Eating disorders are isolating, and even more so when you don’t see your experience reflected anywhere. I am a white woman with many kinds of privilege; my embodiment of the eating-disorder stereotype is so complete that it is cartoonish. But people of all races, genders, and demographics have eating disorders. Not only are these experiences not well represented in our storytelling, they are often overlooked by doctors, and more frequently untreated, too. It is not a privilege to have an eating disorder, and it shouldn’t be a privilege to be diagnosed with one.
