Body talk
This is how I spent a chunk of my childhood and teens, upside down.
Gymnastics is a demanding sport and it has a tough body ideal; girls have to remain child like but have the strength of a man... just weird. Sadly I lost a team mate to Anorexia Nervosa, she died at 14. In the sport my statue worked well but outside of the sport I was teased for being little, even as an adult I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been patted on the head for being a bit over 5ft. I survived gymnastics without developing an eating disorder but not some amount of body shaming. I know though my experience doesn’t compare with the amount of shaming and discrimination those in larger bodies have to deal with.
So what’s the best way to talk about other people’s bodies, whatever size or shape they are?
Simple... don’t!
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