COMMON MISCONCEPTION

The thing is, even when you get older, it doesn’t stop. Not only do you carry the baggage from when you were younger and everything you did was a joke, purely because you were fat, but you get out into the world and there are still people stifling laughs behind their hands. You can see that look, the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it panning of the eyes down to your stomach and then back to your face with a raised eyebrow. Or when they get mad at you for existing in THEIR space, in public space. You can see it when you’re at the gym, people getting mad at you being there, or laughing at the silly floppy fat trying to work out. You see it on television, where it doesn’t matter how progressive or diverse the show is, there’s always at least ONE joke implying that being fat is associated with stupidity, slowness, lack of awareness, being obnoxious, being greedy.

You know how in lovecraftian stuff, people gaze at elder gods and immediately lose their minds because they cant comprehend what theyre looking at?