Faceful of privilege

I finished reading Aubrey Gordon’s What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat today.  It was a gut punch of a book.

It had never occurred to me that I had “smaller fat” privilege over fatter people, but the descriptions made it very clear that I do.  The medical anti-fat bias that makes specialist appointments often deeply suck for me, is nothing to what larger people experience.

Here was me thinking cis, white, and male was all I had going for me, as a fat, chronically-ill, bender.

Otherwise not up to much.  Increase in topiramate dose has me a bit dazed.  Hopefully will settle quickly.

It better do something and be worthwhile.

I am glad my GP acknowledged the specialist’s letter made the appointment seem like it hadn’t been productive and that I wasn’t just imagining it.