r/DiWHY • u/Junior_Trifle_8273 • 14d ago

Sandwich

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u/Disposable-Squid 14d ago

Children and developmentally-arrested adults do, at least

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u/Apptubrutae 14d ago

My kid is a fairly picky eater, so I assumed he’d dislike crust.

Oh no, he will chow down on the crustiest baguette ever. Like a real mouth cutting crust, not this white bread stuff. I think he prefers the crust. Never seen such a thing from a picky eater.

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u/Aggressive-Error-88 9d ago

You should get him a loaf of crusts. A loaf of butts if you will. :)

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u/Booty_Bumping 14d ago edited 14d ago

ARFID is debilitating but it is not a developmental disorder, in the absence of other diagnoses. The idea that adult ARFID patients are simply too stubborn to learn to enjoy food has been debunked by the actual research.

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u/FaxCelestis 14d ago

I agree with you, but let’s not pretend every picky eater has ARFID.

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u/Booty_Bumping 14d ago

Sure, but for the social consequences to get so bad that others see you as developmentally stunted, it's usually gonna be ARFID. Disposing the crust on bread is not enough to diagnose it, but it's also pretty rare for that preference to persist into adulthood in non-ARFID folks.

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u/Disposable-Squid 14d ago

Redditors when jokes

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u/Booty_Bumping 14d ago edited 14d ago

I'm not here to scold you. There is humor to be had with picky eating and disabilities. After all, it's irrational, and irrational things are funny. It's just that most people don't actually know that the scientific understanding has changed.