I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying re: BED sufferers will not want to be associated with Amber, but there are shitters in every group, that's how life is. Autists don't want to be associated with Chris. Anorexics don't want to be associated with Ashley Isaacs. Most autists aren't like Chris and most anorexics aren't like Ashley. Most people with BED aren't like Amber (taking her self diagnosis at face value).
I continue to maintain that a person does not get to 600 lbs without having an eating disorder. Literally, by definition, you must have an eating disorder to be that fat. Overeating, BED, food addiction, some other mental disfunction that causes her to not to have the same feelings regarding food that normal people do. And, I continue to maintain that it doesn't really matter what it's called, because it's plainly obvious that something along the way had gone horribly wrong. To say Amber is completely normal is laughable. She isn't.
I say this not to defend Al, but to look at the situation realistically: a mentally sound person does not choose to completely abandon any semblance of normalcy for a life of self inprisonment. This isn't saying that Al isn't lazy, entitled, or selfish. It's also not to say she isn't responsible for her own actions. It's saying she is mentally unhinged in some fashion. It's what makes her a cow.
Her falling back on BED also clearly doesn't matter much because she has been using that excuse for as long as I can remember and she's infamous and hated regardless. Aside from her few asspatters everybody sees through the bullshit eventually, most people sooner rather than later.
I realize the purpose of the farms is for exceptional individuals to overanalyze every single detail of other exceptional individuals, but this constant debate over what exactly is wrong with Amber is missing the forest for the trees. Who gives a shit what the actual disorder is. She's a silly, fat cunt who will never change.