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Every time I think I've blocked all the pro SH and pro ED tags; another one pops up

it's a game of forbidden whack-a-mole

It's been nine years, but I'm still salty.

CW/TW : Poorly Handled Eating Disorder

You wanna know how to not help someone with a eating disorder? Don't give them a fucking picture book.

Look. I love my parents and grandparents, but they could've handled that situation so much better than they did. I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember that my grandma gave my mom a book to give to me. I got about two pages in before I slammed it closed and threw it across the room. Mom ripped into me for it, but I haven't seen the damn book since. I'll burn it if I ever see it again

I know how to handle books. I've always known how to handle books. But, I was in fifth grade with quickly fading eyesight (glasses came in a few months after this) and what we now know was ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) (at first thought it was Anorexia Nervosa). Of course I was going to react violently to such a bad approach.

I love books, but I've avoided books like that since I could read. Me throwing it was the least destructive thing I could've done

Also, the therapist sending me to the hospital? Also not the best thing they could've done, especially because I made it known that I did not consent to going, nor did I like hospitals or needles. I made it very clear and I damn near bit all three people who forced me into that car.

(That's part of the reason I don't like therapy. ✨trauma✨)

I still have that eating disorder to this day, but I'm mostly recovered. I only relapse occasionally, and not to a dangerous degree. Not that I'd seek help unless I was dying, but, oh, well.

Anyway, please have some decency when you broach topics like that, especially if it's a child you're talking to. I still hold this grudge, I can guarantee that others will hold this grudge. You won't know it, but they will.