Reply #223: you're not alone

[mimitabby]

So you were big. My childhood was also absolutely miserable. I was never fat, or big, or anything obvious like that. I had parents like yours that
said I was beautiful, so why didn't the other kids like me? Why wouldn't they play with me, I was always the last one (or second to the last) they picked when there were gym class teams. Lucky for me i had a little sister, so I could play with her friends (ha, pathetic, no?) until they figured out I had cooties.
Kids are rotten. I really think that some good parents set their kids up, because we go home and they tell us how beautiful, smart, whatever we are and then we go to school and discover that everyone else just doesn't agree.
I didn't have a friend until I was in the 8th grade, and she was really the only one. So maybe you're big and overweight but you sure weren't the only kid tortured and tormented all the way through school. Unlike you, I didn't over eat, i sat home and drew my own fantasy world. So now I have a skill maybe most other people don't have.
And thanks to Facebook, I can now find some of those popular kids that were so unfriendly when I needed a friend. And they are not aging as well as I am (because I work at it) and they are living boring lives and still abusing themselves. Maybe I get the last laugh.