sugar cravings and autism

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I don't know if there's any correlation, but like many on this thread I absolutely craved sweets when I was little (and still do but have better impulse control now )

When I was little I would even eat sugar cubes plain out of the box as there wasn't always candy on hand.

I think a lot of people with autism have a strong tendency towards having cravings for what is known as comfort food along with comfort objects.

.. Guilty as charged.

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I wonder why your parents kept on buying sweets when they knew you had a craving for it? That is something that drives me up the wall about parents.

I have a sweet tooth so I am always craving sugar which is why I will not buy any and I do self discipline by limiting how much sugar I have. I notice that is the first thing I go for when I am hungry is sugar so if I don't have any around to have, then i am forced to have something else and I notice I don't eat that much as a result. I have always called it a sweet tooth and my son has it as well. I used to eat sweets just for the sake of the taste and that is what made me pile on the weight. Then I stopped and my weight dropped because I wanted to lose the weight.

I made cupcakes yesterday and now they are almost gone, only two left. Lot of kids crave sugar and I never grew out of it so they are almost gone. My kids kept having them is why but at least I don't bake cupcakes all the time or any other sweets so I don't even need to worry about their weight or mine.

Coffee and chocolate for me.

I was quite fond of sweets as a boy, and continued to eat hard candies while focussed on intricate problems into my late 30s. Now, I don't burn it off so readily, and get very little sugar. I don't eat packaged food which is usually loaded with it. I like chocolate for various reasons, and find that I tend to keep munching at 70% cocoa, but that 80 - 85% is neither bitter nor addictive.

Even as I child I hated most kinds of candy (would give away most of my trick-or-treat haul because I had no use for it). If anything I have always had an abnormal indifference to sweets.

But I am an officially dx'd aspie. So I SERIOIUSLY doubt that having a sweet tooth isg autism related.

I like sweet things (both healthful stuff like fruit, and unhealthful stuff like donuts). But don't seem to have that bottomless desire for Skittles and tootsie rolls that some folks have.

Does 5 sugars in a coffee count?

BTW, candy does not taste nearly as good as it used to. The GMO high-fructose syrup has a different taste, they have cheaped out on the flavours, and added fillers. However, junk-food makers have whole labs devoted to tinkering up the addictive properties of their recipes.

American chocolate really does not taste good, I don't mind reeses and M&M's but in terms of bars of chocolate I think american ones taste cheap.

I love sweets, but have never linked my sugar cravings with autism. It's common amongst many people.