Things I wish I knew/had taken to heart before I was 30:
1) Do not be with someone who doesn’t offer more than you’d get from having a best friend, a pet, and a vibrator.
2) Just because they are good for your holes does not mean they are good for your heart.
3) If they wanted to, they would.
4) Unlimited PTO is a scam.
5) No one knows what they’re doing, everyone is making shit up as they go.
6) Wear sunscreen.
7) Don’t spend money you don’t have on stuff you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
8) Silly little hobbies keep your brain healthy and your mental health intact. Find and enjoy them.
9) Find people who love you for who you are, not what you can give them.
10) All things are healthy in moderation. Eat the cake, eat the ice cream, it’s literally going to be fine.
11) When people show you who they are, believe them.
12) Time spent with friends or family is never wasted.
13) Your physical and mental health come first.
14) Never skimp on things that go between you and the ground: tires, shoes, socks, and mattress.
15) Loving someone often means not enabling them or excusing shitty actions.
16) Every person is capable of cruelty. Choose people who choose peace.
17) The clothes that make you feel good will always be the ones that make you look best.
18) Anger and pain are harsh teachers and often misunderstood. Listen to them, but do not let them control you.
19) Get insurance while you’re young. You lock in a better rate and it’s there for emergencies.
20) Wait 24-72 hours before making big purchases whenever possible.
21) It is okay to end relationships with people that are harmful to you or prevent you from growing as a person.
22) A body in motion stays in motion. Regular light to moderate exercise is one of the best things you can do for your long term health.
23) Get photos of your friends and yourself. Hold onto them. You will treasure them immensely.
24) Life is short, dye your hair. Get the piercing. Whatever. Go nuts.
25) Food and sex are morally neutral things. Food is not bad. Sex does not make you dirty.
26) Knowing how and when - and being willing to - ask for help is a critical life skill. Everyone needs help sometimes.
27) Spite is a perfectly valid motivator.
28) The world is cruel, but you shouldn’t let it make you cruel.
29) You will never be “good enough” for some people, and those people don’t matter.
30) There is no such thing as an unimportant person.
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Being fat, actually fat, with an eating disorder is fucking hell.
People assume you have BED, and if you actually do have BED people are so gross about it. If you have a restricting disorder people get concerned when you start eating more. People get concerned if you start to like yourself. People love to see you fucking miserable, and will completely ignore your misery in the same breath. It makes them feel good. They benefit at your expense through weight stigma.
So many physicians prescribe disordered eating to us. ED specialists in many places won’t even consider how EDs affect us. Our own community uses our bodies as inspiration to hurt themselves. Because nothing could be worse than looking like us, right? How are you supposed to love yourself when so many people actively don’t want you to?
To the fat person reading who needs to hear this, I give a shit if you recover. I give a shit that you are hurting. So many people don’t notice, so many don’t give a fuck, but I do. You deserve better. I want you to eat even if it means you gain weight. I want you to be happy in your body as it is. I want you to feel loved, I want you to feel seen.
If you are fat with BED, I see you. There is so much stigma and it is not your fault. Your weight isn’t “your fault”, you are sick. It’s not a moral failing. You deserve compassion, and the extent to which people project their own issues onto you is awful. You deserve to be comfortable in your skin, and your body is wonderful.
If you are fat with purging tendencies, or with restricting ones I see you too. We get praised for hurting ourselves, or no one notices. I see you. I’m sorry.
I wish so badly the world were more compassionate to you, but if no one else gives a shit, I do. Fight for recovery for me, even though I know that journey can be so, so lonely when you aren’t thin.
To those of you who have recovered, to those of you that may. You are worth it. You may be fat for the rest of your life, and that’s okay. It’s wonderful, your body is wonderful, and I see you and I’m proud of you. Sadly I know many of us recover alone, but I hope you know you aren’t. I’m rooting for you.
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Okay listen I know we’re all unhappy because “Ahsoka was never actually a Jedi Knight” well
1. Yoda was ready to make her a Jedi Knight. She chose to leave instead. So she wasn’t really a Padawan when she left either.
2. Luke Skywalker just made himself a frickin Jedi Knight and then Master so Ahsoka can be whatever the heck she wants to be.
3. Little reminder that most of the people alive in the galaxy don’t really even know who the Jedi were. Now they’re just myths. To them, anyone with a lightsaber could be a Jedi Knight.
4. Ahsoka was more a Jedi Knight than most of the actual Jedi Knights. She lived out the code better than the entire council don’t fight me on this you know I’m right.
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