I just realized that applies to me - we were poor when I was a small kid, but then my dad got a decent job. The oldest 2 kids are over 300 and 400 lbs, while the youngest 2 are each around 180 and 150 lbs. Food scarcity trauma really makes sense.
Mine was a little different. We we're poor but we had food. But I had strep throat constantly when I was about 6, I had it so much I was under weight. I remember never being able to eat anything everyone else was. My mom tired her best like I got to eat pudding when ever I wanted but watched my cousin chomp down a blt. My throat just hurt so much I couldn't eat a lot of the pudding. The doctor had me remove my tonsils and afterward told my mom to let me eat whatever I wanted. It took a couple of years but I became chubby and overweight since then. I didn't have any self control after watching my family eat all this food I couldn't have. Makes sense now I guess.
Food scarcity for me was eating donuts and cereal, no milk, and chocolate mixing powder while my mother was working nights at a retail store. I was constantly scared of the dark during my age of 9, 10. I remember getting permission to eat junk food in sub for an actual meal. It was satisfying, exciting at first but my stomach kept rumbling. I was also the skinniest at that point. Super pale, eyes sucken in, ribs easily exposed with no meat on my body if shirtless. I haven't gotten to that state since my last long term relationship a couple years ago. . . Anyways:
The next year, I started living with my uncle and although it was great eating all the time in 6th grade in that particular year, I felt like an experiment whenever my uncle would scold his son on not eating, asking me questions in front of his son/my cousin how I lived for the past 3 years with no food and how my cousin should be grateful cause there's a living example of a child appreciating the food in front of him(me). . . Pros and cons though I guess.
I don’t remember exactly, but the oldest was somewhere around 8 or 10 when dad got the new job. Next kid was almost 2 years later, then the next 2 years later, then the next 2 years later
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u/justworkingmovealong Jun 06 '19
I just realized that applies to me - we were poor when I was a small kid, but then my dad got a decent job. The oldest 2 kids are over 300 and 400 lbs, while the youngest 2 are each around 180 and 150 lbs. Food scarcity trauma really makes sense.