Gluten, aspritame, food coloring and chemicals

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Does anybody else have problems with Gluten, aspritame, food coloring and other chemicals/sents? I find that they ether change my perseption of reality,my personality and or mental state.
Does anybody else have these things hapen to them due to the afore mensioned items?

Additives have no effect on me, but if I exclusively eat sugar-enriched foods for a day, I get dizzy and start to tremble in the late afternoon.

I have issues with aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. Migraines. Other headaches. Overload is much more common. It's bad.

Am I the only person with Asperger's who can eat all those things and not get any unusual problems? I do worry about aspartame causing brain tumors, however. Drugs on the other hand, including OTC junk, either don't work at all or produce side effects even worse than the disease! I have taken and trusted Tylonel for years, but now I worry it will destroy my liver, especially if I take it with some of my other meds, and I worry Asprin will destroy my stomach lining and I don't take it during my periods because it might make me bleed TOO much, I don't really know but better safe than sorry. OTC drugs that list drowsiness as a side effect make me feel worse than drowsy. I get these weird and unpleasant "rush" sensations and that's when I'm lying down and not moving. And I can't figure out at all why anyone would want to take a drug that can be lethal for something that is not, and I'm not talking about overdosing or misusing the drug either.

theres is something in the wendys frostys that make me crazy!

no other icecream does it to me . i get so much mental energy its like speed i guess my parents said the few time times that when i little few times i ever show "classic autistic" behaviors like spinning in circles on the floor would be often after wendys frostys even today as an adult i get an effect, now the other day i had a few bites of my moms frosty and 15 minutes later i felt it (though this time it actually felt good because lately ive been without energy and alittle depressed lately)

also once when i ent to israel i put some artificle sweetner in my tea but i couldnt read the label because it was in hebrew so i just put a few in (they were like disovable tablets) big mistake i was so hyper inside my head and i was even flapping my hands (then again i aslo had the stress of being in a foreign country for a week so my stimming was alittle more than usual but my stims are usually little unnoticable things like foot tapping or fingers tapping each other never really something that visible.

I really think asparatame and red 40 have an effect on me, from my observations.

I have no problem with any of those substances. Well, except for the utterly vague "chemicals". In that case it depends on which chemical. I'm sure I have a pretty severe problem with arsenic, for example.

My mom is kind of a paranoid health nut--"chemicals" is equivalent to "dangerous" for her. She doesn't understand that "chemical" could refer to sugar or water or vitamin A or any number of things. You can literally make her sick by telling her she's just eaten something with a "chemical" in it. She'll say she's getting tired, stressed out, her head aches, her arms are sore... I'm not saying she's faking; what she feels is probably very real. It's just that she feels it because she expects to feel it.

Luckily, it's relatively easy to stop your brain from tricking you into thinking you are sensitive to something that actually doesn't bother you. Just get somebody else to prepare your food for a few days, some days with the ingredient in it, other days not, and get the taste and texture as identical as possible. If you can't tell when you've been eating whatever it is, then you're probably not sensitive.

And yet again I need to caution you against limiting your diet too much. Autistic people often have problems with restricted diets, and it is not unknown for us to suffer from malnutrition because of it. (And that's not just true of you skinny people, either. It's possible to be overweight precisely because your body is ramping up your appetite in hopes that you'll ingest some of whatever substance you're missing.) If you remove too much, reduce the variety too much, you'll end up with nutritional deficiency diseases, or even a form of eating disorder called orthorexia (not an official diagnosis, but a known phenomenon currently categorized under ED-NOS, in which people become too obsessed over eating exactly the right way, and often end up with health problems as a result). I know we have obsessive personalities, and I think we have to watch out for the tendency to let a natural, relaxing special interest turn into a fearful, harmful obsession.

Aspartame and me don't get along at all. It made my heart race as a kid, and I'd get headaches from it and nausea, and my eyes would like burn. People were saying it was just the caffeine, but I got the same feeling from uncaffienated diet soda, and I drank a whole pot of coffee and I was fine. So pretty much no headaches without aspartame in my diet, I get one like twice a year now.

Chemicals, ie, artificial stuff. Eh, sorta, but not as pronounced as Aspartame. I do know I feel horrible in general if my diet is made up of processed food, and I like to have my food cooked from scratch and be least processed as possible. Not too well adapted to processed food.

Gluten and milk I seem to be totally fine with, though.

let's see.

anything with HFCS makes me fart in technicolor and makes me not focus at all. Seeing how I don't want to be in a fog and followed by putrid fart smell on top of this, I try to not ingest things that contain this.

MSG makes my stomach hurt and gives me a headache. If there's enough of it in something, it also gives me diarrhea. This might be why I can't do hamburger helper. I call it diarrhea helper. I don't care how broke I get, I'm not ingesting that crap ever again.

Unnatural fortified fiber I stay away from, as it gives me stomach cramps and diarrhea. Even if people claim it doesn't it does to me anyway. Especially refined items like breakfast cereals are culprit (wheaties too).

I don't like doing lower-fat dairy if I can help it. It also upsets my stomach and I can't focus at all with it.

Red40 and I'm on the ceiling. See you in outer space! (same for a lot of other dyes though, that one's the most drastic of them all though)

Aspertame gives me a monster headache and also puts me in a mental fog. I have no idea how humans are possessed by fear to guzzle this sh*t in diet sodas. It's just not worth it so I use real sugar instead, just less of it.

I don't know what weird things they put in cake icing these days, but I stopped eating most forms of icing because when it started making my tongue tingle and go numb like I was having an allergic reaction, so these days when I eat cake I just knock the giant layer of icing off.

And I don't know what kind of weird crap they put in mcdonald's mcflurry, but the last time I had one of those, my stomach hurt all night, I stimmed for 2 1/2 hours straight, and had the worst butt-ripping constipation I've had since childhood.

People always wonder how it's so easy for me to stay at my healthy weight, for me it's easy: eat the things that don't make me feel like sh*t. My stomach has always been discriminating, not unlike the good/bad golden egg machine in willy wonka. And good quality food keeps you fuller longer, so, there you go.

I've always had them, so I wouldn't know any different. I went a few months without gluten, but I had just started a new school at the same time, as well as taking a supplement formula for autistic, so while there was a change in me, I don't know what caused it.

I'm allergic to a group of preservatives (sodium benzoate, potassium benzoate, etc). If I take them, I feel like I have flu. I had some skin tests which confirmed the allergy. I also seem to have a huge reaction to maltodextrin (a filler found in cup-a-soups, pot noodles, etc). I've been told that I can't have an ellergy to it. If I eat it (usually by accident, as I haven't read the ingredients list properly), I have major toilet problems within 1/2 hour. I avoid saccharine and aspartame, because of the claims about their safety. They tend to be in the soft drinks which I cn't take anyway, due to my preservative allergy. So, I'm able to avoid them without trouble. I also buy Kingfisher toothpaste as it has no artificial sweeteners.

I have no problems with any of these. one of my favorite meals is seitan, which is pure wheat gluten turned into a fake meat, like tofu but wheat instead of soy. I tend to get mildly euphoric after eating it, though that might just be satiation since I usually get my calories from starch rather than protein.