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@colouredlines forgot to say excellent fabric and pattern choice on your dress there, you look great and I am envious of your dressmaking skillz.
So so pleased to see potential storm clouds coming. The heat completely destroys me, I'm too photosensitive and it aggravates my arthritis massively.
I have been wearing light compression tights for two years already for leg swelling but this year I have developed a lot of vascular difficulties and I am a very uncomfortable blobby slug rn.
In the summer I prefer to cover as much skin as possible as sunlight on me feels horrid and it saves a bit on suncream haha. Any recommendations for long sleeved lightweight tops and cardigans/shrugs etc gratefully received.
I have been looking at UV clothing recently, the only properly nice/interesting/proper necked and long sleeved stuff is for little kids
Another reason I need to learn to sew.
Solidarity with other Fraus uncomfortable in their bodies, my dysmorphia is particularly enduring and tied in to my lack of sense of self. I look radically different from one moment to the next, and have no concrete idea of what I actually look like for real.
I would be happy to get to the point where it took up less of my existence, and I'm not aiming to be ecstatic about my appearance. But I would love for it not to dominate me the way it does.
Curiously I don't care about being 'attractive' to other people, just to satisfy myself in a neutral way.
I am lucky also in that I understand that the issue lies with me and that I could have all the aesthetic surgery in the world and I would still feel the same.
I do have a functional surgery wishlist though, and top of that is a mastopexy and reduction please! Whatever weight I am they are still massive, I lost 3st and only went from a G to an F
I was always a 34 long though haha. But I have C up dreams !