chocolate and AS

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I am a female and so according to the "norm", I am supposed to be mad about chocolate. I am not. I might eat some every now and then but it doesn't make life better for me. In fact, if I eat too much chocolate, I get anxiety.
Is this glorification and super appreciation of chocolate more of an NT female (or male too maybe) thing, or is it just me?
I like sweets, but I like vanilla, coffee, caramel, pistachio flavours more than chocolate, in ice cream or sweets/candy, cakes etc

Nobody exactly fits the norm, and many people, AS and NT don't like chocolate. Everyone has their own preferences about food they like or not like, which is very normal.

I happen to adore chocolate, but I know many people who don't like it at all

I do not like chocolate, because I don't like this feeling of chocolate in my mouth (melty-sticky) and my body reacts with a weird feeling to sugar, as if it is "sticky-burning in the veines", so I want to hit my body, when I have eaten it, to get it stopped and even thinking of it gives me this weird feeling, but I do not know, if it is related to ASD, as sensitivities to certain foods can exist in people in general.

I like chocolate, but I don't really like chocolate flavored foods and I prefer other candies to chocolate.

I love chocolate cookies and candy bars but I will only eat vanilla ice cream.

I was thinking about making a very similar thread earlier, after looking in that gluten thread. I thought that maybe chocolate and cookie-like things might have gluten, but I'm sure I must eat plenty of other things which contain it and yet they cause no problems.

I wouldn't call it anxiety, but I do get a bit irritable. I won't be as comfortable in my skin, or my chair, and will feel a little restless. My expression would probably be more grumpy-looking than usual, as I feel my brow being more tense. It feels like being a child stuck in a hospital on a hot and stuffy day with the windows locked, with nothing to drink but warm hospital-brand cola, and nothing to do but squirm. Not so much the heat, but the general kind of irritation is similar.

If I'm in a good enough mood beforehand it is less pronounced. I don't really like chocolate that much anyway, it's too rich, except in some of those special Ben and Jerry ice cream tubs, the milkier ones rather than the darker ones, and not the solid chunks. I tend to spit those out.

I think the cold smooth fluid qualities are probably calming and make the following discomfort less noticable.

You can't connect everything with having AS. It's just simply that some people like chocolate, and some people don't. AS/NT doesn't come into it.

I don't particularly believe in the gluten theory, or necessarily believe that my chocolate troubles are autism related, so I never made the thread.

I would say that my mild "tantrum" like response to the effects are probably autism related, although my body's apparent aversion to chocolate might be caused by something else, and the same problem might manifest itself a little differently in a person without autism, perhaps less noticably and with less of an impact on mood.

I get sleepy whenever I eat chocolate, or anything with much caffeine.

I like chocolate.

I just ate chocolate...

I adore chocolate. It is my drug of choice, especially dark chocolate. YMMV

I like chocolate, but I won't eat too much(unless some months when I'm having my period), I feel satisfied quickly when eating sweet things (I have no problem with sweet drinks), sometimes just watching eat is enough to feel I had taste too many sweetness(I can feel the taste in my mind), people use to think I'm on diet or something when I don't want cake at birthdays.