Underweight aspies?

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Is anyone here underweight? I'm 5'6", and am usually at or around 99 lbs. my BMI (Body mass index) is lower than it should be. I generally eat the same foods day in and day out. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in my interests that I forget to feed myself.

Am I alone on this? Is this related to AS? Any suggestions on how to gain weight?

Wow, you're very thin. I have a low BMI too, but I purposely eat poorly to achieve a low weight. If you're interested in gaining weight, you could always consult a nutritionist to develope a healthier eating plan.

I get told I'm underweight.

I'm 5'11 and weigh... let's see... 145lbs with my clothes. Or, 180cm and 66kg. I'm underweight, but only to the extent that people call me skinny. I enjoy eating, but it's such a pain that sometimes I'll get caught up in something interesting and put off lunch till dinnertime, or dinner till tomorrow. I also am rarely hungry when I wake up so I don't eat breakfast. So yeah, that's two... or one... meals a day.

I'm a 23 year old man in reasonably good health, I just have to bundle up in the winter or I shake like a Chihuahua.

For most of my adolescent and adult life, I have been underweight. I am 6'4" and for most of that time I weighed 160 lbs. I think there is a minor correlation between Asperger's and lack of subcutaneous tissue, lax joints of the fingers,. Some, like me, have a body habitus similar to those with Marfan's syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder. Persons with Marfan's are usually tall, with joint laxness and very little collegen or fat tissue. Most of them have ectopic lenses in their eyes due to stretched lens ligaments. For anyone with this body type, with or without Asperger's, it is good to make sure you don't have Marfan's syndrome, because persons so afflicted often die early of aortic rupture due to defective collagen. This can avoided if caught early by visualizing aortic stretching that can be seen on ultrasound. There is surgery that can correct it if found before rupture.

I'm am just within the minimum for BMI. 64-65kg I find it really hard to put on weight. I did talk to a nutritionist acquaintance. I tried full fat milk and nuts. It didn't help it made me feel s**t.

I do suffer from forgetting to eat when I'm rapped up in something and the drugs I took suppress hunger.

I get told im underweight as well, i weigh 135 pounds and im 6'1 i recently gained 5 pounds to be a total of 135. It took alot of protein shakes and peanut butter however in the last 2 months.

I am 6'1" and weight 160lbs, quite thin, but I feel reasonably healthy just did not eat well growing up, lots of food issues.

Wen i was young i didn't eat very well n always used 2 b 3 stone but now i eat well n have been normal weight even though im only 5ft 5ins i weigh 10 stone which is about rite.

I'm 6' and 142lb which I'm told is skinny for my height. I think I'm a reasonable weight but I suspect other people consider me to be too thin because being overweight or obese is becoming normal these days. Regardless, I wouldn't want to be any fatter as I like being able to see my ribs and hip bones.

If I'm busy or really focused on something I can miss meals and not notice. I usually skip lunch anyway because it's a nuisance to stop in the middle of something, so I eat twice a day. However, if I haven't eaten by 9pm in the evening I don't bother as it's too late to start cooking. A good bowl of porridge in the morning goes a long way

I'm 5'4" and I normally weigh about 125 lbs. My weight fluctuates a bit -- sometimes I weigh a little bit more or a little bit less than 125 lbs. Physically, I look very thin, but my weight actually falls under the "healthy weight range" for my height.

Yes, forgetting to eat is an aspie thing.

I was underweight too until I got married. Then I had to eat more socially.

I'm skinny, but I think its more due to not being able to sit still than due to undereating!! ! I'm 5"10 and a little under nine stone, typically a size 8-10. I eat loooads, but my body seems to use it all.

I'm 5'7" and around 110 lbs, though it's probably gone down since I last checked.

Probiotics can cure low body weight. I used to be underweight my whole life. I took probiotics to treat intestinal dysbiosis and I gained 25 pounds and my weight is now normal. Intestinal dysbiosis (an overgrowth of yeast and bacteria in the GI tract) is common in autism. It inhibits enzymes needed to digest food properly. Probiotics can cure digestive problems and probably eliminate the need for the gluten-free/casein-free diet (which is related to a digestive enzyme called DPP-IV).

i am severely underweight due to being autistic and not liking fattening things and also not being able to eat the fattening things i used to like due to a neurological progressive disease i have messing up my swallowing, likely to need a PEG (G-Tube) soon...

5'1 and 89 pounds

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