Fat, disabled, queer, chronically ill, chronically in pain… just trying to survive this world.
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The Problem With People-First Language for Higher-Weight People

I have grade 3 spondylolisthesis at L4/L5, where I also have spina bifida occulta and transitional vertebra (several of my vertebra didn’t form right in utero)… took many years for diagnoses and then was shuffled around between PT and fat-shamers for years. Finally a few years ago I met a doctor who specializes in congenital defects like…

Back Issues (Part 1)

Holy moly, this is hard to read… our fatness is so offensive to these companies that they’re comfortable inflicting cancer risk on us. On us, a population with worse cancer outcomes because we aren’t taken seriously and aren’t given evidence-based healthcare.

We are so disposable to these drug companies. Fatness is so prevalent that they …

Zepbound/Mounjaro (Tirzepatide) for Weight Loss - Part 1

This is such a hard read. Absolutely terrifying and heartbreaking.

We bend over backwards (rightfully so) to make sure kids have access to healthy food (like via WIC), don’t get accessed to poison (lead regulations), and we keep putting them into car seats much later into childhood than when I was a kid (because they save lives)… but fat …

Weight Loss Surgery and Kids - Part 4

Wow, this is a hard read. Thank you for your breakdown of this junk science. I think rational parents innately know that amputating or mutilating their growing child’s healthy nutrition-absorbing organ is a bad thing and won’t agree to it.

However, the part that terrifies and deeply saddens me is that kids who don’t have rational caregive…

Weight Loss Surgery and Kids Part 1