The concept of junk food or healthy eating isn’t eating disorder behavior. Stop using psychology terms for everything you don’t like, it causes them to lose actual meaning.
Not sure what that’s supposed to mean. I’m an adult with mental illnesses, I don’t appreciate when people co-opt MI or terminology to describe or amplify the negative nuance of non-MI things because it dilutes the word’s meaning and the experiences of ppl with actual problems.
Classifying foods as good or bad by general category is *absolutely* a feature of disordered eating and harmful societal framing of food. It is black and white thinking, a key step towards rigid behaviors.
Pasting that toxic concept into literacy is unhelpful and unhealthy for the kids targeted.
Eating disorders are actually classified as mental illnesses and child psychologists have determined that the language we use around food is highly influential. They do not recommend calling foods "good" or "bad" because it can absolutely cause disordered behaviors around it.
Classifying foods as "nutritious" and "dessert" this way, that you can only consume one if you've "earned" the other including entire storytelling formats, is a pretty troubling strategy both towards reading and eating. No one is co-opting language, is the thing.
And I'll just say that 1. I've had an eating disorder 2. I'm a parent. I do not use language like this around food or eating for my child because I know how toxic it can be. I definitely wouldn't use it around reading, either.
I have been in the psych ward with people with severe eating disorders. They were the absolute sickest people there out of everyone. The ones people knew were most likely to die. Disordered eating is one of the most lethal mental illnesses that exists.
I know. I wasn’t saying eating disorders are not real problems. I said they are real problems, but trying to make the argument that recognizing that there are healthy foods and unhealthy foods, like candy, isn’t ableist to people with eating disorders. And then arguing that OPs picture of books
Being compared to food is ableist is asinine. It has nothing to do with eating disorders because the concept of nutrition isn’t exclusive to silencing people with eating disorders.
Okay this is the last thing I'm going to say here bc I'm assuming you're good faith. You're missing my point but identifying food (or books) and assigning morality to them is a cultural philosophy that lends itself and reinforces the normalization of ED culture, fatphobia, or in the case of books
Censorship and an overall aversion for reading. Many many people with eating disorders both from binge eating to anorexia will say that assigning foods as "good or bad" was one of the first steps towards creating a disordered relationship towards food. In that same way, reading, which is overall
A very good thing to encourage children is now being assigned as something that they are not allowed to fully enjoy, even with their independent reading time. It needs to be an intellectual pursuit for growth, which in educational circles has proven itself to harm children's love of reading
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Pasting that toxic concept into literacy is unhelpful and unhealthy for the kids targeted.