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Anorexia
I don't understand AT ALL where these people are coming from. I was looking at these sites, and they say they KNOW it brings them closer to death, yet they WANT to live.
And wait before you think anything, I am not anorexic. I wanted to see these sites out for myself and I was fascinated 
Here's a reply from a pro-anorexic to an article in WebMD e-mag about pro-anorexic sites:
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I recently read your article on pro-anorexia web sites, and I feel I have to voice my opinion.
I have been a member of many of these clubs through Yahoo!. I use the word have because Yahoo! has taken them down. I know you're probably jumping for joy, you and thousands of other reporters have taken down the enemy. Do you have no empathy? Now I have no support. It wasn't just about starving, achieving our goals, and so on. We gave support. We helped through death of partners, breakups, etc. Every member of that club knew someone cared about them and wasn't disapproving of them. Articles like yours just feed the fire. Why haven't you realized that yet? Every time Sally Jesse Raphael does her shows to "help" us, or articles are printed in magazines, the member levels soar! We got 100 members in one day after Sally showed her show, which was completely unrealistic.
I understand your point of view. Anorexia is a disease, but we make it into a lifestyle. Most of us know the consequences. We know death is so close, and a lot of us almost died even. But we've learned how to live. We need to live. We have lives with friends and family and jobs. We don't want to lose those things. Even if a lot of us have lost hope, most of us want to live. We have reasons for doing this, and they aren't wanting to be thin. Many of us have obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, are self-mutilators, and so on.
Our clubs also weren't encouraging anorexia. Every day there would be some newbie wanting to know how to lose weight by the time school started so her crush would go out with her. After a while, we just stopped answering these people. We didn't want anyone to fall into this spiral, because once you're in, its a long, hard road back, and none of us would wish that on anyone.
I hope now you understand our point of view.
C.Z.
Freaky stuff, I got this off bluedragonfly.org
So what do you guys think? 
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10-26-2002 03:19 AM
im happy the way i am - lil ol chubby me well...kinda unhealthy..but im happy. 
all those evil ppl makin fun of chubby ppl aint rite damn influencers 
