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Fat Girl On The See-Saw

Fat Girl On The See-Saw

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 “Hey you fat girl! Don’t you know that see-saws are not your kind? See what you have done to him! Can’t you play with people of your shape and size?


Tears started rolling down from her little chubby cheeks. She was only 5 years old, but weighed around 25kgs. It was a Sunday evening and Sarah had come to the park with her mom and her little brother.


Maybe the park should put up signs that fat girls are not allowed on the see-saw and only then girls like you would stop”, the woman continued rambling.


She has heard this phrase time and again “Find people of your size!”

While her mom was attending to her brother, she decided to explore the park. There was a boy standing near the see-saw, waiting for a partner. It was he who invited her to play with him. He sat on one end of the see-saw and asked her to hop on. She hopped on to the other end and within fraction of seconds, his side of the see-saw shot up. The boy could not balance her weight. Sarah tried hard to get up from the huge pit under the see-saw. There was nobody around to help them. His mom saw them from a distance and she came running and ranting. She helped him get down from the see-saw.


The lady was furious and started shouting at Sarah. She screamed as if her son was badly hurt. Sarah did not know what to say. The lady blamed her for forcing her little boy to play with huge girls like her. She stood there silent, her heads down and eyes moist. After a lot of cribbing, the woman finally decided to leave.


Sarah went to the bench where her mom was sitting and urged her to leave. They started walking out of the park and her brother shouted “ice-cream”. There were chocolate bars, mango bars, butterscotch cones, matka kulfis and her favorite rainbow cassatta ice-cream.


No mama, I’m not hungry”, said Sarah. The incident had already affected her by then. She refused to eat. She did not want to play with anybody. She barely went out of her home. It shattered her self-confidence. She wasn’t the chubby chirpy girl anymore.


She had seen her aunt starving in the name of dieting. It worked on her aunt. She decided she would “diet” too. The definition of diet for the innocent little girl was “to not eat anything”. She would throw away her breakfast as soon as her mom left the dining table. She did the same with the food in her lunchbox and dinner. 3 days and the girl had thrown away all her food. She was too weak by now and before she could tell the teacher, she fainted.


Sarah was taken to the hospital and doctors quickly diagnosed her. Her body glucose levels had fallen dramatically and they had to give her a drip of the same. The needle struggled its way through her plump wrists to find the veins and she cried in her sleepy rather unconscious state. Her parents couldn’t understand what went wrong when the doctors mentioned a lack in glucose levels. They also mentioned about her large body weight and the associated health problems as per results. Only after she regained her consciousness, she told the story detail by detail to her mom and dad. They were shocked. So was everybody else. They hadn’t even thought of it in their wildest dreams. Nor did they know the adverse effect of body shaming. But now they did. They knew Body shaming wasn’t appreciated, but they knew better that an unhealthy lifestyle isn’t appreciated either. They swore to make changes in Sarah’s lifestyle and give her a better life.


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