Reality Check: What do you really see?

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Reality Check: What do you really see?
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Mon, 04-30-2007 - 10:43am

For our QOTW:


Today, this week, take a look around you at people in the real world.  In the store, gas station, at work, on the streets, in the parks, your neighborhood, and wherever else you go.


What do people really look like?  No judging, just observe.  What are they doing?


Of course my point is that real people come in all sizes and shapes, with their own styles or lack of, for us in their outside worlds.  I want us to really see and experience this.  If you can, ignore the media. ;o)


What does that do to the notion in our heads that we're "supposed" to look a certain way to be accepted and worthy of love?


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Edited 4/30/2007 10:45 am ET by cl-jammin2bach
 

 

~Diana~

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Mon, 04-30-2007 - 10:28pm

I grew up very different (not to mention looking different) than people around me. For a while, I was the one of two Asian kids in my grade. In my family alone, I was the tallest child. Talk about self-conscious. I always stuck out like a sore thumb. I figured when I got older and when I went to college things would change. Nope. I went to the flagship university in my state 30k+ students. I was still "that tall Asian girl with the long hair". All through college I worked at a retail store. Customers always referred to me as "the Asian girl". So I always felt like an outsider looking in. This is 'outsider' feeling really played a role in my eating disorder.


During recovery, I used my experience as being that person who really didn't fit in physically as a means to better understand people's conception of each other. It also helped me understand myself. I have a saying that I tend to say often, "No one

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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 11:16am

Yes, perfect sense, Catherine.


Thank you for your insight on this.

 

 

~Diana~