Are all people with autism picky about food

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Picky...yes and no.
It doesn't help that my body bypasses hunger and goes straight to nausea.
I rarely eat breakfast unless hungover.
Dislikes from worst to least - celery, artichoke, raw onion, insects (in which I include crustaceans), aubergine
Likes - chocolate, chilli, black pepper, berries, meat, sugar, curry

I like sampling a menu and enjoy different and new things... Until I work out my favourite and then tend to stick to that. (Unless it's removed from the menu....looking at you Redesdale hotel)
I seem to eat the same sandwich for lunch every day if I'm home.

I enjoyed eating at the ORs mess for the forced variety (until they removed dessert from the lunch menu, but continued charging the same price)
I prefer mixed flavours to meat and 3 veg, and bland foods I find very unappealing.(Excepting porridge)
When I was younger I often went days without solid food (as long as I had sweet baby tea)
I had doctors at the Institute of Sport perplexed why I couldn't gain (or lose) weight or put on muscle mass.

I must admit a certain relief that I've found something I can disagree with IL about...Dark Chocolate and this smiley still looks anaphylactic...most thread appropriate.

Everybody I know regardless of their neurological status has some sort of food issues. Sometimes it's texture, or smell, or because it causes diarrhea or even bad dreams. I don't question it. I have texture issues with certain ones but I also have eaten things that other people say "ewwwww" about when I mention them, like frog legs, alligator nuggets, raw sushi and fried deer heart. I don't like rubbery things like mushrooms. I can't eat any fat on steak. Gristle on chicken or turkey will make me gag and cringe. And no clams/oysters since the gristle thing is in those. Nooooo! Not into fatty meats at all. Nooooo!

I'm not picky about my food, but when I was a young child I was really picky about food.

I remember a while ago taking this quiz:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bibibarud/plai ... condiments

About the only thing I doubted was my ability to eat bull testicles.
So picky eater I am not.

Nah. I'll eat just about anything except peaches, which are repulsive in every manner and cause me to break out in hives.

Don't know, but I definitely have ARFID. As if life wasn't a pain in the neck already.

I can eat the same thing everyday and not get tired of it. In fact I have eaten the exact same lunch at work nearly everyday for the past 25 years.

No at all. I am a bit of a foodie myself but with having Acid Reflux and IBS, some food sadly does not like me. Greasy and spicey I have to be careful with. With Indian or Asian food, I usually take a Nexium or Pepto-Bismol beforehand, then I do better.

We don't get to enjoy life, do we?

No.

Aside from the fact I never really liked fish or seafood, I'm more open-minded about trying out new kinds of dishes.

Nope! There's not much you can put in front of me that I won't eat!

I've only had two hamburgers from McDonald's. The first was in the early 1970 when I was a freshman in college. It was one of the worse quality hamburgers I have ever eaten. The second was when someone went out to get hamburgers while I was consulting late one night at an office in a big city. I was very disappointed when they brought back hamburgers from McDonalds.

I also had one of their fish sandwiches in the mid 1970s. That was actually acceptable.

I won't eat cheese. It always makes me sick even in quantities so tiny that nobody else can taste it.

I wouldn't say that but having GI issues is really drag sometimes.

One of my sons was so picky when he was little, there were only a handful of things he would eat, and only a small amount. He was very thin and small and people worried he wouldn't survive. The rest of us ate balanced meals and kept offering him stuff, but he was not interested. When we bought him a happy meal he would eat just one chicken nugget.

Then one day puberty hit and he turned into a ravenous wolf. I looked at him in disbelief devouring just about anything edible, meat, fish, breads, veggie of any kind, green salad, beans, nuts and seeds...etc. His looks changed, his personality changed and he became calm and logical. Now that he's a grown up big dude, he still eats everything enthusiastically. Dinner everyday is a sensory experience that he enjoys immensely. He would try food from other cultures and things he didn't recognize (lucky guy has no allergies). It's like he's a completely different person after age 12. I'm very grateful that he's able to eat well anywhere.