Fat floats on top. I wish.

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 Seeing how it's summer, let's talk about one of my favorite childhood traumas .... Swimming.

Kids can be cruel. Oh how cruel they can be. Growing up overweight, like so many other kids, I got hit by that realization again and again. The words they said, the things they did ... both left deep emotional scars. Scars so deep they still hurt today. After all it’s not easy to shake of things you’ve heard for at least 13 years.

When you’re a bully you don’t realize what you do to someone. When you’re a kid you don’t realize what it can do to your victims permanently. You just don‘t think about it. Why should you? You had a laugh. And surely forgot about it by the time your puberty ended. But the person you hurt may still hurt ... decades after.

There’s one incident like that in my life which is a good example.