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Food: Hypersensitive; Hyposensitive or somewhere in the middle?

Kitsune

I've had several food related discussions recently with a few autistic friends of mine, both on and off the forum and I can't help but be intrigued by how autism affects our taste in food. I have a couple of friends who are very hypersensitive to a lot of different tastes and textures and can only eat very bland tasting food of certain specific consistencies and yet there are other friends and also myself that seem to like lots of strong tastes; spices, etc. Food seems to be important to autistic people in one way or another! So I wondered where everyone else is with food. Do you prefer strong tastes and flavours or do you have a lot of food sensitivities that limit what you can eat? I'd like to know other people's opinions and thoughts on this?

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  • I'm very sensitive when it comes to textures. I can't stand multiple highly-contrasting textures in the same dish (raw tomatoes are a personal pet-hate; flakey peel, crunchy flesh, slimy innards full of tiny hard seeds!) or slimy textures at all.

    Flavour wise, I can't abide vinegar but I think that's more my smell hypersensitivity than anything. I adore very very hot (as in spicy) foods and mostly live on spicy, highly-flavoured curries/stews/etc.

  • in reply to Emma

    Oh and I'm quite lactose-intolerant, though I sometimes eat cheese anyway because it's cheese.

    People drink vast amounts of alcohol all the time knowing they'll feel like death in the morning, so I figure "what's the difference"? XD Cheese hangover!

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  • in reply to Emma

    Oh and I'm quite lactose-intolerant, though I sometimes eat cheese anyway because it's cheese.

    People drink vast amounts of alcohol all the time knowing they'll feel like death in the morning, so I figure "what's the difference"? XD Cheese hangover!

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