🌸Thinspiration🌸
“These people with ED blogs are so vain, all they care about is a flat stomach and a thigh gap”
It’s a lot easier to say, “I want to be pretty and thin” than to try to explain that this makes us feel powerful and in control. Many of us have been victims of bullying and abuse, many of us also struggle with depression or anxiety or other many illnesses. Many of us have been abandoned and we hope that becoming beautiful or thin will keep people from leaving or hurting us again. Many of us are dysphoric or have body dysmorphia. Many of us truly believe or at least desperately hope that our eating disorders will fix these issues. But none of that is visible. Weight loss however, is. Which is why that’s so much easier for us to focus on and talk about.