you know of who I speak

[threeplusfire]

Most fucked up thing of the day: seeing the lovely Pro-Anorexia community, complete with a jack ass post about how someone wants to be as thin as a House Elf. Gods above, I hope that was just a nicely twisted joke. The whoel thing is rather creepy, a combination of people with genuine sadness, and that moronic brand of folk who write as if they've learned language from AOL chatrooms.

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[dragonflychey.livejournal.com]

ugh. it always makes me sad when i see info pages where people are a member of such communities.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

My problem with the pro-eatind disorder crowd is that they are think they're engaged in some crusade to become better than everyone else by being thin. I don't believe in that sort of elitism. While I have a great deal of respect for people who push boundaries in their search for meaning and knowledge, simply being the thinnest doesn't impress me.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

I basically see it as a "recovery is far too difficult, so we'll just be PRO-eating disorder!!!" Obviously none of these girls are happy, every one of them is frightened out of their tiny little starved minds "I can't go on, This is ruling my life, I don't know what to do." It's as though a bunch of alcoholics started their own drinking community... "Woke up in a pool of my own vomit today, I just LOVE being drunk!"

I remember having to be in that type of community, and their personal stories about how people treat them ring frighteningly true... it was the reason group therapy simply wasn't an option for me, because these people are that scared, and their disease IS that strong, and they need help beyond what their friends can give them. The worst possible thing for girls with an eating disorder is having friends in the same boat. It's what's hardest about being that age, ALL THEIR FRIENDS ARE 14, who the fuck is going to give them good advice? And since so many of these girls are binge/purge types over "true" anorexics, their weight won't fluctuate as much as they think it does. Hiding an eating disorder is easy as fuck and these girls know it, flaunt it, think their putting something over on everybody.

I've been reading these things a lot lately, because the line that separates how I was at that age and how they actually are is pretty damn thin, except that I got help, and I fought, and it was difficult as hell (which is not so small a thing, I know).

Recovery is a long road, these kids know that. That's why they convince themselves its okay not to be well.

Sorry... rant... argh.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

No, no, that makes a great deal of sense, and covers a lot of ground I hadn't thought about.

What is so infuriating about this sort of thing is that they think they're all being terribly clever, and it's just not true.