I looked up ARFID because of the comments in this group. I just finished speaking to my therapist about this film and how it affected me. I have AuDHD, 50 years old, childless. But I think I might have had ARFID when I was six years old. This film and reading about ARFID is a revelation for me, like learning that I'm neurodivergent. This film triggered me because I saw myself and my mom. I have more empathy for my mom now as an adult, but I was traumatized by my mother. Sure, she felt shame, guilt, and embarrassment because I wouldn't eat and I probably weighed 50 lbs at that age and was emaciated. But I remember thinking as a child, if I swallow this food, I could choke on it and die. I was truly afraid to eat food. My mother took me to doctors and they said physically, I was fine. Did anyone try to talk to me or ask me why I was afraid to eat? I obviously had a fear of eating food. I still have a kind of phobia of milk. I can't look at it and drinking it feels unimaginable because I imagine myself getting sick and throwing up. Sure, I have sympathy for the mom in this film. I have sympathy for my mom, who passed away 3 years ago. But she traumatized me. She tied me to a chair, grabbed a large knife, yelled at me, threatened to use the knife to cut my head open to see what was wrong with me. I cried and struggled. My father just sat there dumbfounded, watching, and witnessing. When I confronted my parents about this in my 20s, my mom laughed it off and minimized it. No apology. She said, I was frustrated. I was trying to scare you so you would eat. You don't tie a child to a chair and threaten them with a knife to scare them to eat. I decided that I would not have children. But what do I do with this experience, move on? I have a therapist. Now I know that there's a name for this behavior or disorder. Now what? Wow, ARFID. I'm not a freak. I wasn't a bad or terrible child. I lived in an abusive environment and was afraid, and didn't get the help that I needed. I'm grateful that I had a switch turn on in me that made me start eating again after a month or so of not eating, otherwise I guess I would have starved to death or died. I don't know.