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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question- for those who were notoriously picky eaters as children- did any of you grow out of it yourself? My best friend is so insanely picky that if we weren't friends from childhood I probably wouldn't invite her to dinner most of the time, its always a production if we go anywhere that is new because she won't already have a favorite to order. She actually jokingly "blames" her mom for giving in every night when she was a kid, but also knows that its not logically anyone else's fault. What's hard is that you can tell she laments not being a more flexible eater ( I think she feels bad that the group's dinner decision is always made around her) but at the same time its something so ingrained that she doesn't seem to have the will to change it.

Did anyone else just change it on their own? Happen naturally? I mean for very picky eaters, not the normal progression of one's palette changing.[/quote]

My little brother was insanely picky, and now he is in his mid 20s and still is. It is my opinion, and this is only my opinion, that catering to picky eating reinforces anxiety and fear of trying new things, weather it is food or something else.  That making such a simple decision of whether or not to try a new food turns into a complicated over thought out chaotic event.  Same as meeting new people, trying a new activity, etc.  My brother stresses about food, if he comes to visit my parents still want me to make him a separate meal.  It is so stupid.

Trying new food should be exciting, you never know what it will taste like, what pleasures it might bring.  Take the anxiety away, it won't help anyone.[/quote]

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