Upvote for some logic instead of pandering to pressure.

Thank goodness. Everyone was so positive on here I was starting to feel bad thinking about how she might be happier if she made an attempt to lose some weight. A 25 year old with an oxygen tank is not normal.

Exactly, I'm reading this list thinking "they should try traveling in a wheelchair where you can't even stand up" Yes some obesity is medical (I myself put on a lot of weight from medication alone, but took steps to lose said weight) but the vast majority is over eating/ eating the wrong foods/ eating more than you burn off in a day. I get it must be hard, but 99% of obese people can take steps to lower their weight and make traveling easier. I can't do a single thing to stop being disabled and yes year on year, it does get easier to travel in a wheelchair; but there are still lots of places 100% inaccessible to me. Thank you for acknowledging this.

"Downvote me into oblivion." 😂😂😂 In all seriousness, you are absolutely, 100% right. Obesity is an epidemic and society cannot enable it, just like we cannot enable or glorify addiction. The obesity problem is a multi-level one (bad genetics, too much junk food, lack of exercise, various socio-economic factors, etc...) I'll never forget going to Europe at eighteen as an ignorant small-town girl from the US and looking around in wonder thinking, "where are all the fat people?!" Answer; Far better diets from day one, and they walk EVERYWHERE. For context, I was in Italy. It was jarring to say the least. Americans should be ashamed of the gluttony we promote as a society.

My partner and I are both taller than most, and are now heavy, but not morbidly obese. Height, we were born with; weight, we accumulated on our own. We know where we fit and what sorts of transit to avoid. (We last flew two decades ago,) Passenger planes are not designed for either tall or heavy people. Travel elsewise.

It doesn’t matter why people are obese, they still deserve to be able to participate in society

Can we also agree that “plus-sized” and “morbidly obese” are two different things? “Curvy” to me means a body like Marilyn Monroe, not one like Melissa McCarthy.

Once again: she's not suggesting that the world cater to her! She's pointing out travel inconveniences that thinner people don't have to think about. You can blame her all you want, but take a minute to listen to someone different and imagine the world from their perspective before launching into judgement.

This one was actually interesting and eye opening to me. I think having some accomodations some places can actually help people want to lose the weight by not feeling so ashamed in every activity they do. Shame can drive addiction. And shifting through tight tables and chairs, especially if the "healthy" places are designed like this, are prone to keep you in the drive thrus and at home ordering delivery because of shame. Our communities can be a big help to us in some ways. I agree with everyone on not expecting every business to accomodate "wild cards" so to speak, but I disagree that obese people should just have to be in endless discomfort until they conform. For example, other injuries like a back injury can make you disabled even if just for a time. It is absolutely right to enusre there are handicap accesible areas both for the permanently handicapped, and the temporarily handicapped. Nothing wrong with adding a couple booths with tables further out if the owner so chooses.

Thank you. I'm so sick of this, body positivity c**p also. No one is shaming you how you look we just don't want to hear about it daily when your doing it to yourself. I'm chubby. Why? Cause I love food. I don't complain about it. If your worried you might break a toilet you need to make a change in your life. A healthy one.

Well said, dear. Very well said!

Perfectly worded!

A person in a wheelchair caused by them speeding and crashing their car is counted as disabled, a person that decides to get drunk and seriously injures themselves in a drunken stupor is still considered disabled, a person showing off and trying to jump from a roof and paralysed themselves is still counted as disabled yet these are all self inflicted.

I don’t totaly desagree with all your points, but just to be clear, drug addiction is not exactly like food addiction: you can quit all drugs (i’m not saying it’s easy! ) but you can’t quit food, imagine trying to stop your addiction but having to take drug every day to survive, it would’nt be so easy …

Exactly. In almost every case, being fat is a choice.

So they're not allowed to travel, go out for dinner or whatsoever until they've lost weight? I'm all for promoting a healthy weight on people, but should they stay indoors until they've got an average weight/size again?

10 upvotes for you good sir

I am chubby but not addicted to food. I actually try to lose weight because I hate the way I look. Some people might say " try harder" or some s**t like that, but we aren't like most stereotypes about overweight people.

Universal design makes the world a better place for everyone. Why so much hate for larger people? My son is big because of the drugs he takes for a medical condition. It has also been shown through various studies that many obese people do not eat more calories than thinner folks, but their bodies do process them differently, often making it extremely difficult to lose weight and keep it off. It costs you nothing to be kind and less judgmental to others.

Looks like you don't know jack diddly squat about the causes of obesity. They say it's better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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I hear you but they are disabled. Self-induced or not. They are 'dis-abled' by their weight. Same way a competing athlete can be disabled via injury. Technically, the sports person could've decided not to play sport but as they did they now have a brain injury. Society doesnt see the sports person or even the sport - Society doesnt say no, they dont deserve accommodating because they chose to play sport... Society sees the injury; the wheelchair bound person with a clearly 'dis-abling' injury and therefore, disability. Overeating to excess causes injury to the body - Joint issues, breathing complications, gout, blood clots etc which limit a person's ability or 'ableness' to perform certain activities. The disability is not gaining weight - it's the effects or 'injury' to the body which occur as a result. Difference being: much of society only chooses to see the self-induced cause of an obese person's disability rather than their injuries and then ridicules them for that choice. It's unfair and inconsiderate. Everybody makes bad decisions, some more than others, many who are addicts will continue to make bad decisions despite not being ignorant to the possible outcomes. Society should not judge so freely when the majority of us dont know the circumstances to why a stranger has made those choices. The fact, however, remains that they are disabled.

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I guess my response to y'all would be: JFC, look at how much texting you did for something you don't, in fact, struggle with. Why do you care enough to spend so much effort being condescending, hateful, and showing your inability to empathize IN PUBLIC? Because being 'brutally honest' is WAY more about the brutality than the honesty with you entitled freaks.

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That’s a strange way to say you’re a biased jerk.

my god are you really comparing cancer/genetic diseases with obesity you are delusional at this point ,comparing something completely outside of your control with good eating habits is madness, you cant be inclusive when people are harming themselves and destroying their bodies you cant tell them its a good job , what you need is encourage them to be better and actually put effort into keeping themselves alive and well, what father see a child eating themselves to the point it take effort to breathe and say great you are the best.....

it's not a genetic thing.