There's been a few articles about ARFID in my proximity lately, and they all have comment sections, and I'd say 50 percent of the comments are neutral to good takes that make me feel like I'm recognizing something about myself that I can learn skills to overcome, and the other 50 make me feel so bad about myself that if I'm not careful that becomes my whole afternoon. And to that half, I'd like to say i can go so fuckin long without eating. "omg your kids will eat if they're hungry enough stop coddling them" you cannot imagine the ways throughout my life I have transcended hunger because the available food was a mysterious texture. Dinners were contests of will and I fuckin won. anything is possible when you think the concept of food is at best mid















