A first-person YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD titled "How Bullying Shaped My Body Image Journey." The speaker recounts a middle-school bullying incident—being tapped on the shoulder and told "you're as flat as an ironing board"—and describes how that moment stuck with them and affected their body image into adulthood.
And, you know, being young and in a vulnerable age in middle school is when I started to get bullied. And I'm almost 40, and I still, to this day can remember when this child came up to me and literally was like, tapped me on the shoulder at lunch and was like, I just want to let you know that you're as flat as an ironing board. And walked away like, I was minding my own business with my girlfriends. And I remember just, like, looking at them and being like, am I really that flat?
