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David Gillon ([personal profile] davidgillon) wrote 2015-10-23 12:13 am (UTC)

Re: "Oh my!" is right

Ugh!

The intersection of disability and weight seems to bring out the worst in people. No one seems to wonder, even for a moment, whether someone's weight might be a consequence of disability or medication, or even just irrelevant!

Worse, doctors are as prone to it as non-medics, if not worse. I'm lucky in not being particularly overweight by the Sacred Dogma of BMI, but I've heard horrendous stories from others.

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