Obvious insight is obvious

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 So, it turns out that someone I know is anorexic. The reason none of us noticed any sooner is that they are now thin but not actually underweight, since they were relatively overweight before their obsessive weight loss. That allowed everyone involved to overlook the physical symptoms or assume that they were caused by some other problem.

Anyway,

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[cartesiandaemon]

That's fascinating. It is so, so easy to assume that your experience applies to everyone and they're just interpreting wrong because that often is the case, but surprisingly often people are actually different in some way.