I think oftentimes we're diagnosing like how a body looks to us as clinitions ram instead of really asking all the questions. Also, just from having talked to a lot of fat people over a long period of time, i can't tell you how many people seek out impatient treatment for their eating disorders and then are met with clinics who say things like, i don't think you really need to be here. It doesn't look like you've missed a meal in a while. That that stuff also plays in, even if it's not sort of, like, formally written down somewhere, if you're not actively screening for that kind of ban yore and have like, pretty strict
Fat people have them too! This week, special guest Erin Harrop tells us about one of America's most under-diagnosed and misunderstood problems. Along the way we talk about elbow bumps, Twitter etiquette and '90s sweatpants. Our content warnings are becoming increasingly threatening.
Here's Erin's faculty page and a bunch of her research!
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