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Throughout my life I've often thought, "If only I didn't need to eat."

Nessie

I'm hoping this is an autistic trait that others can relate to.

It annoys me that my body is so dependent on nourishment, when my brain will happily keep going for 36 hours straight (I know that brains need food and water too, but I'm trying to make a point here).

I'm almost always indifferent to being hungry. I'm not anorexic or depressed, and I don't have any sensory issues with food (although I do have a number of intolerances), I just find planning, shopping for, preparing and eating food a real chore. Very rarely do I derive any enjoyment from eating, and I'd be perfectly happy if I never had to eat again. I mean, I can plug in my iPhone to charge overnight, so why can't I do the same with me?

It just feels like such a frustrating, annoyingly-recurrent, time-consuming interruption when I could be thinking about and/or doing other things.

I'd welcome your thoughts and experiences please.

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  • I'm not like this about food (well, not as long as there are delicious curries, pizzas and an assortment of chillies to enjoy) but I certainly feel that way about going to the toilet.  I feel as though being tied to such things is a ridiculous limitation and, especially as a female with no handy tubing, just majorly inconvenient when out and about.  The "She-wee" isn't as good as I imagined on that score either. 

    I also resent being a large mammal in many ways.  Lactation didn't fit in with what I wanted to do either, although it was pleasant and quite bonding during the time when i could just stay at home and focus on mothering.  Plus being hijacked by a sex drive and the "need" to procreate can be a burden at times, i think.  Are we simply the victims of our genes here?  What of this was my choice?        

    But back to urination and defecation - why have these proceses been inflicted upon me?  I feed my "big brain" with all sorts of training, knowledge and experience, but still I have a bowel and an anus and constant traffic passing through.  I wonder how many times this'll happen over a lifetime and what percentage of life is used up by this.  I sort of feel as though having a bum is an insult to my mind.      

    So...  wrong end of the alimentary canal, I know, but maybe similar feelings.  If only I didn't need to poo...

  • Former Member
    Former Member in reply to Jenny Butterfly

    Quick tip.

    If you untie the knot in your belly button, your bum falls off.

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