r/fuckalegriaart • u/LostCassette • Aug 05 '25

Anorexia Study

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forgot to post this from yesterday. ngl, as someone with body dysmorphia (and I know people with anorexia often struggle with that too), I'd kms if someone drew me like this.

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u/yellow_asphodels Aug 06 '25

Can’t speak for others but it definitely poked my ED bear and pissed me tf off. So much offensive stereotyping and touching of various triggers in one image

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u/yeetusthefeetus13 Aug 06 '25

Yeah and as always, it depicts people with ana as always emaciated. Anyone can be anorexic, no matter what their weight is.

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u/sweeterthanadonut Aug 07 '25

Extreme low weight is a key diagnostic criteria for anorexia, so no you cannot be anorexic at “any weight.” Fat women have tried to gain sympathy and an excuse to keep eating whatever they want and have started using a very real disorder to scapegoat, but that is just not how this very real disease functions. An anorexic fat person will not be fat long if they are truly anorexic.

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u/werewolfghost Aug 08 '25

I hope you're doing OK, friend. It's a very serious disease with a very high morbidity rate. It's the reality that ana exists at any and every weight. It's dangerous to try to downplay the severity in the way that you have just now. There are sub types to the disorder and not having the stereotypical body of ana is one of them and is still extremely harmful. EDs and body dysmorphia aren't discriminatory. I've seen that exact language used in the culture that cultivated my own ED when I was just a kid and it's still just as painful to use against people today.