sitronsangthoughts's avatarsitronsangthoughts

I've seen a fair amount of fat liberation activists explain that they have always been fat, they're not about to stop, and that's natural and beautiful and fine. That's an incredibly important message.

What I've seen less - and what I want to remind people of - is this: if you've become fat, that's also natural and beautiful and fine.

When you're a fat person who has been thin in the past, that comes with its own brand of shaming. People take your history of thinness as proof that you don't have to be fat. You often fear the look of disappointed surprise in the eyes of someone you haven't met since you were thin. People try to determine "what happened". They don't see your fat body as just you, but as a sort of symptom that isn't part of you.

Becoming fat is not a tragedy, it's not a sign of failure, it's not a bad or shameful thing. The thin you is not the Real you. You are always real and always worthy of freedom, respect and peace. You are allowed to be fat no matter how or when you became fat.

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salty-inc's avatarsalty-inc

Just something I really want to share on here because it’s important.

adhdandcomics's avataradhdandcomics

this is really important to remember, even if you said something stupid and don’t feel like repeating it- it can still feel isolating to folks with hearing and auditory processing problems!

therainbowgorilla's avatartherainbowgorilla

I’ve got APD and this is the absolute worst thing! I promise I’m trying to hear you, my brain just isn’t working with me! Just try rewording it, say it but in different words and my brain might get it then!

ik i bitch and moan about fashion trends a lot but u must understand that throughout my whole life i had to fight the notion that i was too fat and ugly to participate in any fashion, not to mention i didn’t get a say in the clothes i wore. being able to participate in my own self expression is something i hold very close, and i cannot imagine having that much power over your presentation and deciding to spend $500 on the same boring shit everyone else is getting. just to end up looking like a clone of somebody

(if you don’t live in fashion world then i am not talking about you, dw)

nwentanyl's avatarnwentanyl

the fact that people have nostalgia for swag era fashion or 2016 hypebeast fashion is honestly kind of appalling to me

nwentanyl's avatarnwentanyl

here’s my thing right: both of these things were rife with men who were annoying at best and really shitty at worst. misogyny and obnoxious ideas of status and wealth are two things i don’t see very positively.

besides that, did you know supreme has actually made really gorgeous and meaningful clothing pieces? i doubt you did considering all anyone (men) cared about were the ugly gaudy box logos, which is EXACTLY what people are nostalgic over right now! cmon dawg

nwentanyl's avatarnwentanyl

was playing .hack infection when loxley fronted suddenly and very quickly. trying to read text when a 'switch' happens is difficult as hell, so i kept trying to read and then i went "oh my god, hey loxley"

to which they replied "oh am i bothering you?" and i had to quickly be like "no no you're okay i'm just trying to read" but i think it was the first time i've ever heard them sound sad

nwentanyl's avatarnwentanyl

i love all of my headmates very very much but having one body and one consciousness is a struggle lmao

was playing .hack infection when loxley fronted suddenly and very quickly. trying to read text when a ‘switch’ happens is difficult as hell, so i kept trying to read and then i went “oh my god, hey loxley”

to which they replied “oh am i bothering you?” and i had to quickly be like “no no you’re okay i’m just trying to read” but i think it was the first time i’ve ever heard them sound sad

molabuddy's avatarmolabuddy

its important to remember that the furry community isn't inherently nsfw and that furries in spaces with children arent inherently predatory and that children can be furries also. but its also important to remember that furry culture is built on kink & sexual liberation and to sanitize it and paint all furries who are Furries In a Sex way as 'degenerate' and staining the community or w/e is. also not good. and these two things can coexist

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