Stand out in public with statements and photography related

Where I live you can’t stand out .. you will get tons of looks, talks behind your back. bullying etc. And if you are a big person who go outside the standard norms. Oohhh guys!

I’m a plus size. have always been. my entire life. due to a sickness (no I haven’t eaten myself this big) and I have a special unique look. I’m the only one who’s female to have this unique look in the town where I live. That’s pretty cool though but I get tons of negative looks etc.

So lately I have taken my style one step further. No iam not mean or negative in real life. This is just a statement to people can back off and leave me alone. Which has actually worked a bit. Sure I get looks, stares etc but I have learned to ignore it as much as I can. Hard work.

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Today I have been in town (with this fabulous shirt on) to have a meeting. which went good and fun. Not a serious meeting but important.

what else is.. oooh while waiting on the bus to go to the town I was thinking alot.. about photography. As I have written before I miss it. Go out in nature, alone, just quiet time and focus. But I haven’t used my Canon camera for years and my phone (S23 Ultra) has a pretty good camera.. but.. my question is..does it count as photography when you don’t use a system camera? Are using a smartphone the “same” as photographers?

my dream when I was younger were to become a professional photographer and work for national geographic magazine. Get my pictures published in the magazines etc.. but that dream died pretty fast when I read the the criteria(is that the right word?) to become a photographer for them. But I miss photography . Though I have never been interested in taking portraits and pictures of people, weddings etc (I have tried. Wasn’t my thing) but I love taking pictures, edit and make beautiful photos of details and landscape.

is there a photographer out there who might can answer my question?