Wow. Anorexia ALSO began for me when my family moved from California right before high school...!

It upset me so much when people say people are "stupid" for being anorexic, or having an ED, and portray it as if it truly is one of the dumbest things ever. If people with EDs are truly that stupid, what are emotional eaters? Are they stupid, too? Of course not. It's most infuriating when these comments come from people that have their own vices (e.g. alcohol, money-management, etc.)

After so much discounting, it really does start to almost convince me sometimes, too, whether it was ever serious. Which is just so....wrong? Not fair? We need to allow ourselves to be okay with what we feel and where we've come from, and when people push that down and minimize any kind of struggle, it's terribly offensive - the struggles you had then make the person you are today, and although I can't pinpoint exactly how, it is because of the latter when comments like those are made that I feel they're getting a personal dig in on me right then.

Thank you for sharing - it feels nice to know and be reminded I'm never alone!