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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get the pasta shape thing. The adult picky eaters I know have aversions to tastes or textures (and are willing to try new things, they just often don’t like them), but ziti tastes like farfalle, doesn’t it?[/quote]

The different kinds of pasta thing is a texture thing.

I personally think picky eaters have a personality defect and it's infantile. My dad is very picky too and my mom went out of her way to cater to it. We're very close and they come over weekly to eat at my house. Guess what? He eats my food. Sometimes I see him make funny faces (he doesn't mean to) as he eats, but he eats it. I do try to have a few things he likes, but I'm not avoiding pasta entirely because he doesn't like it.

I think parents are doing their kids a big disservice by allowing them to be picky eaters. It's one thing to hate weird food (escargot, duck eggs, steak tartare) but normal food like fish and pasta should be fine. I went to a seafood restaurant with a 30 year old once, he asked me how would he know if he had a shellfish allergy. He'd never eaten any seafood, including shrimp in his life. I was stunned. [/quote]

You clearly don’t know anyone with ARFID.  My teen would starve herself to fainting rather than eat food with textures she can’t tolerate.  All of these neurological problems are getting more and more prevalent.  
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Because people have the time and luxury to be this way. A truly hungry person won't starve themselves to death.[/quote]

This is the dumbest comment.

You are probably right about some people.  Some people with AFRID would in fact eat enough to not die after days without access to their preferred food.  On the other hand, it's easy for AFRID to turn into anorexia, the most fatal mental illness, when hunger signals get turned off due to prolonged access to food, so there probably will be a significant minority who doesn't survive.

But beyond that, is that actually the standard that we have for our guests?  If they survive, everything is fine?  So, if a kid's hunger and anxiety about food is so all consuming that they don't learn anything, or if an adult does long term damage to their body from malnutrition, but they both survive than you've done your job as a host, and you should be proud that you didn't cook a hamburger or change pasta shapes?

In my house, the goal of inviting people to visit, is that we all enjoy each other's company, and serving food that people will eat today, not food that they might eat if they had no access to any other food for a week and were starving, is part of that. [/quote]

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