Do a lot of Aspies have a "weak stomach"? Is that

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I have a really weak stomach... Even if I am just watching a movie where one of the characters is throwing up, I often gag...

If I hear someone vomiting, or see it, or most of all smell it, I can start gagging. Not always, but often. Any one of those things can make me want to throw up... just the sound alone.... or if I see a puddle of it in a parking lot of something... I want to gag. or in a restroom, if I smell it, I feel nauseous .

If my cat has a hairball, I can't look at it... without being grossed out.

I have to work up the courage to get a huge wad of balled up paper-towels to try and pick it up.. I gag so many times, even on an empty stomach... It's horrible, the whole process of cleaning it up.. so much that I've thought that I didn't want the cat. Although, I really love my cat.

I remember once when I was 5 years old, some kid had thrown up in the middle of the classroom.. I walked outside and stood outside trying to let the nausea pass.. feeling like gagging myself and the teacher came out, yelled at me for leaving, and made me sit in the corner for the rest of the day... punished because I was trying not to hurl all over her classroom myself... I guess, at 5 years old, I wasn't able to verbalize what was going on with me...

I remember once on a long car trip, my grand-mother was sitting beside me and started throwing up... I must have looked like I had frozen.... I was so much fighting off the instinct to hurl..... My father yelled at me visciously! "Can't you see what's happening!! !! !" Help her!! !! !

he never saw me for who I am... ever..... he didn't know I was almost hyper-ventilating to keep from throwing up myself.... My Father always used to yell at me and call me weird... He seemed to truly hate me, but others say he didn't hate me... but he sure never helped me. He passed away over 15 years ago... and I don't think he ever really knew me at all..

I tend to get nauseous over weird things like the smell of gasoline, strong smelling foods such as onions, and the inside of pumpkins (it always looks so gross!)


seeing someone vomit also gets me sick too but I think thats normal for a lot of people

Many things loathe me, I must admit. I can't look at disgusting things (gore horrors for example, like "Guinea pig" series or somebody's secretions of their bodies). 5 years ago my grandma who was suffering from a skin cancer (all the right side of her face wasn't anything more than only a scary pulp of minced meat; it's how it was looking like) lived with us and I was suprised that my mother was able to do all those things to her: to put suppository to her anus when she was having constipation, to bathe wound and change bandage - I'd NEVER do such things to ANYBODY.

I"m not sure about saying a lot of Aspies ,but I know I have a weak stomach.When I was two simply riding on the merry-go-round made me sick,like you I'd also have to really work up the courage to clean up after my cat's hairballs,and my parents could never force me to eat my vegetables because it'd come right back up. In that case,having a weak stomach wasn't so bad...

But back to you,Musicmaker.I'm sure you're not alone.

Unpleasant smells and the sight of distasteful things doesn't make me sick; but such things can put me off food for several days. The sight or thought of something like vomit or slime can make me almost completely lose my appetite for weeks at worst.

some smells like paint and turps can make me feel really sick and makes me want to throw up and also automatically put me in meltdown mode believe it or not. I had that trouble in my last job I had to use turps everyday and what makes it worse I couldn't do it outside which I would of prefered because there was a pre-school next door and the backyard interconnects with the playground.

I must also say that I am unable to ride rollercoasters, when I was younger I used to suffer from car sickness and I often suffered from digestive system's diseases.

The gag reflex is different from "weak stomach", I believe. I had both as a child. But I don't have a "weak stomach" anymore. The gag reflex is lifelong.
The difference is that I can smell and endure all sorts of grossness. I worked in nursing homes for a long while and saw and smelled some horrible stuff. Really bad. Eventually you have to train yourself to deal with the stress and eat during your lunch break.
But seeing or hearing someone wretch, spit, cough something up, vomit or have boogers dangling makes me gag in the worst way.

When my son throws up, I can't clean him. Luckily he doesn't get sick that often. I can't even imagine or remember barf. It's that bad.

hmm, ive never had a weak stomach, i cant remember the last time i've actually vomited or been nauseous. i can watch disgusting parts in films without feeling like that at all. the only thing that really gets me, is the sight of vomit itself, but it just makes me feel gross, not nauseous.

I know two people who work in a hospital and seem to fair well with all the gross stuff patients bring on.
One person I definitely feel is aspy and works closely with patients and vomit/urine/stool/body fluids, the other I'm not sure about and works in radiology, but they still get their share of smells and vomit.

Now, I'm not sure how they feel about this, but outwardly they seem to handle it quite well.

I have that same problem, too. I have had a weak stomach, gag reflex, and motion sickness (easily carsick and can't ride rollercoasters) all my life.

I COULD ride rollercoasters. I am not sure now, because I have an artificial valve, and aneurysm. I can also ride in cars, planes and ships just fine. Still, give me a little too much fat, or show me certain things, and I guess you COULD say I have a weak stomach. Maybe you have a point.

My whole life I simply could not stand the smell or sight or even the sound of vomit cause it makes me completly sick, and sometimes gore makes me feel sick too, but thats about it.

I have not been car sick since I was a child, and I think now I can take just about anything, probably even being launched in a space shuttle and be just fine.

I don't have a weak stomach now, but when I was a child I had cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), meaning that I would sink into a semiconscious state and vomit blood for 16 hours once a month. This thankfully tapered off in puberty. I was also acutely anal retentive (literally, not figuratively). For some reason I was terrified of defecating and would retain my stool for up to seven days at a time. My mother finally trained me to stop doing that when I was thirteen.

I am very sensitive to bad smells. I almost throw up when taking out the garbage at times.

I dont have any sensitivity to smells or tastes... I can eat real spicy food without any real consequences...
Most smells don't bother me either... although there are exceptions (smelling vomit makes me want to vomit, for example)...
I can ride roller coasters if I want to, but I don't (I usually avoid amusement parks these days, so not many roller coasters to go on...)

As for outright vomiting, I almost never vomit except if I catch a stomach virus (which is rare because both my parents had good immune systems, and I have had mine built up from alot of stuff I caught in childhood...)


The only sensitivity that I have food related is food texture... there are a great deal of foods that I will just not eat (mostly stuff like casseroles, mac and cheese, orange juice with pulp, etc., that have both solid and liquid components to them...)