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This is a bit disturbing tbh.
Like learning about a color people would see but you don't.
I see that tag. Yes, Geanvalie... there are many shades of bodily sensation before "Too much to handle". x3
I remember in anorexia recovery there was a lot of talk about how the goal is to get to intuitive eating but that it was "off limits" until after we'd recovered because like,, you loose hunger cues during ana and trying to do intuitive eating when you don't have hunger cues back yet is counterproductive and harmful and yeah, it's a thing to work towards not a thing to just start trying to do
yeah there's a lot of reasons unmodified intuitive eating can not work right!
More and more I'm convinced that neurotypical people are made up because every damn person I know does this
I feel insanely seen rn. Since realizing I was neurodivergent a couple years ago, I keep finding more and more things around that label that are like WHAT DO YOU MEAN EVERYONE DOESN'T DO THIS? IS THAT WHAT IT IS?
I've been struggling for years asking doctors if there's something up with my lack of hunger cues and getting only shrugs in response and ... fuck this tracks ><
re: the lack of bathroom cues
i realize that i cope simply by often using the bathroom ”just in case“.
like, i just always use the bathroom before i sleep or leave the house because i've reached the ”fidgeting around in my seat“ stage enough times when it's no longer convenient to pee such that i just have regular checks
I don't have this problem with eating usually (although that's partially because I make a point of eating when I get up and when I finish with work for the day, and at least once during work), but I DEFINITELY have this issue with using the bathroom. I'll often finish work for the day and realize I haven't gone to the bathroom since lunch and I really need to now. Sitting and doing something makes it easier to not get those cues.
when intuitive eating works for me, it's purely just internal clock based. "huh this time of day makes me think of eating, guess it's time"
But like every routine, it's so easily broken and so difficult to get going again