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02 Mar 2014, 7:43 pm

I know why mine kicked in, an abusive relationship and my appearance weight was all I could control

I became anorexic and bulimic. Both under pretty good control for now, as long as I don't become very depressed I can eat fairly regularly - have not had a binge or purge in a few years.

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02 Mar 2014, 8:37 pm

League_Girl wrote:

An ED can also mean someone has a high metabolism and they can't keep their weight on because they lose it if they don't eat enough. I do envy those people because I would love to have a high metabolism so I wouldn't have to worry bout my weight or food ever again and I could eat all I want. That was the way it was with breast feeding and then it slowed down when my son started solids and then my ED was back. I wish there was some pill to give me high metabolism. Wait, there is. It's diet pills but I hear they're not good for your body so I never used them. People with ED may use them because it speeds it up and they lose weight. If they were safe to take, I would be taking them so I wouldn't have one and not worry about my weight. It would be like my breast feeding days again.

If the person is not purposely restricting to lose weight then they don't have an eating disorder, people who have high metabolisms don't necessary have an eating disorder they could just be naturally thin. Plus eating disorder destroy your metabolism.

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02 Mar 2014, 9:19 pm

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I guess that other person was full of it then.

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02 Mar 2014, 10:12 pm

what do you mean by that?? I'm rather confused??

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02 Mar 2014, 10:24 pm

pinkgurl87 wrote:

what do you mean by that?? I'm rather confused??

Just a post I read here and on another forum. Someone here said about his body mass index dropping if he doesn't eat and he has a high metabolism and on another forum another person posting something familiar too and he also said about his BMI dropping if he doesn't eat and if he goes below a certain BMI, he gets hospitalized. I recall them both mentioning they have an ED. I asked the guy here if that person was him on another forum and he said it wasn't him and it's just a coincidence.

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02 Mar 2014, 11:35 pm

Ohhhhh ok that makes sense. Ya they probably do have EDs then. I guess what I was trying to say is not everyone with a high metabolism and is thin has an ED.

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02 Mar 2014, 11:49 pm

pinkgurl87 wrote:

Ohhhhh ok that makes sense. Ya they probably do have EDs then. I guess what I was trying to say is not everyone with a high metabolism and is thin has an ED.

Well that is what I was talking about when I mentioned about having such high metabolisms they lose weight if they don't keep on eating or don't eat enough and even my dad's friend has that condition so he is on medicine for it to slow it down. He told me he basically had to eat or he will lose weight and he couldn't keep up with it so he was losing weight. I never thought of it as an ED until those two men said something about that. If I was having the same problem with breast feeding, I may have had to give it up and use formula or supplement.

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07 Mar 2014, 1:05 pm

melmaclorelai wrote:

I wouldn't say I've ever had an eating disorder but I feel as though I've come close in the past. I went through a stage where I felt very uncomfortable eating in front of people and tried to avoid it as much as possible and skipped meals.

I felt like this a lot in high school, and sometimes I still have difficulties with eating in public. :oops:

Its hard to get over!

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09 Mar 2014, 6:52 am

I eat quite healthily these days.

When I was younger though, I really struggled to eat. I literally, physically could not get food down.

Looking back it was probably all due to stress. I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I know that my care workers and social workers were concerned about me. Some of them used to bribe me with cigarettes. Naughty Naughty! :lol:

Up until I was in my late 20's I would only weigh about 98lb and I'm 5 foot 6.

Then all of a sudden I started eating. I'm a healthy weight now.

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09 Mar 2014, 10:02 am

League_Girl wrote:

I had an eating disorder since high school and I think it was unrelated to autism. Mine was about weight and control and low self esteem about my body. I am still conscious about my weight. I also feared getting fat and still do. I also hated my clothing sizes and the bigger the size was, more fat I felt and getting comments about how skinny I am made me feel like I should be thinner because I didn't think I was skinny. I didn't even weigh less than 130 lbs and I was not a twig. I also used to work out for an hour to burn off my dinner or to burn off a high calorie dessert.

I am sure I had one in 6th grade since over eating also counts as one. I was on Depakote to calm my body down from having seizures and it made me hungry all the time so I always ate and it made me gain like 20 lbs in one month and I got all these ugly stretch marks.

I am not sure when my ED started but I think I was heading there long before I got one.

An ED can also mean someone has a high metabolism and they can't keep their weight on because they lose it if they don't eat enough. I do envy those people because I would love to have a high metabolism so I wouldn't have to worry bout my weight or food ever again and I could eat all I want. That was the way it was with breast feeding and then it slowed down when my son started solids and then my ED was back. I wish there was some pill to give me high metabolism. Wait, there is. It's diet pills but I hear they're not good for your body so I never used them. People with ED may use them because it speeds it up and they lose weight. If they were safe to take, I would be taking them so I wouldn't have one and not worry about my weight. It would be like my breast feeding days again.

I read in many places for instance a text from Atwood that eating disorders are more common among aspie women, like around 30% of those with anorexia also have aspergers. I think it has to do with the obsession thing, for instance, an NT might not become that obsessed or ends up eating when hungry, while the aspie girl would be totally obsessed and stubborn about recovering or eating something that is out of their eating rules.

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12 Mar 2014, 8:24 am

I recently started recovering from orthorexia (being obsessed with food quality and restricting to only "healthy" foods way too much) and came across this website: http://www.youreatopia.com/new

I can't remember which post (there are a lot, heavy with references, and it took me a few days to work through them) but in one she says research shows there isn't a relationship between disordered eating and autism. Disordered eating happens because some people feel good while not eating enough/overexercising, rather than feeling hungry/grumpy like everyone else. When a stressful situation comes along that messes with our eating habits, we stop eating enough and it can go downhill from there.

I think, though, that autistic people may be at higher than average risk of experiencing a stressful situation that could trigger disordered eating (in my case, being on welfare and being short of food money was a major contributor, but not the only one), but you need the genetic vulnerability first, and autistic people don't appear to be any more genetically vulnerable than anyone else. I think that's what she says.

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