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T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
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9.2 on Pitchfork
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“You need to tell yourself that you've got something that they don't; you didn't get their good looks, but you got some stuff they didn't, and now the arrow is pointing up on your qualities while their beauty slowly fades. You tell yourself this so you don't just feel like a genetic loser or a broken person. It's an awful trap. You're dehumanizing yourself and everyone else you meet You're balancing the numbers on some ledger of social values that you've created in your insecurity rather than, you know, actually getting to know people and see if you hit it off.”
― T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
― T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
“I’m a broken person, and the bone may have healed wrong, but I walked on it anyway.”
― T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
― T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
“I couldn't see the warping effects that being very fat had on my identity until I no longer had that governing force in my life. I couldn't see the toll it took on my relationships until I fully engaged with the legacy of distortion it had on my self worth, and ability to take myself seriously.”
― T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
― T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People
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