Culture Shock in MidAmerica (sorry its long) Hi! This is my first post, and this is also my first time feeling this sort of sentiment towards anyone. Background info first I guess. I am a high schooler, formerly living in Chicago, and I am also a dancer. I dance in competitions across the US, and in the future, I hope to go professional and become a dancer as a career. So as a competitive dancer, I travel a lot and this time, I traveled to Middle America where a competition will be within a year, and I am there to attend the local high school (finishing my sophomore year) and rehearse for the competition that will be coming up (in like 8 months XD) I just started second semester in my new school, and something is blatantly obvious. I am tiny to the circular blobs that surround me. It is insane because these people are the same age as I am, they have lived the same number of years, and lived in the same country as I have, but they can probably eat me for lunch and ask for seconds.  So on my first day of school, there were whispers all around me, the girls constantly stare me down and refuse to talk to me, no one wants to exchange numbers (for fucking schoolwork purposes only)  and even the teachers are cold towards me. During lunchtime, I pass on the cardboard pizza, and an 'overweight' girl behind me scoffs and whispers something to her friend, causing them both to snort with laughter. During class, I accidently dropped a science textbook and another set of girls mumbled "her arms probably cannot hold them properly" and even the teacher laughed.  Outside of school, it gets worse. people have come up to my mother when we were purchasing milk and told her that "good mothers don't let their children starve" or "you're a horrible example of a parent, and your child has caught those bad behaviors" (she's slim  as well). We went out shopping and we passed some men and they turned among themselves and said "I wouldn't fuck her if you paid me, face is good, bones are not" (I would decline his gracious offer anyways) and another said that if his son brought someone like that home he will "slap him over the face because I won't let him marry some infertile bitch". That shopping trip was a disaster because my parents were arguing whether or not to report it to the police, and nothing fit me right. There aren't a lot of straight sized stores in the area and the ones that are here advertise "extended sizes".  (are you still here stranger? Sorry for the long post) The worst thing happened very recently when I got called down to the administration office and met with the principal (who is also very overweight). She told me that my classmates were ‘very concerned’ that I had an eating disorder and was starving myself for the sake of the competition. Anyone who knows me knows that pure bullshit. I can eat an entire watermelon myself and I love fish and chips.  I kindly tell her that I do not have an eating disorder, and the stupid woman didn’t believe me and had the nerve to call my agency (the people who paid to send my family and I here) to tell them that I was too unhealthy to dance and participate in sports. I was fuming. My parents were called down and they threatened to call protective services, even alluding to my parents as heroin users to lose weight and slim me down. She threatened expulsion due to giving the kids ‘negative influences’.  The thing is that I am a bit underweight (BMI of 17.8) but I am a flyer when I dance, meaning that I get tossed up in the air and I get judged on my form and how high I go into the air. If I was 200 pounds, it will be so much harder. Anyways, currently my parents and I are all at home fuming at the situation, and I called my agency to either send me to a different school or set the principal straight.  I will probably update soon about the entire situation, but I just wanted to vent at how ridiculous the situation is.  I’m really sorry if my spelling/formatting is weird but here is a page of my raw emotions at this very moment.