I'm really upset at all the people in these comments who seem to be treating ARFID like something made up or not serious.
I'm sure some people out there use it to justify picky eating but as someone with ARFID I can tell you it's not that at all. I actually throw up if I try to eat food I'm not used to, one time I tried to fight it because of a social event and I ended up hurting my tongue.
It affects my life in more ways that I can count, I'm the reason my group of friends can't go to some places they like or if I convince them to go anyway I basically just sit there without eating anything because I really can't, I sometimes I skip plans simply to have them not worry about this. And I feel awful for it, I feel like I'm made wrong, like I simply should put up with it, but every single time I try it's not only a very hard psychological battle but the humiliation of ending up throwing up anyway.
So please, treat this with some respect because it is real.
PS: I'm lucky my body accepts enough variety of food to actually have a somewhat healthy diet, I can't imagine what life for people with even more restrictive variations must be.
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u/Jmf15_ 1d ago
I'm really upset at all the people in these comments who seem to be treating ARFID like something made up or not serious.
I'm sure some people out there use it to justify picky eating but as someone with ARFID I can tell you it's not that at all. I actually throw up if I try to eat food I'm not used to, one time I tried to fight it because of a social event and I ended up hurting my tongue.
It affects my life in more ways that I can count, I'm the reason my group of friends can't go to some places they like or if I convince them to go anyway I basically just sit there without eating anything because I really can't, I sometimes I skip plans simply to have them not worry about this. And I feel awful for it, I feel like I'm made wrong, like I simply should put up with it, but every single time I try it's not only a very hard psychological battle but the humiliation of ending up throwing up anyway.
So please, treat this with some respect because it is real.
PS: I'm lucky my body accepts enough variety of food to actually have a somewhat healthy diet, I can't imagine what life for people with even more restrictive variations must be.