I’ve always lived in a smaller body, yet weight bias kept me too from being diagnosed when I was in the depths of my disorder. When I mentioned my disordered-eating behaviors to my therapist at the time and told her some of my loved ones were concerned I might have an eating disorder, she said that couldn’t possibly be the case—I wasn’t thin enough. She used the phrase You’re not a slight person, which says a lot about how subjective the process of diagnosing an eating disorder can be. It also shows how many clinicians, caught up in looking for what they imagine to be physical signs that
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