i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people
people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!
People really don’t understand that a lot of the time it’s not a case of won’t, it’s can’t. If a food isn’t safe food or safe food adjacent, my mouth goes dry, my throat feels like it’s closed and often I start gagging before it’s even near my mouth just because my body reacts to most foods like they need to be objected on entry like the worlds strictest bouncer with rules only they understand.


















