Aspies and High/Low Tolerance for Spice?

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I put Tabasco sauce in my eye for a bet when I was a cook.

I like my food to be somewhat spicy and my preference is for a medium hot salsa. If my food is just too spicy I won't eat it, but I do like it somewhat spicy.

There's a gap in the market for a Somewhat Spicy sauce!

I love spicy food but I hate the spiciness of black pepper. Yuck.

I like spicy food so much I typically overdo eating it and then I crap fire the next day which is obviously unpleasent. Damn my liking for spicy things.

That's all the sauce on the market, dude.

Just pepper for some purposes, other than that no I dont like spicy foods. Drinking juice or water all the time annoys me and depending on the spice my eyes water and my nose gets runny

I eat curries virtually every day and usually they are pretty spicy. Most supposedly 'hot' foods stocked in the shops seem pretty mild to me.

Tell me how that felt...

Anyway, I can only have mildy spicy things in my plate. Anything more, especially Cuban Habaneros = I feel like a dragon, in an unpleasant way

I love eating spicy food.

I'm not good at spicy food that is 'hot', as in chili hot. However I do like spices that are there more for flavour than heat, such as coriander, cumin, turmuric, paprika and so on.

i love hot curries
but god was phall hot but good for 6 mouth fulls

i love hot food the hotter the better

I have a pretty high tolerance for spicy foods. I used to freak out my mother and her friend by eating the hot mustard sauce at Chinese restaurants when I was a kid. Which is weird, because regular minty toothpaste burned my tongue.

On a side note, when my daughter was 3 she had a fascination with minature things. If it was tiny she'd grab it. When we went to one restaurant, there was a tiny pot of hot mustard on the table with an itty-bitty spoon sticking out of it. Before I could stop her, she shouted, "look at the cute little spoon!" and grabbed it and shoved it in her mouth....

I like spicy food quite a bit.....

There's no option for me. I like them just fine, but since I don't have any real food preference beyond "It doesn't make me gag", I can't choose the option for "I have no problem with spicy".

Nope. I actually don't think I have any red in my hair at all. Plenty of blonde, plenty of brown, but I have never seen even the sneakiest hint of red. Even if I spend hours out in the sunlight to break down some of the melanin, I simply get very blonde. It's weird, since I can see hints of red in almost everyone else (aside from immediate family), even in black hair! Despite that, your paper sounds fascinating. Do you have a direct link to it? (Google tends to give me more grief and unrelated pages than what I'm actually looking for, nowadays.)