Published on 12, July, 2020
Are you able to eat anything now that you couldn’t as a child?
I didn’t think I had any food issues until I realised I was Autistic in 2019, and subsequently went through my existence with a fine toothed comb.
My sensory issues don’t stop me eating anything specific as such. It’s more of the case I avoid certain things, and I can, because I cook for myself as my children have flown the nest. I had a little think just now, and I still avoid the things I did as a child. Do you?
I can now swallow tablets whole.
Until a few years ago I was still biting tablets despite the medical advice to swallow, not chew or bite. I have finally learnt to swallow with water, that is expensive spring water, I can't drink tap water. The problems with chewing/biting is the horrible taste, the medicine gets absorbed too quickly and I got terrible headaches from blood pressure tablets.
That’s good. Biting them must have tasted awful.