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into the ideals of others was just a waste of my life. I didn ' t respect any of them, and couldn ' t justify putting any value to their opinions on my looks.
I just one day realised that I didn ' t care what anyone had to say about how I looked. Once that happened, it was the most amazing feeling in the world. It was true freedom.
Importance of having representation from people with disabilities and different body types in the media
When I was growing up, the common consensus was " thinner is better ". I literally started starving myself in first grade, and developing an eating disorder because everywhere I looked, I was told that the only way you could be beautiful is if you are thin. If there had been plus size models, and fat women being represented in a positive fashion well I was growing up, treated like actual people, and not like a cautionary tale, or something to be feared / pitied, then I might have been able to have had an actual childhood, and teen years.
So much of my life was wasted, thrown away, and ruined because of this lack of representation. I know that I didn ' t think I could be pretty, until I was in 5th grade and saw a Native American Barbie doll. Looking at its long black hair, tanned skin, dark brown eyes... it was the first time I saw a doll that looked like me.( I was darker then than I am now). I still thought I had to be thin, but the first time I thought I had at least a chance at being beautiful because of that doll.
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