Childhood Obsesity?!

Childhood Obsesity?

I was just reading on Yahoo! about children being teased about being overweight. As adults, they feel terrible about the way they were treated.
Did anyone here get treated unkindly for being an overweight child? How did it carry on into your adulthood?
I was a fat, poor kid and never got teased. . . Even now, I am an overweight female. I have never had trouble in the field of dating (and no, I don't put out and the men I date are very attactive), I joke about my own weight and if people say anything jokingly I don't take offense to it, I feel comfortable in my own body, I am not lazy. . .
Are people just over-sensitive?

I'm happy that you are comfortable with yourself. That shows that you have a high self esteem which is great. However, some people just happen to get teased and not just coz they are overly sensitive. You might be a strong individual but some children, despite being strong personalities, happen to meet certain jerk types who tease them to bits. The self esteem of such kids over time tends to decrease especially if the teasing gets very frequent and in groups. It can be considered a form of bullying but slightly worse since a child is by nature somewhat sensitive to what others think of him/her. That is due to a person's need to 'fit in' and make friends. I for myself am not obese and never was but I did have friends who were. Some of them were 'strong' and did not mind teasing from some kids as they had good friends that didn't tease but some of them were quite sensitive to it. I guess it depends on characters (sensitive or thick-skinned) too but sometimes also on whom you happen to come across in life too and to what extent you are teased by them.