For years and years I hated going out because I knew other people would stare at me until one day I had an accident, I fell or slipped on a wet patch in the shopping centre. In front of everyone, I was in agony I was embarrassed 😳 I thought people would laugh 😂 at me. They didn't two very nice security guards helped me get up, someone else phoned an ambulance and put her coat around me, all people I didn't know about seventeen complete strangers came up and offered help.
This changed my perception of people and I thought it was them who were making assumptions about me, it twas the other way round, society is made up of all sorts of people and we have to learn to get along and tolerate one another.
When I go out I smile, I have stage three lipedema my knees are size of an average man's waist... I have saggy arms, I suffer with depression asthma arthritis a very fat neck balding hair and no teeth... And since losing my husband last year I have panic attacks and anxiety issues.... BUT life is for the living, whatever your condition somebody is going to be worse off, don't be afraid walk with your head up high...
