How does obesity effect you or people you know?

Alot of people today are big..... and some people who are small and not so nice are crude to them for this... they blame it on them... and say it is their fault they are large.... but until a small person is in a larger persons shoes they will never know how it hurts them or effects their lives..... so my quetsion... how does it effect you (large or small) or people you know?

I am pleasantly plump, I am 252 pounds I use to be a size 1,
I know both worlds and when I was small guys would not leave me alone I felt like a pork chop, I didn't get a job for what I could do it was for what they liked to look at, I never knew what a guy in a relationship ever really wanted.
I married the size I am now and he loves me for me, it sure isn't my figure which as I tell the doctors in jest, "I Have Worked Hard For This Figure", I would like to be able to shed some pounds and honestly at times it bothers me , but I will lose it in time, my time, but I never want to not be considered a pork chop again I am a person and Love me for who I am.

It tears you apart. However, makes you more compassionate towards others.
My one friend is very obese. It's effecting her immensely. She has a hard time holding jobs because she is so overweight that it makes her very tired. Because she's always tired, she over sleeps and is always late for work. Her knees and ankles are in horrible condition. She is making herself diabetic from her eating habits. She is a dear friend to me, but it really is her fault. She has absolutely no self control when it comes to eating. She used to be a size 12 and now she is about 250.
My sister was a "big" person, all her life people treated her like she was diseased or something. She had NO self esteem & would do anything to try to make a friend. In fact the night she was killed she was trying to make new friends by trying out a new church. (She was 22 when she died)
From my point of view it made me ALOT more compassionate towards others. I only wish ppl could have been nicer to my sister so she wouldn't have lived such a tortured life.
My mom's been obese since her early 20's. I'm thin, like my dad, but her size has affected me. We have completely different body types, and I have a hard time understanding hers. In my teens, I started really obsessing about weight--mine and everyone else's. I was worried I'd be like my mom--get overweight and then not make an effort to lose it. I still wonder how much having kids had to do with her weight (she's had five). Will I gain a lot of weight when I have children? I developed anorexia, and I'm in recovery, but I worry that seeing my body change during my pregnancy (when I'm ready to have kids) will trigger my anorexia again. No matter what size I am, I just want to be able to love my body and enjoy it. Being too thin's just as miserable as being overweight, and I hate having to live in fear of the health dangers of being too small or too large.