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从自卑到自信 After I came to America when I was 12， I started gaining weight. Back in China， my friends and I walked everywhere. But in New York I was scared to get lost in my neighborhood， so I got into the habit of staying home. I just sat around all day eating. By the time I was 16， I had stopped growing， but my weight kept increasing. I was 5’2” and weighed 155 lbs. People began 1）teasing me by calling me “fat guy，”“short guy” and “big head.” I don’t think they meant to be cruel， but those words really hurt. Telling them to stop didn’t work， so I usually 2）ignored what they said or tried to tease them back. 自从12岁来到美国以后，我的体重便开始增加。以前在中国的时候，我和朋友们总是四处走动，但在纽约，我很怕在附近走丢，所以养成了宅在家里的习惯，整天就坐在家里吃东西。 到16岁时，我就没有再长高，但体重仍在不断增加。身高5英尺2英寸（约1.57米），体重却达155磅（约70.3公斤）。人们开始取笑我，喊我“胖子”、“矮冬瓜”和“大头”。虽然我觉得他们并非出于恶意，但那些话真的让我很受伤。我叫他们不要这样，可是不起作用。所以我通常不去理会他们说什么，或者试着反过来取笑他们。 The truth is that it really hurt my feelings. Sometimes when I see myself in the mirror， I hate myself and ask why I have this body. I want to have a hot body and a handsome face. Being short and 3）chubby makes me sick， and I feel jealous of my friends. No One I Could Talk to My heart felt like it was lost in the desert， waiting for someone to offer me water to drink. I had nobody to talk to about my true feelings. I don’t talk with my parents when difficult things happen to me， because I don’t want them to worry. They work long hours and they’re very tired when they get home late at night. I wouldn’t want a teacher to get 4）involved because I think that could make things worse. And I worry that if I talk to my friends about it， they’ll think I can’t take a joke. They might stop sharing things with me. Shaping Up For a while I blamed my parents. I decided it was my mom and dad’s fault that I was short since they were short， too. “Is your height what caused me to be short？” I asked my mom one day. “What？ It isn’t me who caused you to be short， I fed you healthy foods，” she said. “It’s your problem that you’re too lazy to go outside t