You Got It Right, I’m Overweight. Now Show Some Compassion and Ask Me Why.

A tale of disordered eating and fifty years of body shaming

‘Large Lady in the style of Beryl Cook’ — image created by the author using Dall-E 2 generator

I was watching the birds in the bush out the back this morning. Admittedly, I only stopped initially because I wondered what my cats were looking at, but in the end we spent a companionable few minutes keeping still so not to startle, as…