And in her usual couchrot pose, buried under a giant fuzzy blanket as if to hide from the shame she feels when looking at her body.
So this thought triggered a What If in me- warning autism ahead…
I was thinking about how Anna very rarely leaves her apartment. Yes she did the performative gym larping, yes she went to Disney this week. But outside of what she films and chooses to show, she’s very much a homebody (which must kill her as an extrovert.)
But then her home is her safe space where she can binge and couchrot and doomscroll to her enlarged heart’s content. Every distraction is really just a DoorDash or Amazon package away. The zombie apocalypse could happen and as long as those services were running, she’d be fine.
So I wondered- what if Anna was not in control of her environment? Imagine her stuck in a dreaded “ingredients household”. Imagine Pops O’Brien whisking the family away on a non-negotiable remote cabin vacation where the nearest general store was two hours away. Imagine Anna locked into an in-patient facility to finally, finally address her emotional overeating. How do you think she would react? Would she go through the five stages of grief or would she initiate a jailbreak?