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What is Eating Disorders Awareness Week?

Eating disorders can be isolating, making people feel alone whether someone has an eating disorder themselves or whether they are supporting someone.

Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) is an opportunity to raise awareness of eating disorders, breakdown stereotypes and reduce stigma.

In 2027, Eating Disorders Awareness Week will take place from 22 February to 28 February and the theme is Neurodivergence and Eating Disorders.

Why this theme?

We know from speaking to people with eating disorders, those caring for them and from speaking to professionals that there is a real need for more information and understanding about neurodivergence and eating disorders.

Neurodivergence means that someone’s brain works, learns or processes information in a different way from what might be considered ‘typical’. This can include, but is not limited to, autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, and Tourette syndrome.

Research shows that autistic people and people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be more likely to develop an eating disorder.

There is also evidence that other types of neurodivergence may be linked to problems with disordered eating.