• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    56·
    3 days ago

    … Autistic people eat only fried garbage? That doesn’t seem exclusively neurodivergent to be honest. I know some have that thing about food textures, but…

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      41·
      3 days ago

      It’s more the fact these processed foodstuffs are absolutely held to the same flavour and manufacturing over and over and over. It’s routine in food form

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, agree that this is not very accurate.

      Don’t get me wrong, pizza is great, fried chicken is great… but I’m an autist and I’m the opposite of a picky eater, and if I want quick/no prep food, I will snack on carrots, have a salad, eat some greek yogurt, apples or grapes or pickles or something, maybe trail mix.

      This is more a ‘I eat out of a microwave because I have no time or money or stress/planning capacity to meal plan and cook’ kind of thing.

      If I want something like pasta, I’ll boil the noodles and fry up some jimmy dean sausage, toss the marinara into frying pan for the last few minutes, then grate a block of mozzerella over it.

      Sure, I could just microwave some canned chef boyardee in 5 minutes… but it really only takes like 30 minutes to do it a bit more intensively, and it tastes waaaay better.

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      Untrue. I like certain fried garbage as comfort food when I need something to stabilize myself back to my routines, but that doesn’t mean I only eat that. I keep a varied diet with tons of veggies (those with a texture/taste I can stand, and most of them raw, I prefer their taste over the cooked ones) and I try to keep my animal consumption to a minimum.

      However… That plate has a lot of interesting textures to eat (but it’s missing the mayo to dip them all, I can’t stand fried garbage without a bit of mayo).

      Also, the pizza is wrong. That kind of whatever topping it has is probably going to overwrite the rest of the flavours of the pizza.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 days ago

        Y’know, I have a big squeeze bottle of ketchup sitting in the fridge unopened. Several times I have thought, “this dinner could use a squirt of ketchup to dip into.” But because it’s just me, and I only ever use a little squirt, I always decide it’s not worth starting the clock on that big jug. Probably silly because ketchup is famously long-lived, but better for me not to get all that sugar in my system anyway. Sometime when the kids are all home I’ll have to plan a dinner that justifies breaking the seal.

  • hdsrob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Oh look. A bunch of shit my granddaughters claim they’re going to eat, so I buy, but then they only take a couple of bites and announce that these don’t taste the same as the ones mom gets.

    • nullspace@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      A lot of autistic people lean towards eating ultra-processed foods because it’s a predictable sensory experience. They might order a burger, but request no tomato/pickles. Or a pizza, but only cheese and pepperoni.

      It follows that an autistic person might eat children’s food into adulthood because it’s what they know.

      Of course not all autistic people are like this, but it’s why a platter with dinosaur nuggets and spaghettio’s would be called an autistic sampler.

    • Lantsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Some autists only eat beige food. Same as some non-autists. No real connection, just a cutesy meme making autists look like children.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      I think we have here another example of neurotypicals not getting the difference between adhd and autism.

      Yes, they can coincide, but they do not have to, and they are different.