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My story is the most common story in the world today

Zeia
Jan 13
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Kid who loved to eat, actually was downright greedy, was in an academically inclined school with zero to negative focus on games ( yes schools like that existed and maybe still exist in India with a 100 percent focus on studies and hardly any on sports and outdoor activities ), the kid who got fat, the kid who was teased and bullied, the kid who wanted love and recognition, the kid who developed weird and not so healthy coping mechanisms, the kid who somehow learned to hide without even knowing that she was hiding her beauty and laughter and light, Kid who got damaged without even knowing it had happened!

Meet the teenager. The teenager who was made fun of for being fat and for having hirsutism — or facial hair.( God really did a number on me didn't he ? Guess he really wanted me to learn what it was like to be someone who was “not desirable”), the teen who had crushes on so many guys like any other girl but who had no confidence to say it out, who was…

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Zeia
I am a doctor of medicine. I am a woman. I am a soul. An individual with a voice. - an ordinary person on a journey to love myself and spread a little of that love through my words.
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