“You’re so skinny!”
Welcome to the phrase that I’ve learned to dread the most, "You’re so skinny!"… sometime there’s even a "Wow.." before the dreaded phrase… Either way it doesn’t change its effect. At times I wondered whether it was a compliment, at times, I’m sure it was. But now it just doesn’t matter, I hate it because I don’t see skinny as a positive word. I see fit as positive, toned, pretty… but not skinny.
I mean we don’t say the same thing to someone who’s overweight (note how I am now conditioned to use "overweight")… We don’t say, "You’re so fat!". Oh, no! That would be so wrong, but when someone’s skinny— let the bashing begin!
So my skinny tale begins from the time I was about 8 years old. I was always thin and petite, although it didn’t start to bother me until I was in grade school when other kids would use my weight and frame to poke fun at me. It continued all through high school, but it was worse then because my small frame couldn’t compete with all my other girlfriends who had some nice curves and looked healthy.
The way I see it, telling someone who’s thin that they should be happy they’re not heavy, is like telling someone who lost an arm to be happy they didn’t lose a leg. It hurts, either way! Being underweight, just like being overweight, has its drawbacks. Yes, I’m sure that those drawbacks are a lot more severe on the other side, but I don’t feel that people like me, who are simply trying to feel at peace with ourselves and give ourselves a positive self-image, should be degraded or ridiculed.
So, now as in adult, I’ve finally decided to give it my all and to really focus on my weight gaining goal. I’ve finally decided that I’m going to put aside what everyone else seems to think and say. I’m going to put aside the “Why?!” remarks and the crazy stares when I tell others that I’m trying to gain weight and put those comments, and those stunned looks in the same trash can that I put the other comments that people have been tossing my way throughout the years concerning my weight.
This is about me. It’s about making myself happy. It’s about making myself healthier and stronger.
Not anyone else!!!!!! 
