u/HairyMycologist6032

I had food poisoning near the end of last year, and was very ill with it. I won't get into specifics but it got very, very bad. I was never a fussy eater before this- I had maybe 2-3 foods I disliked enough to avoid eating.

Since this incident my list of "safe" foods has gotten smaller... And smaller... And smaller. It started just with the specific foods I'd had the day before I got sick, and then it was all soups... All salads... All meat...

I can't eat vegetables if they were cut long enough ago for the texture to change. I have >10 foods I can eat without intense anxiety now (>20 if you count all the different flavours of huel). I can't eat at any house but mine. I can only handle one specific flavour of hummus. Very spicy or pickled food is sometimes okay but I can't have it (got reflux from the food poisoning). I haven't had a fruit in several months. I think something is REALLY wrong. But I don't know if it's arfid.

I wasn't raised with an eye to much by way of makeup or grooming- not in the sense of neglect, but I grew up surrounded by hippies and nobody was really big on it. I can keep on top of showering daily, washing my face and hair, and maybe shaving my legs if it's a special occasion. But people who walk out in a full face of makeup everyday... Where do you get the time??? My roommate does two face cleansers AND a moisturiser AND a toner EVERY DAY and straightens her hair like, all the time. I don't even know what I'd look like in that like, glammed up polished style with full foundation because I've simply never known how to do it. I feel like it would take me like four extra hours a day. How do you manage it?