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Ok, I’ve tried really hard to ignore this thread (sorry Rubes….) but I cant.
My beautiful 16 year old daughter has suffered with Anorexia since she was 13. She has had many ups, and believe me, many, many lows. No one can pinpoint the exact reason for the onset of an eating disorder, but she will tell you that part of her wants so hard to conform to what society deems acceptable, i.e. slim women not fat.
(She has never been overweight, even before her eating disorder.)For the past three and a half years, she has attended hospital and been assigned her own dietitian and therapist for her disorder. I, as a mother, felt I was in someway to blame for not being able to control this disease. I wanted to make her ‘well’ again but I couldnt. Subsequently, I had to attend therapy in order to make me realise that no one is actually to blame.
My younger daughter and husband also had to attend sessions in order to help us understand what was going on with Katie.
Therefore, in this instance, a ‘thin’ person has cost the NHS quite a lot of money.
Thin people also cost a lot of money, and thin people lose lives as well.
Therefore, should she be taxed for being thin?
Live and let live. No one person has the right to judge another until they have walked in their shoes and understood their circumstances.
@gyps wrote:
Ok, I’ve tried really hard to ignore this thread (sorry Rubes….) but I cant.
My beautiful 16 year old daughter has suffered with Anorexia since she was 13. She has had many ups, and believe me, many, many lows. No one can pinpoint the exact reason for the onset of an eating disorder, but she will tell you that part of her wants so hard to conform to what society deems acceptable, i.e. slim women not fat.
(She has never been overweight, even before her eating disorder.)For the past three and a half years, she has attended hospital and been assigned her own dietitian and therapist for her disorder. I, as a mother, felt I was in someway to blame for not being able to control this disease. I wanted to make her ‘well’ again but I couldnt. Subsequently, I had to attend therapy in order to make me realise that no one is actually to blame.
My younger daughter and husband also had to attend sessions in order to help us understand what was going on with Katie.
Therefore, in this instance, a ‘thin’ person has cost the NHS quite a lot of money.
Thin people also cost a lot of money, and thin people lose lives as well.
Therefore, should she be taxed for being thin?
Live and let live. No one person has the right to judge another until they have walked in their shoes and understood their circumstances.
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@becky wrote:
@drivel wrote:
@becky wrote:
Yours was not an opinion it was an insult TWERP see thats an insult :lol:
And you think TWERP is an insult
After magoo’s comments that’s PRAISE – thanks Beckers xxx
Well trust me if i let go at you LAUGHTER would roar and i would be banned so stuff your “praise”
Carry on – give it your best shot
Nah im better than that
And i have just read Gyps post and she has in my honest opinion hit the nail on the head. You cant go around taxing things because we would all be taxed for 1 thing or another. We all have something bad that could be taxed. Life is to short for moaning about taxing this taxing that. TAX nothing and we will all die happy :D
tax the racists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah and tax the dirty buggas who dont bath they offend my nose!
To be fair Gyps the thread was about excess fat not anorexia
I would imagine that the majority of fat people are fat due to over indulgence , and could really do something about it if they were bothered
I have no idea how you would battle anorexia , it is obviously close to your heart with your daughter
Are you suggesting though that all people who are fat , have the same kind of problems as anorexics – but in the opposite way ???@drivel wrote:
To be fair Gyps the thread was about excess fat not anorexia
I would imagine that the majority of fat people are fat due to over indulgence , and could really do something about it if they were bothered
I have no idea how you would battle anorexia , it is obviously close to your heart with your daughter
Are you suggesting though that all people who are fat , have the same kind of problems as anorexics – but in the opposite way ???I know what the thread is about Driv and I feel my point is relevant in that why just tax people who are fat when thin people can cost the NHS just as much time and money?
If a fat person is overweight due to overindulgence then I guess one could say it’s self inflicted.
My daughter, for whatever reasons, made the decision herself to stop eating. Therefore one could argue that her illness is also self inflicted.
Therefore, should she be taxed as a ‘thin’ person?
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