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Gains (strip)

Added 2022-06-13 21:12:41 +0000 UTC

Kinda a more niche/personal comic, but I hope you can relate, or at least enjoy it, haha.

I was skinny (and self-conscious about it) all throughout high school, and I think even now, 5ish years after graduating, I guess I have yet to 100% shake off that self-image. I still have a bad habit of seeing jacked dudes at the gym or on Instagram and feeling skinny by comparison.

I actually distinctly remember when a girl in my class, probably middle-school, saying my back looked gross cause she could see my spine bumps through my shirt. I ALSO remember early in high school a kinda-friend texting someone that I was "skinny as a pole" not knowing that I was reading it on the other end.

After high-school, and after a few years of proper lifting, I remember being called "muscular" for the first time by a friend, and I was genuinely confused. Like, " 'Muscular'? I know I'm not skinny, but muscular? Is he just being nice?"

Ok, this is getting really long and sounding WAY more "woe is me" than I intended. I'm not traumatized or suffering from low self-esteem or anything. I just think it's interesting how we sometimes see ourselves very differently from how everyone else sees us.

I'm sure everyone can relate to that to some degree.