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CW: Detailed descriptions of eating disorders. At Oxford we socialise through college formals, balls, crew dates, welfare teas and so much more. For those of us who have a history of disordered eating, this can prove pretty anxiety-inducing. Not to mention, with the highly anticipated June 21st rapidly approaching and the social eating that will come with this, the pressure to get the perfect body is more extreme than ever.
Jaya Rana discusses the inefficiency of Oxford s support system for students with eating disorders
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Lucinda Herbert:
If autistic boys are little professors, then autistic girls are playground psychologists.
Fascinated by human behaviour. Observing those around us. As a child, I unwittingly mimicked my favourite television characters and more popular classmates. I copied their hairstyles. I studied their accents and mirrored their mannerisms. I just wanted to be liked.
This chameleonesque quality enabled me to blend in and appear ‘normal’. Art was my ‘special interest’, which earned me praise from teachers and kudos from my peers. My collection of Merlin football stickers provided useful break time bargaining chips, but these ‘masking’ strategies only got me so far.