Food issues...

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So I have really bad sensory issues when it comes to food and they seem to be getting worse. If it's the wrong texture, taste, shape, etc. I won't eat it

But today my mother got angry at me about it. She doesn't like that I'll eat my weight in some things but don't like other things that seem to be similar (pretzels and chips but not crackers, most kinds of pasta but not rice, etc.).
My tastes make perfect sense to me, but my mom said I was being "illogical and irrational" and "acting like a five year old"

I don't see why it's not okay to just not like some things.

Do any of you guys have similar problems? With food or with people?

Yes I'm like that with food. It is very common in autism. Your mom needs to learn to accept that.

My dad is like that. For decades he claims his teeth can't chew much and have to eat soft mushy food. Things he cooked are usually all soggy and nobody else want it (He puts lots of water into meatballs and then boil them, they fall apart if you try to pick them up). Yet I've seen him eating stiff crackers, chew beef jerky and all sorts of other things that aren't remotely mushy. It must be a sensory thing. My little son has a bit of the issue with food texture. My oldest son and I would eat anything regardless of what they look or feel like. To people who don't have issue with textures, you ARE being illogical. But I think you can help her understand your issues, and maybe try a bit harder to gag down something you thought you wouldn't like. You should both put in effort to overcome this food issue. Like she'll agree to make more food you like, and you'll agree to eat at least one bite of everything. I don't know if you've heard this, but it take at least 10 tries before you get used to a new food and can objectively decide if you really like it or dislike it.

Yes.

I'll eat an entire bag of salt and vinegar chips, but most 'real' food makes me gag, whether it be the taste, smell, or both. My parents sigh and rolls their eyes at dinnertime, and sometimes my dad gets fed up and angry informs me that I'm 'too slow'. In the past year I've gone from 96 to 87 pounds, and I'm now slightly underweight. (I'm sixteen, but built like a ten-year-old.) I also have bad stomach problems and I'm iron-deficient, which doesn't help things.

Yeah, unless it's chips or ice cream, I have difficulties eating food. My parents find this annoying, but I can't really blame them for that.

It's common in Autism but I've almost never had a problem with food. I'll try anything, pretty much. I've always eaten my veggies & liked them. etc.

The ONLY thing I can remember hating eating was instant oatmeal when I was maybe 12 years old-ish.. I'll eat proper oatmeal, but the texture of the quaker oats instant oatmeal made me gag. My mom was so pissed off when I refused to eat it lol and told me not to waste food.. so I tried to eat it, but sat there gagging. Eventually she realized I wasn't going to eat it and didn't make me. She never made any again lol. That was the one and ONLY time I can remember truly disliking any food.

As for being childish and illogical… I can kinda get that. Because I've eaten almost anything all my life, I can see if I were your parent I'd be like "you've gotta be fing kidding me you won't eat any rice but will eat pasta.." It would be annoying to have to prepare multiple meals etc, so I can see how people without food sensory/texture issues find it ridiculous.

Do what I do: Make your own food. I tend to eat a fairly restricted diet these days, very ultra low carb, high protein/veggies/herbs etc. If others are cooking meals they know what I might eat some of and might make me some, otherwise it's just expected that I'm going to make all of my own meals and so I do and don't mind it.

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I was a little picky when I was a kid but I had so many allergies that I could eat only a few things so I really didn't have much choice in the matter. I had to eat what I could whether I liked it or not because I honestly could only eat about 5 or 6 things until I was about 12. I was really skinny too and wanted to gain wait so bad but I couldn't ever do that.

Nowdays I just don't cook the stuff I don't like or I cook it for my husband and kids but I don't eat it.

My youngest son, the one I think is has a little AS like me, is picky. Very picky. He was so picky and so skinny as a little kid that I just ended up giving in and feeding him whatever he would eat. He's still that way although his gf got him to eat a lot of things he normally wouldn't. His diet mainly consists of pasta and sandwiches. Usually everything has cheese, wheat, meat and tomato. One doctor suggested taking him off of wheat and dairy for his ADHD but I told her that he would literally starve to death if I did that. The boy only eats orange food.

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
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Don't eat unhealthy food and don't eat so much... Because it damage your digestive system and create food poisoning issues...

My husband will eat

Cheap ramen, more cheap ramen, and even more cheap ramen
chips
mushy rice
cola
White potatos
Hamburgers
chicken
fish turkey
lunch meat
cheese
white bread
any out of the box process junk (like rice o roni)

No veggies. No fruit.

He actually will starve if it is the wrong taste/texture/smell. He has brain atrophy from all his sh***y eating habits.

He is in his 50s, and the brain size is a 70 year old man per his MRI. The neurologist said it looked like a chronic alcoholic's brain. My husband never drank, it is all the malnutrition that has take it's toll.

Brain atrophy is common in anorexia. I told my husband this 20 years ago. He ignored me. I figure he eats about 1,000 calories a day, and most of that is soda pop.

I have a seriously hard time with food. I will find something I like and then eat it for a week straight and then become completely disgusted by it and I can't eat it anymore. So then I have to go on a long journey to find something else. It is seriously a NIGHTMARE for me to find 3 meals a day. Who the heck can find something to eat 3 times a day everyday!?!
I can't. I end up skipping meals and starving. My blood sugar has become so unstable that I get migraines and I have severe crashes all the time so bad that my BS wont level out for days even after I eat. It's horrible.
I can't stand eating. I think it's because I can't have dairy or sugar and I have NO IDEA what to eat. I grew up on dairy. It was all I have ever eaten. And now I am lost without it. Nothing else satisfies my hunger and everything tastes like cardboard without it.

I have about 25 foods in total that I will eat. But I mainly eat sandwiches either tuna or cheese and baked potatoes with tuna. I like spaghetti bolognese and stuff like that but I have major issues cooking (I get overwhelmed quick and I'm not great at telling whether something is cooked or not) and the simple recipes on the Internet are all made up of stuff that I don't eat. I also hope through phases of what I eat, for about a month a few years ago I only ate cheese sandwiches and turkey dinosaurs with potato smilies. At the moment it's baked potatoes and tuna sandwiches. Quite a lot of the time I like the taste but not the texture or the opposite.

Lactaid pills might help with dairy.

The problem is the lactose. There is significantly less lactose in Swiss, Jarlsburg, and well aged cheddar cheese.

You may be able to fix the cardboard taste by adding salt--which is left out due to concerns over high blood pressure.

I use a digital thermometer to make sure stuff is cooked properly.

I've gotten pretty good at cooking stuff I like to eat. It is a lot easier to eat stuff if it is properly prepared and at just the right temperature--not too hot or too cold.

I am lucky enough to live within driving distance of an apple orchard--not only are they cheap, but they taste much better than the stuff in the usual grocery stores.

Food is very important for long term health, you do not have to eat a very huge variety of things but your diet should be somewhat healthy. You won't live very long and healthy on only potato chips, otherwise everyone would be eating that all day.

As a child I used to have a huge food sensitivity, and I still do to some extend. I couldn't down anything other than some bread and chicken breast. My parents became concerned so they tried to punish or nag me constantly, which is the completely wrong approach to people with autism. There was a time my parents would essentially force me to eat something, but my sensitivity was to the point where I would puke out the food I couldn't stomach 15 minutes after painfully swallowing it. The right approach was to let me seek out and try new things on my own, and when I do not like something to not see it as a defeat but rather a good attempt. I had to adapt to the texture and flavour of new foods on my own without pressure, and so I did.

Now I see food like a challenge. Some things I absolutely hate and cannot stomach, like raw carrots or broccoli, but other things I have learned to love. My taste is rather deviant to what my parents make, so I started cooking for myself and essentially made a menu for my own taste. I mostly make my own Italian, Thai and Indonesian dishes. I blend my vegetables in sweet or spicy sauces, peppers, herbs and spices which I love. Learning to cook as someone with autism is essential in my opinion, it opens so many roads to a healthier and more pleasant life. A healthy diet is one obstacle out of the way and helps with many problems.

I've been pretty picky with texture, how it's cooked & what food I like all my life. I also never cooked much which is one of the reasons my mom got upset about me being picky; she'd have to cook something special just for me. I used to only eat one meal a day because of it & I'd eat snacks instead of two other meals.

When I was younger all I used to eat was toast, spaghetti hoops, cottage pie, admiral's pie, instant mash and chocolate buttons, and I would gag if I was fed anything else. But after battling my selective eating, I now eat a very wide variety of food.

However, for some reason, I still have a strong aversion to crisps (chips to you who aren't British or Irish) for some reason. For a long time people thought it was a fear, but it feels more like repulse than fear. I think it's the smell, the sound, the texture and the weird synthetic taste. When I was very little I used to be unable to sit near someone eating them. Now I'm okay with that, but I can't bring myself to touch one, never mind eat one. I used to have to eat them at snacktime in primary school, and it was horrible.