actually nervous to post this one but as someone who’s been diagnosed with an eating disorder for several years and spent a very long time reading about eating disorders to try and understand my own condition - i have a take on shane’s eating disorder that im not sure if its a hot take or not?
personally, i think shane’s eating is disordered. but i dont think he has an eating disorder. there’s a clear distinction, and before you come for me pls let me explain 😭
to me, he has disordered eating as a side effect of other issues (stemming from his autism, need for control etc) but the thing is that once he’s “happier” and under less stress, the disordered eating goes away. food is something he controls as a means of regulating himself but its not something that constantly consumes his thoughts. and let me tell you, when you have an eating disorder it’s inescapable. curing my depression didn’t cure my eating disorder. it’s relentlessly present even on my best days.
anyway so my take is that i think he has disordered eating as a result of struggling to deal with and process emotions, rather than having a specific eating disorder. and i think that’s quite an important distinction when understanding his character and his motivations for why he struggles with food.
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