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Incredible research. Thank you for doing this. I especially appreciate the look at the authors with "lived experience" because often the expectation is they speak for others (though usually, just like here, they don't!).

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Thanks so much!

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Thank you for all this incredible work. It’s hard to read, emotionally, but I appreciate it intellectually. It’s sad how focused people are on the size of our bodies.

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Thanks, and I totally get how hard it can be to read. Imagine if they put this kind of energy into actually ending weight stigma!

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Totally! This comes in a week when I had an appointment with a new endocrinologist who probably said ob*sity 20 times in an hour and asked me if I want ob*sity medication 😡

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Never shocked. ALWAYS appreciative of your work Ragen, thank you.

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Thank you!

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"affected by thinness." lol, that was great

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Thanks, just trying to follow their language guidelines!

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Thank you, Ragen. Disheartening for sure. Yet also the fuel we need to keep fighting for equity.

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That's how I feel too!

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