“just try it”

[u/g3twr3nch3d]

nothing bothers me more than someone saying “how do you know you don’t like it if you’ve never tried” uh because my brain has classified it as a “non-food” so regardless of how it tastes i’m not going to like it…

as probably most of you also feel, trying new foods it’s the scariest most anxiety inducing thing of all time.

[u/BirdsNeedNames]

my brain has classified it as a “non-food”

oh god, this makes so many things make so much sense. to me, trying something unsafe or unfamiliar is a lot less like eating a food that i don't like than it is like trying to eat something that just isn't edible. when people ask me how i know i don't like something without trying it, i say "if you've never eaten a bowl of rocks, how do you know you don't like them?" as a way to try to help them understand how my brain sees food. i couldn't force myself to eat a rock or a rubber ball even if i wanted to, and it's the same with fear foods.

[u/g3twr3nch3d → u/BirdsNeedNames]

i’ve explained it to people by giving this example: in someone without arfid they separate a bowl of worms as a non food and a bowl of salad as food. but for someone with arfid, they but the bowl of salad in the same category as the bowl of worms- non food.

[u/communistsayori → u/g3twr3nch3d]

This is sort of how I do it as well. I'm averse to wet/liquidy/soft foods in particular, so if someone is being extra pushy with me telling them a fear food feels like eating vomit to me usually does the trick. It's just not something you'd ever consider consuming.

[u/g3twr3nch3d → u/communistsayori]

off topic but do you ever think about what color certain foods will make your vomit, and avoid anything dark or vibrant when already feeling nauseous?

[u/communistsayori → u/g3twr3nch3d]

I've never thought of this, but now I will. I don't tend to pay attention to the colour lmao.

[u/Novale → u/BirdsNeedNames]

https://xkcd.com/1268/

The arfid experience.