Eating disorders

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Another poll, but this one is about the three main eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating) while the other recent poll on here focuses on anorexia.

I am just curious how common eating disorders are for the autistic population.

Me, I have binge-eating disorder right now (no diagnosis, but it is hard to mis-indentify that, IMO). I was professionally diagnosed with bulimia when I was 19 years old. I have also had periods of anorexic tendancies (but would not have qualified for a full diagnosis of anorexia). I have had issues with eating for as long as I can remember.

Darn, I had an eating disorder but I don't really fit in either category. I was diagnosed with anorexia but I still got my normal periods and I wasn't underweight. But I starved myself and hardly ate anything. But then it got better.

I was diagnosed in my recent psychatric workup as "eating disorder not otherwise specified."

I am an (obsessive) alternate faster.

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I almost included EDNOS as well, but I thought the poll would get very long. What is an alternate faster? I have never heard the term before, and I have a guess, but I could be way off.

I am not diagnosed on the spectrum yet and I am in recovery from Anorexia...i hate it!! !

I calculate my calories.

Looking over the last few weeks, I've been getting most of them from alcohol or sweets, which is quite bad, , though we are currently moving house.

I find my general food consumption is always thrown off balance whenever something new or unexpected happens. For example, I've got three social gatherings coming up next week, and the last thing on my mind is food.

I've been through this kind of thing before, though. I only ate soup, once a day, when one of my feral cats died, and I also 'restricted' during my first move from my birth home.

I've been (unofficially) diagnosed as EDNOS, but my mother and sister's eating is so f*cked up that I really don't see the problem with mine, though I know its far from normal.

A year ago I had trouble remembering to eat but lately I have began to eat optimally

this... is one of the most common autistic eating disorders... often seen as a form of anorexia

also a common autistic eating disorder is not feeling when one is satisfied... resulting in overeating... often seen as a form of binge eating

but these are in fact due to alexithymia-like problems, and not a typical eating disorder.

another common autistic eating disorder is pickiness about what can be eaten... (taste, color, smell, texture, etc)

I think that is my problem instead of binge-eating. What I have right now looks a lot like binge-eating, but I really have no sense of hunger unless I am EXTREMELY starving or EXTREMELY full. Once, I thought I was hungry, so I kept eating and eating. It was not until I could feel a sort rip on my inside that I realized I had eaten too much and was probably full. I never got that looked at, but the pain lasted for more than a year. On the same note I can go hours upon hours without eating as well, not realizing that I should be hungry. Once, I went days without eating (though I overeat more often than undereat. Most days I will not eat a thing until supper, and then I will overeat the rest of the night).

I don't feel satiated until I'm really, really full. It takes a lot and I have no idea where all the food goes (I'm a little guy). It takes a large pizza, and then maybe a quart of ice cream on top of that, to make me feel full.

I can only do this once every 4-5 days

Would life be wonderful if you didn't have to count freaking calories, and you could just eat whatever the hell you wanted? Sheesh...

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I used to have anorexia. It was a period from December 2009 up until about May 2011. It was awful. When I started to starve myself, I was constantly getting teased at school, had no friends, and was the fat kid. I would skip breakfast, throw my lunch away, and eat little at dinner. It got the point where I was preparing all of my meals myself, counting every calorie, and eating around a 1,000 calories everyday. Eventually, I started seeing a pediatrician for my eating disorder, and in 2010 I reached 88 pounds. I looked like a walking skeleton, yet I still thought I was fat, and food occupied my every thought. I gave up on having relationships with other people and going out to eat just so I could starve myself. I was almost put in the hospital. Back in November of 2010, I had a panic attack, and thought I was dying. Soon after I started seeing a psychiatrist and was put on Prozac to treat my depression and obsessive compulsive tendencies. It wasn't until about a month later when I was put on Zyprexa for my anxiety and to boost my appetite. Ever since then, with the help of several doctors and the medication, I've been able to recover from my illness. I would say I'm almost symptom-free nowadays. However, I have been diagnosed with an under active thyroid as a result of my illness.

It truly is a living hell of a disorder. I am lucky to have had such great support from my family. Without them, I doubt I would be here today.

Alternate fasting is when you eat whatever you want, how much you want for one day, and then for the next two or three, restrict your calories to an extreme. It's not necessarily bad for you, so long as you're getting the proper nutrients on your off days, but it's almost always indicative of an eating disorder.

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I never had an official diagnoses for an eating disorder (wherEas I have one for HFA) but I had MANY anorexic tendencies in 7th grade.

I know for myself, I have a lot of trouble telling when I am hungry or full. This is extremely frustrating and I end up worrying that I over ate 90% of the time.

I'm a binge eater. I used to eat one big meal a day due to being a very picky eater who couldn't cook & my mom would only cook one meal for me a day. I might snack alittle too & I would eat a lot when I would eat a meal. Since I moved in with my girlfriend, I started eating 3 meals a day due to meds & supplements I'm on. I used to not eat a lot for a meal except for lunch but I started eating bigger meals & pigging out on snacks when they were available. I gained alot of weight cuz of this & because I haven't been exercising as much as I used to.

It's hard to determine if I have an eating disorder or not because whenever I don't feel hungry, I eat something just to control food cravings and when I do feel hungry, I often feel compelled to not give in to food cravings.