How Autistic Brains Influence Our Eating Habits

Autistic brains influence our eating habits in ways that others find strange or fussy or boring. As an autistic person, I can experience hypersensitivity to sensory inputs and sensors. Soft and squishy foods are bad. They trigger me. And here's the weird thing: I love bananas but I bloody hate touching them with my fingers. See how just the smallest things can be experienced differently in a neurotypical brain? Autistic people 100% have comorbidity of something like avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) Let's move on to the why. Why is the simple act of eating something that can become stressful and distressing? Okay, we'll go through the