- had to survive without much validation for long periods of time (including the ‘valley’ trying to make it to being ‘normal,’ let alone any kind of superlative adjective).

People see you where you are, most times, not how far you’ve come and how long you have been at it.

Do the work anyway.

- had to work harder to progress than anyone who never developed the adipose tissue in the first place,
- had to struggle through secondary metabolic disorders (some of which resolve like cholesterol, while others persist, like hypogonadism),
- had failed SO many more times before I didn’t,