Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

My personal experience with micro-aggressions would have to be being “classism” as pregnant when I was not.  A few years ago I gave birth to a baby boy and had a really hard time losing weight after the birth of my son.  A few times after that when my son was around a year old and I return to work I was asked was I pregnant.  Of course this made me feel bad because I knew I wasn’t pregnant but everyone saw me as being fat!  This made my self esteem very low and made me wear larger sized clothes which I though would hide the weight but it only made me look larger.  Professionally I didn’t want to do anything that needed me to be center of attention.  This meant standing to speak in front of crowds, or even giving tours of our work space.  These alone made me realize that I needed to lose weight and get my health and self-esteem back on track.  I did lose the weight and now I often see myself thinking when I see a woman with a large stomach area “is she pregnant”.  But I dare to ask because I know how it made me feel and that’s not the feeling I want anyone to experience especially if their not pregnant.  This is also "sterotyping"