so we're all underweight.

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i am not nor have ever been underweight or had any trouble with food. there was a period when i looked rather gaunt due to heavy drug abuse but thats not the same.

I have had an eating disorder in the past. I have never been underweight like my doctors claimed I was. I weigh less now than I did before and no one says I am underweight.

I read online that some aspies don't feel emotional attachment to food and they'll wait until they're starving to eat.
I definitely relate to this, though I am not diagnosed (not even completely sure I have aspergers).
Sometimes I wait so long that I get low blood sugar :s I just don't enjoy eating.
I am about 20 lbs underweight too.

Has anyone else who has experienced this found some way of helping it?

^ I definitely relate to that as well.
My relationship towards food is strictly professional. I eat when I need to, not when I'm emotionally vulnerable, or when I have a craving for something such as a piece of bread with a huge stack of cheese on it (how could that be good for anyone?).

There are exceptions, though, particularly when my hormones are doing their thing, I crave more calcium and sugar so I tend to drink lots of milk and eat hard-boiled candies.

But for the most time, I often forget to eat and will only do so when my stomach is aching. It's probably not a good thing, but I don't see much wrong with it.

Emotional attachment to food?

People have that?



They're attached to EVERYTHING....

I've done the low blood sugar thing too - sometimes I don't realise I'm hungry until I'm really ill and remember I haven't eaten anything all day. Even then I have days when I have to force-feed myself a carrot - not fun. But it's not usually all the time, I tend to cycle through food phases every few months or so.

Best thing I've found to help is Sustagen, Hospital formula (in Australia anyway, don't know if it's called that elsewhere). I make one scoop up with hot water and sip it while I'm studying or on the computer or whatever. It's great for the colder months becasue I normally sip tea anyway, but it has a lot of the essential nutrients. I spoke to a pharmacist about it and he thought that if I just did the Sustagen up to the maximum amount indicated per day, plus get whatever extra food I could on the side, I'd be fine. And he was right!

No.

Am 6'2, 205 lbs. Pretty normal and always had good muscle tone and decent dietary habits (i actually prefer to eat 4 small meals, not 3 larger ones). Aside from universal allergies that came and went, and ridiculous reactivity to vaccines, I've always been incredibly hardy in every way compared to my family members or most people.

Is this perhaps a difference between AS and other ASD (I have PDD-NOS)?

I don't understand what this means. We (I presume you mean every single member) is underweight, but use your self as an example of how your absolute statement is wrong. There is a different between underweight and skinny/low weight. underweight is unhealthy below average. Skinny is less than average, but still a healthy weight.

I find it hard to believe that my son, who left to choose his own food, would only eat pizza, macaroni cheese, bread, cake, biscuits, crisps, chicken nuggets, chips, sugary cereal or ice-cream and would not grow up to have some sort of weight issue.

I used to be quite trim, but at about the age of 40, I started to add weight.

I suspect that a good deal of that weight was because I quit riding 3,000 to 5,000 miles every year on my bicycle but didn't change my food intake much at all.

I will eat sweets anytime I want when I feel like it but yet I won't do it with any other food unless I am starving. Even if I am starving, I am too lazy to stop what I am doing to eat. I think that is how I stay so thin.

I've never been underweight nor overweight. I seem to stay at 133lb no matter what, it takes a lot of abuse to make me gain or lose anything and as soon as I'm back to normal eating I swing straight back to 133.

The healthy weight for my height goes down to 116lb but the lowest I have ever got to is 126 and I looked horrible, all bony and sharp. Same as the higher end of the healthy weight for me is 144lb but I look overweight before I get to 140.

I'm pretty happy with my body. Though I'd like to start on the weights again and add muscle definition and lose some fat. Once you start adding extra muscle, weighing scales and BMI charts don't work on you anyway.

That's interesting, because I have always felt that food is an annoyance. I do enjoy eating good food, but I hate preparing it and find the necessity of eating an inconvenience and annoyance, I have always said that I wish eating was optional. I'm not underweight though, if anything I'm slightly overweight. I'm confused as to where OPs point has come from...

I think it means comfort eating. Sad to say I do comfort eat, and boredom eat, although I find the whole eating thing an inconvenience too.

I almost didn't eat at all as a child, but that was just because the food from the school canteen in elementary school sucked, plus I can't eat out of my home (even now), because I can eat only the things my mother cooks; basically, I got so used to eating very very little, that I barely ate the things my mother prepeared, too. But since I started middle school (when I had to go home to have lunch), this problem slowly disappeared. But about real eating disorders, I've never had one.

Growing up, my mom was so worried I was too skinny that I used to drink weight gain stuff for body builders. It didn't work.

Now that I am older I am about average. I have a pot belly due to a physical deformity, though.