-- Posted by nyn at 11:33 am on Jan. 9, 2009 I know this might sound a bit stupid (which is okay, because it's nearly 5AM) but I've always wondered about how people suffering from eating disorders perceive things physically. I get that it skews the way things are interpreted by the brain visually, but if you put your fingers around your wrist, do you feel flesh that is not there, or is there a lucid aspect to it? Thanks for any helpful replies. I'm just looking to get some insight. I'm sorry if this sounds disrespectful at all. -- Posted by fluffymonster at 11:36 am on Jan. 9, 2009 if its a girl its usually the legs.. and umm I dunno you still feel flesh and you still think its too much? -- Posted by Lulu Nobody at 11:58 am on Jan. 9, 2009 I don't think there's a feeling difference, it's simply just a perceptual difference that they see. They'll dig much deeper than the average person to find what is fat, at least, I know my roommate does (she's recovering from anorexia/bulimia. she thinks her legs are disgusting but I think they're just fine, they're average, and could use toning but are in no way disgusting, not at all). I think it's like, they see it in their minds so they must think it is there, regardless of if they feel it physically. -- Posted by HannaHad at 5:02 pm on Jan. 9, 2009 Its very hard to explain. Like you see yourself in the mirror and its nto what other people see. But its what you see and you have yourself convinced that you look like that but then you get confused to what you actually look like in real life and if you look liek if you think you do or if you look different and its just so confusing and hard to explain. -- Posted by merryberrycherry at 6:05 am on Jan. 10, 2009 Well it's similar to what every other person thinks. You might think you have weird eyes or something but everyone thinks you have gorgeous eyes-you don't understand how they could think that and they don't understand how you can think that. We will never truelly know what we look like because we always have our minds perception of ourself where as everyone else can see us for who we really are. People with eating disorders just don't think that they are right and they go to extremes to change that, well that's one aspect of eating disorders but yeh I hope you understand what I put because it's hard to explain like HannahAd dais