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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.  [b]All of these neurological problems are getting more and more prevalent.  [/b]
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Why is this, though? [/quote]

Certain neurological conditions are on the rise, as are certain auto immune and auto inflammatory conditions.  Scientists are still trying to figure out why.  It's probably a combination of factors.

What is clear, is that's it's not parenting, because these conditions appear in families with a wide variety of parenting styles, and that while our understanding of causes may be increasing, it hasn't yet led to strategies that can ameliorate or reverse these conditions.

My family has experienced a devasting life limiting auto inflammatory condition that is on the rise for unknown reasons.  Of course we want to know, and support research to find out, why these conditions are increasing so that other children and families don't suffer like ours.  But saying "Why is it?"  isn't an excuse not to provide individuals with these conditions the support they need.  Both things need to happen, there needs to be research into why sensory conditions like AFRID are on the rise, and we need to love and feed and nurture the people who have AFRID.  It's not either/or. [/quote]

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