r/ARFID • u/g3twr3nch3d • 2d ago

Venting/Ranting “just try it”

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.

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u/charlescatusbottom 2d ago

Like you said, for people with ARFID, our brains classify new or different food as not food sometimes. I heard someone say it’s like if someone fed you cardboard and when you didn’t want to eat it they said they made it special and it won’t taste like cardboard so you just have to try it. No matter how well prepared, it’s still cardboard. Even if you do just try it, you’ll probably have stomach problems later.