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[inliinwy]

like I genuinely feel that certain foods and textures cause me insane panic but I also have distorted body image and intentionally starve to lose weight so? where does that put me, lol 

[skinn-annd-bonnes]

Yes, me! “Am I really afraid of this food or am I afraid of the weight gain?” is a question I find myself asking a lot.
Part of me is also quite worried that my anorexia will be found out and nobody will believe my ARFID because they’ll assume it’s a cover or something for my anorexia

[JessicANA]

Yes absolutely. 
I have no idea what came first... 

 

Anorexia made me restrict so much- I am now pretty much scared of everything expect for like 5 safe foods. 

Even the texture of apples puts me off nowadays... 

 

But my mom told me that I went through weeks of only drinking juice and rejecting any type of food when I was a child (like 5 years old) 

 

 

... It's so confusing 

[0035]

To a certain extent, I've had ARFID for as long as I can remember but only developed anorexia in high school and now relapse every couple of years. I've found they both certainly feed into one another.

[gh0stt]

Yes absolutely. 
I have no idea what came first... 

 

Anorexia made me restrict so much- I am now pretty much scared of everything expect for like 5 safe foods. 

Even the texture of apples puts me off nowadays... 

 

But my mom told me that I went through weeks of only drinking juice and rejecting any type of food when I was a child (like 5 years old) 

 

 

... It's so confusing 

 

I had similar phases as a child, only accepting fries and processed foods.

Certain food groups trigger my gag reflex, and have for a long time.  It was not until middle school I actively lost weight.

[jpi332]

Yes, this was it for me, arfid and ocd combined pretty much equal anorexia

[earth_poppins]

I had similar phases as a child, only accepting fries and processed foods.
Certain food groups trigger my gag reflex, and have for a long time.  It was not until middle school I actively lost weight.

Same

[mop]

oh yeah, it massively crosses over for me. most of the foods i can't stand are extremely fattening and just generally nasty, but unfortunately it crosses over into some fruits and vegtables (bananas and onions make me gag) 

[The Flower of Carnage]

Definitely. I had what would have been considered ARFID as a child and it's definitely intertwined with my current ED presentation of anorexia.

[Alex6000]

Me too, I'll restrict because I'm scared of weight and have a distorted body image but I'll also restrict because of the taste or texture and they'll overlap a lot

[stkitty]

Yeah definitely! It's an under-researched area IMO, I had trouble convincing some of my dieticians that I actually, truly, never liked cheese or bread.

My sister is underweight by her ARFID, unfortunately.

[Maladaptive]

Absolutely! I think I've always had disordered eating (I have always been extremely picky; I have always been grossed out by certain textures; I have always been a "visual eater," to the point that I wouldn't eat things that I normally like if they looked unpresentable; I've never had much of an appetite.) But I think as time went on, I also associated my identity with being skinny and it morphed into anorexia.

[SnowQueen23]

Yup. Definitely is more so ARFID for me but when anxiety and depression get bad it is really not a hard leap to go into other ED territories (more of a "barely have to tiptoe over the line" really).