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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend of mine grew up being told his was allergic to chocolate and never allowed a bite of it. The dad let slip when he was 17 that he was never allergic, the mom just didn't want chocolate in the house because "she can't control herself around it."  After all the years of lying though, the mom had managed to convince even herself that he was allergic according to the doctor and maybe "he'd outgrown it".  The dad said they'd never even been to the doctor about it.  There are really nutty people out there[/quote]

My step mother did this with my sister, but about sugar. Because she didn't want her to grow up and be fat.[/quote]

That's really heartbreaking, PP. Did your sister end up developing any kind of eating disorder as a result of this?[/quote]

Oddly, no!!! We laugh about it now. But they would have ice cream at her birthday and wouldn't let her have any. It was insane.[/quote]

Well, at least that particular story has a somewhat happy ending! Your stepmother should thank her lucky stars every night that your sister apparently has no  genetic predisposition that puts her at risk for an eating disorder because, if she did, what her mother did to her growing up almost certainly would've triggered it! Eating disorders are such painful, insidious (not to mention potentially fatal) illnesses. I would much rather my DD grow up to be chubby than have her suffer from anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorder (not that I think mothers -- or fathers, for that matter-- are typically at fault when their DCs develop eating disorders...but in your stepmother's particular case it would be hard not to place at least some of the blame on her had your sister developed one!)![/quote]

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