This really hit. The way fasting gets romanticized as discipline or wellness completely ignores the difference between choice and necessity. Hunger born from poverty isn’t a lifestyle experiment, it’s fear, anxiety, and survival. Framing it as “autophagy” or “mental clarity” feels almost cruel when the alternative doesn’t exist.

I actually do appreciate how honestly you talk about reframing just to cope, it’s wht most of us do. That line between mindset and material reality is thin, and sometimes reframing is the only thing that just keeps us going. But it doesn’t erase the injustice of the situation. Thanks for naming something most of us experience but rarely say out loud.