MissHoney118 wrote:
SlyBoots wrote:
Yeah I get what you're saying, but like I said where I come from it's a medical term for somebody below a certain body weight just like obese is. Obese isn't a mental state either, anorexia nervosa would be referencing the eating disorder/mental state. I'm sorry if you got the wrong end of the stick, but I did clearly emphasise the physical state and not the mental one in my post. No offence intended :-)
That's a very strange medical term. :?
Sorry if I came off rude. I didn't intend to start some debate or anything. This topic is just very close to me. To me calling a skinny person 'anorexic' is almost like using the word 'gay' as an insult. But I can see where you're coming from and why chose to use that word, so no offence taken. :)
No that's perfectly fine :) I used to be underweight years ago and I've had the term used by doctors to describe me as well, it is strange! Even weirder is that I study animal science at university and sometimes 'anorexic' is the term assigned to low condition scoring animals... it's odd using that term for an animal :P