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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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  • The look, texture, smell and taste.of.a.lot.of.what.others.consider normal food I just.cannot.tolerate.

    onions or.garlic.a.definite.no.  Curry - just the look sends me.running let alone the smell.  Pizzas - no way.  I eat a.lot.of.bread and restricted amounts.of.fruit.  Vegetables.are.restricted to raw watercress small radish and raw carrots.  And baked.potato with butter only, and chips.  Cod.or.haddock or plaice, kippers.and.sardines.  And breakfast.cereal, usually shreddies.or.shredded wheat.  And boiled.or poached egg.  And that.is my diet.  Usually my lunch is bread butter and a banana.  Not.many hot meals.at.all - fish and.chips, or a kipper or a piece of.smoked.haddock or a boiled.egg.

    I have survived sixty four years on this diet so ir must contain something good.

  • in reply to Trainspotter

    I imagine that it must be difficult having to stick to a very restricted diet? What particular textures and tastes do have to avoid?

    To be fair, you have got all the food groups in your diet just in limited varieties, so I guess that you are eating a balanced diet of sorts.

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