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FrickingKaos:
I've been going to comic con for three years now. Been to other conventions as well. Never had anyone picking on me before, just on Instagram I did. Plus size Cosplayers don't get the same treatment as regular ones, because we are plus size. However, my costume wasn't the reason I was bullied.
A vendor that worked at the convention was shouting at me and called me ugly, then proceeded to make fun of me for being by myself. He called me a loser and I flipped him off. What upset me was that I was not only humiliated, I got the run around when I tried to report the incident. Nothing was done about the situation.  I will still continue to cosplay but the experience hurt my self esteem.   
I was in the hospital for a UTI. I'd never had one before in my life. I was already getting over the flu and a upper respiratory infection so I was very sick for a couple weeks. Luckily I have insurance from work, but I don't know how much got covered.

KeepThisSecret:
I find it incredibly sad that in a world where people are so concerned about being politically correct and about promoting inclusion and diversity that someone can still be shamed for the size of their body. Have we not moved past that yet? Sadly, there will always be people in the world who are narrow minded and who feel that it is acceptable to make nasty comments about other people.

Like most people, I have been bullied (in the past) because of my appearance. Although it was not over the size of my body, but over my teeth when I was a kid. They were too large for my mouth and very crooked. Thankfully, braces fixed the issue and I never experienced any kind of bullying as a teenager or as an adult. I can only imagine what that would feel like. We spend so much time and energy teaching kids to be kind to one another, but nobody really speaks to adults about the same thing. I guess it is just assumed that adults "know better." *Sigh*

Anyways, I'm sorry for your negative experience and I'm happy to hear you say that it won't deter you from doing what you love and being who you are. People are a$$holes and that vendor is clearly a massive one!!

mare:
Seriously, that's terrible but all you have to do is look at what's going on in politics and see a big bully who is a horrible human being leading the polls and it really explains a lot about what a majority of society thinks is okay.

We live in sad, sad times.

mare:
And it seems like so many people have been diagnosed with MS this year. So many people I know have been telling me about so and so who is going through the same stuff I am. It's nice to know I'm not alone.

And congrats on becoming a mommy! :)

RokofAges75:
So true.  Sorry for that experience, Tracy, but don't let it take the fun out of cosplaying for you.  Do what you enjoy, and to hell with the haters!

Erika, I can't believe it's already been a year since you had your baby!  I'm glad you got to take a whole year off with her!  It must have been hard going back to work after that.  Just FYI, Nick's physical CD is not supposed to ship until mid-December if you ordered it off his site.

I'm super excited for BSB 2016 too!  I had no idea they were going back into the studio so soon until they started posting that they were recording!  I guess it's not really that soon, since it's already been 2+ years since IAWLT, but they've been doing so much that it doesn't seem like we've had to wait that long.

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