Three years ago I started taking a birth control pill because I was sexually active, a month later my period started and refused to stop. It was so bad that I went to the ER a total of three times, before finally settling on a gynecologist. She was constantly rude, patronizing and did not listen to me when I requested certain things. She ordered a bunch of tests and never gave me the results. Furthermore, she made me feel very self-conscious when I stood on the scale. She had decided that she solved my problem with the birth control, but when I got off of it and got on the non hormonal IUD the bleeding started again. It was awful, and I had to go to the ER while I was away at college, because I was bleeding so much that it made me faint. This has all happened in 3 years and I’ve gained about 30 pounds. I’ve had my family and several doctors tell me that it would go away if I lost weight, and I’ve tried and tried but have not been able to get the scale to move. I walk everywhere, and I go to the gym 3 days a week, and on Thursdays I play an intricate tag game. Then this weekend, when I went into a new doctors, he pulled up my test results that were two and a half years old, turns out I’m anemic and I have a problem with my thyroid. No one told me or my mother about the condition. Somehow she decided to tell my father who will not shut up. Every single time he’s talked to me has been dedicated to telling me about how I should stop drinking milk, or how I’ll loose weight, or how he thinks someone else in our family has my condition because they’re fat. I’m absolutely tired of it. Thin privilege is not having the results of a test you paid for concealed by a shitty doctor. Thin privilege is not having to deal with doctors and family members chalking your serious illness up to you being fat.