Comments on: Still Here https://anastasialaity.com/wp/archives/578 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:50:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 By: Susan https://anastasialaity.com/wp/archives/578/comment-page-1#comment-1305 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:50:46 +0000 http://www.anastasialaity.com/?p=578#comment-1305 I am a viewer from Kathy B’s site. All I can say is Amen. By the way I love your pictures. I always thought what an amazing person. Diving is not a trivial physical activity, so I have always been impressed. The point is to live and to take care of ourselves so we can live. How we look shouldn’t matter.

]]> By: Cookie https://anastasialaity.com/wp/archives/578/comment-page-1#comment-1302 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:05:36 +0000 http://www.anastasialaity.com/?p=578#comment-1302 Amen, AMEN, AMEN!!!!!
I am so glad to see someone else see the light. Let everyone who wants to throw stones at you first make sure they are freaking picture perfect in mind, spirit and body, then come talk to me next so I can kick some ass! As a fat girl and a former “self hater” it is hard to say what I hate the most about all the time I have wasted hating myself because I did not fit someone’s definition of what they thought I should be. Forget the controlling overbearing behavior and holier than thou attitude, if you don’t love me for who am and what I look like STEP OFF! Go find someone else to control and you two be happy together. I don’t need or want anyone to approve of me or my size. And if you feel the need to pass judgment; please go find someone who shares your views and leave me alone. Society spends so much effort and money trying to make us be something we are not. Have brown hair, blondes have more fun. Gay, get therapy because only straight people are allowed here. Fat, you gotta be thin to be accepted here. If we as a society put the focus on being healthy, not about how much you weigh, it would be a better society. WHO ARE YOU to say someone is unhealthy because they are fat when the labs are ok, the blood pressure is ok, and they feel ok? I am putting the world on notice, I am 42 years old and I don’t have any time for people’s prejudice. It is great to see someone else join me in the fight. Love you girly! My goals this year are the same as yours, and they have been my goals for the last 6-8 months. It is very hard to undo the conditioning and self hatred that I have been practicing for at least 30 years, but I am trying. And I am doing it for myself finally. I am lucky because I have an awesome man who love me for who I am and what I look like, but still this is for me, not him. I am also lucky because I have awesome friends like you. Someone to commiserate with, bitch with and someone to help me stay strong, someone to walk this journey with me. I don’t know what I would do without you.

And I will get off my soap box now. Can you tell this hit a nerve?

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