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No one likes being the odd person out. But if you're overweight and a child, chances are you'll not only be the last one picked for the team, you'll also find it harder to make friends. In the oftentimes cruel world of children, overweight children are more likely to be shut out than even children with other physical challenges. And there are more overweight children now than ever before. Obese children are taught at an …

…grow into healthy well-adjusted adults, then they also face the challenges of discrimination of being an obese adult. While an unfair practice, society has shown that people should be thin, and the media does not accept obesity. Some changes have been made, and society is a little bit more accepting in the twenty-first century to obese adults. It is ultimately though, the obese child who suffers in the silence, while being taunted and bullied daily.