You're absolutely right. It goes back to beauty being in the eye of the beholder. We all have our preferences and it's important to remember that not everyone's preferences are the same and that's a very good thing. Otherwise, we'd all want the exact same person and we'd all have to look the same.

As I walk around stores and malls in different parts of the country, I am awed and amazed by the sheer variety and diversity of the human form. To me, that's beauty on a macro level.

I always found it fascinatingly cool when a girl was big enough to float without treading water and the higher she floated (how low was the waterline on her), the more impressive I was. Funny the little things that amuse us. :-)

I'm not really sure what advice to give but I know from my own experience, I tend to miss the clues a girl is interested till later, after the encounter. I also have a problem trusting that her interest is genuine. I tend to assume she's just being manipulative or just wants money or something. I don't trust myself to know who's real and who's just playing a game. So what could a girl do to show me she's genuinely interested... I actually don't know. That's probably something I need to work on too, but how?

50 is a nice percent - like half and half.

So.... Is it a boy or a girl? Lol

I'm surprised by all this. I thought it was a lot more common for girls to like bigger guys than guys to like bigger girls. I've never had a problem finding girls that loved my bigger size. OP: Thanks for sharing. That's really enlightening. It does suck to feel alone and alienated. We all need to feel included and part of a group. It's a basic human need. I appreciate sites like this where we can find others who share our same interests - people we'd never meet in person or even if we did, we'd never dare to say anything that allows us to discover this particular common ground.

Even among groups like this, there are particular flavors that are more common and less common, but rest assured, you are not alone. It's pretty hard to be truly unique in terms of a specific interest or fetish. That doesn't help you connect and communicate though. Perhaps a mod could create a new forum specifically for FFAs? The dominate population here is guys that like bigger girls. Maybe a designated place for FFAs to connect would help you all find each other and encourage conversation. I have no doubt that others who share your interest feel just as lonely and isolated. ~hugs~

Thanks for posting those. Nice to see more and more people realizing it's okay to be fat. :-)

When is this and what kind of crowd/atmosphere should I be expecting?

Found it: wellroundedbbw.com/

From the schedule, looks like it's a lot of drinking, dancing, and swimming. I don't do any of those but perhaps the socializing would still be fun?

I've always thought it would be fun to own a successful shop like that and offer free food to the employees and then watch who gains.

Yes it does!