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How eating disorders hide behind genetic narratives

Everyone thinks I am naturally thin but I spend every waking moment thinking about food and restriction and I am so tired of living this way.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social assumptions about natural body types can mask the exhausting mental labor of maintaining artificial thinness.

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