This is such a hard read. Absolutely terrifying and heartbreaking.
We bend over backwards (rightfully so) to make sure kids have access to healthy food (like via WIC), don’t get accessed to poison (lead regulations), and we keep putting them into car seats much later into childhood than when I was a kid (because they save lives)… but fat kids? Fuck ‘em. If they’re fat, we don’t want ‘em. They don’t deserve safety, comfort, or happiness. We must surgically mutilate them into thinness, or else.
This makes me so unbearably angry. Not just the outright lies and opinions-as-facts these “scientists” are spewing, but my heart hurts so much for every child involved in these studies.
And SHAME ON THESE PSEUDOSCIENTISTS for thinking adult medicine is the same as pediatric medicine. Double shame on them for using deeply flawed adult research to justify this cruelty and experimentation on children.
I never wanted kids, but this is enough to make me think it’s not safe to bring kids into the world any more.
Not only is there nothing wrong with being a fat kid, but any rare childhood illness that causes weight gain is likely going to be overlooked, and instead treated with organ mutilating surgeries and forced malnourishment during their developmental years.
This is going to create a whole population of sick and disabled adults, when these kids grow up. IF these kids grow up.
And we already set them up for a lifetime of sickness and disability over the last few years with covid, and our continued non-response and apathy for the pandemic.
I fear for kids I don't even have--I have had to come to grips with a life-long mistreatment by the medical field and others of forced weight cycling and now, I feel like I had it easy and should be grateful that at least my body wasn't cut open and destroyed. I struggle with how to fight against this machine, but now seems like the absolute moment as young lives are now at stake 😔
This is such a hard read. Absolutely terrifying and heartbreaking.
We bend over backwards (rightfully so) to make sure kids have access to healthy food (like via WIC), don’t get accessed to poison (lead regulations), and we keep putting them into car seats much later into childhood than when I was a kid (because they save lives)… but fat kids? Fuck ‘em. If they’re fat, we don’t want ‘em. They don’t deserve safety, comfort, or happiness. We must surgically mutilate them into thinness, or else.
This makes me so unbearably angry. Not just the outright lies and opinions-as-facts these “scientists” are spewing, but my heart hurts so much for every child involved in these studies.
And SHAME ON THESE PSEUDOSCIENTISTS for thinking adult medicine is the same as pediatric medicine. Double shame on them for using deeply flawed adult research to justify this cruelty and experimentation on children.
I never wanted kids, but this is enough to make me think it’s not safe to bring kids into the world any more.
Not only is there nothing wrong with being a fat kid, but any rare childhood illness that causes weight gain is likely going to be overlooked, and instead treated with organ mutilating surgeries and forced malnourishment during their developmental years.
This is going to create a whole population of sick and disabled adults, when these kids grow up. IF these kids grow up.
And we already set them up for a lifetime of sickness and disability over the last few years with covid, and our continued non-response and apathy for the pandemic.
These are dark times.
and any illness they get will be blamed on their size.
There has to be massive structual change in Western medicine.
These people are drunk with their implicit bias. Ffs. So dangerous and effing sad.
I fear for kids I don't even have--I have had to come to grips with a life-long mistreatment by the medical field and others of forced weight cycling and now, I feel like I had it easy and should be grateful that at least my body wasn't cut open and destroyed. I struggle with how to fight against this machine, but now seems like the absolute moment as young lives are now at stake 😔