I am so ******* sick of people telling me I’m skinny.
If I tell you that I think I’m fat, it’s not for attention.
It is because, although I’m “skinny” now, I have been skinnier.
I may have a thigh gap now, but it used to be bigger.
I may have a flat stomach, but it used to cave slightly inward.
So if you are about to say to me
“You are lucky to be so skinny!”
“Look at other people!”
Etc.
Don’t you ******* dare.
I am not insecure about being fat, I am insecure about being skinny.
Next time someone you consider to be “skinny” says they are “fat”
Don’t tell them to be grateful.
Don’t tell them that other people have it worse.
Remind them that their weight, whatever it is, does not determine who they are.
In the words of a close friend of mine who understands:
My dear, you’re neither fat nor skinny,
you are yourself and comparing that self to others is a crime.