TW eating disorder ED talk

Being autistic and falling into disordered eating is so easy. I used to take advantage of my poor interroception to go without food for most of the day. It's easy to starve if you can't feel your body signals. I already had dissociated from my body to survive sensory overwhelm from daily life. So it was a very small, easy step to develop an ED.

It offered me all the control that I didn't have in my daily life. And of course at the time I thought I was just making a healthy change. I didn't realise what I'd done until years later.

Having poor interroception also makes it hard to recover. Intuitive eating isn't really that intuitive for me. There are other ways to recover, I know. It's just an obstacle I've observed.

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