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Body and Health
Here’s Why It Sucks to Be Skinny
Women hate you and doctors don’t believe you
Allow me to preface this: thin privilege is real. While sometimes being skinny truly sucks, and people, like the sarky cow who prompted this post, can be mean assholes, I don’t face discrimination. I’m not comparing my struggles with fatphobia. With that out of the way…
Doctors dismiss your concerns
I weigh the most I ever have right now (9 stone, or 125 pounds), and I’m fairly happy with my weight. But up until my mid-twenties, I was 7 stone (around 100 pounds) and given I’m 5'11, that’s not a lot. I was bony.
When I was a teenager, my parents were worried there was something horribly wrong with me, so I saw a few doctors about my weight over the years.
When I was 18, it seemed a good enough time to enquire of another doctor how come I was technically an adult now and I still hadn’t gained any weight. My BMI was 14; had it been any lower they could have forcibly institutionalised me.
