Fairy God Dumpster

i cant believe i really did this to my friends... but i rly like stand up comedy and so in grade school whenever i found a comedian i liked i’d legit recite the whole set (or sets) to my friends at school the next day when like i rly shoulda just sent them the link????? somehow my brain would just watch it once through, remember the sequence of jokes, and deliver them in order.

to a child or young adult’s brain, that translates into “...so it works.” I remember in middle school thinking “I just wish I had the diligence to stay dedicated to an eating disorder.” And a few years later when starting vyvanse I was like, “finally! I can do this!” I was proud.

Young ppl already don’t think about health in the long term bc a juvenile brain is mostly concerned with the here and now. There’s a reason all these pro-ana blogs assert that the health costs are worth it to them. under the bullshit guise of health, we’ve already taught everyone being thin is most important and to be fat is worse than death. The reality is that most people with EDs are fat folks who’ve been shamed into dangerous restriction and over-exercising. And they. are. still. fat. But no one will believe they have EDs, doctors encourage their restriction, and their health declines. When you teach a health class that spends max 1 week talking about EDs and spend the rest of the year upholding diet culture, praising thinness as healthiness, and making students submit a food journal or report how many push-ups they can do in front of the whole class, you are sending kids right into the grips of the *most deadly* psychiatric disorders.