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Irulan
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Do you have problems with eating? |
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I was looking for a thread concerning this issue but I couldn't find anything. I'd like to bring up this topic. Do you have any problems with eating? I have already written some things about it on the forum. Let me quote myself:
| Irulan wrote: | I don't like eating. It was always a kind of punishment for me when I was called to come and eat something  Chewing and swallowing belong to the category of the most tedious and boring things all over the world  I don't derive any special pleasure from food. I'm extremely fastidious when we are talking about food. I like only very spicy things. |
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| Irulan wrote: | | For me it's much worse to be thirsty than to be hungry. I drink a lot, recently it's mostly a red lemonade. I simply hate eating, what a pity that I don't live in an ultra modern epoch with amazingly developed technology when people consume their food in the form of pills, like in s-f films. There are only several things which I like to eat - pizza, ice-creams, smoked fish, toffee, letcho, pears and only few others. It's not only extremely boring but also simply cumbersome to chew all those mouthfuls of food and swallowing them is a tedious task |
Do you also have some unusual inclinations for food and generally for consuming it as such? Maybe you restrict your choice only to some kinds of products? How does it look like in your case?. |
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Sopho
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it's worse being thristy than hungry as well. I don't have problems actually eating, but I can be restrictive with what I eat and tend to get into routines of eating the same thing every day for weeks. I have a problem with other people eating rather than eating myself though. |
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Pugly
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have problems eating, I enjoy it. But I am pretty sensitive to a food's texture...certain things that are really mushy I can't eat.
I had this problem growing up, I just couldn't eat cooked vegtables... like broccoli, cauliflower really cooked carots and peas. I could eat this stuff raw no problem, and actually like mot of it. But cooked its a different story.
I actually have a couple of rare childhood "episodes" related to being forced to eat something I didn't like the texture of.
I physicaly can't eat the stuff.
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Irulan
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I happened to eat still the same for weeks. Recently it was a tuna casserole which in turn had replaced hot dogs eaten by me earlier. I always tried to explain my mother that it's my own organism that knew the best how much food it needed. |
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girl7000
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I have this too. I will find one thing that I want to eat and then eat it every day sometimes for months.
I am also very sensitive to texture and taste and smell, so there are a lot of foods that I cannot eat.
In addition, there are a lot of things that I cannot have because they upset my stomach or make me ill in other ways. For example, I can't eat pulses or gluten.
I also only like to eat food that I have prepared myself, or that someone I trust has prepared. |
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markaudette
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Other than making a mess and embarrassing myself to death, I love eating.
It's drinking I can't stand. Because I always have to drink a lot because I don't sip anything through the day. I basically am so dumb that I only drink when I'm so dehydrated I can't see straight and lightheaded. So I drink and drink to get rehydrated. Then I spend all day in the bathroom, which I hate. |
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Flismflop
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Pugly wrote: | I don't have problems eating, I enjoy it. But I am pretty sensitive to a food's texture...certain things that are really mushy I can't eat.
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I actually have a couple of rare childhood "episodes" related to being forced to eat something I didn't like the texture of.
I physicaly can't eat the stuff. |
I have the exact same aversion to peas that you do. Those big, loose peas that mush up really easily always trigger my gag reflex. The only way I could ever put it into words was to say that peas are “too mushy”. I enjoy pea soup, and loose peas in various types of soup. I enjoy peas that are cooked/served in their pods, such as sugar snap peas and snow peas. There’s just something magically gross about a spoonfull of loose peas. I still can't really figure out why I feel that way.
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Smelena
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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My 7 year old has a lot of difficulties with eating.
He goes through food fads where he'll only eat a couple of types of foods for weeks. Then suddenly he doesn't want that anymore, and we can spend all day trying to find something he will eat.
If he eats foods with a certain texture he will projectile vomit. Obviously, we've learned what these foods are and don't give them to him anymore. |
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TheMachine1
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| I've noted when I take oxytocin I want to eat more and more fatty foods. I'm taking prozac and it can suppress appetite in some.. Got me thinking there maybe some kind of link to oxytocin and pro-social effects of some anti-depressants. Which if true might mean a drug that makes you gain weight might be the one that has the most pro-social effects. I know I was 30 lbs more on paxil and much more social. On prozac I'm skinny and basically very little need for social contact in real life. |
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hartzofspace
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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I have vivid bad food memories. Once, my brother, who is also on the spectrum, was refusing to eat some runny scrambled eggs. If there is one thing that will make me barf, it is that. My father forced him to eat them, and he got up from the table and vomited. I remember getting grossed out when a section of my toast went into something else on the plate. I refused to eat it, and when my mother insisted, I screamed and went into meltdown. I couldn't make her understand that the foods on my plate must not touch. For the longest, white bread and milk made me ill. It triggered my gag reflex, just to look at them.
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Futurama91
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That's really interesting. I am absolutely certain that my 9-yr-old daughter is an aspie. She has always bee super-particular about what she eats. If she doesn't have the right kind of waffles for breakfast, for example, even if we're staying at someone else's house, well, it's going to be a rough morning.
I encourage her to eat new stuff, but I don't force it, because I'm sort of the same way, to a lesser extent. |
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hartzofspace
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| Futurama91 wrote: | That's really interesting. I am absolutely certain that my 9-yr-old daughter is an aspie. She has always bee super-particular about what she eats. If she doesn't have the right kind of waffles for breakfast, for example, even if we're staying at someone else's house, well, it's going to be a rough morning.
I encourage her to eat new stuff, but I don't force it, because I'm sort of the same way, to a lesser extent. |
It's good that you understand your child. My father was a hard core disciplinarian type, and we were seen to just be acting spoiled.  Asperger's was unheard of back then. I think that a lot of the foods that I do like, I associate with happy times/memories. For instance, toast. I have an indelible memory of sitting in the kitchen with my mother, shortly after moving into a new house that everyone was very happy about. The kitchen smelled of toast and coffee. The sun shone in the windows, and my mother was in one of her rare good moods. I always associate the smells of toast and coffee with happy, new beginnings and cozy time with my mother.
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Belfast
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Irulan wrote: | | I always tried to explain my mother that it's my own organism that knew the best how much food it needed. |
Yes, I have (for my whole life, at least since age 2-which is 32 years ago) eating problems. Didn't realize it for many years, because it seemed the only problem was other people & their ideas of normal/proper food.
Only as an adult have I had the control over my own choices which has made me understand that I really do have difficulty & distress in relation to food, mostly on a sensory level. My family & so-called friends gave me a hard time about my "food issues", though I know it could've been much worse. Dx (which includes my sensory differences) didn't come along for me 'til a few years ago-too late to modify my family & past misunderstandings. At least now I have somewhat of a framework with which to explain to new people "how I am" about eating.
| girl7000 wrote: | I have this too. I will find one thing that I want to eat and then eat it every day sometimes for months.
I am also very sensitive to texture and taste and smell, so there are a lot of foods that I cannot eat. |
Me too. I eat what is okay for now-until it no longer appeals due to boredom, change in product ingredients or preparation, or having a single traumatic experience of the item. A "bad bite" (meaning something wrong in a mouthful of food, such as gristle/bone/unchewable in meat) causes me to panic, my throat constricts, and I fear I'll choke to death.
| hartzofspace wrote: | | I have vivid bad food memories. Once, my brother, who is also on the spectrum, was refusing to eat some runny scrambled eggs. If there is one thing that will make me barf, it is that. My father forced him to eat them, and he got up from the table and vomited. |
I can't stand eggs (unless in cookie dough !)-the scent, the appearance, the taste or texture.
My uncle has CP & severe reflux. I recall times in my childhood where we'd be sitting at table eating & my uncle would start throwing up. It was totally horrible for me, I'm emetophobic & vomitting grosses me out (whether myself or someone else). Know it was awful for him, too !
Am just saying these painful memories (and the emotional & sensory intensity with which I re-experience them mentally) are another factor in my eating anxiety. Sigh.
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Neuromancer
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Do you have problems with eating? |
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| Irulan wrote: | | I don't like eating. It was always a kind of punishment for me when I was called to come and eat something Chewing and swallowing belong to the category of the most tedious and boring things all over the world I don't derive any special pleasure from food. I'm extremely fastidious when we are talking about food. I like only very spicy things. |
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| Irulan wrote: | | For me it's much worse to be thirsty than to be hungry. I drink a lot, recently it's mostly a red lemonade. I simply hate eating, what a pity that I don't live in an ultra modern epoch with amazingly developed technology when people consume their food in the form of pills, like in s-f films. There are only several things which I like to eat - pizza, ice-creams, smoked fish, toffee, letcho, pears and only few others. It's not only extremely boring but also simply cumbersome to chew all those mouthfuls of food and swallowing them is a tedious task |
Until I was 17 yo I could repeat your words, then I forced myself to eat many things, it was very hard, but I succeded in doing it. By now I am still picky, but at a way that didn't compare to those times.
Today I am doing exercises, and since I have started doing it I am eating a lot, also, by now I really can say I like to eat! It is very interesting and diferent for me that I catch myself many times during the day thinking in foods to it, what used to be very rare for my whole life. |
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