I refuse to sink

-starts working-

I almost failed math three times in junior high / high school

I never passed any AP exams

My SAT scores were mediocre

I was four different majors in college and still didn’t figure out what I wanted to do until I was about 26

Currently:

I have a Masters and am working on a second

I have a job I like in a field I love 

I am conversational in Japanese

I am aiming to save all the homeless queer youths in NYC

In short:

It is okay if you don’t know what you want to do right now

You will figure it out

Sometimes a random job will lead to a career

Sometimes you will only work jobs and never have a career– THAT IS FINE

In the long run, no one cares about your GPA

A good resume is important!!

“i wasn’t strong enough” no you just don’t know what actually constitutes an eating disorder and you were lucky as fuck not to have to know

“that’s not even anorexic” you don’t even know what anorexia is in the first place - restriction is not complete abstinence. 

what she did was consider a diet for three hours. three hours is roughly the amount of time human bodies take to consume and utilize the caloric content of their meals. when the body’s processed that, our body gives us the cue of hunger, which alerts us to the need to consume more calories. 

she considered a diet, she objectified and dehumanized actual people suffering from and struggling with eating disorders, and she had a snack, and there’s an entire article about how “shocking” it is that a young woman, in a culture that objectifies women and their bodies like the survival of civilization rests upon that, considered changing her body to meet a constructed image.

you know what’s shocking?

Up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder in the U.S.

Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives.

25% of college-aged women engage in bingeing and purging as a weight-management technique.

Only 1 in 10 men and women with eating disorders receive treatment.

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.

95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25.

86% report onset of eating disorder by age 20; 43% report onset between ages of 16 and 20.

20% of people suffering from anorexia will prematurely die from complications related to their eating disorder, including suicide and heart problems.

The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate associated with all causes of death for females 15-24 years old.

The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate associated with all causes of death for females 15-24 years old.

The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate associated with all causes of death for females 15-24 years old.

Us sufferers are DYING and there are people out there treating anorexia like it’s just another diet.