Thin privilege is going to see a physical therapist and not being dismissed on account of “you need to lose weight if you want your knees (or almost any other body part, really) to start feeling better”.

I’m currently studying to become a physical therapist, and it drives me NUTS that my professors will usually mention “weight loss” as one of the VERY FIRST solutions to a physical problem, often claiming that to be ~the solution~. What if someone doesn’t want to lose weight? Or what if it’s because of medicine, or illness, or - heaven forbid - because of the physical problem itself?? I think too much of what I’ve seen so far of the physical therapy profession caters toward athletes and marginalizes ‘lazy fatties who won’t help themselves’. I promise, I see what everyone goes through because of the way society thinks, and I swear, I will one day become a PT who will sit down, listen, and do everything in my power to help and advocate for every last one of my patients.