#selective eating

[rust-4-life]

when you expect someone with “picky eating” to “just try it” you’re completely invalidating not only their bodily autonomy but their ability to infer from their environment and past experiences. if it looks like or smells like or has the texture of something you KNOW is not a safe food for you, why do we have to torture ourselves and vomit just to prove ourselves to someone else? why are some of you such gross sadists? why do you not believe me if i hate the smell of a food and can’t even get it up to my lips without dry heaving that i WILL NOT LIKE IT? some of you just like to torture people, especially kids, just admit it.

[melicious-compliance]

So. My host is, shall we say, a picky eater. (It could also be autism. Safe foods are a thing, apparently.) (The whole system is, actually, but that’s beside the point.) And, after reading a thing, we were tipped to the idea of formula.

And like. A way to get the proper amount of nutrients and stuff? Without having to go further out of our comfort zone than we feel capable of? Tailored to our needs? And in a way that helps her feel little?

Understandably, she’s quite excited about the idea.

[karateriver]

Me at age 10:

Me: Can we please go to a restaurant where I can eat? I’m really hungry.

Family: you should be able to eat something at every restaurant. We’re all sick of McDonald’s.

Age 20:

Family: I’m really craving [unsafe restaurant], but I know she won’t eat it.

Me: It’s fine. I don’t need food. I’ll get something later. It’s fine.

Family: Are you sure?

Me: It’s totally fine.

Now:

Me: Dammit, I forgot about lunch again.

Family: 😧

[arfidy-things]

Can we stop shitting on people for having “childish” diets. Like, I don’t really care if my diet resembles that of a fussy child if it means I can eat at all and it’s none of your fucking business what I can and can’t eat and why!? Leave us the fuck alone.

[daily-arfid]

“how do you know you don’t like it if you haven’t even tried it...”

BC I CAN’T!!!

[goodoldpanicattheeverywhere]

I’m literally just eating a pack of Saltines

lol what am I even doing?

it’s a weird day

pfft I think I’m having a small crisis

[smolplatano]

I tried a sandwich from publix with mayo for the first time in years. It tasted good but I’m still scared of trying a home made sandwich with mayo.

[earthtoalexaa]

A page i follow on facebook posted something about picky eaters yesterday, and i wanted to cry at the amount of adults on there that absolutely do not understand what its like to be a picky eater. They were saying stuff like "i just make what i want and if they dont like it, they cant leave the table until they do." And "Im the parent and if they dont like something then they can go to bed hungry." And the amount of people agreeing with them was dangerously high. Thats not a good way to parent. Starving your child for some sort of power trip is not right. Telling your child they have to eat what you make, even when they know they don't like it is not right. Your child is a human being, not some sort of thing that needs punishment for not wanting to eat a certain meal. Instead of telling them they'll starve, give them another (easy) option that takes you less than a minute to make. A bowl of cereal. Crackers and cheese. Hell, a slice of toast. A sandwich. I'm not saying make them defy you, I'm saying that there are healthier ways to introduce foods, and starving your child is not one of them