He Is Like Me

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(POV: So William and Mia are biologically Barry's in this and Oliver is the other parent like in the show. So one day Oliver and him are in the bunker arguing about William for that matter. Barry reveals some truths.)

Ollie: William is fine Barry! Stop worrying!

*Everyone is nervously looking seeing as it takes Barry a minute to respond.*

Barry: When I was 15 my father called the police looking for me!

Barry: And when they found me I was high on pills about to jump off my friends roof!

ollie: Fine you're right. I'm just-

Barry: William is not fine! 

Barry: Because William is not a normal teenager!

Barry: He's not like you Oliver, he is like me!

Barry: And if my dad had not called the police that day, and if the police had not found me, I would be very dead right now!

*Everyone is shocked.* 

Barry: William has been showing signs of an eating disorder Oliver. 

Barry: While you are hardly home for dinner anymore, I am always there and I watch as he plays with his food with his fork not eating. He hardly eats anything nowadays.

Barry: He is having really bad mood changes and these are the types of mood changes I know to well.

Ollie: I'm sure he is fine Barry. He is a teenager.

Barry: William is not fine Oliver! 

Barry: He is always trembling, he is telling me he is sick at his stomach but refuses to eat, he tells me his heartburn is acting up, he tells me he is constantly dizzy!

Barry: When I took him for the beginning of the year check up for his physical and everything he weighed 168 pounds. He is 13 and that is normal. But this doctor said it wasn't. I have my degree in pediatrics and I know it is normal. She said something about him needing to lose some weight and I hoped he didn't hear her.

Barry: When he had to have his sports physical 3 days ago he weighed 118 pounds. For a 5'5, 13 year old, Oliver. At night I hear him crying but I don't bother trying because he keeps his door locked and doesn't want to tell me. So I don't push him Oliver.

Barry: I got a call from the school today. Apparently William had been being bullied. They said they are going to take care of it. One of William's friends pulled me aside when they came up this evening and he told me that apparently kids had been saying things about William being fat. 

Oliver: How do you even know the signs of an eating disorder anyways? And like I said. William is probably fine. He is a teenager. I was called those things all the time when I was younger and I was fine.

Barry: I have lived with multiple eating disorders my whole life Oliver! I know the symptoms by heart now! I know he has one because I have had so many before! I was a troubled child in a fucked up society! In high school for a six foot three 16 year old male I should have at least weighed 180 pounds! But because of one of thy said eating disorders I gained from people bullying me and calling me fat when I was not, I weighed 102 pounds and to this day I only weigh 121 pounds!

Barry: *Sighs as everyone is wide eyed.* It's different hearing it leave a mouth of someone you love saying that they dealt with eating disorders before huh? Now as I told you why I was here. I'll be at home if you need me.

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⏰ Last updated: Sep 24, 2021 ⏰

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