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When I was fifteen, I was visiting my cousin for a few days, and his wife mentioned that their shower head was broken so I'd have to crouch under the bathtub's faucet to wash myself.

And it dawned on me for the first time that most people... don't regularly do that? And that my tendency to hunker under the bath spigot was maybe a sign of... something... unusual.

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I'm reading about orthorexia, and I'm going to get on my blog-shaped soap box here for a moment.

It's described as an eating disorder, and the symptoms are all about food, but every case I know also involves obsession and control about other aspects of health: rigid exercise routines, painstaking selection of home and personal care products, an eccentric approach to the medical system...

The food thing is a symptom, not the underlying problem. Just like it is with other eating disorders.

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I would further posit that there's a link between orthorexia and purity culture, with the obessession with "cleanliness" extending not just to physical but also to moral things, such as what media a person consumes, what organizations they belong to, what they vote for, etc, with "impure" things/people being excised and denounced just as surely as "impure" foods.

But for that essay you'll have to wait until I don't have a migraine.

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I know that "haha when I'm hungry you have five minutes to get me food before I become a hangry monster" is like a common joke, but like.

That's not actually normal and you should definitely investigate that.