#picky eater

[willtheweirdrat]

Reminder: It's alright if you're a "picky" eater. It's alright if you only eat a few specific foods. It's alright if you don't try new foods. It's alright. You should never feel bad about sensory issues. I love you /p

[snakeautistic]

I love eating food “wrong” because it makes the experience about 10 times more enjoyable. It used to drive my parents crazy but that didn’t stop me!! I would pick the chocolate chips out of my cookies and eat them separately, split apart the frosting from cake, sort my M&Ms and eat them in a very specific way- (first, you sort them into different colors, then you eat them until you have the same amount of each color, and then you eat them alternately in least to most favorite color order).

I also had a phase where I used to buy a giant bag of smarties and label every wrapper with a number and eat from the highest number counting down, saving any of the white smarties in a bag until I’d eaten the rest of them. No clue why I did this but it made that mediocre candy extremely fun.

Doing stuff like that doesn’t hurt anyone and it’s fun so I don’t get why it gets pushback sometimes!

[angelboybreakdowns]

everyones all “oh lots of autistic ppl are picky eaters thats totally understandable!” until youre a “”food snob”” picky eater instead of a chicken nuggies picky eater

like sorry i love sushi and toast with nutritional yeast and tiramisu when your 5 year old cousin only eats chicken wings w ketchup its almost like autistic ppl arent a monolith 😐

[sreegs]

Are you a picky eater? I was a very picky eater. I didn't even eat pasta as a kid. Texture thing. If I ate anything I didn't like I would gag. I was super embarrassed about it and it made meals very stressful. It was and still is a big source of my anxiety.

It took me well into my adulthood to get over it. I still have foods I can't stand (FUCK mayo). It takes time, and you can take as long as you need to confront it.

What worked for me was learning how to cook, introducing one small new thing to already familiar things. Being in control of the creation of the meal, and knowing what's in it, eased my anxiety on the surprises I may experience while eating it.

This may or may not work for you, but the main point of this post is to tell you your pickiness is not a failure on your part. People who judge you for it are assholes. And it's something that you can get over slowly, over time, at your pace.

[buglover77]

Thinking about so many people this holiday season. People in ED recovery. People who haven’t started their ED recovery yet. People with sensory issues around food. People with unwanted dietary restrictions and intolerances and allergies. “Picky eaters.” You are valid, you are loved, you are capable, you are strong. I hope you are able to find joy and delight this year in your meals. Wishing you all the best. ❤️

[kagayakuseiza]

“Picky eaters are made, not born.”

Uh-huh, no, tell me you don’t understand sensory disorders without telling me you don’t understand sensory disorders…

[jewishdragon]

How to Cure* Yourself of Being a Picky Eater**

by JewishDragon

Step 1: Be me, a same foods picky eater autistic.

Step 2: Have a family member (who doesnt live nearby) be an enthusiastic chef. Loves to cook for people and experiment with cooking. Just throws shit together.

Step 3: Go 2 decades being wary of visiting this relative because you're an extremely picky eater and feel very ashamed when you stay at this relative's house.

Step 4: Get your first summer internship away from home and get housed by this family member who lives 10min from the internship

Step 5: Make a silent vow to Get A Good Grade In house Guest (a very reasonable thing to desire), since you are staying rent free. The vow includes

Clean the dishes after dinner without being prompted

Empty the dish washer without being prompted

Do your own laundry

Pick up after yourself and take out the trash before trash day!

TASTE, HAVE JUST ONE BITE, OF EVERYTHING THIS RELATIVE COOKS

Step 6: have a 3 month summer internship become several years as you get a full time job (and then START YOUR PHD) in the same town. While you now pay a smidge of rent, THE VOW CONTINUES

Step 7: Profit

(Expand your pallet, Discover what flavor profiles/textures you like and dislike with more nuance than ever before. Be able to go out to eat with friends and family without the anxiety over wondering if you'll be able to eat, or have to order from the kids menu as a 20+ year old. But overall, most importantly, it becomes easier to try a new food)

*JewishDragon does not guarantee any part of this method, this method will not work for most people for many reasons.

**This post is made in good humor. I am not claiming picky eating is something to BE cured. I am just telling the story of my journey of being a picky eater. I am still not an adventurous eater. For example: It took me 6 years from my first making the vow before i was brave enough to try a small drop of ranch/caesar style dressing on a single piece of lettuce. (I REALLY wanted to get a good grade in house guest at a weekly nerd gathering!) (also texture is a HUGE issue for me that i cannot expect to ever be "cured".)

(I also am a huge samefoods autistic, i can eat the same thing for two weeks and the only reason I would switch to something else for the next week or so is I ran out of the Thing)

[czortofbaldmountain]

Having sensory issues with taste is not a moral failure.

It doesn't make anyone ungrateful or uncivil, and also it doesn't make an adult person childlish. Stop being fucking ableists, me not eating what you eat or offer is not a personal offense.

[clownalley]

okay fellow autistics & people who have sensory issues or trouble eating specific foods: hear me out.

I’ve been trying my best to eat more fruits & vegetables & more generally “healthy” food (I don’t think we should label specific foods as “good” or “bad” because food at all is better than no food etc, but that’s besides the point) & I’ve realised something.

If I pretend to be a specific animal while eating a certain food, it can be marginally easier to eat. HEAR ME OUT, OKAY?! Put away the reactionary part of you that goes “wow, that’s cringe”, because this genuinely helps me. I don’t care if you laugh, grow up.

For example, if I pretend I’m a bunny rabbit while eating celery or lettuce, it sort of becomes fun! It turns into me playing a part in my head, kind of. I also do this with sultana bran/raisin bran kind of cereal, where I’m like “hehe this looks like bird/rabbit food” & it becomes easier!

I just thought I’d share this trick in case it helps anyone else. It’s alright if it doesn’t help you, but I’m proud of the efforts you’re making to get better at eating certain foods, it’s not easy. & if you’re finding it hard to start trying foods out of your comfort zone, I’m proud of you as well 💕💕

[dewsgremlin]

Ghoul hc

While Rain is a picky eater, Dewdrop is the exact opposite. The fire ghoul is not picky at all when it comes to his food.

That's why Dewdrop always ends up eating the food that Rain doesn't want.

It's so much easier for Rain since no one (mostly sister Imperator and Nihil) comments on his eating habits anymore since his plate is always empty.

[imagoofball]

When the joint (restaurant) runs out of "good stuff"(chicken tenders & macaroni) and now I have to break the news to twin (picky eater friend.)((most likely acoustic))

[alexxuun]

You know how asian parents give you ten folds of the food items if you ever uttered the words “I like this thing”?

This is great until you’re a picky eater and you say “oh yeah, I can eat this thing now” and suddenly your parents are feeding it to you every chance they get to the point where you question if you can even eat this thing anymore.

[thatweirdthingoverthere]

Do any of my other neurodivergent brethren and sistren try to find sites with healthy kid friendly recipes hoping it will cater to your inborn pickiness, only to have 99% of the recipes be for dishes you won't even eat now as an adult?

"Minestro- ❌"

"Chicken sala - ❌"

"Hard boil- ❌"

"Peanut butter & jel -❌ WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THAT ONE?" "The recipe called for CHUNKY PEANUT BUTTER"

[stompybootz]

chicken nugget has a piece of unseen gristle in it

10 word horror story for adhd/autistic folks

[cryptcatz]

being picky with specific food preferences is SO fun and by fun i mean you get to request food a certain way at restaurants and then sit there feeling like you should be dragged out into the street and shot for being so inconvenient to staff