Where does the size acceptance community stand?
by Conrad H. Blickenstorfer Ph.D. Has it ever happened to you that you stop to assess a situation– perhaps a relationship, or your job–just to find that you’re really not sure whether it has improved or not, or where you stand at all? There is nothing more unsettling than this realization that you just don’t know. Maybe you have changed, maybe the world has changed, maybe both. All you know is that the time you spent pondering over the situation hasn’t yielded a clear answer. Things could be worse, and they certainly could be better. They’re not bad enough to dispair and start over, but not good enough to feel a sense of satisfaction. This is how I have been feeling every time I sit back and think where the size acceptance movement stands these days. Have we made progress or lost ground? Every time I end up with a long mental list of things that went right, but an equally long list of things that went wrong. At the end of each such session I find myself frustrated, because I just don
