+ That’s one of the strangest things about eating disorders: they affect not just the person who has them but everyone around that person too. They’re so insidious, so counterintuitive, that the brain just can’t make sense of them. It’s like the visual phenomenon called edge induction, where the brain fills in visual gaps in a scene or landscape that’s poorly lit or hard to interpret. On some level, we see what we expect to see, or what we want to see. by: ~Brave Girl Eating, Harriet Brown notes