See, kids, this is why not hanging out regularly on the Tumblr subboard is bad. you miss all the fun like this bout of the 'tism.
Sorry if I reheat this nonsense, but I can't help but point out:
I agree that she is a bad influence, but big accusations shouldn't rely on big assumptions for evidence.
And the very next page:
So in her sick mind, helping others to lose weight and enjoy binge/purge food is a positive thing. It isn't of course, but that is her way of being friendly.
Now, who's relying on
big assumptions?
Be that as it may...
To me, there is a clear distinction between why a person does something and an excuse why someone does something. That is to say: yeah Ashley is a terrible person due to her personality disorders - she can't help it (at least not on her own). However that does not excuse her behaviour, it just explains it. It doesn't make it any bit more acceptable or less destructive. To the contrary, giving her this "Oh she can't help it" excuse is just enabling her. Full stop.
This girl is sending food to recovering anorexics to make them relapse, to tempt them to go back - full well knowing that
will kill them eventually. And I have little reason to doubt she does this with a certain amount of glee as it seems to validate not only her image of her "strong" self, but also her queen bee status of the skeletons.
I don't care how much BPD she has, that shit is fucked up.
The next issue is, that she's so far around the bend, she's well aware of what she's doing and why, yet she has no intention to do anything about it. Yeah, it's due to her personality disorder but that doesn't mean I have to stand idly by, twiddle my thumbs and go "oh well, it can't be helped" and overlook her attempts to hurt others - either by dragging them back into anorexia, by emotionally abusing them or by making them the victim of a shitstorm.
I don't care where her malice comes from, if it's a disorder or whatever, she's still being an abusive, toxic person.
Yeah if Ash turns up, we'll know. She has a special brand of sookiness that is unmistakeable.
Luckily for us, the slushy remains of her malnurished brain would be unable to grasp the idea of trying to be subtle about defending herself, even if you spelled that plan out with Nutella on her toilet seat.
It's kind of incredible how Ashley's done everything 'wrong', actually. People who survive EDs long-term at extremely low weights tend to have orthorexia and thus extremely healthy diets, pure restriction instead of binge/purge cycles (a big one, bulimia and b/p anorexia are easily worse than restricting anorexia), and no matter what they do their bodies tend to crap out before they hit a single digit BMI. Ashley eats nothing but processed sugar, binges and purges constantly, and has a BMI around 7 or 8. There is no reason she should have lived to see 2010, let alone 2014 or 2017.
I wouldn't be surprised if her long constant state is the reason why she's still alive. As I understand, a lot of anorexics die after relapses, so maybe yoyoing between almost normal and barely a skeleton is putting more stress on the body than simply keeping it in constant power saving mode? Or they overshoot the target and accidently purge too often?
I wouldn't know, it's just one way to explain how this Lich can still be around despite making 5000 year old mummies look healthy in comparison.