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TEEN WEIGHT & POPULARITY I'd like to share a very interesting story with you about how some people perceive overweight individuals. My Internet provider is America Online (AOL) and they give you the ability to pick out many screen names. As an experiment one day, I decided to make a rare appearance in a chat room. My online screen name? Humongous Heidi. As soon as I entered the room, people began making fun of overweight people. It was absolutely terrible. I didn't say much at all, because I wanted an accurate character study. While in the chat room, I also noticed that the people who had the popular screen names were the 'stars' of the room. It didn't matter what they said, the girls would go 'GA GA' and the guys would go 'GOO'. Nonetheless, by the time that I left the chat room, practically everyone was really enjoying talking to me. The frustration in it all was that I had to work very hard to 'make them like me'.
The interesting thing about the study is that in a chat room, you really have no idea what a person looks like. Everyone 'assumes', beginning with the name. Does this study indicate that if a person is overweight they will never be popular? NO WAY! There are plenty of overweight people in the world who are extremely popular. This is the thing: If a person is overweight, they have to try a little bit harder than slim people to achieve what they want from life. All the time? NO!! But sadly, most of the time they do because some people are biased against overweight people. If you are overweight, think about how you feel about a really popular, snobbish thin person. That's how it feels. Try to focus on ditching those unwanted pounds and on what YOU want to achieve in life rather than what someone else has achieved. You've got a lifetime to be popular and as long as you're comfortable with yourself, that's the most important footnote in life! As for dealing with how other people negatively treat you about your weight, brush it off and go forward. If they were so perfect themself, they wouldn't be making other people miserable. |
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