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Del otro lado de la etiqueta | Meredith Garza | TEDxGarzaGarcia


I’ve been walking down the street for a while

with a friend years ago I was going

walking in the middle of the street with

practicing and out of nowhere comes a

picturesque lord who pulls his head out of

your car and yell at me take off fat

in that moment I’m freezing not what

I expected

my friend sees me with a face of something

Constable lives something screaming at him

The only thing I can think about is not being

something more intelligent happened seriously

the less obvious the less that day I

I was tagged tagged by someone

that does not know me a person who does not

I knew my last name where

they lived and they were my parents or what

I dedicated myself I just got that

all the way he believed me

I thought I would be insulted

feel bad and I had two options to go

to my house to cry for being fat

get my life and I followed her

labels are something that we have

rooted

when we are teenagers they tell us that

we seek is apart from us that we

identify with others

music

disciplines sports etcetera and once

that we found it people dare

label us for that and we end up being

the whole life of the athlete the school

the artist from the school to the singer of

the work school of the alpha school of

the school and so on

after my passage to the University of

psychology I always believed that

labels the stereotypes had a

insult beyond insulting people

and human being seeks meaning from

belonging in everything in the way that

we dress the way we wear the

hair in music in the race

we always choose to be inside a

group and I ‘ve never understood why this

it is taken as evil

I want to emphasize that inside me

search and fight to fight the internal

about this

I found several important points the

society that teaches us to label from

that we are small our mothers

uncles the brothers we listen how the

people criticize as Jorge says mira mira

neighbors his fat bitch is super

skinny name of the super good etcetera

as citing will matter what from outside

after society we have the

people that ticket to maybe not what

do with intention

maybe this gentleman who invited me to order

street I had no intention just

I really wanted to comment

I do not know after we have the labels

positive and negative positive ones are

those that do not type do not

they have a group from the same society they

They charge to mark as good as if you are

sportsman as if he is smart as

if you are a super good person living beings

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and then there are the labels

negative ones that we normally see by

the native picket that makes us feel

looking bad looking offended

to pigeonhole in a group or negative

I have always believed that if people

which are labeled take a second

to not take the label as his

I know I’m fat and sometimes

I would like to be fat too when I do not

I want to pay for something you said

gordilla I do not stop his father finally

28 years ago when I was 19 years old

I had problems with anorexia

I stopped eating six months in a row without

Any snack I remember that my mom

he said all the time

I got like 30 kilos in six months was

52 kilos are 10 kilos less than my

ideal weight for my height

my mom told me one day your body and

he will not give for more he will pay

you need to do something you need to eat

and the social standard in what I

I said no I do not want to eat the food

it’s disgusting I do not want

I remember my back I remember my chest and

see and breathe and see all my ribs

I remember meeting people on the street

You told me you’re fine, you’re not here

Sick rate is higher and I ‘m not well

because for me it was what I wanted

over time with pills with

treatment with life support changed and

then he had a nurse thyroid

it broke down and it’s like that

once again I went back to where I started

nothing more than this time I said I have the

power over the label the label does not

has power over me at this time

is fat is to be alive for me and such

once not healthy but over time

will be where you are

if all the people had the

mentality of saying you label your

person that labels me you do not have the

power over me

maybe we will change the world is sad

know that maybe the people that you

removes will never let you remove it because

maybe they do not understand this gentleman who

He said fat on the street did not know did not know

nor will he know that I had anorexia and that

Then I got sick and right now

I thank my life

so if we all had a moment

to think labels and

stereotypes are good are for

feel part of something are part of what

what are we

maybe the labels would not have power

About us

Thank you

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