Fatorexics, topic of the day it seems. TL;DR at the bottom under the line. So I started making a reply to this post but got carried away enough to just make my own post. The problem we are tackling is hams claiming to have anorexia. In a nutshell: real anorexia is harshly restricting caloric intake because real anorexics believe they are already fat and that they must lose weight. If you harshly restrict caloric intake, you can't be/become overweight. A fat person with anorexia would be slimming down extremely fast, which we are not seeing happening. We are especially not seeing it happen with hams who claim to have the disorder. If you think you're fat and that fat is terrible so you must change, as you would if you were anorexic, then you wouldn't be bitching about how unfair it is not getting pity and attention for your speshul snow-fake ED and defending your fatness, the way fats are doing all over tumblr. Fatties are always begging for attention, "pay attention to my self-diagnosed fake ED! Feel bad for me! See how hard I work to live a day of my life!! Validate me!!!!" Meanwhile real people with real ED do their best to ESCAPE attention. As much as they believe their behaviour is helping them, they understand that others do not approve and will do their best to make excuses and distract those around the to HIDE their ED, not to advertise it the way fatties do. They come down with the flu so they "can't stomach dinner tonight, but it looks great, mom!" They ate a late breakfast so they're "too full for lunch, but let's go out anyway and I'll just order a water." They just finished like half the plate, you didn't notice them eating? They hide their shame, they don't want anyone to know because then they will be sent to hospital and forced to gain back that evil scary weight. If people find out, they will sabotage their weight loss. So they don't let on. That is why I don't believe fatties who proclaim they have an ED, even including binging disorders. Real ED's are like abusive relationships. The victim tries to hide and protect the ED/abuser despite it being out of their best interests, because the psychological damage they have undergone causes them to believe they need the ED/abuser to be okay and to get by. The victim does not parade their ED/abuser around town saying "look how hurt I am! Feel bad for me but don't you dare try to interfere because it doesn't effect you!!!"  Well, I think I know why they do this and other ridiculous shit: Fatties lie all the time because they want to feel human. The human experience includes being strong, being weak, being capable, being victimized, being independent, being in a partnership. It is a vast and varied experience that we have all shared in some form or another. We have all suffered something, we have all defeated something else. Fatties have a desire to be and act human and so they make up stories to create a false human experience, heavily relying on the experience of victimization because it comes along with pity, attention, and support which they lack in their daily lives. Fatties are excluded form these experiences because they spend 99% of their time focused on food, pain, complaint, discomfort, eating, and shame. They miss out on all the good and some of the bad in life because of this. So they crave those experiences, even the bad ones. They lie about being cat-called because even though it is a negative experience, it is one almost all women have, and they want to feel a part of that womanhood even though it is terrible. It is less about having bad things happen, and more about being a part of something all humans share. Their lifestyles and their mindsets isolate them.  And isolation fucks you up. Solitary confinement is considered one of the worst punishments possible, because losing connection with the rest of your community, your species, causes extreme negative symptoms from depression to auditory and visual hallucinations, to some forms of psychosis. Some people who experience solitary confinement never recover. They are driven to insanity by being cut off. "Cabin fever" is an example of this; when gold miners and prospectors flooded north to Canada and Alaska during the gold rush, they would stake out land far away from everyone else. There were no true towns until that flood of people so entertainment was lacking and there was little to no incentive to make one's way into town, particularly in the winter. People would often get snowed in and trapped by blocked trail or freezing cold, forced to live alone for the better part of an 8-month winter. And they went batshit.  Even more common is ostracism, sometimes a human or other ape or other monkey in some experiment is shunned from a group, often marked by disease or some other compromising situation (an orphaned animal during a drought or famine, example, will be abandoned by the rest of the group because the others can hardly find resources for their own young and can't afford to share with someone else's young.) This causes immediate distress, and prolonged ostracism can lead to some nasty effects on the mind.  Knowing how difficult it is for humans to handle these forms of isolation, it's not a far cry to understand how hams who choose this isolation can become psychologically damaged from it. Enough so, that they would lie about being an ED victim, just to have humans reach out to them for once. This is a bit like understanding a heroin addict, we don't support their behaviours but we can understand how it affects their brains. They chose that life, it's their own fault, we aren't sympathizing; only understanding what happens inside their brains to make them the way they are. Now, biologically, we are programmed to shun those marked with disease, especially if we DON'T understand the disease such as in cases of HIV (almost impossible to catch, in reality, even if they're your roommate) or, as with obesity, we DO understand how terrible the diseases are such as NOROVirus (sorry, it takes one NOROVirus organism to infect me and give me explosive vomit/diarrhea for three days and millions of the NOROVirus organism can fit into a single drop of water, no hugs until you're cured.) In most cases, we know that just because someone is sick, doesn't mean we have to shun them. A cancer victim will want his/her family to be nearby, and the family benefits from the contact on a moral and sentimental level. However, we also understand that a cancer victim is just that; a victim. They didn't choose to have a growth in their abdomen. They did everything to live well but it just wasn't enough.  If someone CHOSE to have cancer, we wouldn't be feeling sorry for them. Just as hams who choose obesity don't deserve our pity either. You KNOW it is bad. You CAN change. You CHOOSE not to change and to continue living poorly. You impact others negatively, both economically and psychologically. Shunning a cancer victim wouldn't help the victim or protect you. Shunning fatties WILL protect you, because you can avoid picking up their bad habits, you will have more resources (food and money used to buy that food that can now be spent elsewhere,) you will be less likely to be trapped in a burning building or other dangerous area without your escape route being blocked by a fat body. You guys know the drill. So, while we are able to understand diseases well enough to know that shunning a kid with a tumour isn't helpful to either party, we also understand diseases well enough to know that instances of quarantine and avoidance can be key to our survival and wellbeing. Wether you're avoiding the ebola virus or avoiding a fatty, the effect is the same; your chances of becoming harmed or otherwise affected by the disease is significantly lower. We ostracize fatties for our own health, not just because we hate them for their selfish greed. Fatties negatively affect society so much that eliminating them from our society by leaving them behind and preventing them from being a part of it benefits the rest of humanity. The economy is merely one such example, you can see how poorly we are doing because of the strain on our society from fatties relying on us and our hard work for their survival and comfort. So what do we know from this? Fatties choose a hazardous lifestyle which can negatively affect other humans. Humans avoid fatties to prevent harm from them. (from falling on them to their taxes paying for their third gastric sleeve) Fatties experience isolation. Isolation makes fatties desperate for human contact. Isolation eliminates human experiences from their lives. Fatties can no longer relate to humans, further isolating them within society. Fatties act out human experiences to better relate to humans, in the hopes of reaching out or having humans reach out to them. Fatties falsify many conditions and troubles such as eating disorders or being sexualized etc. to achieve this. Humans see through these false experiences and are further disgusted by the manipulative behaviour. Humans rant about this series of events on FPH. So there you have it folks, fatorexia is just another turd on the shitpile of hammy excuses and desperation.   edit: Glad you all enjoyed this, I enjoyed writing it, and some great comments in there too with very valid points. I always appreciate how active and involved this community is, so thanks for listening. :)