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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

"...life is complicated and fat people are trying to live. Same as you." (caution: language)


Here's What It Feels Like to Be a Fat Person on a Plane.


"I have, in my life, been a considerably thinner person and had a fat person sit next to me on a plane. I have also, more recently, been the fat person that makes other travelers' faces fall. Anecdotally, I can verify that being the fat person is almost indescribably worse.
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I'm telling you this right now not to get sympathy or pity, or even to change your opinion about how airplanes should accommodate larger passengers. I'm just telling you, human to human, that life is complicated and fat people are trying to live. Same as you."

Posted by Timothy Craig Allen, M.D.,J.D. at 10:16 AM
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Timothy Craig Allen, M.D.,J.D.
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology in the University of Mississippi Medical School at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. B.S. Texas A&M University 1980; M.D. Baylor College of Medicine 1984; J.D.with honors University of Chicago 1998. Pulmonary Pathologist. Posts ≠ endorsements. Posts are my own and do not necessarily represent my institution.
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