This is a poignant exploration of a subject that concerns us all, but especially those who suffer the scorn and cruelties that are a product of social conditioning all who live in a materialistic and often highly superficial receive from commercially structured artificial realities inculcated by marketing biases & prejudice. One of the first things all of us must accept and learn to live with is that life is basically unfair. Biogenetic dynamics ‘engineer’ each of us as we are and this often runs against the popular construct of voguish prejudices that dictate aesthetics in our superficial culture. Consequently, everyone suffers…some far more than others who may have had a luckier birthright. Given the extreme vulnerability we all experience in the insecurity that is adolescence, it is terribly difficult to cope with that sort of adverse social bias (e.g. social bias against ‘fat’) by peers amidst the daily savageries that comprise extreme youthfulness. You’ve done an excellent job in portraying a very ‘up-close-and-personal’ vignette, here. If you’ll pardon a poorly chosen metaphor, it is certainly ‘food for thought’. I enjoyed reading this, but more importantly I think we have all learned more about this subject thanks to your efforts here.