... Autistic people eat only fried garbage? That doesn't seem exclusively neurodivergent to be honest. I know some have that thing about food textures, but...
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It's more the fact these processed foodstuffs are absolutely held to the same flavour and manufacturing over and over and over. It's routine in food form
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Where are my dunkaroos, and broccoli?
I couldn't agree more. I love veggies
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Ick, they're all touching each other
Once you pour ketchup all over everything it doesn't matter.
Y'know, I have a big squeeze bottle of ketchup sitting in the fridge unopened. Several times I have thought, "this dinner could use a squirt of ketchup to dip into." But because it's just me, and I only ever use a little squirt, I always decide it's not worth starting the clock on that big jug. Probably silly because ketchup is famously long-lived, but better for me not to get all that sugar in my system anyway. Sometime when the kids are all home I'll have to plan a dinner that justifies breaking the seal.
You're over thinking it brother! Open that thing, enjoy it. It will outlive us both.
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British tapas
Brapas
Best in the world
Fried scrub daddies?
Yes, Scrub Daddies are made from polymerized mashed potatoes so they are delicious fried
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0/10, different foods are touching each other.
Some of these can burn in hell
Yeah seriously. Fuck some, but not all, of these food items.
That looks absolutely delicious.
Not sure if that's Autism or Britishness to be honest.
Get that abomination of a waffle fry out of here. It's kind isn't welcome here
Beige buffet
Oh look. A bunch of shit my granddaughters claim they're going to eat, so I buy, but then they only take a couple of bites and announce that these don't taste the same as the ones mom gets.
I'm autistic, and this is absolutely disgusting.
I don't get the connection to autism. Could someone explain the joke?
A lot of autistic people lean towards eating ultra-processed foods because it's a predictable sensory experience. They might order a burger, but request no tomato/pickles. Or a pizza, but only cheese and pepperoni.
It follows that an autistic person might eat children's food into adulthood because it's what they know.
Of course not all autistic people are like this, but it's why a platter with dinosaur nuggets and spaghettio's would be called an autistic sampler.
Some autists only eat beige food. Same as some non-autists. No real connection, just a cutesy meme making autists look like children.
I think we have here another example of neurotypicals not getting the difference between adhd and autism.
Yes, they can coincide, but they do not have to, and they are different.
not autistic, just adhd and picky but oh my word that looks divine
My autistic son wouldn't eat any of those. Not even one. I wish he would.
But it looks like a sampler for just about any NT kid I've known.
Just out of curiosity, what does he eat?
He eats cheese pizza only, peanut butter, cereal, sometime yogurt, hamburgers sometimes, hot dogs, ham and cheese (but often not the bread), suprisingly buttered bread, toast and mostly food that comes in bar form. Granola bars and many of the variations of those. And of course ice cream, candy, and a variety of deserts.
What do you think would happen if you walked him through the process of cooking a burrito?
Ground beef, some cheese, salsa/mild hot sauce, sour cream, shredded iceberg lettuce, soft tortilla?
It sounds like he actually has a fair acceptable range of flavor and texture profiles... the good thing with like a burrito is that you can just basically eat all the parts of it individually.
My guess would be that the salsa/spicy sauce would be the most likely to offend...?
Or maybe if a burrito is a bit much, more like a quesadilla?
I did forget that he will eat some burrito/taco and quesedilla. But no spicey. He doesn want much more than meat, cheese, and sour creme. Sometimes he will eat terriaky chicken cut into small cubes in the form of a burrito. And sometimes he will eat plain rice, or plain pasta.
The fact is, he has eaten most things at least once with no issue. But then won't eat them again for no obvious reason. I think it is less about a problem with the specific food, and just that he has some flavor or texture in mind any given day, and he will only eat that. There are very few things he will eat consistently.
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Whereas I feel called out. I eat all of these... Just not at the same time but its all my easy no effort meals. Except those waffle looking things, not sure what those are.
I think they are just some kind of microwaveable or quick bake, 'instant' waffles.
If those are waffles, he would eat them. Thought they were waffle frys
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Sample platter for a 10 year old kid. Just need some hotdogs 🌭
Death row last meal
The only vegtable is the tomato sauce on the pizza and in the spaghetti o's. Like c'mon... Where are the fries?
Smiley fries
Those aren't chicken?
The dinos and curved things below whats probably 2 fish sticks are likely chicken. The smile faces and letters are probably fries
Dinos could also be turkey.
Clockwise from left:
Pepperoni Pizza
(Probably) Turkey dinosaurs
Spiced curly potato chips/fries
(Maybe) Fish or chicken fingers
(Probably) chicken nuggets
Alphabites potato chips/fries
Potato waffles
Potato Smiles
Spaghetti Hoops in Tomato Sauce
Mostly potato, therefore mostly vegetable, therefore healthy.
My autism will go into overdrive when eating this for bad reasons. There's nothing healthy on that plate. I need some veggies. Some nice tomato or cucumber slices, grilled eggplant or zucchini (why don't y'all just call it courgette smh). Maybe some mushrooms or something. Or pickles. One plate of veggies and then a little bit of the plate in the picture with a nice chunk of salmon, that'd do fine.
Jeeves! A beige banquet for one, my good man!
I am autistic, my current workplace gives us meals like this and it becomes super boring after a week of this every dinner.
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