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| bd2be9a | It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you. | loneliness dysmorphia fighting-yourself dissonance imperfection transgender struggling | David Levithan | |
| 7d936fb | ...she was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry. | body-dysmorphic-disorder anorexia-nervosa dysmorphia | Margaret Atwood |