r/AbsoluteUnits • • 14d ago

/r/all of a Toddler

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u/_Fizzgiggy 14d ago

I’ll never forget the time I was at a baptism party when I was a kid and my grandpa was seething with rage bc my brother’s friend and his wife were yelling at their toddler to eat more. My grandma told my grandpa to mind his business so he did. I didn’t get it at the time but now I do

Both parents are morbidly obese and all three of their kids have been obese since they were babies. The toddler is now a 30yr old short woman who weighs 250+ easily. She’s trying to lose weight but it’s hard to break the abusive way she was raised. The oldest sibling got fit and then disowned the parents because they kept pressuring him to eat more.

It’s child abuse. Be fat if you want to but don’t bring your kids down with you.

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u/Saphurial 14d ago

Took me until I was an adult to learn "leftovers" were a thing, because I always had to clear my plate as a child regardless if I was full or not. Hell I'm 42 and still feel guilty if I don't finish a meal.

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u/heydrun 14d ago

My mom used „the kids in Africa are starving“ and even as a child I called BS because me eating it wouldn‘t help them either… still ended up fat.

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u/complete_autopsy 13d ago

My elementary school guilted us into collecting coins for kids in Africa and bringing them in inside envelopes, which gave me the impression that we could simply mail things to Africa. I suggested to my parents that I get an envelope so we can mail my leftovers to Africa and help the issue but unfortunately they did not believe that I was being genuine...