Dietary Problems and AS

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My mom told me there is supposedly a link between certain dietary problems and AS, so I thought I'd "ask the masses" about this.

I cannot eat popcorn, pizza, anything that's too fried (lightly fried stuff doesn't phase me much), or french fries. Pizza makes me nauseous and the others give me stomach pains.

None of these phased me until I was 21 years old (except popcorn, which first struck at age 7).

Any connections here?

Probably a link, most people on the spectrum have very restricted diets, or are very picky eaters. I know I'm one of them as well haha.

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My only dietary problem is with milk. No other.

That sounds like a gall bladder problem. I've had that since high school, it's not as severe these days. I couldn't go anywhere without having to use the restroom. I've always had hyperactive bowels, but fried foods and whole (fresh) dairy are like TNT for me.

My mom got her gall bladder removed in her 30s, maybe it's genetic?

I have dietary problems, as well. If I see food, I eat it. :O)

^Ditto.

I used to be a very picky eater as a kid, but not so much anymore.

Lol. I'm known around my office as "The wild woman", "The girl who eats bugs for dinner", "Tarzanna", "Bush lady" etc interchangeably... I will pretty much eat anything, and HAVE eaten all manner of odd things.

As a child, I lived on chips... that was it. Funny how things change!

I can't eat egg though, and I can only handle a very small amount of dairy (like a bit of milk in my tea or butter on my bread, which I only eat occasionally anyway). That said, yoghurt I'm fine on (apparently it doesn't affect lactose interolence anyway). I instinctively avoid gluten foods anyway... bread, wheat, etc, so only have a limited intake of them.

Anything else though... yum!

After the gall bladder surgery, I didn't experience too many issues.

However, there is one that does bother me. I used to forget to eat for two or three days at a time. Usually after two or three days I would start to get miserable headaches and would have to eat.

After my gall bladder surgery, if I forget to eat for one day or even just don't eat enough, I'll have a brief diarrhea diarrhea the next morning that hits me almost instantly.

In the surgery, they apparently just dump bile from your liver into your intestines. I wonder if the bile, without anything to work on, builds up until it causes a brief diarrhea.

I have a colonoscopy coming up in a bit more than a week. For that, no eating the day before. I'm not looking forward to this even though I have had no problems with colonoscopies previously.

I thought the dietary issues related to AS is either gustatory sensory processing issues or particular digestive sensitivity issues like certain food allergies, or stuff like having celiac disease or related to enzymes like lactose intolerance...


The former is something I still deal with.
It's still the same reaction, still the same habits. I still have a kid's palette.

The latter, I don't actually have. I only got them worse since puberty, then starting to disappear over time.
And just became way less severe all the sudden as soon as I'm no longer suffocated by pent up emotions and figuring out some of my hormonal issues.
Common AS related gut issues don't work like that.

And I hadn't truly changed my diet at all.

Only change that seems similar to the OP is me consuming too much pork belly...
Literally nothing else, not in any different dishes of pork nor in any different oily dishes.

And I was told it's mostly because of my rising cholesterol...
And also told me that it's common with aging -- losing tolerance for consuming oily and fatty foods; not related to AS.

Lastly, knowing my family history...
I won't be surprised if it's related to metabolic issues related to diabetes, or something either linked to the liver or gallbladder.
None of them are autistic, nor particularly neurodivergent.

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