blitzkrieg wrote:
Sillylilgoober wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
It is not a stereotype. It is a common symptom of autistic spectrum disorder.
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"Eating problems are common in autistic people.
Issues such as only eating very few foods, not being able to eat at school, going long periods of time without eating and pica (eating non-foods) can feel difficult to understand and manage. "https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/behaviour/eatinghttps://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/behaviour/eating/all-audiencesWow, I'm not alone. Thank you for sharing that. I started to feel like some strange specimen, reading people on the internet talk about autism. I have mostly sensory issues as symptoms, not social issues, and I don't really feel like it's well understood in online autistic communities. Someone even thought that my need for routine means I have intellectual disability and a low IQ, because I don't "understand" according to them, which is very obviously not true. It has little to do with intellectual understanding, it has to do with sensory issues, poor interoception, hyperfocus etc.
As for food, I stick to a limited number of foods that don't give me issues. Apart from gluten intolerance, I stick to a rather non-controversial and traditional diet. My other issues include IBS and allergies, hypoglycemia, frequent nausea. ("Bad" food can result in vomiting and diharrea)
"How do you guys / girls feel about veggies?"
I like many of them, but hate others and they have to be boiled, not raw. Raw = bloated stomach and nausea, because they feel tickly in the throat.