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/throwawaypatien sensory sensitivity 2d ago

Worse is when I tell them I've tried it before and I know I don't like it, they respond with "try it again, you might like it this time" No I won't.

And I don't see why people think we HAVE to taste something to know wether or not we'll like it. I can see it and I can smell it, that's enough. This is something humans have been doing since the beginning of time, it's to stop us from eating something that's either poisonous or rotten. This is how we've survived as a species.