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I have a million sotries of how peopel treated me 120 pounds ago and how they treat me now. I am still morbidly overweight 290 pounds and they treat me so much better. However, many of them insist on treating me like the handicapped person I was over 100 pounds ago. It is like they don't want me to get on with my life. Another actually cried when she heard I was losing weight and wanted to know if we would still be friends. I have so many toxic relationships in my life and I know they would not be there if I were not fat. When I was normal, which was most of my life, I was listened to, not taken advantage of, and treated with respect. Obese people are disrespected,
not listened to even if they are experts, and denigrated in private. On the other hand so many people came out of the closet to be "friends" when they heard about my weight loss....where were they when I was fatter? Fat is definately the last politically correct population to make fun of.

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