I hate that this is not an experience unique to my shitty childhood. I was a weirdly-proportioned kid, but I was strong, if taller and bigger in build and bone than my tiny little abercrombie-wearing 1st grade classmates. (I suppose it didn't help to avoid ridicule that I was completely unaware of any difference,…

Growing up, I was overweight. My whole family was pretty big and I thought it was the norm. When I started going to school, the relentless teasing began. People would run away from me during recess and call me "gross". Mind you, I was only about 15 pounds overweight but I live in a very superficial city and kids are…

I am fat. Very Fat. 400lbs+. I've done the diets. I've done the research into the diets. And I've decided it simply comes down to I'm still too angry to lose weight.

I've remember being teased for being fat in first grade. Others' memories and pictures make me doubt this, but I remember believing it. And it was…

Fatty, blimp, porker - all the words that I was called growing up. My mom tried to make me feel better by enrolling me in Weight Watchers when I was in 6th grade, taking me to a nutritionist that put me on a 7 day fast, a doctor that flat out called me fat. I don't blame her. All I did was complain about how fat I…

SWEET VALLEY HIGH.

I could read fluently at 3 years old, and have been an avid reader ever since. When I was in 4th grade in 1974, my teacher gave me this book to read and I LOVED it, because it was so revolutionary for the time period. Harriet was so different from the average girl character that was popular in books from that time. …

And then Gumby cut Pokey open and slept in him. THE HORROR.

Five years ago, I was engaged to my then-fiancée (we'll call her G) when we found out that she was unexpectedly pregnant (she'd been on birth control and using it properly). We went through a whole roller coaster of emotions including fear and uncertainty (at that point, we were over 500 miles apart due to me…

Finally! I've been waiting for this to get covered! I'm a native Ohioan and all of this makes me want to vomit forever.

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