u/ThisSweet5750

I don’t know if this is my audhd, my arfid, or both, but I’ve always had a diet that I would say is larger than what the majority of people with arfid have that I’ve seen. However, it does these really weird cycles? They can last anywhere from a week or 2 to months. Basically, I can only eat some of the foods on my list at any given time.

It rotates completely randomly and is almost always quite instant. Ex. one day I look at the fridge and go ‘yep, I can eat everything on my list. Except that cereal in the corner, that looks nasty.’ and the next, I look at it and go: ‘this all looks fucking disgusting. Besides that one box of cereal in the corner, that looks yummy.’

Cycling out of a food can be anywhere from just losing my appetite for it; but being able to eat it if I have a very good reason to, or it feeling so foreign and disgusting I need to spit it out immediately.

I have a drink (+water) and a single food (maybe 2, can’t remember) that I never cycle out of.

Does anyone else do this? (Sorry if my phrasing is bad, I’m cursed with only posting stuff late at night.)

I’ve done my research and can’t think of an explanation for what the fuck is wrong with me besides arfid, but I’m not diagnosed, and likely will never be able to due to life circumstances right now. Is this a subreddit fine with that or not?

(Heads up, apologies if my grammar/phrasing is bad, Im tired and just want an answer.)

I’ve looked into it so much but I just can’t tell. I’ve been an extremely picky eater since I was around 6, and never stopped. My symptoms seem to kinda.. contradict and point towards both arfid and just being picky.

The main reason I’m confused is because my lists of food i can eat is a bit larger then most, but only when counting in things that don’t count as meals (snacks, candy, ect). The amount of actual meals I can have is.. quite pathetic, to the point where every doctor I’ve ever seen has told me I need to get my shit together when it comes to my diet. As mentioned earlier, I have quite a lot of snacks I can eat, but none of them would really be considered meals. Stuff like goldfish.

It’s extremely difficult for me to try new foods and I often have extremely severe anxiety when I want to try a new food or if my food is altered. Within 1 and a half years (this year and 2025) I believe I only tried 2 or 3 foods. All of them I spit out immediately and had to chug water to get rid of the taste. Even then it took minutes and minutes of hyping myself up to take the smallest bite. A lot of times my gag reflex triggers too, it’s fucking terrible.

But I don’t dislike eating, love having the foods that I like! I look forward to eating the stuff that’s on my list (unless it’s altered in some way. Then I want absolutely nothing to do with it.), I just can’t really.. expand that list.

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What the title reads. I realized Im nonbinary fairly recently and want to try out some different names/pronouns.