#and i’d go ‘yeah it’s a steroid thing. no biggie ^_^’
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still insane to me how ppl pretend fatphobia is about health only to continue to be fatphobic when someone gains weight or even just looks somewhat fatter as a result of improving health
#marzi speaks#i knew it was a thing that happened but it didn’t click to me just how ingrained it is into ppl’s minds to shame ppl for their weight#until ppl started getting weird abt my steroid water retention#a common side effect of long term steroid use is something called moon face#where your face retains more water than usual and starts to look rounder/fatter#this happened to me! never too much and now that i’m on a lower dose it’s even less obvious#but it did for sure happen#people would see me for the first time since i got out of the hospital and go ‘oh! your face is rounder’#and i’d go ‘yeah it’s a steroid thing. no biggie ^_^’#and then they would respond with something along the lines of ‘don’t worry it’s not that bad’#or ‘oh don’t worry! you’re still cute!’#and i would look at them like ?????????? why is it something you assume i’m insecure about#why do you assume that i am ashamed of the fact that i am no longer literally fucking dying#and when i was getting that comment the most i was still medically underweight. i was recovering from malnourishment#i think if the rest of me got fatter too people would have actually started joking about how i’d ‘have to lose the weight’ or some shit#it actually made me feel crazy. what the fuck is anyone talking abt#i had kinda known ‘it’s a matter of health’ was bullshit but that cemented it in my mind#because my face rounding out was a result of me finding treatment for the autoimmune disease that nearly fucking killed me#and people still expected me to be ashamed of it. what the actual fuck
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