I'm always flummoxed when I hear people refer to AN as a teenager's disease, maybe because
mine is worse than ever now that I'm in my 40's.
Lots of MI's have onset at puberty. Would these same folks say, "I would have thought you'd outgrown that stuff by now" about bipolar (which I also have) or schizophrenia?
I'll leave that rhetorical, since you probably know the answer.
My Anorexia is Anorexia like "Manorexia" is Anorexia like "Pregorexia" is Anorexia like "Drunkorexia" is Anorexia like "Tanorexia," which is what the sillypress calls celebs-cum-Oompa-Loompa, is a joke.
We anorectics sound like a joke. I think I must look like one. I've been stared at. Jaws have dropped. People have conspired and giggled and said things they weren't raised to say. Except I was, and am, skinny, so that's OK. /sarcasm/ (Not that I don't understand who wields the privilege.)
While I now teeter on the line that divides what is sadly desirably thin and rightfully scarily skinny at 5'8 and 98-101 lbs., mere months ago I was just...scary.
Thin privilege had left the bare-bones building that was standing in for my body.
Lots of MI's have onset at puberty. Would these same folks say, "I would have thought you'd outgrown that stuff by now" about bipolar (which I also have) or schizophrenia?
I'll leave that rhetorical, since you probably know the answer.
My Anorexia is Anorexia like "Manorexia" is Anorexia like "Pregorexia" is Anorexia like "Drunkorexia" is Anorexia like "Tanorexia," which is what the sillypress calls celebs-cum-Oompa-Loompa, is a joke.
We anorectics sound like a joke. I think I must look like one. I've been stared at. Jaws have dropped. People have conspired and giggled and said things they weren't raised to say. Except I was, and am, skinny, so that's OK. /sarcasm/ (Not that I don't understand who wields the privilege.)
While I now teeter on the line that divides what is sadly desirably thin and rightfully scarily skinny at 5'8 and 98-101 lbs., mere months ago I was just...scary.
Thin privilege had left the bare-bones building that was standing in for my body.
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