We learn from the world that there is something fundamentally wrong with us and what we need in that moment is for an adult to step in and be like there is nothing wrong with you.

You are good and you are whole and you are a complete person just as you are.

It's the world that's fucked up. That's my job is to step in and say that to him and to be wholly accepting of whoever he turns out to be or they turn out to be in the world.

You are listening to made of human also known known as the Mole Pot, a podcast hosted by Sophie

Hagen, who is a Danish comedian.

Mole Pah, trying to find out how to do life.

But it turns out.

Nobody knows Mopah.

Nobody knows. nobody knows more.

In January of 2019 I was asked to do a panel discussion in Huckston in London alongside a couple of dieticians in front of a room full of nutritionists. It was a launch event for Laura Thomas's new book, Just Eat It.

And as I was waiting to go on stage for the discussion, I was so hungry.

I asked if they had any snacks, and they looked at me like, what is snacks?

But they managed to find me this small bag of

like crisps but you know like healthy crisps like dry fried slices of beetroot.

It was like a hate crime in a bag and when a bit into one it made a crunchy sound and the entire room full of thin white nutritionists and dieticians turned their heads to see me, the only fat person, stereotypically eating crisps.

It was an incredibly fun night.

At one point after Laura Thomas had done her presentation on her work and her book, a man who

had been sitting with his arms furiously crossed the entire time exploded with a oh oh so we just meant to forget everything we knew about

sugar and his indignation was spectacular Laura Thomas is an incredible author, a registered nutritionist and a

putcaster who works with intuitive eating in a way that has nothing to do with

diet culture and weight loss.

One of the things I respect the most about her is that she doesn't preach to the choir.

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