Joe Engle

“Myself. I’m a fatty and proud. Basically freshman year I did not like to eat. It wasn’t like the normal eating disorder where I didn’t want to eat and had issues with my body image. It was more that I physically could not eat. Every time I tried eating a meal, I would throw up. After a while, it became a game. I would see how long I could go without eating–my record being three and a half days. At the time, all the other girls in my grade had eating disorders, and they made me feel as if I was copying them. Like it was some sort of sick trend. They told me that because mine wasn’t like theirs and it developed later, I wanted to be ‘special’ like them. Because of the heat I got, I didn’t do anything about it and I ignored it. And then I met my best friend. All she did was eat. So by being around her all the time, eating became more normal to me. So, if I’m proud of something, it’d be me,” Jr. Aleah Feliu said.