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Eating disorder and ASD

Lucy

Hi,

I have recently received an ASD diagnosis. For the past year I have been having problems with my eating and referred to lots of different people, I am currently with SEDS (specialist eating disorder service). They have been struggling to treat me, and now with my diagnosis they are putting my eating problems down to the ASD and don’t think I have an ED (eating disorder)

For a bit of background, I have always been a “picky” eater but last year when COVID began I started to restrict my intake and became very obsessive with my weight. I am still struggling with my eating, still have bad thoughts and still losing weight. 

The SEDS have now referred me to autism services and are about to discharge me, even though I still have characteristics of someone with an ED. They believe it is all to do with my ASD and wanting control. 

I am putting this post out there to see if anyone has any related experience or advice, anything would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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  • could be normal? .... i mean if you feel your getting fat then the logical conclusion is perhaps to cut back on eating to cut the calorie intake to make a difference that way, otherwise all your left with is the hard work of exercise and thats much harder to do than just cutting a meal here and there isnt it? lol so cutting meals generally is the smart logical easy way that comes to mind for weight loss for anyone really. and yes its a control thing as ofcourse the goal is to control your body weight right? which is reasonable as no one wants to become overweight. when someone else controls what you eat they dont have your body so they dont know and thus they make you fatter with their choice of what you should eat and how much. therefore i dont really see eating disorders as much but rather self maintainance of your own body. ofcourse it becomes problematic when you think your fat but your actually drastically under weight, then i suppose it becomes a disorder. but that is rather one of perception, if you saw yourself in a picture in that situation youd agree that you need more burgers instead lol such as when i was 6 stone myself and feeling fat then saw a picture of my body and saw my back bones sticking out of my shirt which kinda made me feel ok to eat more as i saw that i was clearly underweight.

  • in reply to Caelus

    OK...this is rather triggering. Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses, not a natural, normal way of controlling the body. They are two totally different things. It's the blurring of the two that society perpetuates that, at least to an extent, causes eating disorders to be so normalised.

  • in reply to Giraffe

    but yet this way you do control your body right? and you do succeed in not becoming fat right? but despite that you always still feel fat dont you, which makes you continue doing that until you get dangerously underweight. in which case you need to be made aware at that point and see it from other peoples view by camera shot or something which i said.

  • in reply to Giraffe

    tbh though id advise anyone drastically under weight to lift weights lol
    it builds healthy muscle mass and can really help you cut any eating disorder habbits. especially if your weight based classes are perhaps martial arts, then you get competitive with others and feel shame of being in such a noncompetitive state. it sorta fixs the problems with competition with others and working out to better oneself compared alongside others. martial arts fixed alot of my bad habbits and mindsets. and now i sound like a jehovas witness lol

    edit: i guess it changed my mindset of rather valuing less of what i think i look like, and valuing more of what my body is capable of and what it can do...or what it can do to others lol... and in that i sorta ended up visually looking miles better anyway and thus achieved a good look anyway by discarding the going for looks/appearance/feel and going instead for function and ability. with the pursuit of bodily function and ability you passively attain the optimal looks. if you go just after looks then you fall to your perception and feeling that will always be negative and tell you that your too fat all the time. i guess you ignore the negative that comes from only thinking on appearance by focusing instead on the desire of functionality.

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  • in reply to Giraffe

    tbh though id advise anyone drastically under weight to lift weights lol
    it builds healthy muscle mass and can really help you cut any eating disorder habbits. especially if your weight based classes are perhaps martial arts, then you get competitive with others and feel shame of being in such a noncompetitive state. it sorta fixs the problems with competition with others and working out to better oneself compared alongside others. martial arts fixed alot of my bad habbits and mindsets. and now i sound like a jehovas witness lol

    edit: i guess it changed my mindset of rather valuing less of what i think i look like, and valuing more of what my body is capable of and what it can do...or what it can do to others lol... and in that i sorta ended up visually looking miles better anyway and thus achieved a good look anyway by discarding the going for looks/appearance/feel and going instead for function and ability. with the pursuit of bodily function and ability you passively attain the optimal looks. if you go just after looks then you fall to your perception and feeling that will always be negative and tell you that your too fat all the time. i guess you ignore the negative that comes from only thinking on appearance by focusing instead on the desire of functionality.