Thank you for being so open and vulnerable in this piece.

I’m also larger than most women my age, and while I don’t feel the physical discomforts of my size (I’ve been lucky thus far), I feel the psychological effects.

Your piece reminded me that, as bigger women, we are constantly having to adapt, whether physically or psychologically.

I am learning to embrace being the size I am in this moment, but it’s difficult. I want to ‘fit in’, quite literally. But it’s okay that I don’t.

I hope that your journey through your doctorate begins to feel safer again… and I hope that university deans see this and realise that they have to start making campus / lecture halls safe and easy for those who are big.