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You are missing the part where I harmed his health to comply with their expectations. He was fine and does better on a high quality diet than on a junk food diet.

Weight isn't the only metric that matters.

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Harmed his health by what metric?

What do you consider a high quality diet? What would meals for a day look like to you?

If you haven’t already: find the accusation in your comment.

It’s a very simple question - one that my kid’s pediatrician asks during almost every visit. Weird that you take it as an accusation.

What's weird is that you apparently don't understand the difference between being asked that question by your child's pediatrician vs a random stranger on the internet.

The question is not weird in the context of telling the story on a messageboard.

If we were applying the default "random stranger" rules, the story never would have been shared in the first place.

The answer can make the story wildly different.

I think there is a class of internet bully that clusters around stories like this, not unlike the "think of the children crowd" mentioned in the article.

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