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🕑 Added 2022-06-13 21:11:52 +0000 UTCKinda a more niche/personal comic, but I hope you can relate, or at least enjoy it, haha.
I was skinny (and self-conscious about it) all throughout high school, and I think even now, 5ish years after graduating, I guess I have yet to 100% shake off that self-image. I still have a bad habit of seeing jacked dudes at the gym or on Instagram and feeling skinny by comparison.
I actually distinctly remember when a girl in my class, probably middle-school, saying my back looked gross cause she could see my spine bumps through my shirt. I ALSO remember early in high school a kinda-friend texting someone that I was "skinny as a pole" not knowing that I was reading it on the other end.
After high-school, and after a few years of proper lifting, I remember being called "muscular" for the first time by a friend, and I was genuinely confused. Like, " 'Muscular'? I know I'm not skinny, but muscular? Is he just being nice?"
Ok, this is getting really long and sounding WAY more "woe is me" than I intended. I'm not traumatized or suffering from low self-esteem or anything. I just think it's interesting how we sometimes see ourselves very differently from how everyone else sees us.
I'm sure everyone can relate to that to some degree.
Comments
khaotictrash
Really goes to show that the grass truly isn’t always greener on the other side. I actually met a girl with a very similar body shape to my own and we were both surprised that the other was insecure about it, that moment was eye opening for me
justjukka
I sometimes hafta ask someone to reset the leg press for me, because the last person to use it set the platform out of my reach. 😩
