“One of the things I've noticed in Frank, and this is coming from that fear as a child that lingers, is that a kid on Tree Street, the only time Frank could eat comfortably was very late at night after John was asleep or passed out. And I've noticed now, having spent a lot of time with Frank, that he still consumes nearly half his calories in any twenty-four-hour period standing at the kitchen cupboard in the middle of the night, or if we're on the road, raiding hotel vending machines, because it's safe.” ChildhoodFoodParentingNeglectChild AbuseRestrictive Eating Book:Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead Source: Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead
“Every night, I wake up and I have to go downstairs and eat, because my body tells me, 'Yo, this is the time that you normally eat,' and I do - I feel comfortable eating what I want, and my wife even says she knows there's some issues there, like sometimes subconsciously I still might even hide what I ate, because when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to go downstairs and eat, so if I ate something that came in a wrapper, I had to bury the wrapper.” MarriageChildhoodFoodParentingChild AbuseRestrictive Eating Book:Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead Source: Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead