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From my brief experience working as a model (1998 - 2003, so similar era) I think it's almost more competitive for the men than it is for the women and those things do develop in both genders in that industry. I don't think I know anyone who ate cotton or tissues (I feel like that's a bit of an urban legend or something that's told and retold to the point of exaggeration to talk about model extremes.) but I knew and still know some women who don't have normalized eating habits even ten years after quitting the industry.

I called 911 in November for a small house fire and they came within two minutes and had it settled in less than an hour. They even brought a second truck with special blower fans to clear the smoke out of my house. My neighbors called Sunday for a medical emergency, they sent a fire truck with an EMT onboard within two minutes ambulance within four. I get the feeling we live closer to a fire station than a medical station but in both cases we had no real wait time. At the last police precinct meeting they said response times were down to an average 9 minutes on regular non-holiday days.

When I first moved to detroit in 2008 my neighbor came over and said "Call me first...I gotta gun. Next, call this off duty police officer's cell and say you're a friend of mine and he'll find someone on duty to call to get over there."

So...about ten years ago we didn't even call 911 - we just called the police officer's personal cell phones...if you knew them.

There are other tick-born diseases that are not classic, traditional lymes, too. You should ask to get tested for those.

My dad had similar neurological symptoms. He went to Mayo and they tested for Lymes along with things like Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, the Powassan virus, and babesiosis. He ended up having one of those and they were able to successfully treat him and he's made almost a full recovery at this point.

Yes, yes, yes, this. (Sorry, I totally can answer half the questions in this AMA so I'm reading and comparing answers.) I never, ever tell people I was a model until they get to know me quite well and it's always an awkward conversation and I have to spend a half an hour discussing eating disorders and troubled young female adolescents with them.

Occasionally someone will still come up to me and go "You should be a model!" and I just go..."heh heh heh...that's flattering! At my age? Can you even imagine?! Thanks!" and walk it off.

I'm extremely thankful that I started and was finished before everything was on the web.