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Given what you just wrote, it sounds to me you and your family and friends are toxic parents who caused this. What is the chance of all these kids in one family and among your friends (like minded people likely) going through the same thing? If I were you, I would take a good look in the mirror. It is almost always the parents that cause most issues in kids.[/quote]

The chances of a friend confiding in me that her child has an eating disorder are high, because I was pretty open about what I was going through with my own child with my closest friends, and also I reach out to parents I know who express initial concerns about their own kids, and share our experience. As a result those parents feel comfortable telling me their child's diagnosis.

I think most parents of teens know one or two people, at least, who are dealing with anorexia.  Someone (you?) posted that the incidence of anorexia was around 3.8% ?  Not sure that is accurate but if it is, out of every hundred people you know about 4 percent of them would be familiar with anorexia.  That's not that rare.  5% would be one out of 20 people....I know a lot of people.  So knowing 4 people with anorexia (actually I have a fifth friend in another country I just remembered who has a daughter who has it) is really not that surprising at all.

It is not an illness that most people feel comfortable sharing with their friends, precisely because of the attitude you mentioned about.  There is an outdated idea that bad, controlling parents *cause* anorexia.  This idea is as damaging as the outdated idea that refrigerator mothers cause autism.  So it's probably like when you have a miscarriage and all of a sudden you learn of everyone who has had a miscarriage -- you had no idea until you started sharing with others as it just isn't something most people talk about.

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