Fat kid!

A teacher once said "You are self harming with biscuits"

I was the fat kid and I was insulted. I took it literally and thought he meant that  packets of biscuits hurt me like razors or an overdose of tablets.
I  stated categorically a choclate digestive has never hurt me.
Unless dropped in a cup of tea and the hot liquid burned me
I couldn't cut myself or slit my wrists with a broken biscuit
I suppose you could choke on it but I  chewed carefully so never did
Once I bit my lip by accident but I accepted full responsibility I  cannot blame the biscuit
The biscuit is blameless you could get crumbs in the eye but that would be a natural disaster.
But now older even fatter and slightly wiser I partly  agree I was damaging my health with biscuits, sweets and all the other treats
I felt like a freak or a beast and
I was emotionally hurting.
They were wrong I was not self harming but self medicating I used food to numb the hurting.
If I saw the teacher  today I would tell him instead of preaching about healthy eating
Instead of  promoting calorie counting or praising himself for jogging at the weekend.
If you see a kid struggling instead of stating the obvious why not stop and bloody help them.