Amanda Olejniczak
Bio
I am a writer, poet, and proud advocate for mental health. Addtional content I create can be found on Instagram: @amanda_unfiltered or @amanda_unfiltered_poetry.
Stories (44/0)
Amanda vs "Ana" Part 2
The environment I grew up in was not ideal by any means, however, I will give my mother credit where credit is due—she did the best she could with what we had. Without going into too much personal detail, I'll leave it at this—we were poor...very poor, and it wasn't my mother's fault.
By Amanda Olejniczak6 years ago in Psyche
Amanda vs. “Ana” Part 1
If you are familiar with the nickname, (for lack of a better term) Ana, I want to first and foremost apologize to you because that means you are for some reason familiar with Anorexia, just like me, Amanda Olejniczak. Welcome to my first story. This could potentially be triggering so read at your own risk. I want this story to be educational but also real and unfiltered, so here it goes... I was no older than 4 when I first heard the crazed voice of "Ana." I was sitting directly in the middle of my preschool's gymnasium floor crying because something in my own little 4 year old brain told me that my thighs were too big and should not be able to jiggle. Keep in mind that at this age, I was very small, smaller than most other kids my age, according to the percentiles I was in. This didn't matter though, I looked down at my legs, fiercely grabbed at them and shook them until my friend came over to me and asked what was wrong. I told her simply "I am fat." She tried to calm me down and even showed me that her thighs jiggled too and that they were supposed to be able to move. I didn't care though that her thighs could jiggle, I cared that mine did.
By Amanda Olejniczak6 years ago in Psyche