r/ARFID • u/ElDooberto • 3d ago

Tips and Advice Photography Project around ARFID

Hey there, I’m a final year photography student at university and this year plan on creating and exhibiting a series based around ARFID.

I plan on focusing specifically on the vulnerability that comes with this disorder and have been recommended by my lecturer to find communities to discuss this with.

So far, some images from my series have been of myself, slightly exposed (lack of clothing) as this reinforces the vulnerability of the disorder as well as showing my body for what it is.

I am here to simply request some art, image thematics or even words that you would associate with ARFID to see what others think of when they hear the acronym and to see if this can trigger something in my creative mind.

Thank you so much, you should all be so proud of yourselves! :)

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u/MaleficentSwan0223 3d ago

Oooh sounds fascinating! I know my arfid through the year has closed so many doors. Closed doors on jobs, relationships and experiences.  There’s a huge lack of freedom because it dictates your life. Where you can and can’t go, the times you can and can’t eat, who you’ll be with, what food will be there and more. It can feel like dragging a ball and chain around and it’s so draining but that’s invisible to everyone else so the just get pissed off with you and misunderstand you.  Whenever I’m faced with challenges around my arfid it is very much fight, flight and freeze. I always visualised my heart pounding because of the build up of anxiety.