Don't Call Me Skinny

This post is a bit direct, which is not really me, generally speaking.  

  

I want to be a voice for the skinny smaller girls out there.

It seems it is OK to tell a person - "you are skinny" 

But you would never tell a person - "you are fat" 

Here is the problem...when people have told me I am skinny, they are usually not saying it as a true compliment.  It is usually said in a negative tone and is coming from a place of comparison.  

Like momma said - if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

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I have always been on the smaller side.  

Thanks to good genes and some deliberate positive life choices.

  

Either way I accept my body as it is - the parts I like and the parts I don't.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

I encourage you to do the same.
And for us all to take the words - fat, skinny, and maybe even...tall and short...
 out of our vocabularies!

"Everybody likes a compliment."

Abraham Lincoln