Sometimes, it's hard to comment on your writes because of the emotion you share with us, and you have such an honesty in your work, which I feel some writers are scared of or shy away from. Because it can be a huge, exhausting task to put our struggles into words. In a way I think it makes it that more real.

I found this scary and also comforting at the same time - so much of what you wrote and put into words is something I relate to as well yet always felt shame and could never admit how much of an impact it was on my life. If that makes sense. I too grew up being called skinny, then feeling out of control as my relationship with food went from one extreme to the other. And struggling with no one ever paying much mind because I may have appeared to them to be a "normal" weight or curvy at times. But I knew how much I craved that normality, of not focusing on every aspect of eating and numbers and the control.

I find it empowering that you have found the words here.

Those last few lines shed some hope, and I hope that you do have that one day, and that I get to that point too. I have a lot of respect simply by knowing you through reading your poetry!