TW: Eating disorder

so i’m looking for a primary care doctor and i just called one woman and i told her i am recovering from binge eating disorder and do not want to see my weight, it is a trigger to me… and i said i’ll step on the scale and she can know it, but i can’t know it for the sake of my recovery and she was like “uh… ok.. well… we’ll talk about it. i’m sure it’ll be helpful for you to know how far you have to go.” and i’m like “no, I can’t see my weight. Either you’re the doctor for me or you aren’t. If you don’t respect this request, you’re not the doctor for me and I’ll move on in my quest to find a doctor.” and she was like “no one is going to do that. That’s ridiculous. if you’re fat, you’re fat… don’t blame it on an "eating disorder’ that isn’t real.”

i hung up. wow…. thin privilege is having your statement of having an eating disorder respected by doctors. And also not being talk to this way.