#is this even an arfid thing

[arfidposting]

anyone else with arfid have foods they like to eat but make you nauseous immediately after so you don't eat it until you're craving for it

[saturnsocoolioyep]

In the same vein as "I've been taking my medication for long enough that I haven't experienced any symptoms in a while, I must not need to take it anymore! (Spoiler alert: the meds are why you haven't had symptoms)" I present to you a similarly clownish thought process- "I haven't experienced that trigger in a long time, maybe I was just exaggerating how bad it was and it'll be fine to engage with this! (Spoiler alert: take a fucking guess babes)"

[sunnibits]

loving reminder as someone who struggles with food: you are allowed to add joy to your food. you are allowed to add a little joy even if it’s a tiny thing, something silly or something weird. you are allowed to do it whenever you want, as many times as you want. anything that makes food easier and more enjoyable for you is worth it!! it’s your food, you can decide what to do with it!! you can add rainbow sprinkles to your ice cream. you can cut your food into little heart shapes. you can pack your snacks into cute little bento boxes. it is not pointless or childish, it is an effective and active coping tool that you are allowed to use.

give yourself a little joy. the little things add up.

[sideblogformentalhealtshit]

The most ??? experience is when you struggle your whole life with something you don't know the name of and nobody else does it and you feel all weird and outcast and Othered by it, and then you find out what it's called and start finding out about other people's experiences with it... only to find out that, compared to them, what you have is actually mild in comparison. So then it's like. You're too weird for "normal" people but too normal to feel like you really fit in&belong with the more "weird" ones.

[sydmarch]

it was so stupidly difficult to find any nutritionist who has experience with arfid & takes insurance so after having to go through all these referrals my therapist sent me & jumping through hoops I lowkey hate the lady lmao feels like such a waste of time & energy

[brittlebutch]

really really hate how “eating food together” is such a common social activity. i do not like doing that with other people, y’all Have to leave me alone

[museofthepyre]

your art really fits your appearance... are you the real life sydney sargent? i'd be freaking out if you were sydney sargent ahh

Well, yes.

I could explain my multi-year spanning selfhood/ ID situation in depth… buuuut we would be here for hours. Short answer for all intents and purposes is: yes.

[nerves-nebula]

What's a food that you do like? /curious

uhh popcorn shrimp except that it makes me sick

hotdogs except when i don't

chicken noodle soup except when it's bad

plain bread/tortillas except when i don't like them

plain chicken and chicken strips except when they make me feel nauseous

mac and cheese except when i cant stomach it

tacos :) except when not :(

i could do this all day.

the point is generally very bland or processed things, but even they arent safe cuz i can spontaneously become disgusted by them. once made myself two hotdogs and could barely get the first one down and i felt bad wasted the second one. it happens a lot.

[redd956]

My ARFID experience growing up was crying in my bedroom, starving having not eaten all day, pretending to consume my meal.

(It was a pizza from a restaurant that was undercooked or straight up the wrong order. If I tell my parents or grandparents they will yell at me instead, not replace the order at all, and maybe even whoop me. No this is not the same as being picky. There is no willing myself to eat the undercooked food. I will simply end up making myself ill on top of hungry. No this is not the same as a parent standing their ground for a child. I was fourteen and this continued happening.)

[kakushigotofanclub]

God I fuckin hate when people write fics about Obanai's eating issues and then they give him anorexia like ARGHH NOOOO THAT'S THE WRONG THING !!! He's literally the most perfect character ever to give ARFID to it's practically canon please please write him with ARFID write about ARFID nobody ever writes about ARFID

[lapdogchase]

my shirt that says "i don't have an eating disorder" has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

[all-i-do-is-try1]

I hate how ARFID is treated by so called ED specialists. Like yeah it’s an Ed, in a sense that it’s abnormal, and can get severe if someone doesn’t have access to safe foods or has very limited things. But I think it’s absolutely ableist to be thinking this can be cured or treated in the same way that other Eating disorders are. It can be managed. But not cured bc it’s often the manifestation of neuro developmental differences like autism, adhd or sensory disorders.

you genuinely do cause more harm if you force somone with ARFID to eat things they can’t. And you often need a Occupational therapist or someone who has awareness of autism, adhd and other sensory stuff.

ARFID safe foods aren’t even things you eat all the time, just when you are feeling unsafe and need something predictable. Which is often the case if you are forced info treatment

[frothingatthemaw]

been oc-ing the fuck out of vessel….. i have written some Thoughts about him while i’ve been away :3 if anyone wants to see them, i can post em!!

[sunnibits]

having arfid and questioning potential autism in myself is actually so fucking funny because every other day is like. me discovering the most simple fucking thing about managing meals. and being like “YOU CAN DO THAT?????”

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN PUT MEALS IN WHATEVER DISH I WANT”

“YOU CAN HAVE MORE THAN ONE EXAMPLE OF A FOOD GROUP IN A SINGLE MEAL???”

“IF I’M STILL HUNGRY AFTER A MEAL I CAN JUST GET UP AND EAT MORE?? WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME THIS????”

[sideblogformentalhealtshit]

Worldbuilding food&cuisine is very interesting when you have ARFID. I've never eaten a tomato for example, i don't understand anything about cooking or how food is made, i'm even unsure what "sour" or "savory" mean.

But my mom did have a very new perspective on it; since i have no baseline for anything to do with food, i've also no pre-set expectations, so i can go completely crazy and unique with my ideas, which is a much nicer way to view it

[iwakuraz]

okay I'm too annoyed to even be online probably but sometimes I wonder. why do my parents and the rest of my family just refuse to acknowledge the fact that I have arfid. why are you trying to force me to eat food that I cannot eat without feeling extremely fucking sick and terrible. I've been through so much pain and fear because of food I'm tired of pretending I haven't. I'm so tired of things being like this