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Imagine?.

- Not being able to go into any store you want to buy clothes?or not being able to find any clothes your size in any store.
- Going to a grocery store and having perfect strangers comment about your food choices.
- Being ridiculed when you exercise in public.
- Being ridiculed when you blog about exercising.
- Friends, family, or perfect strangers feeling they have a right to comment on your lifestyle choices.
- Getting the message that you are the cause (or the best analogy for) global warming, the healthcare crisis, the food crisis, etc.
- Having people make assumptions about what, how much and where you eat.
- Having people make assumptions about how much or how you exercise (or don?t).
- Being told by your company (or a possible boss, or an adoption agency) that you are not capable of doing your job.
- Having someone need to do a study to show that people like you are actually productive members of a society.
- Having people assume you smell, even before they meet you.
- Having people assume that your partner has some sort of fetish because s/he is attracted to you.
- Working for a company only to be told by that company that you need to pay a fine or pay more for benefits because of personal characteristics.
- Having people tell you over and over that dieting and exercise works for everyone, when in fact about 95% of people who lose weight are unable to maintain that loss.
- Having people assume that those who weigh what you do are completely unable to move ? when you move just fine.
- Going to a movie, to get on a bus, to take a flight, to a restaurant, to the doctor?s office, etc. and knowing that there will not be a place for you to sit that is comfortable, if you can fit into the seats provided at all.
- Knowing that the fact that you can?t fit into a seat is going to annoy those around you and may result in rude things being said to you.
- Going to a doctor for something unrelated to your weight and having said doctor tell you that you just need to lose weight.
- Knowing that if you lose your job for any reason and try to get private health insurance, that you will likely be denied.

These are just a few of the ways that people who are fat may experience this world.

posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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