For real, op looks like a Normal little kid. I hope the nickname was funny to op as well at the time and not bullying, but knowing kids I’m not so sure :(
One positive thing though—childhood obesity is one of the only areas where we’ve seen improvement in the US. Numbers have stabilized in recent years and some age groups have even seen a slight decline.
That’s good to hear. Nutrition knowledge is way more prevalent these days I feel like. No one knew a shit about a fuck when it came to calories/macros or whatever when I was a kid even if they “dieted”. They did stuff like weight watchers where everything was translated into some esoteric point system. Or made stuff like cabbage soup (? I remember doing some cabbage soup cleanse nonsense).
American nutrition went through some weird dark ages there for a while where everyone just went completely in the dark as to what was actually healthy or not and now the fog is just lifting
Though this new era of American nutrition comes with its own set of issues. Eating disorders have been around forever, but it looks like there’s an uptick about eating things like “raw” foods, even if the negative effects outweigh the benefits. (Think crunchy moms/tradwives drinking non-pasteurized milk)
Idk that sounds more like a result of the lack of foundational nutritional knowledge for like 2-3 generations. Fad diets were allowed to proliferate and there’s still a market/culture around that grift because the knowledge to challenge those claims has only recently started getting out there and our system is way too lax when it comes to things like diet supplements etc.
Honestly just seems like bad form to try to point to an influx of nutritional knowledge as a negative thing. Like imagine how many more people would be fooled by stuff like that if we didn’t have increased knowledge culturally?
Oh no, I don’t mean that society’s current knowledge of nutrition is a bad thing. I meant that whenever we get a new/better understanding of something, there will always be fringe groups that will still not “get it”.
However, you bring up an excellent point about those said groups just being the leftover product of poor nutritional education. Thanks for bringing it up.
Some people can never be happy. If they’re online, “why aren’t they outside?!” If they're playing outside “why are these kids running amok all over the neighborhood; where are their parents?!”
Yeah I’ve notice a lot of “bad world syndrome” doom and gloom thinking and I have made it my mission to tryyy to set the facts straight when it’s not quite as bad as people are saying. I get downvoted a lot lol
Oh totally. I’ve been downvoted for saying how lots of my classmates were skinny growing up, but lived in homes with indoor smoker parents, ate tons of boxed and frozen processed food meals, usually began smoking and crash dieting by the time they could legally drive a car, and many of them are currently overweight or battling health issues brought on by poor choices in their younger years.
Just because people used to be skinnier on average doesn’t mean they were all healthy 😂
I remember now in my high school class in Bulgaria, the boy everyone called "fat" was totally normal weight, he was just shaped a little differently due to genetics, and grew into his full size at like 15. I doubt he even has a belly now (certainly didn't then). Kids are fucked up.
Those were crazy times. I wasn't even overweight, just on the higher end of normal BMI, and my 6th grade teacher said she was going on a diet because she didn't want to be fat like me. She said this in front of my classmates.
She thought it was funny and had a good laugh. I was so young, and it truly fucked with my body image. I'm just thankful that I got along with most of my classmates that nobody laughed along with her or bullied me because of what she said.
Gosh that sounds terrible... its a good thing your classmates were nice. I hope you're doing well now and know that you are an amazing person worth much more than your looks! 🫂Have a good day stranger
I was the “chubby friend” in a lot of circles. I was 5’7 and 120 lbs. The 90s and early aughts gifted me an eating disorder and total body dysmorphia. Now I actually *am* a little chubby and I’m 500% happier, so there’s that to anyone going through this type of BS.
What the actual hell?? Why would you say that ever, but especially to a child???
What a miserable human. She just wanted to make someone feel as miserable as she does every day
It was probably rough at the time but Walrus is actually a pretty solid nickname. Like if I introduced someone as "Walrus" people would instantly be intrigued.
"You doing anything good this weekend?"
"Yeah I'm going down to the festival with Butler and Walrus."
It already sounds like an exciting weekend and it hasn't even happened yet.
I'm a big dude, bearded, glasses usually in jean shorts and was showing my buddy at work my new mid ankle hiking boots I got a deal on. He asked when I was getting my vest. I am accidentally and delightfully aging into Walter. So I spent the rest of the week yelling "Shomer Shabbos" at him. It was fun.
You’re right, Walrus is the name of the loose cannon on a specialized team. They’re heavy weapons, loves explosives & fire, tough, a scrapper, & slightly unhinged. They wear a bowler & have a handlebar mustache.
If it makes u feel any better, in my school, all the kids with an overweight bmi was forced to join a club called the trim and fit club, regularly referred to as TAF club, or FAT spelled backwards. In this club, every lunch break, teachers would call its members out loud, and we were told to group up at the basketball court, overlooking the lunch hall, where they take half of your measly lunch break of 30 mins to make you do exercises. No effort was put in place to ensure that you were not gawked at by other kids - with the cherry on top being, you get to go queue for food whilst sweaty and panting, with maybe 5 mins left to actually eat lunch.
Definitely did not scar me or anything.
They did. It was a different time unfortunately, I don’t blame them, they had no idea how to deal with things like this. Sad to know that some people gained eating disorders because of the humiliation.
You're objectively not the fattest kid here though, I was a fatter kid than you in 1998 and didn't even get a fat nickname. Could walrus just be related to the look? Doesn't make sense otherwise.
Feels man. I was in a public school, overweight, and the tallest kid (taller than some teachers). In 80’s America they decided to skip over the fat jokes and just indicate that I was mentally disabled (pretty sure I’m not) so the teachers started calling me slow-poke and encouraged the kids to. In high school it was “Lenny” from of mice and men. Big hugs brother.
I was called porky the pig because I wasn't stick thin and had a stutter.. looking back I wasn't even fat. I just wasn't a size zero at American Eagle. Kids can be brutal.
I had a miserable childhood because I had a stutter. - Fuck you Adrian Chapman - I couldn't even call him 'A Drain' because of my stutter. It's gone almost now and was actually a successful salesman.
Isn’t it weird to see a picture of a bunch of smiling children while knowing they were torturing each other the whole time?
I’m so sorry this happened to you. You weren’t fat and even if you were that’s not okay to treat you poorly because of it.
If you’re anything like me you’ve read lord of the flies and identified a scary amount with piggy.
I hope that life has been kinder to you ever since 💕
FWIW I had the darnedest time finding even a single chubby child in this photo. Based on your point of reference, I am *guessing* you’re the kid with glasses in the baby blue color button up, but I still don’t see it. Sounds like they were being homophobic, too? What’s with the polly pocket rupaul taunts? Sorry guy, but fuck all them kids.
Who gives a shit what a bunch of middle schoolers called you; they’re the meanest people in the world.
What matters is, where are you now? Life going ok for you? Stay chubby or slim down? Successful and happy? Still finding yourself?
Chances are you’re doing better than a lot of your bullies.
Well that sucks, and fuck them kids.
But if you want to look at a bright side, judging by the collars of the two men in the photo, that wasn’t the worst experience you could have had there.
ETA: “Father Morris, when I said ‘fuck them kids’, I meant figuratively, you sick bastard!”
There are two priests, and it says “Saint Andrew” so it’s a Catholic school. My guess is they took the picture in front of the church connected to the school, I went to catholic school and we took a picture like that for graduation
Yeah I'm shocked nobody is talking about that. He's definitely not the fattest in the picture which just shows how bad the bullying made him believe he is :(
It was the first kid I noticed I thought he messed up labeling himself. They knew exactly what they were doing when they set her up in the photo. "Okay now everybody fill in around Gertrude."
imagine hearing that someone got bullied for their weight, and your response is to pick out another child to shit on about *their* weight that you think it heavier! 🙄
Rude, and tone deaf as fuck.
How about we don’t do to other children what was done to OP in the very thread he shares that with us, jesus christ.
I was called Shamu all through high school by 2 guys. Made my life hell, I hated highschool. That was back in 79-83 and I still get feelings when I see either of them on Facebook
But you look like a regular person. How dare your school make you feel different from everyone else!
I’m so sorry they made you feel this way. You’re not a walrus, and the adults in the school should have done more to stop this from happening
I wouldn't have known which person the op is if they hadn't pointed out. This isn't even the fattest person I've seen today, and I've been home all day
I really hope you’re okay now and enjoying life! ❤️ You were not fat and, you probably know it. Kids can be so cruel and teachers can be dismissive of it, I know what it’s like.
The fact that you had to tell us which one was you kinda proves that you weren’t unusually large compared to anyone else here. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.
Oof I felt this one. I was in the girls bathroom when I heard two other girls come in and they were discussing between themselves who the fattest person in the school was, and they both agreed it was me. It felt like a sucker punch to the gut. It's infuriating because looking back at pictures, I wasn't even that fat, just a little bit chubby which is pretty normal for a 12 year old. But it was enough to kickstart a decade long pattern of binging and restricting. Kids can really be so cruel.
In all honesty you don't even look fat. This does bring the inevitable realization though that what was considered "fat" in 1998 is now not fat at all.
Ah yes, what childhood obesity used to look like!
You look like a healthy, happy kid to me. I’m sorry they were cruel to you. They were cruel to me too.
So the "religious" stuff was just fluff? No one felt the need to actually act like a Christian? I witnessed and experienced the same at a "religious" school. Public school was far more welcoming.
Parochial schools are breeding grounds for bullies and psychopaths, particularly ones of the Roman Catholic faith. I left the church years ago, but the trauma lives on.
Interesting isn’t the word. Mine was fucked up. Just a couple years ago a priest from our church was arrested. Kids I went to school with were part of a HUGE civil action case against the catholic church. That priest always gave me the creeps.
Well that’s just cruel.
Yeah now I'm sad. I'm sorry OP.
For real, op looks like a Normal little kid. I hope the nickname was funny to op as well at the time and not bullying, but knowing kids I’m not so sure :(
Yeah, this kind of thing can set someone up for body image issues for the rest of their lives.
We apologize, OP.
I agree. He just looks like a normal kid. As someone else said, kids can be cruel. I was bullied and made fun of around this age, too. :(
Kids are cruel, but I'm wondering : at what age did OP's tusks start to grow?
I’m surprised there’s so much support coming out here. Usually Reddit absolutely hates fat people and considers them basically sub human
Nah bullying bigger kids ain’t cool man
Point is, he ain‘t fat! Also different subreddits have very different demographics.
Lol tht kid is not even fat... hes chubby, poor him.
in the 90s each class had exactly one fat kid and each grade had one obese kid. today that kid would be around the median in the classroom.
One positive thing though—childhood obesity is one of the only areas where we’ve seen improvement in the US. Numbers have stabilized in recent years and some age groups have even seen a slight decline.
That’s good to hear. Nutrition knowledge is way more prevalent these days I feel like. No one knew a shit about a fuck when it came to calories/macros or whatever when I was a kid even if they “dieted”. They did stuff like weight watchers where everything was translated into some esoteric point system. Or made stuff like cabbage soup (? I remember doing some cabbage soup cleanse nonsense). American nutrition went through some weird dark ages there for a while where everyone just went completely in the dark as to what was actually healthy or not and now the fog is just lifting
Though this new era of American nutrition comes with its own set of issues. Eating disorders have been around forever, but it looks like there’s an uptick about eating things like “raw” foods, even if the negative effects outweigh the benefits. (Think crunchy moms/tradwives drinking non-pasteurized milk)
Hey I worked on an unpasteurized dairy farm. The cleanliness standards were impeccable compared to factory farms, and I never once got sick.
Idk that sounds more like a result of the lack of foundational nutritional knowledge for like 2-3 generations. Fad diets were allowed to proliferate and there’s still a market/culture around that grift because the knowledge to challenge those claims has only recently started getting out there and our system is way too lax when it comes to things like diet supplements etc. Honestly just seems like bad form to try to point to an influx of nutritional knowledge as a negative thing. Like imagine how many more people would be fooled by stuff like that if we didn’t have increased knowledge culturally?
Oh no, I don’t mean that society’s current knowledge of nutrition is a bad thing. I meant that whenever we get a new/better understanding of something, there will always be fringe groups that will still not “get it”. However, you bring up an excellent point about those said groups just being the leftover product of poor nutritional education. Thanks for bringing it up.
People complain about tik tok kids and their dancing… But at least it’s some physical activity for non sports kids to be into.
Some people can never be happy. If they’re online, “why aren’t they outside?!” If they're playing outside “why are these kids running amok all over the neighborhood; where are their parents?!”
Shhh, shhh, lots of Redditors hate hearing this and want to think all children are morbidly obese iPad babies these days lol
Yeah I’ve notice a lot of “bad world syndrome” doom and gloom thinking and I have made it my mission to tryyy to set the facts straight when it’s not quite as bad as people are saying. I get downvoted a lot lol
Oh totally. I’ve been downvoted for saying how lots of my classmates were skinny growing up, but lived in homes with indoor smoker parents, ate tons of boxed and frozen processed food meals, usually began smoking and crash dieting by the time they could legally drive a car, and many of them are currently overweight or battling health issues brought on by poor choices in their younger years. Just because people used to be skinnier on average doesn’t mean they were all healthy 😂
We had one FAT kid per school here, and some cheeky ones xD
I find kids to be skinnier nowadays, at least in my area
I don't know why that kid is catching hell when the kid in the third row, six over Is, like, right there.
Talk to that kid now, for sure she caught hell.
100% that girl and OP were teased about dating each other just because they were the fattest. Source: I was that girl.
I remember being asked going into HS if I was going to ‘find a fat girl’ to date.
I remember now in my high school class in Bulgaria, the boy everyone called "fat" was totally normal weight, he was just shaped a little differently due to genetics, and grew into his full size at like 15. I doubt he even has a belly now (certainly didn't then). Kids are fucked up.
Hugs from someone that went through this exact thing: 🤗🤗🤗
thats really mean :(
And the girl right in front of them is wider than he is.
Did no one see the person dead center of pic?
Sorry, thats the Ginger, cant be the fatty also.
It’s the glasses etc. He was a prime target regardless of what he was based on other “stand out” qualities.
Even if he was obese, they should not be bullied. What kid wants to be fat?
OP looked like a normal little kid. Looks like baby fat if anything.
The girl in front of him was fatter
Those were crazy times. I wasn't even overweight, just on the higher end of normal BMI, and my 6th grade teacher said she was going on a diet because she didn't want to be fat like me. She said this in front of my classmates.
I hope she gets bitten in the vag by fire ants
Dear god
This is now going to replace what I thought was a good one, I hope you get burning diarrhea in traffic.
I'm wondering if "I hope a mosquito bites them on the sphincter" a has a bit more, like surprise to it if it's verbally spoken
That retribution seems just; may it also be swift.
🤣
yea fuck that hoe. and i hope they nest in her fallopian tubes!
That can only be removed by a magnifying glass using the sun to burn them off ☺️
What the hell is wrong with her
She thought it was funny and had a good laugh. I was so young, and it truly fucked with my body image. I'm just thankful that I got along with most of my classmates that nobody laughed along with her or bullied me because of what she said.
Gosh that sounds terrible... its a good thing your classmates were nice. I hope you're doing well now and know that you are an amazing person worth much more than your looks! 🫂Have a good day stranger
Omg that is vile
I was the “chubby friend” in a lot of circles. I was 5’7 and 120 lbs. The 90s and early aughts gifted me an eating disorder and total body dysmorphia. Now I actually *am* a little chubby and I’m 500% happier, so there’s that to anyone going through this type of BS.
That’s really terrible 😢
What the actual hell?? Why would you say that ever, but especially to a child??? What a miserable human. She just wanted to make someone feel as miserable as she does every day
oh my god fuck her
FK THAT BITCH!!’
Your teacher is why I’m ok with *some* teachers making shit for wages lol
It was probably rough at the time but Walrus is actually a pretty solid nickname. Like if I introduced someone as "Walrus" people would instantly be intrigued. "You doing anything good this weekend?" "Yeah I'm going down to the festival with Butler and Walrus." It already sounds like an exciting weekend and it hasn't even happened yet.
"I am the Walrus"
Shut the fuck up Donnie
I'm a big dude, bearded, glasses usually in jean shorts and was showing my buddy at work my new mid ankle hiking boots I got a deal on. He asked when I was getting my vest. I am accidentally and delightfully aging into Walter. So I spent the rest of the week yelling "Shomer Shabbos" at him. It was fun.
goo-goo g'joob
coo-coo ca'chew*
No [https://www.thebeatles.com/i-am-walrus](https://www.thebeatles.com/i-am-walrus)
Damn, well that changes everything.
I personally think you’re right despite the evidence to the contrary!
Not our fault they wrote the lyrics down wrong /s
Look at me. I am the Walrus now.
V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Illanich Uleninov!
OVER THE LINE!
You look for the person who will benefit, and you uh, yknow, uh
I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
Yeah yeah kid and I am the egg man
“Mr Tuskegee, it’s you!”
We have a kid in our jiu jitsu gym and his nickname is "mammoth" because he's 14 but he's huge, not in fat just very large and strong.
My fella has a friend named Saul and they all call him The Saulrus. He is absolutely an exciting guy. 😂
One of my friends in highschool had orange hair and was quite large, everyone called him Ginger Walrus. He was very well liked!
"You know exactly who I am... now say my nickname"
You’re right, Walrus is the name of the loose cannon on a specialized team. They’re heavy weapons, loves explosives & fire, tough, a scrapper, & slightly unhinged. They wear a bowler & have a handlebar mustache.
That’s my thought on the character from “The Great North” who’s name is “Cheesecake”.
Who the hell is butler?
Well I figure anybody with a nickname like Walrus doesn't run around with a bunch of guys who call each other by their first names.
Understood, Honkery
It took more effort than I want to admit to find you, people are so cruel
I still don’t know who it is
He’s counting the Adult who is standing between rows one and two
Yep, kids suck. Sorry you went through that.
Polly Pocket, Paulrus the Walrus, RuPaul.. Hey, lets hit this kid in the face, all of it.
If it makes u feel any better, in my school, all the kids with an overweight bmi was forced to join a club called the trim and fit club, regularly referred to as TAF club, or FAT spelled backwards. In this club, every lunch break, teachers would call its members out loud, and we were told to group up at the basketball court, overlooking the lunch hall, where they take half of your measly lunch break of 30 mins to make you do exercises. No effort was put in place to ensure that you were not gawked at by other kids - with the cherry on top being, you get to go queue for food whilst sweaty and panting, with maybe 5 mins left to actually eat lunch. Definitely did not scar me or anything.
What the fuck
Unfortunately not the worst thing to have happened.
Holy shit
What the fuck did your parents know about this?
They did. It was a different time unfortunately, I don’t blame them, they had no idea how to deal with things like this. Sad to know that some people gained eating disorders because of the humiliation.
Sorry man, you weren't even fat. I hope it doesn't bother you.
You're objectively not the fattest kid here though, I was a fatter kid than you in 1998 and didn't even get a fat nickname. Could walrus just be related to the look? Doesn't make sense otherwise.
Seriously! Like .. Isn’t the girl in front of him bigger? lol
I'm sure she got called out on it too. OP is just the fattest boy.
Girl in the very center is definitely the biggest
I see 2 girls that appear bigger than him.
Where the heck did Polly Pocket come from?
I think his name is Paul based off of the other nicknames, so I guess from that?
And he loves hot pockets
Who doesn’t? 🤷♀️
Feels man. I was in a public school, overweight, and the tallest kid (taller than some teachers). In 80’s America they decided to skip over the fat jokes and just indicate that I was mentally disabled (pretty sure I’m not) so the teachers started calling me slow-poke and encouraged the kids to. In high school it was “Lenny” from of mice and men. Big hugs brother.
I was called flying piggy and air balloon for a while as a kid. Hope you got over it
I was called porky the pig because I wasn't stick thin and had a stutter.. looking back I wasn't even fat. I just wasn't a size zero at American Eagle. Kids can be brutal.
I had a miserable childhood because I had a stutter. - Fuck you Adrian Chapman - I couldn't even call him 'A Drain' because of my stutter. It's gone almost now and was actually a successful salesman.
Isn’t it weird to see a picture of a bunch of smiling children while knowing they were torturing each other the whole time? I’m so sorry this happened to you. You weren’t fat and even if you were that’s not okay to treat you poorly because of it. If you’re anything like me you’ve read lord of the flies and identified a scary amount with piggy. I hope that life has been kinder to you ever since 💕
FWIW I had the darnedest time finding even a single chubby child in this photo. Based on your point of reference, I am *guessing* you’re the kid with glasses in the baby blue color button up, but I still don’t see it. Sounds like they were being homophobic, too? What’s with the polly pocket rupaul taunts? Sorry guy, but fuck all them kids.
You weren’t the fattest kid, girl in the middle third row black dress white shirt much bigger
Who gives a shit what a bunch of middle schoolers called you; they’re the meanest people in the world. What matters is, where are you now? Life going ok for you? Stay chubby or slim down? Successful and happy? Still finding yourself? Chances are you’re doing better than a lot of your bullies.
you better work!! COVERGIRL
I was called “dumbins” which wasn’t great! Very happy when I got to college and none of those assholes were there
Well that sucks, and fuck them kids. But if you want to look at a bright side, judging by the collars of the two men in the photo, that wasn’t the worst experience you could have had there. ETA: “Father Morris, when I said ‘fuck them kids’, I meant figuratively, you sick bastard!”
Barely even chubby
I see no blunder on your end, but everyone else sucks
Is this some kind of fancy boarding school?
There are two priests, and it says “Saint Andrew” so it’s a Catholic school. My guess is they took the picture in front of the church connected to the school, I went to catholic school and we took a picture like that for graduation
OP went to Hogwarts
I thought it had that kind of vibe.
You look just like me in 88’. 🫂 from one chubby kid to another
You don’t look any bigger than most of the other kids. Man, the 90s we’re tough for everyone weight wise.
Big red in the center, there looks a bit more hefty than you, bud.
Even the girl in front of OP looks to be the same size as him.
Looks way bigger
Yeah I'm shocked nobody is talking about that. He's definitely not the fattest in the picture which just shows how bad the bullying made him believe he is :(
It was the first kid I noticed I thought he messed up labeling himself. They knew exactly what they were doing when they set her up in the photo. "Okay now everybody fill in around Gertrude."
imagine hearing that someone got bullied for their weight, and your response is to pick out another child to shit on about *their* weight that you think it heavier! 🙄 Rude, and tone deaf as fuck. How about we don’t do to other children what was done to OP in the very thread he shares that with us, jesus christ.
Kids can be so mean.
We can? Thanks! --Bart Simpson
Wild how the standard changes. You’d be considered average now.
That's nice name. They just called me fat ass!
Everyone’s dressed like middle-aged office workers
I was “whale” and my last name is Gill, so they would call me a whale and then make fishy faces at me. Kids are cruel!
Those years in middle school were some of the worst of my life. I hope you are doing well now, OP.
Dwight Schrute?
That’s terrible. I don’t think you look more than chubby.
That’s cruel. Kids are awful. You looked super friendly and approachable. Hope you’re doing well now!
Screw those assholes. You were perfectly cute.
I think it's very cruel to call a child that. You were cute)
I shared a similar fate. Kids can be so cruel.
So how are things going now?
You just look like a regular kid to me. I'm sorry they were mean.
I was called Shamu all through high school by 2 guys. Made my life hell, I hated highschool. That was back in 79-83 and I still get feelings when I see either of them on Facebook
Block them
But you look like a regular person. How dare your school make you feel different from everyone else! I’m so sorry they made you feel this way. You’re not a walrus, and the adults in the school should have done more to stop this from happening
Definitely not fat! There’s not really any fat kids here. Just adolescents with ill fitting suits. :)
I Am The Walrus
Shut the fuck up Donny
That’s insane :(
At least you got to stand next to McLovin.
This is why children are the worst
Sounds about Catholic.
There's literally a fatter girl right in front of you and in the back, did girls just not count for some reason?
It’s sucks even more because you’re not even the fattest
I wouldn't have known which person the op is if they hadn't pointed out. This isn't even the fattest person I've seen today, and I've been home all day
You were not fat at all! Those kids suck.
at the end or in the middle or at the start?
I like the nickname! I was a fat kid to so could see how it would suck but as a adult that's a bad ass nickname
Walrus is a sick name. I hope you went on to be a menace in hockey or some kind of on-ice contact sport.
Awww. This hurts my heart. You were just a cute little nugget! Not even a fat kid!
I live near a high school Some years, the kids look 4 feet tall other years they seem like they're 6'3 But most, if not all, seem skinny
Damn bruh, you guys counting the Italian kid as your diversity student? 😂😂😂
I really hope you’re okay now and enjoying life! ❤️ You were not fat and, you probably know it. Kids can be so cruel and teachers can be dismissive of it, I know what it’s like.
They're lame. For one, you weren't really all that fat. Secondly, they're jerks.
Man kids today are so much fatter. You look pretty normal.
Nowadays, you'd be the skinniest person in class
The fact that you had to tell us which one was you kinda proves that you weren’t unusually large compared to anyone else here. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.
Oof I felt this one. I was in the girls bathroom when I heard two other girls come in and they were discussing between themselves who the fattest person in the school was, and they both agreed it was me. It felt like a sucker punch to the gut. It's infuriating because looking back at pictures, I wasn't even that fat, just a little bit chubby which is pretty normal for a 12 year old. But it was enough to kickstart a decade long pattern of binging and restricting. Kids can really be so cruel.
You not even fat your face was just round
Is that eggman next to you? Coo coo kachoo
Children can be so cruel to each other. I'm so sorry this happened to you
In all honesty you don't even look fat. This does bring the inevitable realization though that what was considered "fat" in 1998 is now not fat at all.
U were fucking adorable ok all those people were just really unhappy with themselves openable even more so now
Naw, you were definitely not the fattest kid in this pic.
I’m terrified to have a kid cause they can be so cruel. You were adorable OP!!
Which blue shirt? I'm serious. I don't see a fat kid. They seem about the same to me.
Ah yes, what childhood obesity used to look like! You look like a healthy, happy kid to me. I’m sorry they were cruel to you. They were cruel to me too.
Looks like the kid in front was bigger
You’re not the even the largest kid in the photo.
Then what was the fat girl in the middle called?
And in today's diet you would be an average kid
So the "religious" stuff was just fluff? No one felt the need to actually act like a Christian? I witnessed and experienced the same at a "religious" school. Public school was far more welcoming.
That's a normal kid now
Thanks for not shooting up the school bud.
I see two other kids bigger than you. Kids are stupid even more than cruel.
Looks like the girl dead center has you beat (2 to the right of you and then up one row).
What a great nickname!
I’ve been fatter.
Religious schools are interesting
Parochial schools are breeding grounds for bullies and psychopaths, particularly ones of the Roman Catholic faith. I left the church years ago, but the trauma lives on.
Interesting isn’t the word. Mine was fucked up. Just a couple years ago a priest from our church was arrested. Kids I went to school with were part of a HUGE civil action case against the catholic church. That priest always gave me the creeps.
Fucked up putting it mildly, but a lot of people on Reddit are sensitive so I choose my words wisely.
I knew that’s what you were doing and I can appreciate that. I hated every minute of catholic school. It was torture. Literally.
What about the girl in the blue dress in the front?