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This week on the Full of Beans podcast, Han is joined by Shannon Travers-Spencer, who has lived experience of anorexia, autism, ADHD, ARFID and chronic illness, and shares their journey online. Shannon is a passionate advocate for inclusive care for neurodivergent individuals within eating disorder services, and spoke at this year's Dump The Scales march about navigating the UK's eating disorder system, and the barriers and accommodations they faced along the way.
In This Episode:
- Shannon's experience of ARFID from childhood, and anorexia developing later as a teenager
- Untangling autism, ARFID and anorexia when they overlap so closely
- Why an autism diagnosis partway through inpatient treatment changed everything about Shannon's care
- The nuance clinicians face in adapting treatment without ...
