"White Diet"

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Not only do I not have digestive problems, but quite the contrary I am the most insensitive person I know of when it comes to foods, being able to consume anything whatsoever with no ill effects. My digestive tract is unassailable and I've never had anything like stomachache, gas, diarrhea or indigestion, without it being caused by the flu.

I'm also pleased to eat anything unusual and love to try unheard-of and differently flavored ethnic foods. Apart from my peculiarity of eating every ingredient of a meal separately, I am considered the least picky eater that anyone's ever met and can be served anything or taken to any restaurant.

As to whether I'm a happy aspie I don't seem to be much happier or much less happy than most other people here. I certainly do not have a good record for mental health. At times when I went on a food jag and only ate one thing for several weeks I don't recall my mood suffering or feeling any more crazy than usual. I guess I just do not have food sensitivities that are so common for others.

What sort of mental health problems?

I used to suffer from mood disorder, and anxiety, but a gf diet got rid of the MD, cutting out casein most of the time seems to help me with executive skills among other things, ( esp after a couple of weeks cf ), and recently avoiding sugar, fructose and other FODMAPS, ( in wheat, which I was already excluding, aswell as most fruit, and some veg especially onions ), I have found reduces/eliminates anxiety. ( I keep lapsing back into sugar, but at least I'm permanently off casein now )
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I prefer meals that are heavy on carb components (rice, noodles, potatoes...) and vegetables. I like a bit of meat most of the time but I do not eat as much meat per meal as my family do and sometimes I don't feel like eating meat at all for several days or weeks, instead getting my proteines from dairy and soy.

I have found that I can do very well with a diet that is even more centered on carbs; sometimes my meals will consist of nothing but noodles with some kind of sauce for three or four days in a row. If I increase the proteine quota by eating more meat or dairy than usual, I feel queasy and sleepy and generally not well. This can however be remedied by simply eating some more carbs. Being full to bursting does not feel as bad to me as eating an average-sized meal with too much proteine.

My diet is all meat, fruit, rice and some cheese. It's mostly a 'red' diet - the white mainly comes from rice and cheese.

Not me. I like those kind of foods so much, I wouldn't be surprised if I got gout

i learened being a picky eater ment=not eating the narrow range of food that my grandfather limited humself too

My mom has told me that I went through a phase as a child where I only ate white foods. I must have been very young because I don't remember it.

While I do gravitate toward high carbohydrate food items, I make an effort to eat a fairly balanced diet for the sake of my health. I am a pescadarian, which means that the only meat I eat is fish. My usual sources of protein are tuna, tofu, eggs, dairy products, legume and grain combinations, shrimp, and soy products. My usual sources of fruits and vegetables are apples, broccoli, carrots, green beans, and bananas. I love carbohydrate-based foods, but I try to only choose whole-grain items. Unfortunately, I can't seem to live without sweets. I can't go through a day without sweets, and fruit just doesn't cut it. I think that what's really threatening my health right now is my dependence on sweets and my lack of exercise. I also don't like to exercise, except for my daily pacing habit and occasional playground visit.

There is evidence that lectins - certain types of protein fragments - in wheat cause intestinal permeability, and the same may be true for dairy. In that case the causation would go in the other direction: aspies that started eating significant amounts of these foods would get permeable guts, absorb more opioids, leading to a vicious cycle. Aspieness may make one more likely to go to extremes in these respects.

I used to eat a pretty typical American diet, which included a fair amount of carbohydrate - until two years ago. At that point I switched to a diet that prohibits basically all starchy foods, as well as dairy. I used to have major problems with intestinal gas - likely from intestinal flora taking advantage of undigested carbohydrates - and they went completely away within a month of switching diets.

i eat anything
since becoming a vegetarian, i just dont eat meat
i'll eat anything else