My parents are both wonderful and supportive and loving, and I can't think of anything they've said to me directly. BUT, it the little off hand comments you don't think about, that kids put way too much value in.

My dad is very healthy and in shape, but I know he's always had issues with self image. I think this comes from his mom, who is underweight but is always talking about how much she exercises and I've never seen her finish a full meal.

I've always been overweight, and I'll probably always be a bit overweight. Whenever my dad would comment on him needing to lose another 15lbs, I always thought, 'then what must he think of me?'. Because in my mind, I'd be over the moon if I was in as good of shape as him, and if that's not even good enough, then I must be disgusting.

I remember in High School, not being able to figure out how my parents could love me, even though they're amazing lovely peolple. For a few years I had managed to convince myself that they were just acting like that because they were parents and what they had to do, because certainly no one could ever choose to love me.

I'm not going to blame all of this on my dad and body image issues, because I know know I've got some chemical depression and separate social anxiety. I've still never had a proper relationship. Whenever I meet someone and things start going well, I end up going back to that same mentality, "Why me? Who the hell would choose to be with me? Maybe they're up to something? Maybe they've also got something seriously wrong with them that they're hiding?". And end up sabotaging things.

I'm sorry this was long and rambly, and most of these we're way worse, with parents straight up saying ugly hurtful things. I guess just be careful what you say around kids, they don't know any better and it's always the the little shit you don't think about that they end up picking up on and putting way too much stock into.