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Here is a REALLY scary statistic -

"Obese girls were only half as likely as non-obese girls to go to college after high school"

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This was totally true for me. Not the parents part, but the rest.



This hits home too. I didn't drink or do drugs, but I was pretty depressed and contemplated suicide a few times as a teen. Kids can be really mean and, even though I lost weight in Jr High School, High School was still very difficult. The last thing I wanted to do after HS was go to college (the JC was right down the street) and have to deal with those same people for 2+ more years.

I wish we could teach young girls that they are so much more than their looks and that many different body shapes are beautiful. It's a really difficult thing in this society.

I think it was only after I went to college and found other girls my size or bigger and learned that not everyone had to be a skinny toothpick to fit in that I overcame a lot of my insucureities. For the first time in my life I saw a fat girl with a good looking and adoring bf! he treated her like a equal and he was not ashamed to show that he liked her in public and he didnt put her down!! and what amazed me more was no one cared! no one poked fun at them or anything they where just a couple! I learned more from watching the people then I did from my classes!

Most girls or boys for that matter dont realize that College is way different then HS! you have people of all ages and races and cultures and shapes sizes and colors and backgrounds... I was ...FREED from my small town world with the small minded views!

It is very sad that kids are so tramatize by hs that they cant move on to college and get the chance to see what I did! In one of my classes I had a woman that was 80 something and she had been a mother of 10 stay at home mom and she was going for a child psychology degree. then in another class there was a girl that was Islamic and could not go anywhere with out her brother. She wore the whacha call it and everything and she wanted to be a Doctor. She was so interesting to me because she could not go anywhere in public with out a male family member with her and she was going to colege to me a Dr. so the women in her country could have health care! and the older woman inspired me to learn something new everyday weather in the class room or not. There was a Guy that was a Quadroplegic and he was going for a business degree. I would hate to think that I let the words of my teachers, classmates, and even my mother stop me from going to college.

anyways I am rambling on.

Great points, Free!

I ended up going back to college in my 30's and loving it. By then I'd been away from HS long enough to have more confidence in myself and learned not to care what others thought of me. The JC I went to was in a different area and people were much nicer there, more diverse than my hometown.

I tell teenagers to go to college even if they only sign up for a few classes and get some general ed out of the way. College is different and, like you said, people are very differnt there than in HS.

Kim - were you able to go to a different college, farther away? That would have gotten you away from the high school crowd, to a new friendly group ...? I'm glad that at least you were able to go back at some point!

FreeSpirit - Your **mother** didn't want you going to college??