ARFID Culture is

Culture is blog for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

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Intro:

This is a culture-is blog for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder! The other ARFID culture blogs have been inactive for quite some time, so we made this to replace them. This is a safe space for people with ARFID, given how new it is to the DSM and the lack of representation for it. Flag in profile/banner is made by me and coined here.

This blog does not contain content that supports or encourages eating disorders such as Anorexia or Bulimia. We do not use any pro-ana/mia tags, the only typical ED tag we use is "cw ed".

Star divider found in this post and old posts is by @enchanthings-a. Will not be used in the future.

ARFID in the DSM-5:

Diagnostic checklist by @/shitborderlinesdo reblogged here.

Claimed anons, tags, and mod info under the cut.

Claimed anons/signoffs:

-🦴🎾

-🍊anon

-🎧

-🦇👑

​-🐾🌹

-🎻🍂

-💭💫

-🪚

-✨️🌸

-🌀🧩

-💥💚 anon

-☀️

-🐌💥

-🦁

-🐞🍬

-🪻✨

​-🥞🪁

​-🐻

-🧁🦊

-🐍🌓

Tags:

"ARFID culture is" - Culture is posts

"Not culture is" - All other posts

Moderators:

Miku:

Ex moderator and original creator of this blog.

Thyme:

Me / the current moderator of this blog :]

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ARFID culture is explaining to someone your safe foods and them going out of their way to get some for you, but you have to tell them you can’t eat it because they got the wrong flavour/brand etc

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Arfid culture is waow not everyone oscillates from not giving a fuck about food to hating anything you could possibly put in your mouth? And craving a food isn't normally that experience of "i desperately want to eat this very specific food because it's the only thing that doesn't make me completely disgusted and i just want the hunger to stop"? (I have disinterest + maybe sensory subtypes)

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arfid culture is being told apparently you need to be partially-hospitalized by your psychiatrist because you're 10 pounds underweight.

because that will help.

because putting me in a new, unsafe environment without my safe foods will help.

because throwing me into that is gonna be great.

because putting me in a place where i know no one and i dont have foods i've had before is the perfect solution.

yes, lets throw the socially anxious teen into a new unfamiliar environment to help them eat 3 meals a day!!!!!!

(luckily, my mom is the best and isn't making me do that. still fucking hate my psychiatrist.)

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arfid culture is me really wanting to be vegan or at least vegetarian because of factory farms, but doing that would cut what I can eat in half, so I can't and I feel really bad about it.

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i hope its ok to send two (t’was gonna be three but i forgot the third one T__T) at once but

ARFID culture is disliking a food that you were almost Guaranteed to like bc you love everything in it

ARFID culture is ‘theyll eat if theyre hungry enough!’ (a lie, and a very cruel sentiment at that)

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arfid culture is crying ecstatically with your partner because they helped you try something new and you liked it :>

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CW emetophobia

ARFID culture is I hate how easy it is to become nauseous and vomit when you’re malnourished. I put up going out with people or exercising because I’m scared I will throw up. Whenever I dont eat breakfast or have an actual substantial breakfast I cant move without feeling nauseous, so many school mornings I’ve spent in the nurse office because I vomited on my way to school. Seriously why is the bodys response to hunger nausea? It sucks so bad

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(probably) arfid culture is sending a very excited "I CAN EAT BREAD AGAIN" text to your friends when you find a new brand of potato bread you can eat after over a year of not having sliced bread

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arfid culture is not wanting to go to an event you really wanted to go to because now there's food involved

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ARFID culture is being told I'm just a picky eater and I should just grow up and eat what I'm given

Its also being asked "you havent tried/dont like [insert food here]!? You have to try it/maybe you just need to try it again!"

-🍄 (im self-diagnosed because I dont have the resources to be officially diagnosed you dont have to post this if you only accept officially diagnosed people sorry)

everybody is allowed to send asks regardless of diagnosis ^_^ idc if you're medically recognized or self diagnosed or professionally diagnosed or whatever else

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Do you think i could have ARFID even if i do eat pretty often?

I'm ravenously hungry pretty often because i never have an appetite (i hate eating) and i'm miserable, and my main trigger is repetetiveness i guess? Like if i eat the same food a few times in a row i can't stomach it anymore. The concept of food disgusts me most of the time and i wish i didn't have to eat. Its like my brain considers everything inedible and unsafe for consumption. I can force myself to eat, but it does often trigger a gag reflex unless i'm super distracted.

Also i have one context in which it's way easier to eat, but if the food isn't "safe enough" i still can't, and its a billion times harder to eat food outside of this context. I've also been told i'm underweight or too thin.

Because this context is easy to arrange though, i do end up having two square meals a day most days, and i'm not dangerously thin, and most people with arfid i see online are doing much worse than me. So do you think it still could be arfid, just like milder arfid? Or is it not enough of an issue?

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honestly i'm not entirely sure, but keep in mind that there's a LOT of different presentations of ARFID, especially if it's related to another disorder. for example, a person with ARFID related to autism will likely present veryy differently from a person with ARFID related to psychosis.

ARFID doesn't always mean underweight and/or rarely eats, nutritional deficiency doesn't automatically equal underweight. (not directed at anon or anything, i mean this as general information)

also, it's fine :))

sorry i can't help much on this one, all i can say is that there are a tonnn of different ways that a person can have ARFID and no 2 people with a disorder are the same

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ARFID culture for me is loving a commonly hated food (tomatoes) and hating genuinely one of the cheapest foods (rice).

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arfid culture is constantly saying you have nothing to eat and when people start to give suggestions or try to help you cant do anything but feel guilty because you can't actually eat any of that and are instantly turning down every suggestion

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arfid culture is enjoying safe foods but being genuinely willing to trade all enjoyment you get out of food to never eat again, because the stress of having to eat isn't worth the enjoyment of eating the things I actually like

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weird arfid culture is not liking a lot of common safe foods and gagging at the smell of tomato sauce but absolutely loving unpredictable foods like sushi, fruits, and veggies (i will eat an entire bag of steam in bag carrots as a snack)

-🐍🌓 anon if not taken

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Arfid culture is always being irritable because you don’t eat enough. And then people harping on you for not eating enough just makes it worse. And then you try to eat something and they go “no you need to eat something else that’s healthier” and it’s like BRO. I am eating SOMETHING. That’s better than nothing.

and also wanting so bad to gain weight because there’s so many things you can do when you aren’t underweight! But no matter what you eat or how much of it nothing happens because it’s not the food that you need to eat. Because the food with the right nutrients and protein aren’t safe foods. So you just have to give up and just do your best to at least eat something. And I’m so tired of it make it stop