I live with 2 parents and a younger brother, who all love pasta, which you can imagine might kind of suck for someone with ARFID. For any non-safe food I can think of, I can generally acknowledge it's at least food. "Okay, this food is gross, but many other people love it." I cannot say the same about spaghetti, or pasta/noodles in general.

Pasta is so nasty I don't think I can even consider it food at all. It's literally an assault on all of my senses. The best thing I can compare the classic spaghetti and meatballs to is food that's halfway through being digested. Not quite food, but not quite feces. The only way I can see it is orange mush.

Don't get me started on the smell. I'm not even exaggerating when I say it smells worse than poop. Like, waaaaaaaay worse. There are times where I can't even go downstairs because the smell of boiling pasta creeps throughout the whole first floor.

I remember trying spaghetti. I had a plate in front of me sitting there for 20 minutes or so. I finally touched it to my mouth and it must have been so bad that I don't even remember what it tasted like. I've probably repressed it or something. Even so, how do you expect me to eat something that I can't even look at or smell without gagging? I would rather endure the brazen bull every day for a century than smell spaghetti ever again.

Alrighty, just needed to get that off my chest!

Hey everyone, I, myself, have ARFID. I’ve been thinking about developing an ARFID app to help those with ARFID find places that have their safe foods! Sort of like “Find Me Gluten Free” but for ARFID and it would have educational resources and all that jazz.

I want to take in information and input from the community.

What is an “ARFID Friendly” place in your opinion? ARFID is a very one size doesn’t fit all kind of ED so I want to make it as flexible and diverse as I can. Any recommendations, suggestions would be awesome!

The number of genuine meals I can eat have lowered significantly, breakfast and lunch are pretty much always off the table, I also just got my wisdom teeth removed, so that doesn't help.

how do you guys deal with the pain from being so hungry?

hello so I’ve realized lately that my eating patterns are really weird I have extreme preferences and weird things I have to do to eat food like for some examples, I only like bread and extremely processed thick protein i cant stand real food at all I have no interest or like for it i cant eat eggs or anything im not interested in any fruit and I find them useless I don’t like veggies with a passion but I don’t mind their taste i just have extreme disinterest for anything that isn’t extremely processed or bread plus i love to tear things apart one by one and eat it like a cave person i hate large utensils and spoons i only like eating with tiny forks and my hands 2. i cant eat normal when someone eats my food i plan, i like planning to eat ice cream pints but when someone takes single bite i lose all interest and get soooo angry and cant eat in any routine i always have the urge to satisfy my stomach too i cant feel empty and I crave the feeling of constant satisfaction and fullness along with taste and my appetite never ends when its a food i like i finish all of stuff i like when it’s there so i have to portion things just for me or ill eat it all because i love it so much if i get cornbread i need to finish it all or portion it out and plan it same with cookies and stuff plus I never feel full when i eat real food only junk will fill me up and make me happy i hate real food. I thought this because my mom had adhd and i also have symptoms like her but I don’t have them all like i can daze off into spqce and hyperfocus not diagnosed tho

I'm a child psychologist. I will have my first client with ARFID soon. I have one question. I usually have some healthy snack for my little clients, just to boost some energy and make them feel safe and content. Would it be a good idea to wait my client with arfid with one of her comfort food? Would you be happy for it or would it be disturbing to you that someone is offering you food in a situation like this?

I've been putting off eating (fasting) for 7 days now. I can't believe I let it get this bad. I know I need to eat something tonight before I sleep, but it's already 4 a.m. I'm exhausted, and I really don't want to. I know that the longer I wait, though, the harder it's going to be to start eating again and the greater the risk of complications.

The thought of eating makes me nauseous. And it's not helping that my room is extremely humid and muggy right now. I feel gross and sticky, and I'm worried it's going to affect the taste of my food as well—the canned fish I was planning to eat a couple of bites of.

And I'm probably going to have to set an alarm for a couple of hours later to eat again, because I don't think it can be good to go another 9 hours without eating after breaking a prolonged fast (?) I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to do.

I don't want to eat, I just want to sleep. I'm so tired of this.

I stumbled upon the acronym ARFID a few days ago, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. Could this be what I had as a child? I want it to be what I had as a child because maybe then I’ll feel validated. Maybe then I could force my dad‘s jaw open and shove it down his throat. Could I have been spared all the psychological damage ? I see some similar behaviors but I don’t know if I did have it or if I’m just trying to make it fit. I guess it doesn’t matter because it wouldn’t change anything in my past but I sure am curious .
I’m I’m happy and relieved to know that today’s child will likely never experience psychological trauma at the dining table.
I’m seeking a list of symptoms or behaviors if anyone could guide me. Thank you.

I came up with a name for it since there isn’t one.

Orbophobia (or-boh-FOH-bee-uh)?
Orbophobia: An intense fear, disgust, or aversion toward eating foods that are round or spherical.
Other options:
Spherophobia — fear of spherical food

Hello! I’m pretty new to the term ARFID and am still learning things about it. Mainly one of the reasons I started looking into ARFID is because around 5-6 years ago something.. weird(?) happened while I was eating? I’ve been a picky eater ever since I was a little girl, it was always either because of taste or texture for me that made me not like something. Around the time whatever this is started I was in a relationship with someone who was very narcissistic and abusive towards me. I was about.. 22-23, and I was about to eat my dinner like normal every single day. We were having breakfast for dinner that night. We had over easy eggs, hashbrowns, toast and brown’n’serve sausage links. Everything was going pretty normal up until i decided to eat the sausage, and I simply could not. The feeling.. of it on the back of my tongue while I was chewing made me very nauseous and uncomfortable physically but not mentally(?) I ended up spilling the contents of my stomach shortly after and EVER since then when I am chewing my food, I feel it on the back of my tongue, I just simply can’t do it. I’m loosing my mind over this, because i can’t enjoy ANY foods anymore without feeling this way. It’s genuinely wearing down on me.