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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did this picky stuff become a thing? Was this a thing when you all were growing up? I don't remember it being a thing when I was growing up, we just ate what was there or went hungry and that was pretty much it. One of my grandmothers did the short order cook thing but she liked doing that for us kids and it made staying at her house fun. [/quote]

Personally, I think all of this is made up hype - textural this, sensory that... We've created a generation where it's ok for things to be *disgusting* and to be refused - by constantly serving instead/carrying along the *most palatable foods* (some combo of fat/sugar carbs that lights up the - goldfish, crackers, cheerios, buttered noodles, chicken tenders).

On a totally unrelated note, it seems to me that, if we've got so many kids who have sensory, add, adhd, on the spectrum, etc. issues - and it's not about parenting - I think we need to rethink what are doing environmentally that is causing such a high percentage of our population to have so many issues. 
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My sister is 33, still gags and vomits if her meat is too fatty.  I’m 34, with enlarged tonsils; meat that is overdone and too dry gets caught in my throat.  Neither of us has ever been able to gag down our grandmother’s wallpaper paste (aka oatmeal).

It’s not new.  It’s just more widely discussed.[/quote]

If it's that bad, it's a medical condition. For the lack of a better term at the moment, a "special need." No one is talking about SN or medical conditions. We're talking garden-variety pickiness and parents who coddle to pickies. [/quote]

And you really can't tell from the outside looking in.  People need to quit thinking everyone else is an idiot parent and start thinking "there but for the grace of God go I" - you really DON'T know what other parents are doing or have done.  Assuming parents just "coddle to pickies" is being sanctimonious. [/quote]

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