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Girl Talk 21h
i wish more people talked about skinny shaming tbh… i know it sounds ridiculous in this cultural rebound to the 90s-era of unhealthy weight loss, but i’ve been dealing with this since i was a middle schooler in the 2010s. i always hated being skinny…
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Anonymous 19h

Agreed!! We need to stop shaming everyone altogether. Weight is such a nonissue that affects no one else but the person who has it.

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Anonymous 21h

i got told i was too skinny by friends, by teachers, by coaches, even by some classmate’s parents… that’s all anyone ever noticed about me or said to me when we’d first meet. i tried SO hard not to be skinny. i ate McDonald’s 6 times a day when i worked there. i ate 9 hot dogs in one sitting while camping with a friend in 7th grade whose dad wouldn’t stop complaining about how skinny i was compared to his two daughters… i was barely 12 and this GROWN MAN dogged on me for a WEEK for being skinny!

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Anonymous 19h

Agreed. I am gluten intolerant so I can’t eat gluten and I have lost an extremely Noticeable amount of weight. And I have been skinny shamed a few times but what really upsets me is when people compare themselves to me or almost make me feel guilty for being skinny. I know it’s them projecting their insecurity. But it really makes me feel guilty for being confident in my body sometimes

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

it sounds so mundane and thoughtless compared to many of my fellow girlies who dealt with being overweight and the bullying, but it was a whole different beast when my friends began using me as their goal weight. i loved the way THEY looked, and yet my presence caused them to compare themselves to me… it was just so heartbreaking and confusing and painful as a middle schooler. i wanted to stop being skinny so my friends would stop hating themselves for not being my size…

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

I have a friend who I mentioned I was considering because I was unable to control my weight loss and I knew that wasn’t healthy and she basically told me in a joking manner not to say that because she can’t lose weight and I didn’t take it as a joke it made me feel really bad.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

Because obviously I’m not trying to brag about my body or anything but she made me feel like she’s not a safe person to discuss my health concerns with her.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

I feel you 100% because there are so many of us who are not skinny by choice…

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19h

LITERALLY and I wish people understood often times it’s literally genetic.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

Whether its genetic or not shouldnt even matter ugh but we have gotten to that point as a society

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19h

Literally

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