For Carers, we want to set up a community. We want you to be able to share and discuss your experiences with others who are in the same position as you. We want you to use our resources and develop them. We want to acknowledge the fantastic jobs you are all doing and the perseverance we recognise from other carers we have spoken to in supporting your loved ones.
Alongside our carers community, we want to provide you with advice and materials that can make your everyday a little easier. We also share blogs written by carers highlighting their experiences. If you would like to contribute a blog post please contact us here. Check out some of our resources and blogs below!
Understand some of the additional barriers faced by autistic people with eating disorders when it comes to eating environments and some suggestions on how to tackle these.
A loved one’s perspective on how anorexia is an unwanted visitor in her family’s life and what’s keeping her fighting.
Here are some tips on how you can structure your daily eating, whilst still allowing for some flexibility
We’ve gathered together everything you might need to help you and your loved one.
Forum coming soon! Here we are creating a forum for the loved ones of those with the comorbidity to support each other and share their experiences, tips and advice.
Have a read of our latest blog posts! Whether you want to read about someone’s experiences, learn more about the comorbidity or explore nutritional recommendations, we hope you will find something that meets your needs!
In the first episode of Co-Produced, Adia and Lauren are joined by Dimitri Chubinidze to explore how inpatient eating disorder treatment is lived, felt, and made meaningful through the senses. Drawing on a year-long sensory ethnography of an adult inpatient ward, the conversation reflects on neurodivergent-affirming, co-produced research that centres lived experience. The featured study, shortlisted for the NIHR Maudsley BRC Culture, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (CEDI) Impact Award, highlights how listening attentively to bodies, senses, and experience can help shape more humane and inclusive care.
This blog by Lauren Makin shares insights from recent research on how eating disorder support can better meet the needs of Autistic and ADHD adults. It highlights the importance of recognising neurodivergence and adapting care to sensory, communication, and routine needs, based on what people with lived experience say is most helpful.
A neurodiversity-informed guide for carers supporting someone with an eating disorder, with a focus on autism and ADHD. This resource offers practical, compassionate strategies grounded in lived experience and clinical expertise.
