Autism and Eating Disorders Q&A With My Mom!
Jul 08, 2024
How do you best support an autistic child with an eating disorder? Is FBT helpful or harmful? Where can you get support as a parent? In today’s episode, Livia Sara and her mom Louise Alexandra answer listener questions about autism and eating disorders. You’ll learn:
- Slow and painful realization that your child is developing an eating disorder
- How an eating disorder is an attempted solution to existential crisis
- Parental confusion around autism and eating disorders
- Impact of diet culture on autistic children
- Sibling experience of eating disorders
- Harms of Family Based Therapy (FBT) aka Maudsley Method
- Demand Avoidance in autism and eating disorders
- How to rebuild trust and encourage honest communication
- Coercion, legal incapacity, and trauma
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