[Biggs]

I’m the parent of a child with a weight problem. I admit that to some degree it is my fault. I don’t really cook for reasons and issues that most of the time find themselves spilling over to my children. However, when I do cook, my meals are very healthy. Since my children could eat solid foods, I have had the darnedest time trying to get them to eat vegetables. I’ve done everything in the book except be my father (they will eat his vegetables all day long). In my state, making a child sit at the table until they have finished all of their food is considered a form of child abuse. Trust me, if someone doesn’t like you, they will call and get immediate action. You will get your children taken out of your home that same day. Getting them back, in my state, is not easy. The law doesn’t care if it was a false report. So I would say that location has something to do with it.

However, to stereotype each child’s health as the fault of the parents is unfair. My daughter has gained 80 pounds since August. I have changed her diet and put her in some after-school programs that are exercised based. Yet she is still gaining weight like crazy. She doesn’t eat a lot. She’s been tested for problems with her thyroid, which is a little up, but not enough of a concern for the specialist. But her blood pressure keeps rising, and they think she may have diabetes.

Now I have to watch my daughter suffer because of my DNA – my heritage, mind you. It decided to skip me and pass to her. I have to live with that and teach her how to endure people’s first impressions. So don’t think that most children are in the same category and that the parents are not trying to find out what’s wrong. In some cases, they may be in the testing phase. In that phase, with every pound, you don’t know if your child is going to live another day. You don’t know what’s wrong. Your biggest fear is that you won’t find out until she has undergone an autopsy. No parent wants to lose a child because they were in the midst of trying to save them.

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Name : Biggs, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 29, City : Ottumwa, State : IA, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

[Biggs]

I have had many relationships with people who were both bisexual and homosexual. In those only one homosexual relationship remained true throughout the years and only one person was true to whomever he had a bisexual relationship with. So maybe the ‘Gay Community’ has had a hand in people’s assumptions. But, also, here’s another with the previous ignorance as a base. My guess is that it depends on a person’s sexual preference and their ‘forbidden’ fantasies. For a straight male that has been approached by a bisexual female, he may be thinking that she leans more toward females but is willing to include a male. For a homosexual male-he may assume that the caller leans more toward males etc. In all cases, yea, the assuption of promiscuity is there.

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Name : Biggs, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 29, City : Ottumwa, State : IA, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower class, 

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