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    Ah ok!

    I ask because well, I’m autistic, though I am the opposite of a picky eater, I’ll try anything at least once… but also I realize not all autistic people are the same.

    Was trying to figure out if it was possible it was more of a texture/mouthfeel thing, certain flavor group, etc.

    If I had to guess, based on all you’ve said, he doesn’t like spicy, and he doesn’t like … basically meat that is substantial enough that you have to actually tear through some tissue, while chewing.

    If he’ll eat basically small chunks of meat… well pepperoni on a pizza, the slices are often large enough that you have to actually bite through the slices. So, maybe he’d be ok with sausage pizza, where the bits of sausage are fairly small?

    That would be my main guess as to what the ‘inexplicable’ element of his tastes are… he can handle some hamburgers, because the meat patties are likely floppy enough that they’re not difficult to chew apart, but I’m guessing if you gave him a rare steak, he’d hate it.

    It might be useful to try to see how he’d respond to just like, bacon, at different levels of crispiness?

    Also that and he seems averse to spicy. I remember spicy foods being essentially just mouth on fire pain as a kid, but I eventually grew into having a greater appreciation and tolerance for them.

    I’d say that even a cured meat like pepperoni would also be what I’d call at least very slightly spicy… whereas teriyaki sauce, in the US at least, is basically extremely sweet and not spicy at all.

    But also, as you say, yeah it very much could be that he basically has a specific kind of ‘i want this kind of food / mouth experience today / now’ in mind.

    … if possible, maybe ask him, try to do like a meal plan system, a schedule? At least one meal a day is some kind of known in advance? Just having the structure might be helpful, basically just so it isn’t surprising.



  • Real answer has been posted, but my initial thought was that something like 2 to 4 m80s all blew up at the same time, with the person like pancaking or prayer-handsing them.

    Fucking gnarly.

    I’ve met more than one person who hand their hand ‘de-gloved’, in different kinds of industrial accidents, but both of them were lucky enough to get the skin put back on and not lose any digits, though they do of course have significant neurological issues.







  • What do you think would happen if you walked him through the process of cooking a burrito?

    Ground beef, some cheese, salsa/mild hot sauce, sour cream, shredded iceberg lettuce, soft tortilla?

    It sounds like he actually has a fair acceptable range of flavor and texture profiles… the good thing with like a burrito is that you can just basically eat all the parts of it individually.

    My guess would be that the salsa/spicy sauce would be the most likely to offend…?

    Or maybe if a burrito is a bit much, more like a quesadilla?


  • 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.