The other day someone commented on my weight. I took offense, I didn't bite their heads off, but I felt the need to share with them that their words are powerful, life is already hard enough, and they don't need to be tearing people down to make themselves feel better.
Ever since I was born, I've been a string bean. I take after my mother, I'm tall and skinny. All growing up people have always said things to my face or behind my back about my weight. "Oh my god, are you anorexic?", "Wow, you really need to eat", "You're so skinny! I hate you. No, seriously". Even people that have known me my whole life would do this! Has my weight ever fluxuated? No… this is how I'm built A hole. You're a sucker to society, and jealous of my body type because the world tells you you need to have this body type to succeed in life and be happy. Be happy with who you are and how you're made. God doesn't make junk. Besides, being skinny isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Stop judging.
When I was younger, it was more of an annoyance than anything when people would say that stuff. Now that I'm older and almost lost a dear friend to an eating disorder 2 years ago… I hardly find it humorous, whether the person is 'joking' or not. I was a complete mess when my friend almost died. It is no joking matter. And I learned so much through them and through my own research. I wanted to help them and never hurt them or trigger them to make them start down that path again. I am no longer ignorant to the realness and seriousness of the matter.
I wish people would realize that it's not something to joke about. Also, what if I did have an eating disorder?? How would them bashing me about my weight help? IT WOULDN'T. People don't think before they speak. That's part of the problem, but even when they do 'think', how come they don't see that they're being rude and that maybe they shouldn't say the idiotic thing about to come out of their mouth? People don't even realize, and that's a shame because there's so many people that struggle in this area.
Up to 80 percent of women exhibit signs of an eating disorder at some stage.
Up to 24 million people in the United States experience an eating disorder.
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Chances are, someone you know struggles with an eating disorder, and you're not even aware of it.
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