I thought it might be interesting to tell you what a day in my life was like 20+ years ago.
I was anorexic and in high school.  I was miserable but got straight As.  No one asked why I was thin–everyone was worried about their own “things”.  And this is what my average weekday looked like:
6:30 a.m. (or so) – Get up, get shower, get dressed (no eating–only drinking a Dixie cup of water or two)
8:00 a.m. (or so) – Arrive at school.
8:00 a.m. (or so) until 3:00 p.m. – School.  No lunch.  (Sometimes I would sneak into the computer lab …read more

If I am to be perfectly honest with myself and with you (and why have it any other way), I have to admit that I know in my heart I would have been “pro ana” if we had Facebook, MySpace and the Internet in general in the 1980s.
I so easily and quickly would have glommed onto the pro ana message boards, scarfing up the information and hints (while simultaneously starving myself of nourishment.) I would have surreptitiously taken and posted self-portraits positioned in front of the bathroom mirror, angling my body so viewers had the best shots of my protruding hipbones …read more