My mom has body image issues. She is stick thin, always has been, has never had to try, right? And you've met me- I'm overweight, but not morbidly obese... like she says I am. She has called me obese several times. I have always wondered, from a professional POV, what causes her to blow my weight out of proportion. Is it her own thinness that has skewed her perceptions? Is it that she's prejudiced because she's never had to work at being thin? Why does she act like I am morbidly out of proportion when in actuality I'm closer to the mean and she's too thin? And what are some ways I can curb this behavior in a 62 year old woman? I don't want to deal with this for the rest of our (her) lives.
Fandom: Do you think growing up in the Samurai clans might have felt a little cultish to the rangers? Like, do they feel brainwashed into the duty? Some more than others? Do they ever realize, after defeating Xandred for good, how unhealthy some of the things they were told as children were? I mean really, how could "You will be a Samurai, you will have children, you will be the ones to defeat the most evil thing ever even though generations before you have died trying" would effect a kid? What could the permanent repercussions be?
You're lovely for doing this. <3 Yay mental health.
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I think I will ask two- one RL, and one Fandom.
My mom has body image issues. She is stick thin, always has been, has never had to try, right? And you've met me- I'm overweight, but not morbidly obese... like she says I am. She has called me obese several times. I have always wondered, from a professional POV, what causes her to blow my weight out of proportion. Is it her own thinness that has skewed her perceptions? Is it that she's prejudiced because she's never had to work at being thin? Why does she act like I am morbidly out of proportion when in actuality I'm closer to the mean and she's too thin? And what are some ways I can curb this behavior in a 62 year old woman? I don't want to deal with this for the rest of our (her) lives.
Fandom: Do you think growing up in the Samurai clans might have felt a little cultish to the rangers? Like, do they feel brainwashed into the duty? Some more than others? Do they ever realize, after defeating Xandred for good, how unhealthy some of the things they were told as children were? I mean really, how could "You will be a Samurai, you will have children, you will be the ones to defeat the most evil thing ever even though generations before you have died trying" would effect a kid? What could the permanent repercussions be?
You're lovely for doing this. <3 Yay mental health.