ELDESST CL01STER D1S0RDER

sorry to tack my silly story onto your serious/ emotionally traumatizing one, but years back I made a poorly worded post about my cat being on a diet (it was vet-prescribed, they gave me a calorie count to follow to get her to a healthier weight), and it got a lot of backlash from people who didn’t realize that an overweight Oriental cat will still look slimmer than your typical tabby because those little dudes are built different.

like this is fat:

versus a healthy weight:

anyway, I try not publicly disagree with people because it can lead to dog-piling with the receptor experiencing legitimate emotional distress (plus accusations of me “directing an army of followers to harass them”) so in this situation I was like “okay, I’ll be more sensitive about that” and instead privately messaged the folk who were being the loudest about me being a reprehensible animal abuser for withholding Whiska’s Temptations from god’s most innocent creature.

I think I said something like “hey there, I saw your commentary and wanted to give some clarification: the cat is on a vet-prescribed diet and is of a breed that is unusually slender”, and the response from multiple people was “ha, nice try doing damage control behind the scenes! you’re obviously trying to protect your reputation and income, but you can’t silence me!”, as though I were, as beast-glatisant put it, some sinister shadowy manipulator.