This is unfortunately a significant misconception about eating disorders and those who experience them. Anyone of any size can develop ANY type of eating disorder. I personally specialise in the assessment and treatment of individuals experiencing eating disorders.
This is also not entirely accurate. People can experience anorexia also, and not be “skinny”. With anorexia it is about the physical and psychological implications to health of weight loss or dietary restriction, regardless of whether the individual is underweight.
You make some good points
I recall the ABC podcast mentioning 2/7 samples from the dehydrator were DC’s.I think Colin Mandy asked her, and she said button mushrooms from Woolies.
He takes Patterson to a photo, previously shown to the jury, she sent to her Facebook friends. The photo shows mushrooms inside a dehydrator.
Mandy asks what type of mushrooms are shown in the photo.
“I’m pretty sure they were Woolies mushrooms. Just your basic button,” she says.
Ah, thank you, so the mushrooms in the dehydrator were (according to Erin) from Woolies and the one’s on the scales also? And it is one of these two photos that Tom May was pretty certain looked like death caps?I think Colin Mandy asked her, and she said button mushrooms from Woolies.
He takes Patterson to a photo, previously shown to the jury, she sent to her Facebook friends. The photo shows mushrooms inside a dehydrator.
Mandy asks what type of mushrooms are shown in the photo.
“I’m pretty sure they were Woolies mushrooms. Just your basic button,” she says.
I was thinking about the 50g as well. That’s 50g of fresh wet … no idea what that equates to dehydrated (Erin probably knows how much weight is lost in drying, using her scales). There will be variance in toxicity it says, some mushrooms stronger than others .
One thing that doesn't seem to get mentioned is that the survivor of death caps from an earlier podcast, said they were not very nice.
I'm curious as to what disorder would cause a person to deny that a very obese person was in fact obese. Especially when given the weight/height of the particular person and had seen pictures of said person. And said person says that they are themselves. That baffles me.
Besides the hyperfocus on semantics being part of EP’s whole personality, I believe she sees her constant challenging of every single minute detail as a mark of her brilliance, her upper hand in the trial through highlighting Dr Rogers sloppy recounts to the jury.1m ago16.04 AEST
Rogers takes Patterson to evidence by child protection worker, Katrina Cripps, that Patterson told her she invited her lunch guests over for advice about approaching a medical issue with her children on 1 August 2023.
Patterson says she “wouldn’t have put it like that because that wasn’t the reason I invited people”.
“Cripps is wrong, is she?” Rogers asks.
“Yes,” Patterson says.
Patterson says she told Cripps a medical issue had been discussed at the lunch. But she says she did not tell her a discussion of a medical issue was the reason for the lunch.
Rogers says Ian Wilkinson’s evidence was that Patterson told her guests she was anxious about sharing her medical news with her children.
She asks if Patterson told her lunch guests she was anxious about telling her children.
“I think it’s more accurate that I had been talking to them about how to manage the children,” Patterson says.
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Rogers says: “I suggest you never thought you would have to account for this lie about having cancer because you thought your lunch guests would die.”
“That’s not true,” Patterson replies
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Patterson asked about relationship with estranged husband
Rogers turns to question Patterson about her relationship with her estranged husband, Simon.
She says Simon gave evidence in the trial that he noticed a change in their relationship when Patterson discovered he had listed himself as “separated” in his tax return in late 2022.
Patterson says there was a change but it “happened a bit later, a few weeks later”. She says the tax return conversation was in October 2022.
“But I didn’t perceive a change in the relationship until the end of November,” she says.
