# You were fat; now you're not (or vice verse). Do you get treated differently?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 3, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-were-fat-now-youre-not-or-vice-verse-do-you-get-treated-differently/211184 "2003-11-03T17:30:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-were-fat-now-youre-not-or-vice-verse-do-you-get-treated-differently/211184/41 "2003-11-05T19:29:51Z")

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I used to do that as a child/teenager, **SnoopyFan** , but then again, I had very low self-esteem (which had little or nothing to do with weight). Then life got better, I got happier, and I didn’t do it anymore. In general, I don’t notice people treating me badly, and before I got married, I had some small success generating male interest (which I attribute to my sparkling personality), but as I mentioned in my reply to **mrsface** above, I did notice a lot more initial interest from men when I was closer to my ideal weight. (I didn’t notice that women treated me differently, however.)

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-were-fat-now-youre-not-or-vice-verse-do-you-get-treated-differently/211184/42 "2003-11-05T20:17:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \*  
> \*\*I realized that I had been looking away from her face the entire time we had been talking, even though we were face-to-face. And then I realized that I do that ALL THE TIME. I’m either looking down or away when I talk to someone, and it’s not because I’m looking at other things.
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> Anyone else do that? \*\*

I do that, but for me it’s because I dislike intense eye-contact. I’ve got a pretty avoidant personality.

Julie

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