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[quote=Anonymous]OP,

Clearly you know your daughter better than anyone who is posting and offering advice.  Since you are reading, I will just offer that as former vegetarian who became one at 10 and stayed that way until 30, while I espoused my love of animals and refusal to eat them, the origins of my vegetarianism was clearly about control.  And for me, it helped me get through my parent's divorce, lots of upheaval and moving and transition.  The control I had over eating was the one constant in my life.

For me personally, it didn't develop into a destructive eating disorder until I was well into my 20s but in retrospect the groundwork was being laid years before.  Once I started recovery from the eating disorder, I was surprised how few people were not surprised I had developed one.  The only person who really failed to acknowledge the eating disorder, and said to me the day I tried to talk to her about it "I'm not prepared to have this conversation" was my mother.  This was over 10 years ago, our relationship is ok but I never tried to talk to her about it again and we are not close.

I look back at the situation now and see that she was not prepared to deal with it when I was 10 or 30.  I think at 30 I wanted her to acknowledge and validate it for me and she couldn't or didn't want to.  At 10 she said has a responsibility to understand the reasons why I was choosing to become a vegetarian and she didn't.

I am in no way assuming your daughter is exhibiting control issues through vegetarianism, however please don't ignore the possibility.[/quote]

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