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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an adult picky eater, please know your son doesn't WANT to be this way. I'm sure he wishes he liked more, that he didn't worry when going to restaurants, or to people's homes, etc.

I was just somehow born like this, and although I eat more than the four things I ate at age 2 (yogurt, grilled cheese, pb&j, and I forget the other), I am still distinctly picky. Wish I weren't, but I truly hate a lot of foods.

Unless your son is a brilliant psychopath, he's NOT doing this to drive you crazy.[/quote]

+1  Ditto for me. I am always worried when someone invites me to their home for dinner because I fear I won't be able to eat what they make and it will be embarassing.  Over the years, I have become an expert at cutting things up and shifting them around the plate, hiding some food under scraps of others, taking small bites without my tasting them and washing them down with water, claiming to have a bit of stomach upset or other excuses so I don't have to try and eat what will make me gag.

I truly wish I could enjoy all those wide variety of foods others do but I simply cannot stomach most of them. Especially deep green things. There is something in them that just makes me gag. It tastes like poison to me and I can't comprehend how anyone can enjoy eating them. Then I recently read there may be a genetic component:

"Appreciation of sour and bitter flavors [many fruits and vegetables] is learned over time, Emmett says, but certain kids may naturally struggle with it more than others. One 2017 study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that two gene variants linked to tasting bitter flavors were more common in picky preschoolers. “Genes that are related to taste or chemosensory perception may play a role” in how kids eat, says lead study author Natasha Chong Cole, who’s now a nutrition researcher at Baylor College of Medicine. “Which should provide some relief to parents. It’s not their fault!”[/quote]

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