#my mom really likes saying 'poor thing'

[skyburger]

"fnaf is the scariest game ever" "no its silent hill" "well i think its resident evil" everyone shut up!!!!!! youre all wrong. its actually zack & wiki quest for barbaros' treasure (on the nintendo wii) but only the level "keeper of the ice". that level scared me so bad as a kid and you can tell because its the only individual level i remember the name of off the top of my head. like there is nothing scarier than a) being chased and b) being on a time limit. and you know what this level has? BOTH OF THOSE. this level is still scary to me im like AHHHHH!!!! and then i die

#i had to google horror games after i thought really hard for silent hill and fnaf #because like. resident evil is just not a horror game in my mind... its just cool zombie game... #to be fair though. the only one i actually played a portion of was re6 which is probably the least scary one in the whole series #anyway do the kids still find silent hill and fnaf scary. i dont know. #well the former id say yes given how prevalent ps1 horror has been in recent years #fnaf i have no idea. im a massive wuss so its scary when i play it for myself #but watching someone else play them especially when i know them well isnt scary #and ive watched fnaf videos for YEARS #so i dont know. (old man voice) these damn kids... back in my day we watched markiplier scream at freddy fazbear and we LIKED it! #anyway its objectively a horror game and thata literally fine thats all i needed for this post #MY POINT HERE. my point here #IS THAT HIT ZACK AND WIKI LEVEL KEEPER OF THE ICE. IS SOOOOO SCARY #its not that scary but i see tjat level and im like 3 years old making my mom play this level for me again #and for the record yes me and my sister really did make our mom help us with z&w #she remembers helping us with frost breath the most because we like did notttttt get that one at all #and she could never remember how to do the mirrors based on what combination of stands is there (because tjeres like a few variations) #so she always had to look up a guide 😭😭 #my poor mother on fucking gamefaqs or something in like 2010... legends only #anyway if you have no idea what level im talking about (any of my oomfs reading this that isnt end) (hi end) PLEASE look up this level #and i need you to think of like a 5(?) year old making her mom play this game. #this aforementioned child is still a massive wuss as an adult btw. some things never change #anyway watch that level and think about how someone like me. whos already a scaredy cat! #imagine how someone like me felt at age 5 possibly younger playing this level #I WISH I COULD LIKE CONVEY EMOTIONS OVER TUMBLR. why cant i attach a .emotion file to this post #anyway ramble over <- hes said that like a million times today #scariest level in a game ever...!!!!! FUCK that keeper of the ice bitch im GLAD he died #muffin mumbles

[papercutsmp3]

bro is inquisitive

#thinking of the possibilities of how it could be worse it's funny how you start to get addicted to thinking like a danmei writer #you are like anddd what if this person was (insert a guy who coughed once in chapter 15) anyways #i managed to not get many spoilers bc i hate it but i have always suspected that shi mei had a thing for cwn firstly bc i once saw a ship #tag and was like ?? well that is not uncommon as people ship shrek with chanyeol (im people) but secondly after that scene where mo ran #pinky interrogated him i was sooo 100% sure of it. but then there was nothing much so i let it go. the one mini spoiler i saw was #the enemy on pinterest who replied to a pic of a character saying it was shi mei/other name (didn't look at it) so it was why i knew #he was classically someone else. but even without that his ass was raising suspicion just for the way how blank he was #and i knew it was intentional so i kept thinking who he could be and my guess was xu shuanglin (rest in pieces poor guy) #bc i thought that both of them had the same spiritual essence or something. also the guy in the motel at the beginning who also had water #essense could only be either of them. but this is not the point bc then i was thinking that shi mei was simultaneously mo nian #bc why would he have the reason to be annoyed with mo ran to that extent. and also bc i knew there was a fire and hua binance has face burn #but mo ran chopped his head off bless his souls and good for him so how else can that be worse #he could also be that child of nangong yan who had his mother die bc of mo ran and mom he would also have a reason to try and compare #himself to mo ran in every way and hate him but why would he need to store nangong blood for mount jiao is he is nangong himself #but that would be great for disgusting points bc he would be mo ran's half brother doing all that ?? #im just taking a break from throwing up bc of his ass trying to assault cwn every chance he gets and idk anything yet #so it would be interesting to keep guessing his motives as i do not get it yet but also (procceed to throw up) #also his interactions with corpse taxian ?? god tier. taxian is in the middle of diss battle drops his mic after every sentence #the crowd (me) cheers. moving on but i really enjoy insane plot twists i wish i remembered well what i was thinking while reading tgcf #the widely known thing is that i didn't even consider that fu yao and nan feng were fengqing it's my favorite thing bc i wholeheartedly #believed the little guys just loved their generals way too much #00

[hauntingblue]

Hiyori is the most effective person to complete their kill so far

#kid is having flashbacks over struggled breathing and silence its so over.... omg that was so good..... #nvm kid has TWO women on his crew... he is on par with luffy now... law... 👁👁 #omg her arm is broken..... THE BONES???? jesus #good technique but what is law cutting..... now thats something else big mom..... damn... cant law shambles kid out of there.... poor man #oh that was a good one law.... but kid is OUT also WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT SWORD GOING????? he is getting haki punched all over the body... #and what does that do law.... what the hell.... oh i was thinking that..... goodbye big mom.... funny how all of the big guns have been yee #ed of the island.... also wdym to be continued.... goddamn. well next episode then #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 1066 #i have been saying kid should have repelled her out of the island 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ can't help it if my brain is so big..... well nvm... #big mom saying they like her.... jusg like kaido said to luffy akdhsk #oh jeez soul pocus.... oh nvm CORA INSPIRED ATTACK???? #yamato be careful omg.... fuck it kanjuros fire thing is dying hell yes.... BIG MOM OUT!!! HELL YES!!!!! 67 children orphaned just like tha #also who was the brave soul that asked roger about hia treasure..... absolute legend..... #wdym you can find the one piece in wano... what the hell is big mom spewing....ohhh i get it i get it.. she found it... #it really is the friends she made along the way.... but she can't see it..... too focused on the lava pit she is falling into... #omg and no one notices because of the silento..... that was such a slay..... #PAUSE. zunisha was a joyboy friend who commited a crime??? how does momo know about joyboy.... the diary?? oden knew??? i forgor #episode 1067 #franky got zoro.... no izo noooo....... why..... PRIORITIES!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO WHYYYYYYY!!!!!! IZO WHYYYYYYYY!!! #marco saying he is tried of helping people and will just chill there.... IZO IS DEAD!!!! MARCO????!!!!! if big mom is dead how is zeus stil #drake you better kill that man take izo and run.... why are you playing in a moment like this akdhaksj... girl she is going to kill you #YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! SHE GOT HIM!!!!! SHE GOT HIM!!!! FUCK YES!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!! FUCK THAT MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! #FUCK YEAHHH HIYORI!!!!!! THE SONG!!!!! #episode 1068 #YEAAAH DRAKE GET HIM!!!!! oh shit in the neck.... #luffy got eaten again..... oh jesus.... #NOT EVEN KAIDO LIKES THE CP0 BUT HE GOT LUFFY!!!! KAIDI REGRETS IT EVEN!!!! EXACTLY!!! izo died trying to get them to stop #episode 1069

[thedevotionaltour]

marvel should hire me to write bc i'd pull the funniest thing on earth where i am wiping his catholic slate CLEAN and i would explcitily have him go ehhhh i've never really been religious me and my dad went some easters and christmases and attended a few services outside of that but that stopped by the time i was around 10 and my dad just kinda gave up on it because he didn't particularly want to go by that point either. and even then we hadn't gone every year for easter and christmas in that time frame. and then we never bring that shit up again in the story. he is only catholic in the sense he went a few times and it's the only church experience he knew and his dad probably grew up going to church more in his youth being dragged in by his family but he never felt particularly compelled to go back to it once he moved out on his own. catholic only in the fact that his family was irish catholic but his dad is a lapsed catholic who did not give a fuuuuuck

#based off my own father's filipino catholic experiences. and my own religious experiences in general. bc my mom's protestant but still didnt #raise me religiously. i've been to church a handful of times and it was never bad but it never ever stuck. i just kinda remember some stuff #and what i do know it's more from the general cultural osmosis of american christianity than anything #plus i grew up in a known for its religiosity suburb. but again. that still didnt really rub off on me. #in my mind jack is a guy who when entering a church will still dip his fingers in the holy water and cross with it #and matt watches and maybe mimics but he doesnt really get it still bc their service attendance has been so extremely infrequent. #so i imagine it's far more like that for matt than the insane bs they've been pullin the last few years. given the you know. #50 somethings years of established only really culturally casually catholic matt. bc well. why wouldnt he be new york irish catholic. #i imagine is the thought process. but i will never be a fan of how it's a big deal now. bc it just never has been. ever #and that's not to say a character cannot become religious or be religious or have it become more of a thing in their life! #very much it can be done. but i think it's been done piss poor. from all i've seen and what i've read of recent stuff. so it's just bad. #like it isnt done in a meaningfully way or sensical to my understanding. it's like. pure show pandering fanon appeal. #so it's utterly meaningless as a whole with no point or purpose aside from it #can we go back to just using it for cool art visuals bc i think we can all appreciate a cool splash page of a church fight and stuff #but please. dont try to make it more than that if you arent going to do it well #SORRY I KNOW EVERYONE ON PLANET DD HAS MADE THIS POST BUT I REMEMBER AND GET SOOOOO IRRITATED!!!!! IT'S SO STUPID POINTLESS DUMB I HATE ITT #static.soundz

[silenthillbunni]

📓🖊🧸🏢😣

#my old sorta friend from high school messaged me last night and was like hii do u wanna meet up tmrw and go to a cafe??? #so i said yes for a few reasons... #however im sooooo anxious and i just wanna stay home lol #not only is it the having to put all my energy into trying to pretend to be a person capable of a conversation #but also like.. i dont have a buss pass so i have to be vigilant for controllers so i dont get fined #and then she said lets meet at a cafe. and i didnt wanna do that whole thing of like ohh im poor i cant afford that actually #so now im so anxious abt money bc i really cant afford stuff like that. esp not this last week i have like $30 covering stuff for 9 days :( #if i had more time than half a day i wouldve told her smth abt how i cant eat or drink in front of other ppl #which is also true but i dont feel as embarrassed saying that as i am that im poor lol #like yeah im not even as anxious abt meeting her again after 4yrs or trying to socialize with someone other than my mom #it's just all the anxiety surrounding money lol. and i think that no one except other ppl who are poor can get that #just one item from a cafe can get me food to sustain me for 3 days. so i dont wanna spend it on a cafe. but it's too late to now :// #i dont wanna ruin the fun for her and ask if we can just do smth that spends no money lmao. ughhh im gnna have sooo much anxiety over this

[angryborzois]

Lmfao I just remembered that dumb story of the school nurse when i was little

#Okay so basically #when i got a really bad skin infection on my neck from being scratched by my guinea pig #it was rlly bad and i had to go to the doctor for it to get multiple prescription creams or something #i even had to get this special shampoo so that my skin wouldnt get irritated more #it was rlly bad and my skin was scabbing and flaking #and anyways my mom had me wear a turtleneck to hide it at school and told me to try not to scratch it #but anyways idk how someone noticed but #one day during class i randomly got called up to the office #i was confused #i went there right #and the nurse is waiting for me #and the nurse takes a look at my neck and says 'poor thing' #she has me sit down #AND SHE GRABS A BANDAID?. #A SMALL REFULAR BANDAID U WOULD USE FOR A CUT #and she tries to get my hair out of the way #and then proceeds to place one bandaid down. #and she tells me im good to go #like: ??? #but i still hardly spoke english back then so i didnt even say a word the entire time #also the bandaid didnt even reach my skin it literally only stuck to my hair #when i got home #My mom was FURIOUS #LMFAOOA #i still dont know who reported it bro like just mind ur own business i was already having treatment for it u dont gotta get me sent up #its not like the nurse would do anything 😭 #angryborzois rambles

[awek-s-archived]

literally sickens me that ppls criticisms of me even irl is that im not passive enough or that im too ill or too poor or whatever like .. do you really hate me soo much for no reason that you have to invent the most flimsy surface-level frankly concerning and invalid reasons you can for why i don’t deserve basic respect

#especially since I know my own faults down to a T so I’ll own up to it all the time if someone says something that’s genuinely ‘bad’ abt me #it makes me rly fucking sad and depressed lol. #this happens All the time but if I heard correctly my moms bf has some kind of issue w me that he won’t say #and I’ve narrowed it down to me either being depressed and having migraines (bc both come with pains and reserved mood) #or the fact that I have to live at home and subsequently have to Eat and he HATES that they have to spend money on me eating #even tho. i barely get anything bc they eat meat 3 times a day and I mostly don’t #so my daily menu literally consists of maybe a sandwich or a plate of food made from my own brain of some of the most random shit I can find #and it’s not that they don’t feed me or wtv it’s that he does that thing where he complains thinking I’m too stupid to understand what he #means but like I have 2 degrees I think I can decipher what you’re saying lmao #ik it comes from a place of insecurity bc he spends like £100 on alcohol a week and altogether the food I eat in 2 weeks doesn’t even #amount to half of that. but it’s still like. really lmao. #why does everyone always find these fucking issues w me #do you think I want to like. be sick and poor and be unable to find a job for a variety of reasons #do u think I don’t search all the time for ways to get out of here bc I know I’m not wanted like m #i get it!!!! the person I really liked and wanted to be with ditched me. my very best friend ditched me the week after. everyone has always #wanted to ditch me I get it !! im too much baggage and it’s all fun and games til I show signs of mental illness then everyone just leaves. #at least keep it on the downlow so it doesn’t make me feel more awful than I already do. #aweks.txt

[carcinized]

i actually had such a good day today yall im not even kidding ‼️ imhappy :D

#when the Friends. frind <3 #SAW MY FRIENDS MOM WHO PRACTICALLY RAISED ME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARSSSS #+ ran into my childhood best friend and his mom when i was at work ?? saw customers coming up and i was all like ‘hey i can help on register #one- HEY WAIT A MINUTE.’ anywayd mixed feelings there but honestly it was nice. i missed his mom a lot she Also practically raised me LOL #tobin talks #also i got a really stupid video my friend took of me when i didnt realize she was filming where im digging through my wallet for a penny to #toss into a fountain (after fishing out quarters with a mini golf club) complaining that im too poor to throw in quarters then immediately #switching gears and saying ‘what if i just like threw my credit card into here?’ I WAS JUST SPITBALLING I DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS FILMING #to be clear the credit card thing was a joke 😭 BUT. ITD BE FUNNY LMAO

[lesbiten]

acacias not doing too hot :(

#its not surprising shes being getting worse she was already doing poorly when i moved #i just wish i was with her #im gonna try my absolute hardest to go home this wknd so i can see her and hopefully help my mom make adjustments for her #based on what my mom told me i think she needs to be moved into the smaller cage and should be let out a lot less #my mom has just been leaving the cage closed because she doesnt want acacia to leave and hurt herself but #at the same time that stops juniper from leaving and he genuinely needs the exercise and stimulation #having one bird with poor health and the other neurotic because he cant fly around is a bad combo #i wouldnt be surprised if this wknd is the last time i see her :( but its okay im gonna try to help her out #ever since oasis died shes been on a decline and because of how soon after oasis died acacia started getting worse i have to imagine #the two things are linked. since they were bonded #i was lucky acacia took to juniper pretty well but im sure losing oasis was still a lot to handle for acacia #now i have to worry about whats gonna happen to juniper when acacia passes :( hopefully not soon but with how shes been #ive gotta really think about it now #ughhh everything would be easier if i was just home #i hate having to leave bird stuff up to my mom because i love her but she doesnt exactly know what shes doing like i do #stress #simon says

[sun-dari]

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#they say that doing something over and over again and expect a different result is a sighn of insanity #but im stuck in here with my mom and i try over and over again to connect with her and ask for some sort of emotional support #and every single time she lists a million contradictory things she thinks i must do #giving ''constructive criticism'' to my mental breakdown #i think it just makes her feel good. like she's doing something to help even though she really doesn't #and she gets mad at me when i am not grateful enough for advice like ''send out more CVs'' #she says shit like ''get a new degree in a different area and we'll pay for it'' #and ''you could move to another country even tomorrow and we will cover all the expenses'' #as if we are not dirt poor and as if she doesn't understand how humiliating it would be #i feel terribly guilty every time i as much as buy a chocolate bar for myself these days #i felt guilty every time anyone spent any money on me for whatever reason as long as i can remember #and she knows it #and we had this exact conversation so many times i feel like im going crazy #and it feels surreal that i have to force myself to stop crying and patiently explain to her that no #her totally rational and realistic advice of learning chinese real quick to move to mainland china to teach russian there #is actually neither of those things #i am so tired of it and i ought to just stop trying talking to her about anything important because it's obviously never going to work #but i am so lonely and have no one else who could hear me out in person

[tismeandmylife]

so I know this girl, right?

well.

she's been co-parenting for a while now since her husband cheated on her after three kids with some random woman who he's now dating still like four ish years later. anywho the kids stay over there on weekends for the most part and the oldest kid got super pissed off with her dad and the girlfriend and yelled that she was the GROSS WALMART VERSION OF MOM! like damn pop off girly that is one sick burn

#and i mean #she kinda is #i dont normally put down other women but #like #shes the less refined version of their mom #their mom is hella pretty #and the other girl os literally just the uglier of her #like a princess versus camilla thing #i mean that is one sick burn #it was pretty funny #yeah i hate the other girl #she made my friend hella sad #and i hate her ex-husband with a burning passion too thoigh dont worry #he's super sucky and a major asshole #he tries to poison the kids against her all the time #and moved on to the youngest one now since the middle kid is wisening up to his evil ways #poor girl #like my friend does everuhting on her own #and he makes the kids do all the chores so he and his girlfriend can have 'me time' #🤢 #and theyre all under eleven #its awful #sure chores are good to learn #but not all of them and at such a young age without help #I really hope the freaking court date happens soon #she needs to get full custody as soon as possible #the kids dont even like him except the youngest cause shes just a kid and doesn't know better yet #he shit talks her all the time meanwhile she doesnt say anything wjere the kids could hear #it's just a shitty situation

[neverendingford]

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#tag talk #feels like my therapist pulled a mom moment when I mentioned grindr and warned me about STis and honestly it worked #turns out my immediate adhesion to any strong mother figure is still in full effect. I'm sure that says something about me #I'm sure that says something about the poor performance of my bio mom huh. #anyway I really like my new therapist she seems very on top of things and I like her #idk I feel like I fall on the far end of radical permission rather than radical restriction and that's not always a good thing #saying yes-and isn't always a strength

[nullcoast]

The world is fucking disgusting

#i think a lot about ppl who grew up thinking the world and how it's organized is fundamentally good #to a degree this is still me bc I'm white I grew up suburban #but I always saw and hand understanding of both a. bad things from trauma and b. my mom taught me about systemic racism in like 4th grade #and we were poor and shit in a rich area so I was excluded a lot #like. inside bo burnham is a good example and I saw a YouTuber talk about this in a really interesting way can't remmeber his name #but he was saying like. there's a certain nihilism of white ppl who end up realizing things are bad when they didn't already #idk interesting topic I can't stop thinking about #bc it's the only way I have to explain how ppl are so godawful stupid and why it's so difficult to explain institutional issues #bc ur basically trying to tell them yeah the world is not actually good. and that's. a really big thing to change in someone's mind #that things are good is the root of a lot of miseducation and support for harmful structures #so much propaganda goes into convincing us that everything is good #and that nihilism that guy talked about. like yeah the world is disgusting but it's more. and that's why like #Angela Davis said it well that the revolution starts inside #and that self love and care and doing good things to a body unwanted by a bad world. that is rebellion that is revolution #so nihilistic white ppl who hate the world are still failing to see the point of counter action #that it's about love + goodness and that's the bedrock #and I find myself stuck there mental illness wise where I believe that you have to emphasize and bolster as much happiness and goodness #but it's fucking hard man #anyway. clearly I took an adderal #gotta take some ethics courses with intersectional lens I have no one to talk about this shit with #Palestine is really fucking me up like. all day I just imagine how many children have died #like what can I do. nothing. i can do nothing. and people who don't deserve it continue to live in terror #the average fucking age in Gaza is 18. they're all just kids like me and my brothers #it's not fair

[headspace-hotel]

I will write this thought about Veganism and Classism in the USA in another post so as to not derail the other thread:

There are comments in the notes that say meat is only cheaper than plant based foods because of subsidies artificially lowering the price of meat in the United States. This is...part of the story but not all of it.

For my animal agriculture lab we went to a butcher shop and watched the butcher cut up a pig into various cuts of meat. I have had to study quite a bit about the meat industry in that class. This has been the first time I fully realized how strongly the meat on a single animal is divided up by socioeconomic class.

Like yes, meat cumulatively takes more natural resources to create and thus should be more expensive, but once that animal is cut apart, it is divided up between rich and poor based on how good to eat the parts are. I was really shocked at watching this process and seeing just how clean and crisp an indicator of class this is.

Specifically, the types of meat I'm most familiar with are traditionally "waste" parts left over once the desirable parts are gone. For example, beef brisket is the dangly, floppy bit on the front of a cow's neck. Pork spareribs are the part of the ribcage that's barely got anything on it.

And that stuff is a tier above the "meat" that is most of what poor people eat: sausage, hot dogs, bologna, other heavily processed meat products that are essentially made up of all the scraps from the carcass that can't go into the "cuts" of meat. Where my mom comes from in North Carolina, you can buy "livermush" which is a processed meat product made up of a mixture of liver and a bunch of random body parts ground up and congealed together. There's also "head cheese" (made of parts of the pig's head) and pickled pigs' feet and chitlin's (that's made of intestines iirc) and cracklin's (basically crispy fried pig skin) and probably a bunch of stuff i'm forgetting. A lot of traditional Southern cooking uses basically scraps of animal ingredients to stretch across multiple meals, like putting pork fat in beans or saving bacon grease for gravy or the like.

So another dysfunctional thing about our food system, is that instead of people of each socioeconomic class eating a certain number of animals, every individual animal is basically divided up along class lines, with the poorest people eating the scraps no one else will eat (oftentimes heavily processed in a way that makes it incredibly unhealthy).

Even the 70% lean ground beef is made by injecting extra leftover fat back into the ground-up meat because the extra fat is undesirable on the "better" cuts. (Gross!)

I've made, or eaten, many a recipe where the only thing that makes it non-vegan is the chicken broth. Chicken broth, just leftover chicken bones and cartilage rendered and boiled down in water? How much is that "driving demand" for meat, when it's basically a byproduct?

That class really made me twist my brain around about the idea of abstaining from animal products as a way to deprive the industry of profits. Nobody eats "X number of cows, pigs, chickens in a lifetime" because depending on the socioeconomic class, they're eating different parts of the animal, splitting it with someone richer or poorer than they are. If a bunch of people who only ate processed meats anyway abstained, that wouldn't equal "saving" X number of animals, it would just mean the scraps and byproducts from a bunch of people's steaks or pork chops would have something different happen to them.

The other major relevant conclusion I got from that class, was that animal agriculture is so dominant because of monoculture. People think it's animal agriculture vs. plant agriculture (or plants used for human consumption vs. using them to feed livestock), but from capitalism's point of view, feeding animals corn is just another way to use corn to generate profits.

People think we could feed the world by using the grain fed to animals to feed humans, but...the grain fed to animals, is not actually a viable diet for the human population, because it's literally just corn and soybean. Like animal agriculture is used to give some semblance of variety to the consumer's diet in a system that is almost totally dominated by like 3 monocrops.

Do y'all have any idea how much of the American diet is just corn?!?! Corn starch, corn syrup, corn this, corn that, processed into the appearance of variety. And chickens and pigs are just another way to process corn. That's basically why we have them, because they can eat our corn. It's a total disaster.

And it's even worse because almost all the USA's plant foods that aren't the giant industrial monocrops maintained by pesticides and machines, are harvested and cared for by undocumented migrant workers that get abused and mistreated and can't say anything because their boss will tattle on them to ICE.

#agriculture #it's so messed up #plants #livestock

[mactiir]

For my entire life people have told me I am "naturally athletic". I am not "naturally athletic": I am an asthmatic with historically really poor cardio health and joints that partially dislocate themselves if I put pressure on them slightly weird. What I *am* is naturally tall and slender, even more so when I did absolutely no physical activity and ate very little because my neurodivergent body didn't give me hunger signals, which most people mistake for "naturally athletic".

That's not to say I don't have the potential for athleticism. My mother, who has never been under 250 pounds my entire life, is built of sheer farm girl muscle, has stellar blood pressure and cardio health despite her weight, and could (and has!) bodily haul me and my grown brother around like we weigh nothing. When I was a kid the woman was biking triathlon distances before we were even awake for school. The woman is an ATHLETE, and her whole life she has been obese (and heard from everyone and their dogs that she needs to lose weight).

I'm not sure where I'm going with this long piece of anecdotal evidence, except to say: my whole life I heard I was naturally athletic, until I actually became athletic. Because the thing is, I put on muscle like my mom. It fills out my shoulders and arms and makes me look big, thick, and barrel chested. "Genetically beefy", as my brother puts it. And suddenly I wasn't getting comments about my athleticism anymore. I'm quite literally the healthiest I've ever been. I can run for miles, lift my weight, my balance and heart health are excellent. I'm just bigger now. And not one stranger has a comment about my physique since I got fit. Because I don't look like what they think "naturally athletic" is.

I guess what I'm saying is, maybe don't let your perception of what "athleticism" or "health" LOOKS like color your perception of like. People's actual health.

#Health #Weight #body image mention #Body image #body posititivity #Fitness