What about us skinny people?
There have been a lot of comments flying around about the No, I’m Just Fat post over the last several weeks. Everyone is happy for the overweight who aren’t folding into the peer pressure and are showing they are happy and have self esteem. Don’t get me wrong, I marked it as good too. I was applauding the post. My problem? I am not fat, I am skinny. So what? So, I am sick of people telling me that I make them sick.
I like the weight that I am (121 lbs and 5′5′) but it hurts my self-esteem to like it. Why? Because some people feel the need to comment that they feel that I am too skinny. And someone somewhere comments almost on a daily basis. I am actually perfectly healthy and in my ideal weight range, thanks anyway. So I hear how what I eat makes people mad… I am a crazy healthy eater… I prefer veggies over all else and people accuse me of “dieting” when I eat what I want. This comment on my eating habits is meant to be derogatory and is meant to put me down. I am called anorexic, “Nichole Ricci”, told I can’t go outside when it is windy because I might blow away, asked if I shop in the children’s department… etc.
I don’t tell people who are overweight that they make me sick, so why would they say that to me?
It killed my self-esteem so badly listening to this garbage my whole life that for a while I became anorexic thanks to poor body image and the depression it put me in. I responded to the depression by not eating… not because I thought I was fat, but because I was sad all the time.
I shouldn’t be afraid to be proud of my figure because I will get rude comments and sneers, but sometimes I am. I notice these from perfect strangers… in fact, they have come right up to me and told me to eat something.
So there, I am skinny and I am just as irritated.
End rant.
Comment posted by Karyn
at 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM
I don’t tell people who are overweight that they make me sick, so why would they say that to me?
I have this happen all of the time also….I would never be so rude. People need to mind their own business once in a while, maybe they can’t think of anything else to say….we are all built differently (it would be a very dull world if we were all shaped the same).
Comment posted by Angelchrys
at 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM
Aww…that’s not cool. It’s hard that a lot of the focus we have nowadays are on how people are “too fat” or “too skinny” and we ignore the fact that no matter what side of the scale a person is on, comments like the ones you experience are not right. The weight shouldn’t matter! The person should!
And now let’s all hold hands and sing kumbayah. 