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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lwaxy" data-source="post: 5955516" data-attributes="member: 53286">I love BBT, my absolutely fav show right now. And it's seriously not all stereotypes, it's what a lot of people on spectrum are like. I have 2  cousins just like Sheldon, albeit not so clever, and I find  myself in a lot of the things they do. It is finally a show NOT about  neurotypical people. Except for Howard, of course. As for "wear fat better than others" well I can't change the shape of my  body. It is the way it is and swings the way it swings, and it is creating balance issues for me. My brain is used to the much less overweight me from a few years ago and I'm apraxic and have vision problems so you'd see me bumping into things a lot. So I don't think I "wear" fat especially well. It just wears me down. As someone who used to walk everywhere instead of taking bus or tram (including through the whole city and back to the village when there were no trains on holidays) and used to ride bike a lot (none of which is possible anymore) and go swimming I just shake me head when others claim I just didn't exercise enough. Especially doctors. What makes it more annoying is that when you talk about your interests, people assume that I must be fat because of me being a nerd, not because of a zillion annoying medical issues I just don't usually talk about. I'm pretty sure many people who offend others with their body shape have similar medical issues. From the people coming through the self help center, fat people are either chronically sick and often on meds making them fat (I gained about 80 pounds just from meds), have no time to exercise or cook healthy food or are on the low end of incomes. It is totally impossible to make healthy meals for more than a few days with an income on social security. And of course because poor people are seen as lazy, and poor people in our society are often fat instead of underweight, fat is again equalled with lazy. To equal fat with lazy is a very hurtful stereotype. So if someone does not want to game because of "fat lazy people in T-shirts" then they can as well stay away with their prejudice. If they don't want to deal with super nerds, then some may probably learn not all gaming groups contain those. Just as not every football fan group contains hooligans.</blockquote>

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