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[turps]

Some people are beyond me.

I've just came home from picking Corey up from school, I walk to get him and most days I'm early so I wait on a bench near the local church. I was early today, so I was sitting just chilling, rummaging through my bag for my chap stick and this old woman comes up to me, really invading my personal space and says. 'Why did you get so big?' I mean WTF! I'm fat, I know that, I don't need random strangers commenting on it to my face. I didn't know what the hell to say. First impulse was to tell her to fuck off but I couldn't do that, so I mumbled something about always being like this. So she replies 'Are you sure?' Yeah, of course I'm bloody sure, I have to look at myself everyday.

What she expected me to say I don't know. Was I supposed to go, 'When I get upset I stuff my face with food because in my mind food is the ultimate comfort?'

So she's standing looking at me and I'm looking at my bag because I feel about an inch tall and she goes 'Oh okay, take care pet.' Right tell me to take care after you've just made me want to cry in the middle of the street then hit the nearest shop and buy as much chocolate that I can.

I don't know why some people have the mistaken belief that they can say what they like. I wish I wasn't such a sap that I could have told her to fuck off, but I know if I did I would have felt bad about it after.

So I'll say it here...Fuck off and leave me alone!

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I hate people that stare. Not so much for me, but James, my husband. He's obviously disabled and I've watched as people bend their arms and hands into the positions his are and show their friends. It's so blatant too, and some people are so condescending when you're disabled. I've been sitting with James and had people come over and ask if he needs his food cut up, or someone say how brave he is to me while he's doing something. I hate it. James is James, I don't even see his disabilities unless they're brought to my attention. That may sound strange, but to me he's the man I love, despite how he looks.

When I was pregnant he even had people ask how he could think of having kids, which just showed me some people are ignorant and will say anything.

All I try to keep thinking is for every idiot there's more people who care and understand.

This is me on my soap box but people are people, it doesn't matter if they're fat or disabled or any other thing that people discriminate about.

Sorry Ceci, you're getting my rant about idiots *g*

I'm going to try and tell the next person that says something it's none of their business. I suspect I'd feel better than just saying nothing which is what I did today.

*hugs you back*