Sometimes I wonder if the positive social consequences of having an eating disorder can actually make up for bad health outcomes. Good looking people are always treated a lot better, and mildly underweight looks a lot better than a little bit chubby. The “right amount of body dysmorphia” is a fun thing to think about since it’s hard to know if you’re crazy, or everyone else is, when you live somewhere that “normal” is actually pretty overweight and nobody acts like there’s a problem.