Is liking sweets an AS trait?

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20 Oct 2012, 3:06 am

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Personally, I like mildly sweet foods, but not super-sweet ones, which tend to make me feel icky. Dark chocolate? Delicious. Apple fritters? Not so much.

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20 Oct 2012, 7:04 am

I don't even think lacking self-discipline is an Aspie trait, over food I mean. I often hear women (eating disorder or not) say they wish they hadn't eaten the last cake or the last few sweets, as though they can't control themselves. The other day my mum came in from work angrily and said, ''they brought in a big tin of sweets, and I ate 7, didn't I?! Then there was some cupcakes, and I had one!'' And I nearly said, ''well you're the only one who knows your limits. Why have extra food if you know it's fattening? What's wrong with just having one or or sweets, and perhaps leaving the cupcake, if you're that worried about your weight?''

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20 Oct 2012, 7:33 am

KevinLA wrote:

We all know everyone with AS sense things differently.
I am guessing taste is no different.

I can't get enough sweets. If I did not have any self control, I would be constantly eating candy, cookies, cakes, etc.

Am I the only one?

No, liking sweets has nothing to do with ASDs.

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20 Oct 2012, 9:45 am

FishStickNick wrote:

Thank you. A study shows we do have a reason to eat a lot of sweet or salty things.

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A Study of Gustatational Sensitivity in young ASD and Non-ASD individuals found the ASD group to be hypo-sensitive to salt & sweet tastes but hypersensitive to acrid, bitter and ‘neutral’/water.

I am not imagining things.

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20 Oct 2012, 9:49 am

Stoek wrote:

Lol by this logic, all women and children are autistic.

Seriously though, I think the sugar loaded diet, exaggerates attention issues, especially for those Auties who's kitchens are too dirty to cook.

Logic? How is this logical. For one, not all women and children crave sweets. Secondly, nowhere did the OP state that BECAUSE people crave sweets, they are autistic...

Please refrain from using the word logic when posting illogical conclusions

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20 Oct 2012, 9:52 am

Feralucce wrote:

Stoek wrote:

Logic? How is this logical. For one, not all women and children crave sweets. Secondly, nowhere did the OP state that BECAUSE people crave sweets, they are autistic...

Please refrain from using the word logic when posting illogical conclusions

I am saying it could be a trait of AS. Not necessarily that everyone that likes sweets is autistic.

People could like sweets because they like sweets.
People could like sweets because they are AS.

Both scenarios can exist.

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20 Oct 2012, 4:22 pm

Kevin: I was addressing stoek, not you... My comment is directed at his stunning leap of irrationality.

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21 Oct 2012, 2:24 am

I like sweets and I have phases where I crave it badly.
I'm the same with spicy foods though, and pizza.

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21 Oct 2012, 2:53 am

I strongly prefer savory and spicy foods.

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21 Oct 2012, 9:43 am

Not at all.

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21 Oct 2012, 9:52 am

According to WP, everything is an Aspie trait. Next there'd be a thread come up in a few weeks saying ''is NOT liking sweets an AS trait?'' Wouldn't surprise me.

Or a thread asking ''is it an Aspie trait to naturally conform to NT social standards?'' :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

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21 Oct 2012, 11:48 am

I like sweets, but I don't think liking sweets is a thing related to AS. I mean, the 99,9% of the world population seems to like sweets. It's a very common thing among people.

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21 Oct 2012, 11:50 am

I dont like sweets, by the way correlation does not equal causation.

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21 Oct 2012, 3:32 pm

1000Knives wrote:

I don't like sweet foods too much. Like I did when I was a kid I guess. For me I prefer more spicy or savoury. But I might be almost the opposite of everyone else regarding sweet. For me, when I make Kool-Aid, I add half the sugar as the label says, when I make iced tea, I add very little sugar. Like, I find Asian iced teas for example just fine for me, like an 8oz serving of a few Asian iced teas I buy are only 30 or 40 calories, whereas Arizona is 70, quite a difference in sugaring. Also, I like dark chocolates with like 70+% cocoa more than milk chocolate. To me sugar is a bland flavor, because it's used to cover up lack of actual flavor or worse, it gets rid of the actual flavor of your item.

Also, I don't like salt too much for that reason. I apply very little salt to my stuff. Salt raises my blood pressure easily, too. A little salt is good, but most of the time people don't know how to use spices and instead just salt the hell out of things.

I agree with you about sugar and salt. people just use it to cover up the lack of flavor. If anything, things too like HFCS and MSG are used to cover up the lack of true flavor too. and they coat one's tongue to where they cant decipher flavors and seem more hyposensitive to flavoring. And then the flavors flame out to where people get addicted.

I personally cut down the sugar in a number of recipes. I like sweet, just not drowning in sweet like a lot of people here in the US like it.

And too, with sugar and salt, a person get desensitized to them, the more they use them, the more they'll be used to using them more.

sidenote: I LOVE dark chocolate (especially when it's dark like 70%+)

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