Even though every incident happened to different people (and not Caroline) I am just curious if the following incidents did happen to one person who I will name Caroline and it happened to her over a period of ten years and Caroline posted each incident right after they happened and received answers that made her feel better should Caroline forget about the incidents because she got reassurance from this typs of website and each incident happened many years apart. HERE ARE THE STORIES: (A) In the year 2003 a male clerk tells Caroline who does NOT weigh more than 110 pounds she weighs 130 and he said this with her standing behind a partition and all he could see of her was her arms and face and she was wearing a coat; (B) In July 2004 a chunky girl tells Caroline (a thin girl who is always told by strangers, relatives, and friends she is thin/skinny, looks like a size 4) that the chunky girl thinks Caroline is average and size 8, then pauses and adds in size 10; (C) In June 1991 a cousin asks Caroline are you a size 8 or 10 and when Caroline says size 8, the cousin said I thought so; (D) In September 1997 a vendor tells Caroline who is thin/skinny; you have to be a size 10, my daughter is a size 10 I am selling jeans which are a size 10; (E) In August 1987 A masseuse tells Caroline who is thin/skinny with no cellulite "You should use a cellulite cream; (f) Caroline was standing behind the Xerox machine and asked another girl if she thought Caroline was thin, and first the girl said well in a hesitant voice but later on saw Caroline standing erect and told Caroline she is very thin, and only said well because she never sees Caroline standing; KEEP IN MIND THOSE SAME YEARS, AND YEARS BEFORE AND AFTER CAROLINE IS TOLD SHE IS THIN/SKINNY AND LOOKS LIKE A SIZE 4
Sabine answered Sunday April 1 2007, 8:02 am: I can't believe you're still obsessing about this. You are thin. Why do you care about all of these things that people may or may not have been saying about you (given your interpretation). It's easy to know that you are the same poster who has been told time and again that you need to take people at their word.
Here's a revelation for you: there are many different size 8's. Each clothing line gets to decide what their size 8 is going to be. It might be a 4 or a 12 in another line. Most people, especially if they are either much bigger or much smaller, have no idea what a 'size 8 woman' would look like, anyway, because we don't usually share our numbers. Plus, 'chunky' women are more likely to think that you are a higher number because they know their own dress sizes and they wouldn't want to be that far off from thin. Men are notoriously bad at guessing weight. Moreover these are numbers and arbitrary ones at that.
I wonder why a massage therapist who sells cellulite cream would say you need it if you didn't? Maybe she needed the sale.
The bigger issue, which I have personally advised you on, is this: why are you letting a few snarky comments over the last TWENTY years!!! upset you to the point that today you're writing in and asking for validation from people who've never seen you that you are indeed thin? This is not healthy behavior. You are likely thin, but mentally maladaptive. Keep ruminating on these incidents and you will never move past them. Do you want to? Or would you rather be cataloguing every perceived slight for the judgment of strangers in 2027 because you can't let go?
Sabine
Your reply: "First of all the girl was standing behind a partition and all he could see was her arms and face and she was wearing a coat."
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