I hope people are correct and EDS becomes the hot new trend for deathfats.
I hope it doesn't, but only because any time munchies grab onto a legit-but-rare health condition that is often a last-ditch diagnosis after everything else has been ruled out, it makes things that much harder for people who legit have the condition.
2. She says she's Anna-sexual, if that counts as queer.
It doesn't count as anything. It's just a perpetually single permavirgin straight woman's way of avoiding any real discussion of her non-existent sex life, that she thinks makes her sound more quirky and interesting.
Some people, including me, think she's one of the rare true asexuals that actually exist (rather than claiming Ace as a cope for being utterly unfuckable) but AFAIK I don't think she's ever claimed it. "Anna-sexual" is the closest she's gotten to it and tbh it is a very true and honest label for her.
Even though I dont think she's interested in sex or a partnership that's not one-sided or transactional, I think she really wants to be found desirable by men. Not in quite the pathological way Chantal does, but it's this very obvious and vulnerable thing about her that makes me kind of pity her.
My reading of Anna is that she does have a sex drive, and does have sexual interest in men. It leaks out in her exhibitionism and the inappropriate sexual comments she occasionally makes, and was definitely there back in the days when she was falsely accusing men at Sprinklr of sexual harassment (which was Narc projection on her part).
But her combined shame and self-loathing, and obsessive need to be in complete control, make getting into relationships too scary to even attempt. And that's before you get to the fact that the kinds of men Anna would find acceptable would want absolutely
nothing to do with her (and, tbh, in reality she would never feel safe and secure with them even if she landed one).
It's not that Anna's asexual, or any sort of niche sexuality; it's that she has put up far too many barriers to getting into a relationship at all (short of international romance scammers). There's just been no opportunity, and even if the potential has ever existed, she's always killed it just by being who she is.
I am certain she daydreams about, and longs for, the perfect guy who will adore her exactly as she is, and never question anything she does, and never do anything that causes her the slightest self-doubt or discomfort, who she can trust abdolutely not to hurt or leave her—basically, a Hallmark movie romance. She loves that fantasy so much, she put a bunch of money into trying to make a short, Hallmark-style holiday rom-com, starring herself, in which she'd finally make it come true (or as true as a film can make it).
But her reality is "Monster Love." Seriously, that vid was the most self-revealing Anna could ever be about her longing for romance, even though she didn't mean it to be.
In that vid, Anna is all the monster girls—frightful to look at, with appalling and disgusting habits that they are oblivious to and regard as totally normal. The only difference is that "Monster Love" features a mild-mannered, non-threatening, well-intentioned guy who genuinely digs monster chicks just as they are, has no trouble being seen in public with them, actively pursues relationships with them, and doesn't judge their monstrous ways. He chooses one Anna avatar monster girl in the end, but doesn't hate on the other two (she couldn't let him do that, because they are also Anna avatars).
But he's the only real fiction in "Monster Love," because he has no real-life counterpart, while Anna is all the monster girls who disgust and frighten the normals.
She wants the lipedema issues to be the answer to all her problems because she probably really is in a lot of pain everyday, and has lost mobility because at that size if you don’t use it, you lose it.
Agreed. But at Anna's size, even if you use it, you lose it, because the combination of chronic inflammation and mechanical stress on one's joints leads to injury and joint degradation.
That she had to take ibuprofen before any of her workouts should have been a big red flag that she was further abusing her body; you shouldn't have to do that.
This doctor/physio sounded like absolute moron or as if she had gun to her head "OMG you did everything you could, you did absolutely everything" this is just wrong... Also Anna admitted *some* oh her problems *might* be related to weight, but probz not
The entire point of that "assessment" was not to be a legitimate, impartial attempt to determine Anna's actual condition, but to get Anna to say all of the right things and exhibit all of the right signs in order to convince her insurance provider to cover a lengthy (and expensive) series of cosmetic procedures, and the aftercare.
This occupational therapist knows exactly what the insurance companies want to see/hear, is good at conveying that to them, and has found a profitable niche in convincing them to pay for cosmetic procedures.
She coached Anna through the whole thing, asking leading questions that would elicit the correct answers, and never questioning anything she said. Anna self-reported what activities she was suddenly no longer able to do, but was she ever able to do them in the first place? There is no proof that she could.
I would bet good money that the surgeon referred Anna to this particular occupational therapist because she's skilled at convincing insurance companies that cosmetic procedures are medically necessary. And she probably has helped some people (women trying to get breast reductions, or people who have lost a lot of weight and need excess skin removed), but then there's shifty bullshit like this.
If she is doing this for insurance I hope they don’t watch her YouTube.
Oh, I hope they do. An insurance fraud arc would be
delicious.
In her search for the easy way and for using fake illnesses as an excuse, I hope she gets a real problem for once. She has no idea what being sick, not of your own choices, can possibly mean. Grieving? My skinny beige ass. 
