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I’m depressed just reading this. I feel so, so bad for fat kids nowadays, and have never been more grateful that I don’t have any. It was bad when gen x was growing up fat, but now it’s just so much worse.
Imagine deciding to become a healer, only to end up conducting research that basically says it’s okay if a few kids become suicidal, if it means making some fat kids slightly less fat? What kind of cognitive dissonance is that??
Also, can we acknowledge that the youngest child in this study was FIVE YEARS OLD?
I was a fat toddler who grew up to be a fat adult. If my parents had listened to doctors like these when I was 5 years old, I never would’ve trusted them again. (I’d say I’d never trust doctors again, but that did eventually happen once I hit my 20s so that net result was the same.)
I’m depressed just reading this. I feel so, so bad for fat kids nowadays, and have never been more grateful that I don’t have any. It was bad when gen x was growing up fat, but now it’s just so much worse.
Imagine deciding to become a healer, only to end up conducting research that basically says it’s okay if a few kids become suicidal, if it means making some fat kids slightly less fat? What kind of cognitive dissonance is that??
Also, can we acknowledge that the youngest child in this study was FIVE YEARS OLD?
I was a fat toddler who grew up to be a fat adult. If my parents had listened to doctors like these when I was 5 years old, I never would’ve trusted them again. (I’d say I’d never trust doctors again, but that did eventually happen once I hit my 20s so that net result was the same.)
This shit is horrifying.