Fat Positivity Isn’t For Me

I can’t spin my weight into something good or lovable.

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I am a fat person.

Over the years, my mom’s told stories about how, at my earliest checkups, around 12 months old, the doctors were worried that she was overfeeding me because, guess what, I was overweight. But, despite that not being the case, I was fat.