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This article made me reflect on my childhood
I have this memory of when I was about 8 (but the size of a 12 year old). I didn't look exactly fat in photos -- but I remember feeling large and awkward a lot of the time compared to my peers.
When I was 8 however, i was chasing my cousin through her house, and I fell, and slid on the floor and my foot went right through their wall, creating a hole. My mum's really handy so she patched it up easily but I remember everyone marveling at how I could just "go through the wall" like that. My mum said the wall was like a tofu (soft). But I remember thinking wow. I'm like a real giant.
This brings me back to always not being allowed to "run" anywhere. Other kids would run and my mum would always be yelling at me "no running or you'll fall". Back to the article above, I do at times correlate the 'no running' to issues in older years in regards to clumsiness.
No running could also have been attributed to being born a girl in a time of strong gender stereotypes from a migrant parent.
It makes you wonder how I will parent. I'm not adverse to using those backpacks with the dog leads on them for children. Just saying...
I have this memory of when I was about 8 (but the size of a 12 year old). I didn't look exactly fat in photos -- but I remember feeling large and awkward a lot of the time compared to my peers.
When I was 8 however, i was chasing my cousin through her house, and I fell, and slid on the floor and my foot went right through their wall, creating a hole. My mum's really handy so she patched it up easily but I remember everyone marveling at how I could just "go through the wall" like that. My mum said the wall was like a tofu (soft). But I remember thinking wow. I'm like a real giant.
This brings me back to always not being allowed to "run" anywhere. Other kids would run and my mum would always be yelling at me "no running or you'll fall". Back to the article above, I do at times correlate the 'no running' to issues in older years in regards to clumsiness.
No running could also have been attributed to being born a girl in a time of strong gender stereotypes from a migrant parent.
It makes you wonder how I will parent. I'm not adverse to using those backpacks with the dog leads on them for children. Just saying...
