunt has munchausens, and the main reason for this is that her brother (so my uncle) had lukimia and musclur dystraphy and so from a young age she started to assosiate medical care with attention and sympothy, or with love I guess... So now she basically pretends to be ill, or actually makes herself ill, in order to gain sympathy from others.
Due to my aunt I have looked into the effects of growing up with an ill sibling/parent and seemingly this assosiation of medical care with love/attention/sympathy/care/etc is a fairly common one - so you're not "odd" or anything like that (just incase you thought that you were :P )
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