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The Trigger for Developing an Eating Disorder in Young People
I think where it's become really, really difficult is the overlap with particularly kind of autism or kind of autistic traits in young people. I think if you go into schools and you teach kids about healthy eating then within an eating disorder service there'll always be a number of children that will find that really difficult. They will hear the information about healthy eating and doing lots of exercise. And there'll be those couple of children often with autistic traits who will stop eating altogether. It's quite a recognised, the trigger for developing an eating disorder is having a healthy eating lessons in school. We all have an innate gender identity which can be both fixed and change over time. For some they will kind of