Since this morning of Tuesday June 30, a hashtag is more and more used on Twitter: #balancetongrossophobe. Many victims of grossophobia have denounced the discrimination they have suffered. Suffice to say that some testimonies are alarming as grossophobia, even today, remains very present in the daily life of certain individuals. Many have also told humiliating and hurtful anecdotes that they received from their attending physician. Remarks which should not take place so intrusive and, above all, insulting.
Then, others expressed the grossophobia that they have suffered daily since childhood, in the playground for example. Mockery, humiliation and the lack of support from adults, parents or teachers are omnipresent for many. It is a plague which, still in 2020, we are trying to fight. If the hashtag started from a good intention, it was unfortunately a means for others to decribute the cause. Some have used it to make people victims of grossophobia feel guilty.
Once my grandfather told me "you will never have a boyfriend, they would be too afraid that you would crush them during the night", I was 5 years old and I was not overweight #balancetongrossophobe #viseuxjustetweeter
– Delioush-L (@RigoleMaddy) June 29, 2020
in college, harassed, they called me "the whale" every day, saying that I had earthquakes while walking, they killed my self-confidence, 5 years later I still can't accept my body that has changed, the words hurt #balancetongrossophobe
– sen (@senadamsss) June 29, 2020
#balancetongrossophobe to be afraid to go to the swimming pool with her friends who are all thin, to have a joke on her weight or her corpulence in her own group of friends, not to be supported by my friends when the insults flare up, to be afraid of the looks. .. the summary of my life …
– hellobitchessss (@ hellobitchesss6) June 30, 2020
I was in primary school. I came into the classroom crying and the teacher asked me what was wrong. I replied that the others had called me fat. And there she looked me straight in the eye and said, "It's okay, you're fat". 1/2 #balancetongrossophobe
– Jo ⭐⭐ (@Jo_darky) June 30, 2020
My doctor told me in front of my mother who did not react "you should really go on a diet there haha" then he added before I leave "otherwise no one will ever want you and you will be sad all your life" j cried home #balancetongrossophobe
– loryne ? (@ loryne1712) June 29, 2020