[ID: grayscale comic featuring illustrations of fat people in a realistic style as well as narration.
"The fat child's family is gathered for a meal. Eating together creates deep social bonds in animals and humans alike, provided everyone remembers the rules."
A fat kid sits in a car, leaning forward.
"When the clatter of forks and knives against dishes dies down, the fat child is still hungry. In the joyous rattle, it was easy to forget the rules. Fat children don't get second helpings."
A young fat boy sits at a restaurant, picking at his food uncomfortably.
"The mother does not look at the child when she says "I swear to god, this one must have gone through a famine in a previous life!" Everyone laughs. The child turns red."
A fat teenage boy watches tv, sitting on the floor and resting a hand on his stomach.
"The child's hunger is a stain on their mother's standing, the joke must be made to create distance. Children must answer for their fatness alone."
A fat teenage boy in a swimsuit is standing in front of a pool, looking at it. His head is cut off from the frame.
"All eyes are on the child. There are plenty of ways to look at fat children. Fat children are easy to look at, there's so much of them to go around. The fat child is many different things. A symbol and a surface and a cautionary tale."
A fat teen girl studies in school.
"The fat child is greed and overindulgence. The child is moral failure and laziness. Both hoarding of power and lack of willpower."
A fat teen sits on the bench in gym class.
"The fat child is the dreaded image of what the others could be. If they slipped. If they stopped caring. The fat child is a before photo with no after."
A fat girl sits in bed and plays on a game console.
"The fat child is convenient. Everyone feels better when there's someone fatter in the room. The fat child is guilty and absolves others."
A fat girl lies prone reading books.
"The fat child is feminised by being fat, the softness and curves. The fat child is masculinised by being fat, the taking up space and gracelessness. The fat child looks older than their years. The fat child has a baby's chubby cheeks. The fat child fails at being wholly anything."
A fat kid sits on the ground at the park, gazing at the swings.
"Inside the fat child's head, there is an image of their fat child's body, and inside that body, the child knows, is a truer self. When they shed off the fleshy folds and layers of skin, at their core, there is something weightless and pure. Something that is never hungry.
At night, when everyone has gone to sleep, the fat child imagines the true self, and dreams of being so light they fly off the face of the Earth."
A fat kid is lying down, resting their face on their arms in sleep.
"When all eyes have turned away, keeping their heavy head bowed, the fat child thinks: how can i be so big and feel so small?". End of ID.]