‘Ya’ll don’t realise how close I be [sic] to giving up on everyone and quitting,’ she added, before switching her account to private.
As a fellow fat woman, I know her pain – and I’m all too familiar with that feeling of wanting to give up A study conducted by the YMCA back in 2018 proved that more than half of children aged 11-16 were bullied for the way they looked – mere schoolchildren, still developing, admitting that they were made to feel anxious, depressed or even suicidal.
People even do a double take when I’m hand-in-hand with my husband, seemingly shocked that I found love, or sex, because of my weight.According to the Crown Prosecution Service, a ‘hate crime’ is a criminal offence that is motivated by ‘hostility or prejudice’ – and perceived by the victim, or any other person, as so.
I know how to identify the sniggers, or the looks of sheer disgust at my body – and they, quite honestly, haunt me.