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@matana
>but some people can't

Obviously... although I am not sure that changes anything about my problem with modern definition of mental ilness.

@matana
Fair
WTF
Fair
Fair
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>ah, now that's, as they say, "is what we should've started with"

Why? Why would that even need to be stated?

I guess when you live among christians, the fact that you're christian doen't need to be stated. The same goes in inverse then.

I do not see anyone in my surrounding I that looks like Eugenia Cooney, so that is where the confusion comes from I guess.

And then, there is I guess also the fact that I do not believe in the concept of mentall illness as most people describe it today. I was diagnosed with one such issue. I cannot stop my brain from working. They call it ADHD and symptoms are inability to sleep and overanalizing. I took the meds for about 1 month and it was horrible. I am off the meds for 15 years, and my life is completelly ok. It does not hurt my job, it does not make me "sick".

@matana
>you don't just want not to be fat, you want to get thin FAST

Most people spend decades loosing weight to end up weighing 5 kg more. That speed is really not acceptable to me. I've lost 5kg in 8 months, and obviously, a bit faster would be nice.

>are ready to dip into anorexia-tier methods for that
Hell no. As an IT specialist, I do not recommend people to write their own OS. But I do tell them to at least get an antivirus and an adblock.
I do not want to vomit. That doesn't mean that they won't tell me what low cal foods make you feel full.

>anorexics have no idea how to lose weight

Now that I don't get. Anorectic people do get obsessed with loosing weight, and most of them had been doing it for years. Do you expect me to believe that they know about the topic less then I do? Now that would be some serious huberous on my part.

>your mom isn't retarded
Not this one, you will have to take my word for... :smug:

@matana
Chill? How? I said I don't want to be fat, and you jumped to I want a disorder...

Where did you even get such a stupid idea? I am sorry, but WHERE did I write that I want to be anorexic/bulimic?

This was the exact point of my original post btw.

@matana Alright, at least we got to the exact point of disagreement.
Paranoia helps the programmer to focus on his coding more. He will go through his own code many times and think about it in many contexts. It can make him a better programmer. But he can teach you the basics, and you know he will understand them properly.

Autism helps people understand abstract concepts better, so the same patters apply.

And obviously, people who are obsessed with losing weight will know how to lose weight. I simply do believe, that it is almost criminal to ignore the best source of knowlage when it comes to complicated topics just because that person does have a character trades I disagree with.

But thanks I guess???

@matana
If you ask a paranoid programmer to teach you coding, will that make you paranoid?

If you ask an autistic engineer to go through geometry with you, will that make you autistic?

I do not believe so, but if you do believe character traits and skills are inseparable, then that is something worth discussing.

@matana
Alright, keep on talking to a phantom.

If I'm talking about being fat and needing to loose weight, but you read close to death due to hunger, then there is no conversation to be made.

@cowanon@neckbeard.xyz @matana
Exactly. We need to construct a plane that will get us across a river.

But what if it reaches the space and you suffocate???
-_-

@matana
At least I know now, why is she loosing weight at negative speed.

@matana
But they are too thin... So what? That means they will show me the correct trajectory. That is like refusing to give food to people in the archetypal Somali village, because obesity is bad...
If you know the way that leads beyond your goal, it will serve to reach your goal aswell.

@ChristiJunior@neckbeard.xyz
*not healthy in the long term:
Obvioulsy.
But I will eventually die, so if there is a diet that will bring me to the proper size in 1 year instead of 5-10, that is 4-9 years of healthy life I can enjoy. In short, I am seriously not afraid, that one day, I am going to openly hate hamburgers, but I just want to get to the point, when I!m not going to regret 5 years later that I ate them.

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