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To be so upset about it

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feelingsensitivetoday · 06/03/2024 21:59

Yesterday, a casual friend of mine (not a close friend at all, just someone I get on with and meet dog walking all the time and chat at length), bumped into me in the park and exclaimed, poking my belly "what's this? omg I didn't know you had a belly like this!" and then proceeded to joke "we've been eating right? We've had some nice food right?" Knowing this person, I don't think it was malicious... yet, I feel so incredibly upset about it. I told her about it in a message later and she responded saying that, as I've always been slim, she was simply "shocked to notice my belly". I'm going through perimenopause and it's the wrong time of the month. The whole perimenopause has been incredibly hard for me, combined with other things going on at home. Her comments really got me down. AIBU to think this is just incredibly and unforgivably rude, no matter how it was meant? Including physically poking my belly while looking totally shocked? I'm a pretty normal size 10-12, for context... I really look quite average sizewise....

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marshmallowfinder · 08/03/2024 03:29

Well at your size, you've nothing to worry about so I wouldn't give a shit. Try being a size 22, then you'll know how dreadful it can feel. Ignore such stupidity.

veryangrymot · 08/03/2024 04:25

I have a friend who behaves like that. Her RIP Mother was the same. Both non-nerve-diverse. Might be parenting?
Latest was when my friend met her female cousin at a family funeral after not seeing her for the last 10y, and noisily exclaimed how 'wrinkly' her cousin was! Friend could not understand why her cousin got so upset.
Funnily enough, she has never said anything like that to me.

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