Fat "acceptance" - from the PoV of a fat person

[nadine_mn]

147. I am so sorry - I have been lucky to have a doctor

who listens to me and encourages me. But I know my grandmother was terrified of going to a doctor because when she had in the past, he had so degraded her for her weight she vowed never to go again. She had stomach cancer later in life, the pain must have been unbearable but because of how she had been treated in the past, she refused to go until it was too late.

I know so many overweight people who have the same fear - will not go to the doctor because the first thing out a physician's mouth is "well you know, X would be better and Y wouldn't hurt so much if you just lost weight"

And that is the end of the conversation. Like we don't KNOW that, but hey I am here to have this suspicious mole on my neck checked out. But as soon as I can I will just drop that excess weight like nothing - for crying out loud if weight loss was as simple as that, we wouldn't have such a problem.