It appears he was bullied because he was chubby....Fat kids are easy targets for bullies.
He seemed big, but he didn’t seem inordinately large, I thought the other kid was just a really small kid.
One of my children is heaavy. Always has been, beautiful but big. Since the time she was three or four she has been verbally assaulted about her weight by other children.
Now as an adult she gets it less and there are certain men who just relish her lushness. And she is beautiful in a big lush way.
Prediction:
With three D and holographic viewing coming up I predict that round heavy people will come back into style. Thinness has been in style because of the two dimensions of tv. As that barrier is broken I think that lush large bodies will prevail.
So are skinny kids. When I was a skinny kid in grade school back in the late 50s we had a bully who picked on me and several other kids starting in the first grade. One afternoon when we were in 3rd grade he pushed me over the line when we were walking home and I found myself on top of him beating the crap out of him in a scene very similar to the one in the movie Christmas Story. The jackass never gave me any trouble again.