Accepting that I am Beautiful

just me

With my anorexia comes a distorted view of how you see yourself in life, you don’t see what others see you see something that is all warped and twisted and generally you consider yourself to be overweight and need to lose weight; even when you are at a dangerously low weight.

This makes it very hard for you to see what others see in you. For a long time, I never considered myself attractive or anything like that. I would consider myself a little above average and that was how I saw myself.

When I said this to people the vast majority of people disagreed with me on this point. So I decided to start posting more photos on twitter to see what the reactions were to them. The majority of them got a decent number of likes and a lot of positive comments all saying that I was attractive or beautiful and so on.

This was not the same people all the time saying these things, but different people making very similar comments about how I looked. So the curiosity got the better of me so I ran a few polls on Twitter to see what people thought about how I looked.

The first one was quite limiting as you can only have 4 options so I had to group numbers out of 10 together, and deliberately did one that had a range of 6 which is what I considered myself to be, to 8 which is what a lot of other people had said I was. Now this range…