Fat privilege is curing your ailment by sitting on your ass (rant) When you look at me, you see a fit, healthy 19 year-old girl. However, joint hypermobility syndrome is both genetic and invisible (until my joints bend an unusual way, at least). For myself, the severity of it causes me pain daily and puts me at higher risk for joint injuries, among other things (fatigue and neck pain for me, personally). Since fats are unavoidable in today's society, I eventually have to socialize with them. Sometimes (read: usually), they bring up their own symptoms of being fat to me if I mention my education in fitness and nutrition. Because they are similar to mine, I'd relate to them saying that I know what it's like. Normal sized people don't really react to this, but fats always look at me like I have two heads. How could I, a healthy-weighted person, have the same problems as them, a living garbage can? It absolutely perplexes them. It also infuriates me, because they don't understand that their problems are easily solved by just eating less. You don't have to work out, you just have to eat less. Conditions = gone. Mine, however, will not just leave through exercise or a better diet. They're there for the rest of my life. I explain my 100% genetic condition, and how it affects me, emphasis on "100% genetic". Of course, since I typically mention my longstanding history of gym injuries, they sometimes ask me why I bother going to the gym if it causes me pain/makes me more vulnerable to getting hurt, or they question how I even get to the gym if I feel fatigued. Obviously if there's anything impeding my physical health, I should just throw in the towel, right? I know it goes without saying, but fats are the most all-or-nothing, lazy sacks of shit I have ever encountered.