This is a brilliant thread -- both the main theme and the digression on the nasty habit youth seem to have of using sexual orientation as an insult. Uck.
For me, I think the answer is definitely 'yes.' I've been overweight all of my living memory. I got 'skinny' once in high school -- I had a horrible GI tract infection -- and I'm actually not sure who I'm going to be.
I guess I'm scared I won't be as smart, which is about all I've felt like I've had going for me all this time. I'm still working on that. But in the spirit of reframing I think I should change how I see the 'new' Shrewkate that I haven't met yet.
Maybe that person won't be ....
1. So hyper-self-critical
2. So depressed so often
3. So out of control of her dogs (I wouldn't put money on this one.
4. Less Eeyore, More Pooh, and maybe even Tigger.
I think I might like to meet her.
Who do you think you might be?