Am I a fussy eater?? By Fionn
My first answer would be no, cus I eat loads of variety of foods. And have became the best”tryer” of foods in the house. I try to eat everything. But on second thought, I SORTA am.i have odd food issues, mostly sensory problems and i know all aspies have them. …they come into my SENSATIOUS bits The issues i have are mostly things such as…
- TOAST – toast needs to be made perfectly. It’s needs to be hot and crispy. It needs to be just a wee bit overdone. Or else I won’t eat it.
- BEANS – I don’t like the beans texture. This is my real problem. I got sick after just trying ONE bean :o. They’re to slimy and weird. They are ” sensatious “. And one bean guarantees a way one ticket to vomit land.
- CEREAL – I always eat the same cereal for about six months. I don’t know why this is, I just eat a cereal til I’m sick of it and I ask for a new cereal. It’s always been a problem.
- GREEN – I don’t eat anything green or leafy. I just don’t like them. I try them but they’re not my type. They’re not made right. Why would anyone LIKE them?
- CHEESE – I can’t eat cheese. It’s smell is too strong and yucky. And it feels horrible. I can imagine that it tastes really yeuck because of the feeling of it and its smell.
- TEMPERATURE AND TEXTURE – I can’t eat food when it’s slightly cold or soggy. Pasta gets cold quickest which is a shame cos I love pasta! It needs to be hot and perfectly made which dad usually nails.
- TEA -Tea is worst cos I need to drink it at the right time at the exact right temperature – not too hot or not too cold.. or i can’t take it at all…and i LOVE tea! and i often leave it to cool and forget about it! 😦
All in all, foods great!!!
Well…… most of it
Fionn
autisticandproud 
You know what Fionn? You’d fit in perfectly well in our house at meal times. I make so many dinners in our house the killyhevlin wouldn’t have as good a selection!! The joy of having a few aspies and different levels of fussiness!! Garbhan does that toast thing too and tea ends up like milk when we’re finished making it cool enough.
Irene x
in hospital i could never eat the breakfast or the supper.
i had to make dad bring in a box of cereal and i take it dry 🙂
from Fionn
That sounds so familiar. Have you mixed dry cereals? Weetabix and Cheerios in one bowl this morning and Cheerios and cocoa pops in another!!
Garbhan also has a things about eggs, the smell, the colour… They’re just not right he says.
Fionn!
Its good to know that I USUALLY nail pasta!
We’re having seaweed sandwiches for tea tomorrow.
Interesting topic!
Thinking about it, my Aspie son is probably the most unfussy eater in our house! The only thing I can think of now that he won’t eat is liver (but it’s more the taste of it, and I think he is still giving it a chance and may start to like it one day).
His non-Aspie parents, however detest some things vehemently because of their texture: Semolina pudding just gives the creeps to his dad, and with me it’s hard-boiled egg yolk (YUKKK!).
And a total non-Aspie friend of ours won’t eat any fruit, she can’t have the feel of the fruit fibers in her mouth, even the bits in orange juice are too much for her.
So there you go, it’s a topic for everybody, and we’re all different. But we knew that of course… 😉
(And seaweed sandwiches – LOL! Were they any nice?)
I’m exactly like that, except I don’t have the beans problem, I’m vegetarian (I hate the thought of eating something with a brain) and I need things to be REALLY spicy. Like, really, really, really spicy.
::)):)
Oh yes I can relate to the tea thing…it has to be fresh and hot or forget it…I tell people I like to drink “the top of the pot”….I have tried to make this phrase catch on but so far no joy…:)