When you have a chronic illness, sometimes you’re not always in control of what happens to your body.
One of the symptoms of Hashimoto’s Disease is unexplained weight gain, which is something (for me) that’s pretty noticeable. Honestly, whether or not I had gained wright is really none of anybody’s business but they always felt that they were entitled to point it out to me as if I didn’t already know.
“You’ve gained weight since we first met.”
“I see that you’ve finally put one some weight.”
“I thought you were trying to lose weight?”
“You were so tiny freshman year.”
These comments can be hurtful, especially from family members or “friends”. I got tired of hearing them, so I started telling the truth.
“Yeah I did, because weight gain is a symptom of my thyroid disease.”
This always surprised them. A lot of times the response was not “are…
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Zone of Non-being 
December 9, 2016 at 2:43 am
I love that she wrote this. People need “blunt” sometimes. We’ve gotten so comfortable being judgmental, insensitive, and just rude altogether. Far too often we don’t care about how our words impact other people until someone makes us feel like a “butt.” I commented on her post as well – thanks for sharing!
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