Write down five kinds of foods or flavors that you dislike or hate!
I'll be the first to answer...:
tomato
onion
mustard
mayonnaise
pickle
Although I joined this group because of my son, I have now decided I am an aspie myself.
I was the pickest eater as a child (huge sensory issues esp smell) I would leave the house if my mother put an eighth of tsp. of curry powder in a dish she was cooking. I could smell it a mile away! Now I dump tablespoons of curry powder in veggies curries I make. Complete w all the veggies I refused to eat and CURRY POWDER and TOFU!!! My mother must be rolling over in her grave. (Actually she is smiling as she watches me parent my aspie son!)
Over the years I have learned to like so many things, but the one thing I still HATE is YELLOW MUSTARD!!!! if I am at the ballpark and someone slathers a hot dog or pretzel with it, I want to gag. And do not come near me with it. It is the stuff of my nightmares!
Quoting solen:Although I joined this group because of my son, I have now decided I am an aspie myself.
I was the pickest eater as a child (huge sensory issues esp smell) I would leave the house if my mother put an eighth of tsp. of curry powder in a dish she was cooking. I could smell it a mile away! Now I dump tablespoons of curry powder in veggies curries I make. Complete w all the veggies I refused to eat and CURRY POWDER and TOFU!!! My mother must be rolling over in her grave. (Actually she is smiling as she watches me parent my aspie son!)
Over the years I have learned to like so many things, but the one thing I still HATE is YELLOW MUSTARD!!!! if I am at the ballpark and someone slathers a hot dog or pretzel with it, I want to gag. And do not come near me with it. It is the stuff of my nightmares!
I can relate to your story as I was an extremely picky eater and even though I still am one, I was way more as a child than I am today.
As a child I would never even agree to think of trying new foods. My menu consisted of cereal in the morning, breaded Chicken breast and fries (or mashed potatoes) at lunch and scrambled eggs in the evening..and that's what I ate 18 years of my life (until I got married).
Having two kinds of foods on one plate or if there were two kinds, then having them touch was disgusting to me. LOL.
I've never touched veggies or fruit, dairy products, mushrooms etc....not until the last few years that is!
In the last few years I have been getting much better, as far as food goes:
I LOVE mushrooms, I try new foods all of the time, I don't care if I have any number of foods on one plate and they can touch, I still don't like veggies much but I have tried most of them and I do have a few that I eat (like spinach and green beans, peas, carrots...) and as for dairy...well- my newest change was that, I now like fete cheese, and that is a HUGE deal for me!
When I went back home for a visit after 10 years of not being there, my mom saw for the first time ever these changes and her jaw dropped open. She tried for years to get me to at least TRY some of these things and I couldn't (I would gag when she just showed them to me), and here I am, after all these years, eating them as if I liked them all along. She couldn't get over the shock.
And like you, I still have some of my old hangups- If I even smell a tomato, I still gag, same goes for some of the juicier fruits out there. So I still have those things I still didn't get over too.
That is great that you are eating more foods! My son is going through a period where he is trying lots of new things. For a kid on the autism spectrum and with senory issues, I think he is doing great. I was picker than him.
I laughed at your tomatoes and juicy fruits. When we put cherry or grape tomatoes in a salad, I MUST cut them in half. (my husband like them whole because he likes the explosion in his mouth..... eeewwww yuck!) But if they are cut in half, I like them. I also have to cut up peaches and nectarines and won't eat them if they are too ripe. I guess I still have a few things I like a certain way!
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on Aug. 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM