Q&A for How to Fake Sick to Stay Home from School

Tell her you have a migraine. She can't prove it, she can't fix it, and the only thing she can do is let you ride it out.

Pretend like whatever you ate upset your stomach, and continue faking whatever other symptoms you were pretending to have in the first place.

Slow down. If you can stand go to school, do it. Save your free passes for when you have eleven tests in one day or something.

You could always try to say that you're feeling better later in the day and you want to go in late, but this is risky, as you're more likely to get caught faking (especially if you try to do this more than once).

Fake a cold. Colds usually don't make you vomit. Breathe through your mouth only. It's tough to fake a runny nose, but you can pretend that you're stuffed up. Fake sneezing or coughing. Shiver and pretend that you're cold.

Nothing more than you would if there were a nurse or if whoever checks this were bad at what they do. If you want to fake being sick, then you need to put up a show that is good enough to convince whoever is checking you. If that person has skills at 4/20, then your show only needs to be 5/20 quality. If their skills are 19/20, then you're going to have to go all out and get no less than 20/20. You either convince others, or get caught.

Just say that you felt fine then, but when you got home you started feeling dizzy and sick, and now you feel really bad.

Try to make your voice sound raspy! If you don't think you can fake it convincingly enough, just whisper and tell her that it hurts your throat to speak any louder.

Let's be real here. The moment your parent seriously suggests taking you to the doctor, you need to drop the act.

Just use the other methods in the article.

Act as if the medicine didn't help at all. Tell them the medicines are useless in a groaning manner. You could also take the medicine and act as if it made you feel a little better but not good enough for school.

That's not really going to make you look any sicker, so I don't recommend it.

That was the risk you took when you faked being sick the first time. Your parents have known you since your first day on this planet. Since then you have been sick in all kinds of ways: vomiting as a baby, diarrhea, red rash, blue rash, snot, clots, fluids, eye sores; you name it, they've seen it. It means their sense of when you're sick has been very well calibrated. Only in recent years has their been input from you yourself in this assessment, and since they fell for it once, they're re-tightened their acceptance of your input. So, really, you have no one but yourself to blame.

It depends on your skin tone/ complexion. You would have to pick the color that works the best with your skin tone.

You should read the rules that your school applies in these cases. Some schools say "absent = fail", others say "absent = exam not taken". You may have to make an appointment with your teacher to give you the same or an equivalent exam.

If you get caught, you'll be in trouble. That's the game. They know you'll try to fake being sick, and it's their job to try and figure out when you're really sick and when you're faking it. When they believed you were sick and they find you out, they'll make sure to remember how you fooled them next time, and it'll be all the more difficult for you to fool them again. So you'll get punished for this time now, and it'll be more difficult from now on. So make a better plan, one that guarantees you don't get caught. And if you can't think of one, don't start.

Go to the nurse at school and tell them and they will call a parent to come pick you up and they will realize you were telling the truth.

Compare it to shooting an arrow at a target with a bow. You miss the first try, but instead of just getting to try again, the target is made smaller and put farther away every time you try again. The more you fail at convincing your parents, the better they get at spotting your lies. So do not try again.

This is one of the very best ways to spot a fake sickness: if someone's afraid to come and talk to you about it. You're afraid because you know it's fake and if you get found out, there'll be hell to pay. So if they see fear, they'll know you're faking it. Instead, think of what you would do if you really were sick. You'd need their help to take care of you since your ability to take care of yourself has been reduced because you're sick. So make a better plan to convince them, and if you're only going to get caught, don't even start.

It truly depends on how strict your parents are, and how good of an actor(tress) you are.

Just tell your teacher you threw up in the restroom and flushed it.

Just have a bad headache, it can get you out on Friday and a headache takes a mere day to resolve.

You could. It depends on how good of an actor you are. No matter what, you will most likely be called out. Instead, try discussing with your parents why you don't want to go to school. Is it damaging your mental health? How is it affecting your psyche? Are you being bullied? These are things that parents are more likely to be willing to help you with.

No, you probably will get caught in the act. Ear thermometers don't lie.

Say you puked and can't go to school. If that doesn't work, go to school and "puke" then they have to send you home.

Just go to school. They already know you're faking, and it's just better for you to get your education.

If you're truly sick, your parents will want you to rest, and being on your phone will only keep you awake and strain your eyes more than what they really are. Also, if you're well enough to be on your phone, you're well enough to be doing something more productive, like studying.

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If you stayed home from school he previous day, just tell your parent that you still aren't feeling well enough to attend school. You'll never know if your parents will let you until you ask!