Clothes that touch your body

ouroborous · September 9, 2010

I would like to think that I'm wrong but I'm seriously beginning to be treated better by people in public. And when I speak, people actually look at me and respond instead of them ignoring me. What a sad commentary on the intolerance and discrimination that obese people have to deal with everyday.
My older sister has been obese nearly her whole life. No wonder she's in such a snit all the time when she has to deal with people in public. I never realized what all she's had to put up with from people. I do remember in the movies once there were two guys sitting behind us and they made terrible remarks about her and they didn't even care that we could hear them. She just sat there, turned red and took it.

There were lots of comments behind my back while I was fat and I pretended not to notice. It reminds me of when my son was in a rock band and wore his hair wild. People didn't seem to understand that he was just a kid with wild hair, not a freak or a thug or a threat to them in any way.

I wish you were wrong too, but you're not. Overweight people are treated like crap (at least that's been my experience). Which is sort of amazing when you consider that, in the US at least, most people are overweight or obese. In other words, we consider that the bulk of our population are targets for ridicule.

No wonder we're so neurotic!

I feel bad for the people still trapped in this cycle, but on a selfish level, I'm glad to be leaving the "fat barn."

ouroborous · September 9, 2010

I was getting comments about my weight loss, but when I finally broke down and got more form-fitting clothes the comments became huge compliments. It took me a while to get over a lifetime of worry about fat rolls showing but then I discovered foundation garments which smooth things out (plus help keep skin from sagging).

Too bad they don't really make "foundation garments" for men (aside from the color black :thumbup: )