SUPERSIZE IT
By Alexis Adams - Gleaton

No this isn't about Fast Food. It is about my life as a Supersize Women. This is part one of a series that I will write about my life and obstacles I face because of my size. Every day I wake up and realize that its one more day inside a shell that if given one wish I would discard without another thought. I started this group Bigger and Better in my effort to promote the issue I have to put first in my life, Size Acceptance. Its not just one of those "volunteer organizations" that I could participate in.It is my life. All day every day I am forced to think about size. Can I fit through a door? Will that Chair hold me? Is the doorway wide enough? How many feet is it from my car to the door? Can I reach inside a fold of my skin to keep clean? These are my realities. People look at me whereever I go.(which is not many places since i really haven't left the house in 5 years
except for twice). Everyone seems to always tell me that they know a diet I can try. Well, you know
I am the Queen of Diets. My crown has so many stones from broken diets its to heavy to wear.If I could diet successfully I'd be thin right now. It's not to say I don't keep trying because I do. However, despite that whether or not I diet isn't the issue. I reserve the right to be treated with total respect and dignity. I demand to be given the same opportunities in employment. If I can do the job then I should be allowed to have the opportunity to. When I go in a store I should have easy access to the facilities and merchandise. In restaurants there should be apropriate seating.Same in theatres.In hospitals I should have the same amount of respect & dignity as my thin counterpart . As well as the same medical care and treatments.

It is important that people in our everyday lives that are not Fat become educated about the size discrimination. We need to promote size acceptance as a concept and makE the issue of FAT an issue of politics by advocating for the passage of bills that would add height/weight to the civil law statutes, thereby providing legal recourse to people discriminated against on the basis of height or weight.