[ SECRET POST #351 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #351 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Spawned by one of the secrets posted here → Fire Emblem Kink Meme!

Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 300 secrets from Secret Submission Post #051.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] too big, [ 1 ] outright says it's not a secret wtffff, [ 1 ] every possible category (???).
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, December 23rd, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

(bears mentioning i have no relation to 36 OP whatsoever)

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

36. Uh, thanks for keeping the stereotype alive that people with eating disorders (and, y'know, girls in general) are more willing to jump down the throat of others who are recovering than offer any sort of support under the bizarre assumption that their problem is "MORE TRUE AND DEEP AND REAL". Because hating your own appearance enough to want to look like an unattainable, animated ideal has NOTHING to do with depression or control issues at all?

People like you are why my friend had to drop out of recovery. Seriously.

[gratuity.livejournal.com]

36. Perhaps my comment was worded too defensively wanky. I didn't mean to suggest that my problem is any more difficult/deep or that my life is a great big swirling mass of darkness. The wording on the secret irritated me, because the way I interpreted it was that the secret poster was ashamed to admit that their eating disorder was just because they wanted to look like an animated character.

[agawa-jean.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, that does make more sense. I didn't take it as the OP trivializing what their eating disorder came from though, just their fear that others would.
I definitely understand you better now though.

[gratuity.livejournal.com]

I should have thought about what I was typing and how my words could have been interpreted, really. I can see how bitchy it reads now. :( Ah, well.

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

36. Hrm, I interpreted it more as it being an embarrassing ideal to admit, since a lot of girls with eating disorders DO have that ideal. For example, it's okay to want to look like the Olsen twins, but mention your "thinspiration" was anime and suddenly you're really fucked up. People are already more willing to look down on girls with ED than help them anyways, ect. ect.

But then again, I've never struggled with an eating disorder, only helped friends through them so I'm looking at this from a very different angle. In retrospect, I completely understand your defensive standpoint- I come from a slightly different end of the mental illness spectrum, but I know how hard it can be to remain objective when people appear to be simplifying something you deal with every day.

IN SUMMATION, sorry for being such a bitch about it. ^___^

[gratuity.livejournal.com]

36. I can totally understand where you are coming from as well, I came across as bitchy in my original comment :(. I am glad that the secret poster is in recovery, and I definitely agree that girls with eating disorders tend to jump all over each other instead of offering support! I don't think girls who use anime as "thinspiration" are any more fucked up than girls who want to look like Lindsay Lohan. I just think they have better taste in fandom.

And you weren't being a bitch, you were responding appropriately to a rather stupid comment!

[imbrium.livejournal.com]

In recovery myself.

I can understand where everyone in this thread is coming from, but I also feel like it may feel easier to blame your eating disorder on one factor, at least in the initial recovery stage, just to make coping more managable as you wrestle out the real reasons.

Wanting to be 'beautiful' is certaianly a factor for some, but it always comes with a control issue. "If you can't control even the way you look, what control do you have?" Sort of the sentiment I get.