@kizu I think I reacted very favorably to what you said because I feel kind of the same way, not about weight, but about age. It seems like people often disregard what I say and lack patience to even try to understand. People can be even more unnatural and unfeeling than automated phone voices or AI.

People often assume a superior, know it all attitude with me. I am just a doddering old lady. And the rules of both medicine and human kindness are suspended, because I can’t be made younger and therefore worth paying attention to. I am left to die and lied about. And if I tell somebody or ask for help, I am ignored, as if I had said nothing.

It's not always this bad. Sometimes people are quite decent, even fun to be with. But I am shocked at how dismissive people can be with me because they see me as old and therefore unintelligent.