This is part two of my story. In part one, The Crazy Little Rainbow Girl, I wrote about growing up undiagnosed with AuDHD, how masking shaped my identity, and how understanding my neurodivergence finally helped me make sense of my Atypical Anorexia. This is what came next. I want to start by saying something: at[…]
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Hannah Hickinbotham
Shapeshifting from Eating Disorder to Compulsive Exercise: What I Wish This Crazy Little Rainbow Girl Had Known Sooner
Uncategorised Jun 03, 2026
How Understanding AuDHD Brought the Crazy Little Rainbow Girl Back From Atypical Anorexia
Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Neurodivergence May 06, 2026
A personal reflection on late diagnosed AuDHD, masking, atypical anorexia, and finding myself on the other side. When I was first diagnosed with ADHD aged 27, I felt like something finally shifted. I had spent 14 years in and out of eating disorder services, receiving diagnosis after diagnosis of “Atypical Anorexia”. A term that, for[…]
Do You Have to Know Your Weight to Be Fully Recovered from an Eating Disorder?
Eating Disorders Mar 25, 2026
Rethinking the Role of the Scale in Eating Disorder Recovery I trained in CBT-E. I believe in exposure therapy. I have spent twenty years helping people recover from eating disorders using structured, evidence-based approaches. And yet, increasingly, I find myself questioning one of the field’s most entrenched assumptions: that full recovery requires a person to[…]
This year’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week theme is Community. It’s a word we hear so often that it can lose its meaning. But when you’re living with an eating disorder, or rebuilding your life during recovery, community is anything but ordinary. It can be the difference between staying stuck in an eating disorder and finding[…]
