I want to say something and I mean well but the lack of empathy or visibility for eating disorders comes from nonconformists just as much as conformists and so to even begin discussing the problems with ed culture, you have to be both body neutral and pro autonomy.
Like its not enough to be pro fat, as it pertains to discussing anorexia because you can correctly come to the conclusion that the compulsion is societal while still attacking people for having a mental illness.
It's true the other way around obviously, where people will identify issues with public health and dietary ignorance but go on to attack fat people and the poor for things they already know the root of even subconsciously.
And because of class and privilege, this rather thin line of tact that is being crossed hurts fat people more every time.
And so you have an utmost failure of education and medicine that shames one kind of unhealthy eating and rewards the other. Treating both patterns as synonymous to the classes, fat and skinny.
To be a responsible advocate or mouth piece or to even healthily bring visibility to others with eating disorders you would have to:
Not see fat people as synonym to eating disorders
Not erase fat people with eating disorders
Not reward skinny people for eating disordwrs
Not victim blame people with eating disorders
Not place the majority of balance of trust on skinny people, who are often able bodied and who always have thin privilege, as the highest authority mouthpieces for the issues I'm discussing
One last thing is that an easy remedy for you the reader is to do what people with even half this knowledge ask of you, to separate the perception of bodies with health choices.
But I more specifically think we need to stop discussing eating disorders as dietary health, specifically as failures of dietary health because eating disorders are a compulsory mental illness that can affect the "healthy eaters" those with the privilege and desire to chase healthy food options, who can still have the same MENTAL ILLNESS. Fat average or skinny btw.
Because what I see is that there's a fight against negative perceptions of health rather than a validation and visibility of those who have poor mental or dietary health and its only in text based circles online where I see this trend being completely congruent with people of any body type or school of ethics.
Lack of visibility is isolating, it's erasure, you choose to skirt the name of an overdiscussed truth to make everybody like you look "good or valid" but whats better than being good or valid is for the world to know that you exist, are struggling with exactly what you struggle with and to know that you will be safe whether or not you have the means or desire to change.
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