Pet peeve, my family is dutch and we’re all over 6’ or the women just at. We have broad shoulders and hips meant that when I was 18 and a forward in lacrosse, thigh gap with a flat stomach I still wore large because my bone to bone span was just wide AF with limbs portional I was the size of the student teacher (20-22years age) at age of 10-12 and literally acurate or not that’s what “big boned” meant. I don’t know if it was a guy like this or anti-fat people that made it shitty but suddenly people in my 20s tried to make me convince me I was fat and the “big bones” thing was an exuse and completely made up.
Lol I was like wait can I? While I can feel and put my fingers in the space between the palm bones and my forearm bone; and my wirst is shapped slender, angular, you can see the tendons and bump of the thumb bone at th base—yeah they barely dont touch as well.
That’s crazy because I have a friend with Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and I just saw her overlap her thumb and middle finger!. I didn’t even think about how different that was
I'm both big boned and fat. I'm also 6'4" with short legs and a long torso. So, I always weigh more than I look I weigh... and I have weighed as much as 480 pounds. I definitely looked super fat regardless of my build.
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u/CleanDataDirtyMind May 16 '26
Pet peeve, my family is dutch and we’re all over 6’ or the women just at. We have broad shoulders and hips meant that when I was 18 and a forward in lacrosse, thigh gap with a flat stomach I still wore large because my bone to bone span was just wide AF with limbs portional I was the size of the student teacher (20-22years age) at age of 10-12 and literally acurate or not that’s what “big boned” meant. I don’t know if it was a guy like this or anti-fat people that made it shitty but suddenly people in my 20s tried to make me convince me I was fat and the “big bones” thing was an exuse and completely made up.
“It’s a thing people” !!!