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Within the social studies of children and childhood, children's humor is an under-explored area. In this article, I explore the use of humor by children diagnosed with severe obesity while attending long-term rehabilitation together with their families. In the children's use of humor, I found a transition from the use of 'fat jokes' to 'biopedagogical humor,' which involved jokes about instructions related to food and physical activity as conveyed by members of the rehabilitation team. I interpret their humor as signifying how they were affected by the biopedagogical messages involved in treatment and how they started self-monitoring their food intake and physical activity. I claim that their humor also can point to a process of medicalization of their condition, where their understanding of themselves as 'fat' was replaced by 'I suffer from obesity.'

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