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I'm overweight(but I'm on a diet and excercise program to correct that and meeting with good results). Most of my family is overweight. Many of them well into morbidly obese. Sorry but while some of this is true about some people can't help being fat unless you have a thyroid problem you can help it. Seriously every person that I know that is overweight are overweight because they either A) Eat too much, B) don't get enough excercise, C) Both. If you are ok with being fat. Fine. But people have no way to distinguish you the person that's "not to blame" for being big with those that are.
And as far as not being able to tell someone's health just by looking at them....well if they weigh 400 lbs or so it's a good bet they either have or will develop serious health issues. Any doctor will tell you this. Even as a general rule even if a person is in generally good health but they are "obese" their doctors will try to get them to lose weight.
Sigh...I understand where the original poster was coming from but I do wonder if it's more of an issue of heightened sensitivity. I was teased and made fun of as a kid and I still don't feel very confident around crowds at times but I came to the realization that I can't change the world but I CAN change myself. If you can't or won't change yourself,for whatever reason, don't expect other people to change to accomodate you.
That's simply is not how this world tends to work. And considering what I know what most people that are overweight endure the "fat comments" on TFP are basically non-existant from what I've seen in my few months here. The worst that I've seen is on the TB and usually most every post saying "too fat" or something is defeated by 10 more saying they like it. Personally I'm one of them.
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