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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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  • in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    We used to eat certain meals on set days when I was a child. But as I've mentioned elsewhere in the post, I like to keep two meals the same every day and then experiment with the 3rd. In reality I tend to go through phases, I'm just moving into a tagine phase at the moment so my 3rd meal of the day will be a tagine of some description most days for the next couple of months until I find something else that interests me!

    It really isn't! I usually have an idea in my head of what I will order before I go out to eat. 

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