Oh - and in case anyone was worrying -

[mazz0626]

I was crying earlier at college for several reasons, the two major being that I've been suspended this afternoon and tomorrow(along with about half of my class) to finish my outstanding IPS work, and the other follows on. Wanting to get a headstart, I was typing up some 'reflection logs'(think of something that has occurred to you, write about it) and got onto the subject of my own inverted body dysmorphia, and thence onto why it's SO BLOODY UNFAIR that I don't look like my genetically-normal agemate cousins.

That and the stress and possibly hormones has put me onto the brink of tears for the rest of the day.

Comments

[stompyfairy.livejournal.com]

Hugs! College is a difficult space and it can seem like everyone else is normal and you are not however normality is relative. Most people are a bit strange but have become good at hiding it. If you are open (as I am too) it is so easy to get hurt. You are beautifull as you are!

[writerwench.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. Thank you for elucidating. I WAS worried. Um... genetically normal? NZ bunch? Rosie? Yes, it's a total bitch that others are effortlessly slim/normal and we're such potential-or-actual butterballs.

I hope the IPS list has been severely reduced.

[wrench0626.livejournal.com]

Chloe and Marion...

I'm chewing my way through the list. Some of it's just research and regurgitate, but some of it's remembering/making up stuff that happened, and I really don't know how I'm going to do that.

[writerwench.livejournal.com]

Yeah, okay, they're physically pretty un-challenged, apart from the very severe dyslexia... but would you trade your intelligence and personality for their slimness?

[wrench0626.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder what I'd trade for a face you can touch.