Alright, I know I'm a big girl, and when I say big girl I mean...well...big around. And I don't mind being apart of this group, I am come to terms with my size. The thing that aggravates me is being mistaken for someone because of my size. Case in point: I work at a retail store, and both my manager and assistant manager are "big girls" as well, and when I started working there they were always complaining that people (customers and employees) would mistake them for one another. Over the course of my first few months there I noticed this. Then after a few more months I realized that often time people would talk to me like we had already had a conversation with me and later I would realize that they had had a conversation with one of my managers and they were mistaking me for one of them.
I found this to be a little aggravating, you know there is more than one "big girl" in the world.
Well as a became more aware of this I found it happening other places as well. Like at school. There is this woman, she is an amazing designer, so in that respect I don't mind being mistaken for her. But I know that isn't why I am mistaken for here. She works in the mac lab, where I sometimes work, and I have people walk up to me and ask me questions like I am the aid there. We really don't look alike other than size. Furthermore, there is this one professor who is always confusing us, calling me by her name, and her by my name. I am fairly confident it is because of our size.
This really isn't an excuse but with more people becoming "bigger" shouldn't people be more aware of other distinguishing factors.
I am just saying, the token "big girl" doesn't apply anymore. There are more than a handful of us now.
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