DEPRESSING POST IS DEPRESSING
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Originally Posted by
Roto13
Just thought of one.
When people say I'm "married." Not that I'm married, but that I'm "married" in quotation marks, like they only say it to play along or for lack of a better word. I can't think of anything anyone could do to offend me more.
That offends me too. That's ridiculous. And I bet they consider young gold diggers with old dying men really married. Ugh.
One of the things that makes me angriest is when people yell at me when I'm upset about my weight/trivialize my concern. I admit right off the bat that it's a major problem with me, and I'm often not sensible about it, but it's a genuine issue, and not me seeking attention, fishing for compliments, etc. When I write about it in LJ, it's because it's something that at the time is completely consuming me. Because it does. I shant begin to describe how compulsively and terribly it does affect me when I go through some bad spells, but it's true since this is getting to tl;dr level.
Yet people will say "Jess, stop it, you're being annoying, people won't like you anymore if you lie about dislike yourself." "For smurfs sake, shut up, you're not fat, okay?" and the best one I've ever gotten "You need to stop this, there are people out there with a REAL issue about this, like anorexics and bulimics, and you're just seeking attention."
It's all highly offensive to me since just because I don't starve myself to the point of being underweight (because I have starved myself various times before, but with little success in it), or throw up everything doesn't mean my issue isn't valid. There are mental issues that involve body image like Body dysmorphic disorder that are just as serious as the other two, but don't necessarily involve those behaviors. It makes me mad, even when a person is just saying it to help. It doesn't help. Please don't assume that this is a normal whiny girl sort of thing, because it's not. Please don't tell me to stop my attention whoring, because, also, it's not. I'm just honest with my issues and concerns.
