• Adultification, Misidentification, and the Cost of Missed Neurodivergence in Black and CARM Children

    • Affirming Autism Assessments for Adults with Eating Disorders

    • ARFID, Neurodivergence, and the Harms of Feeding Therapy (Panel Discussion)

    • Beyond Body Image: Exploring the Complexities of Desire for Weight Loss

    • Bipolar and Eating Disorders

    • Body Grief and Disability

    • Chronic Illness and Eating Disorders

    • Complex Sensorimotor Landscapes: Intersections and Shared Mechanisms in Trauma, Neurodivergence, Eating Disorders, Psychosis, and Catatonia

    • Cultural Understanding for Eating Disorders

    • Daddies and Twinks and Bears, Oh My! Body Image and Eating Disorders in Sexual Minority Subcultures

    • Eating Challenges and ARFID in Autistic Adults: Understanding the Impact of Chronic Health Conditions and Stress on Appetite and Sensory Needs

    • Eating Disorders and Appearance Pressures Amongst Trans Women and Trans Femme Folk (Panel Discussion)

    • Eating Disorders and Gender Diversity (Panel Discussion)

    • Fat, Neurodivergent & Misdiagnosed: How Bias, Rigid Diagnostic Criteria & the “Complex” Label Create Harm in Eating Disorder Care

    • Gender, Transness, Body, Disability, and Colonisation

    • “Gold Standards” by Whose Standards? Unpacking How Traditional ED Formulations Overlook Neurodivergence, and Fail Neurodivergent People

    • Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Neurodivergence; and Eating, Feeding, and Body

    • Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Eating Disorders in Prisons

    • Plurality and Disordered Eating

    • Reclaiming the Nourished Body: Exploring Interoceptive Awareness in Neurodivergent and Trauma-Affected Lives

    • Relationships and Eating Support: Exploring the Role of Kink in Eating Support and ED Recovery

    • “Too Complex to Treat”: Navigating the Public Eating Disorder System as a Queer, Neurodivergent, Chronically Ill, Non-Binary Person

    • The Intersectionality of Eating (A Lived Experience Perspective)

    • The Trouble with “Anorexia”: Towards Inclusive Understandings of Eating Distress

    • Treatment Trauma: Understanding the Harms and Negative Experiences from ED Treatment

    • When Words Are Not Enough: Visual Narratives for Clinicians Supporting Neurodivergent People with Eating Disorders

  • More details coming soon!

    If you can’t tune into the conference live, all sessions are being recorded, and will be available on-demand to registered attendees for 90 days post-event.

Presentations & Program

The Appetite for Change Conference will explore eating disorders, differences, and difficulties, and relationship with body, amongst neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+SB, chronically ill, disabled, and otherwise marginalised folk.

Drawing on lived and/or living expertise, professional experience, and community wisdom, presentations will centre the voices, needs, and experiences of marginalised folk who are often pathologised and discriminated against by mainstream narratives, frameworks, services, and systems. In doing so, they will:

  • Share unique insights and considerations essential for supporting multiply marginalised folk with eating disorders, differences, and difficulties

  • Explore practices that are truly affirming, accessible, and intersectional

  • Unpack harmful assumptions and examine “gold standard” approaches

  • Debunk myths, stigma, stereotypes, and misinformation

  • Discuss practical strategies, tools, and considerations for care

  • Create opportunities to connect, reflect, and learn

  • And (of course!) much more