Am i the only one?

[WhitewaterWoman]

I know an autistic who could not eat solid food. I don’t know why because he was also nonverbal although it appeared to be a textural thing. He only drank Ensure. He consulted a dietician and was told that was okay.

 

[SusanLR]

Do you have thoughts that the secretions from the human body is rather icky?
I did around age 10 when I took an interest in science studies.
At first learning about our anatomy and how it all works, I got a bit obsessed thinking about it.
Those thoughts went away, the more I educated myself on the subject.

Learning to brush my teeth was a nightmare for myself and my mom.
Gag me with a silver spoon fits how it felt. I still don't like the feel, but have
a great desire for oral hygiene, so it doesn't get in the way.

 

[Progster]

I can't stand butter and never have (same with milk and cream). However, when eating mashed potatoes, garlic bread or naan bread, I don't mind melted butter to wet it and make it less dry in my mouth (though I always use much less than everyone else). When I was a teenager, we had naan bread with the meal, and I placed some butter on the hot bread to let it melt before adding the garlic salt. When my stepmother saw that, she thought it was a real "gotcha" moment and said she knew I could totally eat butter. The thing is, I knew she was there and would notice it, but decided to trust her not to make a big thing about it. I was quite upset, since to me it's obvious that butter tastes completely different when solid compared to when melted and mixed with other stuff (I'm fine with cookies which use butter for instance), and that's not even mentioning the texture difference.

I don't like butter either, the main reason being that I ate a piece of toast once with a lot of butter on it, and I thought that the impression left in the butter by my teeth was really gross. It kind of oozed out from between the teeth - yuck! Also, I don't like the greasy texture of it, though I will eat foods containing butter as an ingredient.

I don't like tomatoes either - don't like the taste and don't like the texture of the seeds in the middle - it's just like frogspawn. My parents didn't get how it was possible for me to eat tomato ketchup, but nt tomatoes. Well, tomato ketchup has a completely different taste and texture to tomato ketchup, they're not the same thing at all.

 

[autism-and-autotune]

Am I the only one who will quit eating simply because the act of chewing then swallowing is disgusting?

Interesting; I've never heard of this before and I cannot relate to it. I'm sorry this is a struggle for you.

 

[Aeris]

It's not really a struggle but more of a weird quirk. Like white bread. I can't stand white bread because it sticks to my teeth and the roof of my mouth. But I love wheat bread.

 

[Knower of nothing]

I don't share your exact experience but I relate deeply on a spiritual level, perhaps deeper than you actually experience it. If I mess up and am without distraction while eating and begin to focus on what it's like to eat, any food will repulse me except some specific dry foods. I eat fast for the same reason, the longer any singular bite stays in my mouth the more risk of losing all appetite.
There's also when I'm not eating that I'll become aware of what it means to eat and need to eat, but that may be a different kind of revulsion, I'm not sure. It's impossible to know whether I'd have those moments if I didn't have enough bad experiences with eating on the regular.
Regardless, I can't remember the last time I emptied a plate haha. But I'm hanging in there, coasting by right on the edge of the definition of underweight.

 

[Ken]

How do you maintain body weight and a healthful fuel intake?

I have that same issue, and the answer to your question - for me only, is that while it makes me stop eating, it's not permanent. I can eventually resume eating.

 

[Aeris]

Same. It doesn't happen very often for me. It's just once in a while it is very disgusting to have to chew then swallow. Then later I'm absolutely fine.