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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In middle school I was definitely a bit overweight. My mom was 350 pounds. Once she came to a school event and a frenemy said in the smarmiest voice - “wow you look just like your mom.”  My mom said something to me that indicated that she understood that comment was not said kindly, but of course I already knew that.  Many years later I had a child and I still to this day cringe anytime anyone says she looks like me because deep in my core it feels like it must be an insult.

Looking for commiseration, not advice to go to the therapy. [/quote]

I am so sorry - that comment was clearly meant to cut. I had an older sibling - now passed - with a congenital syndrome with physical features. Whom I thought was my closest friend at the time told another friend that I looked just like my sister. That friend told me. Yes, she was a little catty, but her parents were also health professionals, one working in mental health, so I think she knew it was messed up. I never said anything to that friend as it was so unbelievably cruel towards me but also towards my sister and that is what may have hurt more - I never forgot it.[/quote]

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