thisclockworkheart:

rollerskatinglizard:

kipplekipple:

When we talk about being fat-positive and we say, “weight is not an indication of health,” I will reblog it. But I want us to also say, “health is not an indication of value.”

I could be at any weight and I will never be healthy, because I am chronically ill. Someone might be chronically ill and fat, or they might be chronically ill and not fat, and it really doesn’t matter.

When you make it about health, you’re saying health is the pinnacle of human achievement, and you’re shitting on those of us for whom health will always be a pipe dream.

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Okay, real talk guys. Coming from someone who’s been held up as an example of “weight is not an indication of health”, this is so SO critical.

Because guess what? I’m chronically ill. I don’t talk about it a whole lot, but I’ve got a pacemaker (from inappropriate sinus tachycardia/ autonomic dysfunction treatment), I’ve got Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, newly diagnosed adrenal insufficiency and am in the process of figuring which autoimmune disorder I have. I will be on steroids (among other medications) indefinitely. 

As much as it may look different on the outside, I will never be anyone’s traditional definition of healthy, no matter my weight. 

Remember this, and please, please, repeat it as often as necessary to take it to heart: “Health is not an indication of value.”