Maybe it's an aspie thing?

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It's a sensory issue. With meat of all things. Someone was saying that if someone's says they don't like the taste of meat, they are lying. However, I found meat repulsive. It kind of makes me feel sick too. And slow. I kind of actually have an intolerance to beef. I know it's rare, but I do. All meat makes me feel kind of slow though.

Do you think this person just liked meat so much that they couldn't imagine anyone disliking it? Or do think it is true that ALL NTs like meat and it's just a bizarre sensory thing with me, or is a genetic mutation?

Some people just don't like meat.
I wouldn't link it to autism.

I'm relatively sure that the person who thinks all people who don't like meat are lying, either has terrible theory of mind and truly believes that everyone loves meat, or it was just one of those silly inane comments NT's make for the sake of conversation. A study has been done that shows that a lot of people who used to eat meat, then stopped for several weeks or months, then went back to eating meat later, actually felt sick eating it, because as humans, meat was never supposed to be our primary source of nourishment. We, like all apes, are primarily supposed to eat fruits, vegetables, and other plant matter, with meat being only a very small part of our diet. It's why our canine teeth are so underdeveloped as compared to those of carnivores like cats. Dogs are omnivores and even they have sharper canine teeth than we do. So, long story short, the guy you talked to is blatantly wrong, and liking meat or not has nothing to do with Asperger's.

There are just people who don't like meat, but I can see some of our personal preferences of a distaste for meat as associated with our autism.

I can't stand meat. I've been vegetarian for 16 years, and had tried for years before those to become vegetarian. It was really straight forward for me to become vegetarian- meat tasted disgusting to me.

However, the reason it seems like it might be related to abnormal sensory things is that along with meat tasting bad, there's an aftertaste that I remember, and get if someone tries to feed me something like soup with chicken broth saying its vegetarian (which unfortunately also makes me feel quite ill). That aftertaste is absolutely horrid and makes the other part of the meat taste seem not as bad.

I'd mentioned this to people at one point, and they said they had no clue what I was talking about when I tasted an aftertaste in meat. They'd never gotten that ever. Maybe the aftertaste part is partially related to my abnormal senses?

I don't know. All I know is that meat tastes horrid to me, I've been vegetarian for 16 years now, and I don't plan on eating meat ever again.

I'm an aspie and I love beef. But hey, different people have different taste preferences.

I love beef and pork, but they always make me sick after eating them. I think it's because I just ate too much of it.

I love me some cow. So aspies do eat meat and NTs can be vegan. BTW how does one try several times to become a vegetarian, is it like quitting smoking?

I'm a vegan and have been for over nine years now. I always hated the taste (and oftentimes, texture) of meat, too. Add to that all the ethical reasons, the health reasons, the environmental reasons, the fact that you can be perfectly healthy without meat/animal products, and I truly feel like I'd have to be strongly convinced to ever go back to eating it! It's just the obvious solution, the right thing, and so, so easy. But to your point, it could be possibly linked if you taste certain things pretty strongly. It's very common that Aspies/Auties have "unusual" eating habits and preferences, often stemming from sensory issues (not just taste, but potentially of any sense. Smell, feel (texture), or even just the way it looks.) If you really feel as though the taste is that strong, then there could be a relation. But as everyone else has said, everybody tastes things differently. It could very well be that under a different circumstance, you would've had that same reaction to, say, sourness and the acid in an orange. Who knows, though.

If Tuttle's experience is anything like mine, they might've encountered resistance when first trying. I always wanted to be a vegetarian, even as a young child, but my parents forced me to eat the meat they served me, no matter how much I resisted. Only when I was 14 and decided to start researching nutrition on a vegan diet, as well as learn to cook my own meals, did my parents finally decide to let me try it. I haven't looked back since.

This, though I didn't try several times. I tried once, its just that the attempt lasted for multiple years.

What you might not have noticed is that I'm 23 currently, and I mentioned having been vegetarian for 16 years. I've been vegetarian since I was 7 years old, by my decision. When I was 7 I didn't have control over my own food, I didn't cook, I was 7. I remember having spent more than a year arguing for this, when I was 5 I was even less likely to be in control of my own food than when I was 7.

My parents weren't okay with me being vegetarian at first. They were worried I'd not get enough protein, they didn't want to have to make me food separate from the rest of the family, etc. So, effectively, I weened off of meat, as my parents kept doing things like "making" me have at least one bite of chicken with dinner for quite a while - chicken was at least less disgusting than red meat.

Finally when I was 7, I convinced them to let me be vegetarian. It took a while for me to fully swap - at first I'd still have soups with meat stock, but no meat in it, but they stopped trying to make me eat meat, resigned themselves to the fact that really my sister and I required separate meals, and researched how to make sure I got enough protein.

And well, I've found being vegetarian is just better for me personally. It might not be for everyone, but without question it was for me.

I didn't read on the Autism diagnostic sheet ''may not like meat''.

Not liking certain foods is a personality trait, no matter what neurology. I love beef, it's my favourite meat. Not so keen on lamb. I don't associate that with what brain I've got.

How do you know ALL NTs love meat? Have you asked them all then, or what it just a guess from one NT you have been talking to?

When I was young I couldn't stand the texture of meat. If I chewed it for too long, the flavor would go away and all I was left with was the texture and I'd spit it out. I love meat now, but sometimes I still have issues with the texture.

It could have something to do with a sensitivity to the protein found in meat. Maybe you do have a mutation and it is causing you to react to animal protein?

I'm very picky about my meat. I can't eat meat without sauce. When I was younger I hated meat. I like it now but I'm mostly a fan of chicken and seafood. Ground beef, pork and steak has to be well done and has to be mixed in with something or have sauce with it.

I LOVE meat I like beef steack chicken pork fish shrimp lobsters and crab. BBQ beef ribs omg with honey BBQ sauce. Served with a side of mashed potatoes and corn on the cob with a blue moon to drink.

I can't stand turkey unless it's fried! Mainly for the reason I mentioned in my first post. It's way too dry and I can't stand the texture of it without a lot of sauce if it's baked!


Fried turkey= amazing
Any other cooking method= not touching it!