Like Under_the_bluemoon's claim that she "struggled with anorexia before discovering the fat civil rights movement":  I was turned away, even ridiculed; this was before "atypical anorexia" was recognized and it was believed by most doctors that fat people couldn't be anorexic or die from the condition. Today, I've somewhat made peace with the fact that my natural weight is much, much higher than most people's, and I work in health research, where one of my personal passions is working to raise awareness of the high prevalence and largely unrecorded mortality from anorexia among fat people, especially fat women (where starvation-induced heart failure often gets falsely ascribed to "obesity").