ARFID sideblog

(they/them) i dont want to annoy my followers but need somewhere to share stuff, so... sideblog it is!! 🌸friendly reminder that kirby loves you🌸 (@ultimatestellar is my main)

[hoofpeet]

[vvvvvvvvvvvvv1-deactivated20260]

Differentiating between “bad” picky eaters and people with ARFID is just… incredibly dumb. Mind your own business, your “but it’s okay if you have a disability/sensory issues!!1!” means jack shit when you’re acting like food issues are a moral failing. Stop hating on “picky eaters” or stop pretending to care about disabled people.

[mcdonalds-fries-deactivated2020]

okay so I just found out that other people with arfid tend to really like pasta and french fries too and it makes me so happy to know I’m not alone

[arfid-rambles]

Keep reading

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

THIS!!!!

[deepdays-deactivated20220120]

by far the worst part of ARFID is how inhuman it makes you feel. it’s so alienating, you’re like a voyeur looking in on a completely different world, one so close to you that you just can’t reach. other people can enjoy and bond over food but you just can’t, so you’re stuck there, watching. not to mention the years and years of being put down, shamed, harassed, and teased for your eating habits, oftentimes by your own family members, instills the idea in you that you’re doing something wrong, that you’re less than human.

[chaotic-queer-disaster]

people are absolutely EVIL about the boundaries of “picky eaters”. no, they do not have to try it. yes, they can know they don’t like it without having eaten it before. no, they probably have not suddenly grown a taste for the food they’ve said they hate. no, they probably are not going to like it in the Special Way This One Place Cooks It. yes, you are being a bad friend if you try to “trick” them into eating it anyway

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

two bitches with arfid in the room what will they do

[macrolit]

This could be fun. I scored 11. How about you?

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

hey im not very active on here but… I MET SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS ARFID!!!! IN REAL LIFE!!! WHO WAS ALREADY MY FRIEND!!!!!!!!!! WEEEEE HAPPY HAPPY

[enby-life]

Eat when you’re hungry

“But it’s late at night-” eat!

“But it’s the middle of the day-” eat!

“But I’ll be having lunch soon-” have lunch earlier! Or have a light snack!

“But I don’t deserve to eat” I promise you do, you deserve to eat and feel full I promise you

Eat when you’re hungry! When you’re hungry, you’re sad. And that will just add to whatever else is upsetting you at the time. Even if it’s something like popcorn or a strawberry or toast or meat and crackers or a breakfast bar, eat when you’re hungry!

[anaalnathrakhs]

✨just ARFID things✨

- 5am soup

- chips

- the same lunch every. day.

- “what do you want to eat” uh uhhh uhhhhhhhhhh

- chips, again

- If I Have To Stay One More Second Near This Fridge I Am Going To Throw Up

- “so, i’ll take the hamburger, but remove the lettuce, and uh, also remove the sauce, and the cheese, and the tomatoes, and the onion, and uh, also no pickles please :)”

- chips, again

- strategizing the rate of Pleasure Food per Filler Food per Nutritional Food That’s On Thin Fucking Ice

- that one thing you really like but it’s only found in premade food with a bunch of Bad Things so you can only cherrypick little bits here and there and you feel sadder than you probably should knowing that you’ll never eat it by the spoonful

- If Someone Even Mentions Yogurt I Am Going To Throw Up

- chips, again and again and over again

- almost throwing up drinking water but also you’re really thorsty so you HAVE to drink it

- *seeing what people eat* “wow I literally have no respect for you”

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

tried out a little "alpha stim" thingy for my treatment for the first time today, and it only kinda made me woozy + anxious even when i turned it down a lot. we're gonna try it again tmrw but until then something i have learned is that apparently very woozy very tired me just really wanted to play snake. like really really wanted to play snake. so i did and my high score is apparently 27

didnt help me with arfid so far, but it has helped me at snake(?)

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

i guess as an update... treatment for me is still happening? just tryna get my weight up. school has made things 10x more difficult thanks to the new calories burnt by walking around with my heavy-ass backpack. im either at 5 foods for breakfast 4 for lunch + brush teeth and 3 for dinner or its 4-5-3 and not the first one. the consequence is my phone taken away. my parents are NOT great about keeping the phone thing, which was chosen because it feels like an end of the world scenario to me, for only arfid consequences. my therapist psychiatrist and ed person are working together on things. my companion is helping a lot too. not quite sure what else to say there.

also, having arfid and getting treatment for it is really strange when im so incredibly interested in people. specifically things like cults and mind control. my companion’s first reaction to my treatment was that its gaslighting, and altho it IS that, its for a good reason and mind control isnt always bad. he was easily able to notice that base fact tho. it feels weird seeing all the tactics used on me and not only knowing how they do it, but also how it can be used for immense harm. all of this is based on trust i think.

so thats about it. have a good day ^-^

[tinloves1d]

It’s so incredibly great to hear other people talk about their experiences with arfid. I actually only found out about arfid a couple months ago and before that I thought I was just a loser who couldn’t eat anything! I felt sooo alone, it was just horrible. It still is now but at least I know I’m not the only one... I already know I’m going go love tumblr to speak about all my problems without anyone judging! 😊🌞

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

ofc!! we’re glad uve found community here.

[pajarito-eating]

sometimes i wish i was comfortable enough with someone to just ask them food questions that people without arfid would typically know

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

i do this all the time with my family, theyre really nice about it and also tell me what the actual fuck thai food is

[stopcallingmeapollo]

Shout out to all my avoidant/restrictive people who struggle through lunch every day

To people who can barely piece together a meal from the options at their schools

To people who can feel people staring at them when they put together a plate of mismatched, monochromatic foods

To people who avoid friends’ houses like the plague so they won’t be forced to go through the agony that is a “normal” meal–or worse, have to insist on only eating their safe foods and offend the host

We are all incredibly strong and brave, even if society mocks us. We are not burdens. We are worthwhile.

[stellar-arfid-rambles]

me: i know a ton about arfid, the diagnostic criteria, the way it’s portrayed and seen in the world around us, and—

anyone: *asks me about what weight or BMI means*

me: .... actually i am clueless