Mom: "If you don't eat right, there will be consequences" Kid: (Gone blind) Mom: "SEE"?

As an extremely adventurous eater, avoiding foods to the point of blindness is something I have trouble even imagining.

Good demonstration of the difference between being picky and disordered eating. Once it starts affecting your health, it’s definitely not just “picky eating”

My brother went through such a depression, that he only ate pasta, pizza, meats like a whole pack of bacon and only mtn dew. Our dad led him down that path... now he is dead at 34. Lesson learned, make sure your child has a varied enough diet to not cause heart failure. Also give them structure besides a Playstation and watching sports.

As a person with a chef dad, theres no way i could ever prefer junk food over his cooking

I worked with someone who I believe had this. She would eat mashed potatoes and Cheetos for lunch every day and talked a lot about how she only liked a handful of foods. Fortunately, she talked to her doctor and learned she was malnourished and, after that, was able to tolerate drinking protein shakes and taking vitamins to supplement her diet.

My aunt never eat vegetables so she died at young age by heart issue. Human need to eat it to live longer and have a good health.

my mom had this disorder, and it was frankly embarrassing for her. you know how when you order a burger, and they put pickles on the side, if the pickle juice even SLIGHTLY touches the rest of the food, she sends it back and wants the whole thing remade. and she would know if they didn't. she said that she feels like a d*ck when she did that, but that was just how she was. and i do believe that ARFID was the root cause of her death in 2020. love you mom.

I found out about ARFID a few years ago and was overcome with the relief of having an answer to why it was so hard for me to eat so many foods. It's taken a lot of therapy and anti-anxiety meds to get to a point where I can try foods here and there without a full blown panic attack. Getting people to understand that it needs to be done at my own pace and that it's not just "being picky" is a constant fight.

I’ve had arfid my entire life, everyone always laughs at a limited diet but it’s literally a medical thing that is personally influenced by smell and texture a lot, or just general strong aversion. I could never explain it and got judged a lot. The part about avoiding stuff or making excuses hits way too home. Thanks for bringing attention to this

this happened to someone i know, he would refuse to drink anything but coke for like 2 years until he started turning blind, but he didnt stop for a year or so until his lower body was paralyzed and he needed to be in a wheel chair

My friend was like this for the longest time. Legit just ate fries chips and dried cereal until he was like 15. He did eventually need glasses 🤔 now I gotta text him and ask if he broadened his meals

I’ve got ARFID but I am kind of lucky in that my mom was super cool about finding options when she realized my main issue was textures and bitter flavors. She would cook my veggies to just the right amount of softness that I could eat it. I also never had junk food as a kid so my safe foods were all vegetables and fruits anyway and I really liked the way she cooked meat so I had a pretty balanced diet. She never forced me to eat anything but encouraged me in a calm way that reduced my anxiety. I actually remember being scared when one of my childcare teachers tried to force feed me a boiled egg and then tried to lecture my mom on how she had to make me eat food even if I didn’t want to. But my mom knew she had the right way and instead got angry that the teacher had made me cry by trying to stick the egg in my mouth. My mom knew I’d only eat eggs one way that she learned by cooking eggs in a lot of different ways so that I could see which way the texture didn’t bother me. My main struggle these days is the lack of interest in food. If no one reminds me, I can go weeks with only a tiny snack each day, up until I feel like I’m dying and look back and realize how little I’ve been eating.

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Brew, this was informative. Thank you. I look forward to watching your videos.

It’s very true. All kids and teenagers should know that Thank you for spreading that news

ARFID, anxiety disorder and selective mutism defined my childhood. Still, the psychiatrist I was referred to after an unexpected claustrophobic episode concluded that there was nothing wrong with me after spending 20 minutes talking to me. Back then, I thought that adults who kept repeating that nothing was wrong with me were on my side.

We have had a significant degree of success correcting "picky eating habits" of many children with a single, very simple, and gentle technique. We had one rule. Every child had every part of the meal put onto their plates. If they didn't like something we simply asked they put a tiny amount of it into their mouth and keep it there as long as they liked. Then they had the option of discretely spitting it into a napkin or swallowing it. We never made a big fuss either way, though we would quietly acknowledge if they did swallow a food for their first time. Mind you, these were young children whom, if they had any emotional or behavioral issues, they were minor. Narrow and rigid eating preferences were always a secondary issue. I would never recommend this method for serious eating disorders without personalized, professional consultation and support. It was simply a technique we learned from a professional which we used because it helped the children in our care. ...Almost always. There was that one time an unusually compliant child vomited instantly after putting something in her mouth. She then immediatly tried to put a second bite into her mouth, somehow thinking she needed to spit it into a napkin properly to have completed the task correctly. Thankfully, we were already unsure about the situation and were close and attentive enough to stop her. She was comforted and assured she would never again find that particular food on her plate. Needless to say we felt like monsters. We also learned to trust our instincts a bit more. After that incident we altered the rule. If a child was extremely afraid of trying something we would encourage them to simply touch it to their tongue briefly and held a clean, moist cloth nearby for them to wipe any traces away if they needed it. We also planned to allow for one or two absolute "NO" foods for those who needed them, though we never encountered another child who required us to implement it. The kids appeared the view it as some sort of a game. It seemed to make them feel empowered. They never needed to feel pressured or shamed into eating things they didn't like. Maybe they felt they finally had complete control over some aspect of their lives. I can't say for sure. All I know is that we had a lot of giggles at mealtimes and they learned how to expand their pallets without unnecessary trauma.

I used to work with Denise Atan and she is incredible. She is a lovely doctor and very knowledgable. it is a very lucky patient who gets her x

Brew your videos really make my day and gives me advice❤

I had a friend that I knew since we were kids, he had that disorder and he died aged 37 because of it. It was classified as "self negligence".

I have had ARFID for as long as I can remember. For many people, ARFID makes food seem repulsive, as the video mentioned, but in many other cases, like mine, it can also make food seem threatening. For many years, the main reason I didn't eat was because I felt an immense fear of choking on food, which even led me to go a whole year without eating anything other than semi-solid (mushy) or liquid foods. Over time, the disorder has changed for me, and the fear of choking has decreased a bit, but a new fear that certain foods will cause me anaphylaxis has settled in as my main cause of food avoidance. As a result, I can no longer eat mushrooms, crustaceans, shellfish, any type of nuts, and some other foods. Just the thought of them, even while eating something completely different, causes me to experience allergic symptoms such as itching, skin redness, or a feeling of obstruction when breathing and swallowing. ARFID has made me go for weeks only taking a few bites of food a day and suffering from extreme hunger, despite having a full pantry. I've also experienced occasions where I've vomited so much that I've bled from my esophagus. It's not as easy as saying "you've never experienced need" or "you're just being spoiled." It's something that comes from within your brain, and you wish it wasn't there. It's worth noting that there's precedent for people dying from this mental condition. One famous case is that of Kurt Gödel, one of the most prominent mathematicians of last century, who died of starvation after refusing to eat anything his wife didn't prepare for him. His fear of food being poisonous was so intense that he eventually stopped eating altogether. This shows that ARFID is not something to be taken lightly or approached from a patronizing perspective of the sufferer being a spoiled child. It's a serious psychiatric condition that can have severe consequences. Thank you Brew for bringing awareness to this condition and shedding light on the struggles that ARFID sufferers face.

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0:12 you know I kinda like it how chips works no matter where you live

after being badly sick when i was kid. i had an extremely bad picky food disorder. my step father encouraged me during years to start to taste anything before judging them. he encouraged me for years and made me try tons of different foods. yea i m still a picky eater and avoid some stuffs. but i discovered so many other foods, my disorder went mostly away. some person like that that never give up are just pure gold.

My daughter has ARFID and it’s a BIG struggle for all of us. Never knew it could effect the eyes. She didn’t get her first tooth until she was 2.5 YEARS old because she had such a bad food aversion due to severe GERD as a baby. She associated food with pain, even after getting her on medication to control it. Her lack of nutrition caused her to be malnourished and her body was using the calories to aid growth in critical areas, but not her teeth. But it’s also hard to eat when you don’t have teeth. She wasn’t even on the growth chart until she was around 4. She’s now 13, taller than me, and super healthy! But there’s still a handful of foods she’ll comfortably eat. Supplements are a blessing in her case!!!! She is also on the spectrum and has SPD, especially anything involving her mouth.

It's really nice to learn about this thanks!

This video is very helpful thanks

Someone became blind from only eating chips and fries... that's interesting. I'd think that only eating chips and fries would have other consequences, but not becoming blind. This is going to be a very, very interesting video. I can tell.

I have ARFID and early in the video I was thinking, “this doesn’t sound like picky eating, this sounds like ARFID…” and then you talked about it! So happy, usually people just call it picky and don’t go any further. Thank you for bringing attention to the disorder!

In 2018 I lived a very unhealthy life, basically holed up inside of my room, eating junk, barely any variety and so on. Over the year I noticed my eyesight degrading and now 5 years later I still can't see more than a meter without glasses So yea, I guess I was just that malnourished to the point of my eyesight degrading

I actually had this case brought up cause my diet is similar to the kid. But as I was older I made it a point I was abnormally fine. I assume I was self aware of my lack of nutrition and bought myself some multivitamins. Neat to know selective eating disorder was updated

a friend of mine admits he pretty much only eats quesadilla, grilled cheese, cheese pizza, and mac and cheese. i thought he was joking when i first heard it, as it was my first introduction to this level of ''picky'' eating.

Reading about symptoms, this has always been a condition I’ve been worried about for myself, but the explanation at 5:30 makes so much sense and puts my mind at ease LOL

My parents had a sure fire cure for picky eating. They cooked what they cooked and if you didn't like it, it went in the fridge for later. In the morning, that same meal was offered. Eventually, you got hungry enough that you ate what you had. "When you're hungry enough, you'll eat." -a direct quote

“I’d don’t know how so many people know what soap tastes like.” *Me when I was kid having my mom shove soap in my mouth for misbehaving.* “Yeah who would know what soap tasted like?

There’s such stigma around picky eating that it’s harmful. Thanks for shedding light on ARFID!

Thankyou, I'm 43 years old and have suffered from this condition my whole life. I now have a name for it.

Thankfully, I've gotten better when it comes to eating as I've grown, especially in the last few years. But texture is still a big issue for me, and there are still some things I can't eat or struggle to eat because of it. I'm not _professionally_ diagnosed, but I'm extremely sure I'm somewhere on the autism spectrum due to the behaviours and ways of thinking I've exhibited throughout my life. My mother agrees, and she told me that when I was a child, my teachers expressed concerns to her about me and wanted me tested.

I'm extremely glad that I watched this video. I suffer from ARFID and its extremely embarrassing to me, I feel fatigued all the time and it's really weighing on me. Though watching this gave me motivation to finally go into therapy. I really want to get rid of this annoying issue.

brew on his way to post a video about how a city literally exploded and burst into flames because a random 15-year-old sat on his chair too fast

i have arfid, a lot of people seem to think it’s just picky eating but it’s so much more than that. it makes life so much more difficult. there are so many foods that i can’t eat because of the texture or the smell or the look of it. i didn’t discover that i have arfid until relatively recently, and it is definitely a relief knowing other people experience this, but growing up not knowing what was wrong with me was incredibly hard.

I think you saved many people by showing this congratulations 🎉👏🏽 dude

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One of my army buddies was a hardcore selective eater to the point he had phobias of certain foods like ketchup. He only liked to eat pretty bland foods like a plain hotdog, bacon, toast, and chicken. I never seen him eat a vegitable before. One time me and a bunch of the guys in our unit had put together a pool of 300ish euro that would br given to him if he'd eat some ketchup, he almost did it except he puked the second the packet was open. I had no idea until your video it was an actual disorder.

I am ASD. I can really empathize with these people. I have a mild case of this disorder, I think. Certain textures make me 🤢 feel sick. The smell of vinegar is even worse than the smell of a skunk, in my opinion.

I have autistism and I have tons of issues with food. It's been getting better. I still struggle with getting myself enough veggies. Fruit had never been an issue luckily. Salty and sweet foods are pretty much all I'll eat. I adapt my food to hot those whole still getting the nutritients I need.

glad to see something relatable. i’ve been unnecessarily picky since i was 4 years old and i have tried to change my diet but i end up throwing up right away without intent. if i can manage to hold it down i feel like i just ate spiders and they are crawling in my stomach making me nauseous and sick

i ate potatoes for the first time 10 years ago now, when I was 9 years old, and I tried honey mustard (i’ve never had mustard before) for the first time in the last few months at my current job. i also ate my first breakfast sandwich ever as well this year. i have had arfid for as long as i can remember, and nothing my parents or anyone else did when I was younger and continuing to now has ever helped me, except for me going to therapy and learning to take baby steps of slowly trying new foods like once a week. i’m 19, weigh around 115-120lb, im male, and I’m about 5’7 I believe. living with this eating disorder has been very very hard to say the least, i mean honestly it’s been a nightmare and almost no one around me has ever been able to even grasp the concept of me being afflicted by this involuntarily.

"I don't know why so many people know what soap tastes like but to each their own" Two options: either got way too curious about "soap smell good so must taste good" as a small child and learned the hard way, or were one of those kids who "got their mouth washed out with soap" for saying the no no words

As a parent it is your responsibility to do everything in your power to make sure your kid doesn't grow up to be like this.

Probably the silliest thing I’ve ever heard, considering he’s been doing this since a child and he has parents

THANK U SO MUCH FOR COVERING ARFID!! im 19 and ive been suffering from arfid from a young age, at one point i used to eat everything but as i grew older i became "pickier". food looks disgusting to me and no one ever understands that.

when my mother was in residency, she had a case almost exactly like this one! Kid was exhibiting strange symptoms, and they couldn't find the cause. Turns out he had severe b12 deficiency and scurvy! Luckily, he healed after, with no long-term symptoms.

Next video be like: "A 45-year-old man ate 37 Lithium Ion Car Batteries. Here's what happened to his Prostate."

I've had this ARFID since i was a kid. This is really troublesome for me as a kid. One of a few food i eat include chips and at school i would always have a pack of it to eat with my meal. People later noticed this a lot and would teased me which make me feel really self-conscious about it. Have trouble eating out with my friends because i am picky. Mom would help me find other food that i might like. Fortunately, I am not limited to only one food and was able to eat other food but i am still a picky eater.

i’ve had ARFID since 2 years old, only recently diagnosed in 2021. i only eat bread, chips, and chocolate, and cheese on bread when melted. it’s affected my social life heavily and has affected my weight my whole life. i never would have thought i could go blind from it. i’m happy to hear ARFID be talked about more in the mainstream, after not knowing what was wrong with me for so long, and not being listened to by doctors.

Me and my ADHD make me have a very mild case of it. I struggle to the extreme with fruits, mainly because I can't handle sourness. Thankfully vegetables are plenty easy for me, so my eating is fairly healthy overall.

Honestly, great video

I'm so glad that junk food were not available at the table when I was young. I used to be a picky eater but outgrown it on my adolescence. It's either eat the food the parents made or not eat anything at all. My parents also never forced me to eat when I don't want to, but still asked me to taste the food they made.

My friend's son had this issue which I hadn't heard of beforehand. He ended up getting help starting around age 4 and within a year was eating normally. There was still a couple foods he didn't want to eat but that was understandable.

I once shared a room with a woman who only ate red cabbage with sausages and chocolate. She sometimes lost a toenail and her heard became smaller by her diet. I begged her to start swallowing vitamin pills many many times, but she never did it.

I wish I knew (or my parents knew) about ARFID when I was younger. I was a very picky eater and leaned towards fries and chips as well. Meats never appealed to me (looks, color, texture). I am near-sighted and wonder how much of it is a result of my poor diet. I'm still a picky eater, but a lot less so. Many meats still aren't appealing, and I seldom go out of my way for them, but I'm willing/able to eat burgers, chicken, steaks, and some fish now. What personally helped me was getting my into the kitchen and cooking/preparing meals. New items/foods weren't immediately liked...but I did slowly come around to them.

So this entire thing explains why I've had a few eye doctors ask about my diet. I am underweight due to me struggling to eat. I also forget to eat sometimes. I was born with eyesight problems. Astigmatism, squint, lazy eye, short sightedness are what I have. My eyesight is able to be fixed with glasses. But because doctors see that I am underweight they ask if it's due to my diet.

“Im not sure why so many people know what soap tastes like, but to each their own.” Alas, Brew is apparently not among the slew of us whose parents put soap in our mouthes as a punishment for back talking and/or cursing lol. Plus like, it just happens when you’re showering sometimes, tbh.

4:24 George Carlin would have had fun with this one. First called: Fussy Eater. Then: Selective Eating Disorder. Finally: Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

As someone with ARFID thank you for taking the time to actually explain what it is. So often I get lectured or told to "grow up" when I tell people about the food I eat as if I had just never thought to try other healthtier foods before. What they don't understand is if I try to force myself to eat food my brain doesn't want (either for flavor or texture reasons or both) it legit makes me gag and feel nauseous after a couple bites. I wish I had an easier time eating healthier more varied foods because it is time consuming and expensive to work around while still trying to get at least mostly proper nutrition. That line about approaching it with care and compassion was exactly the way I wish people looked at it when I was growing up instead of assuming I was just being immature and/or difficult.

I spent a month eating nothing but oatmeal and baked potatoes and my hair started to fall out and I did not look too healthy... no idea how someone can even survive several years eating nothing but fries and pringles!

2:47 bro really stuck that meme in 💀

This type of eating disorder can be linked to autism and i suffered from it from a child to late teenagehood. i ate nearly nothing but spaghetti, toast, and chocolate. Other food STILL isnt tasty to me, but understanding how insanely unhealthy it was to have such a limited diet was enough to get me to eat other things. it was time to stop acting like a picky child and start taking care of my health. Health is more important than food taste/texture.

I experienced a lot of food insecurity as a kid so I rarely refused anything even if I thought it was gross I learned to eat what was put in front of me. And if I refused to eat something I just went without . Hunger and having no idea when I'd eat again traumatized me into fearing hunger more than taste and texture.

this is random but it is very true that depending on how the child is raised, thatll be their diet as a kid i had a old friend, and my whole life ive liked healthy stuff like fruit and i only like candy ocassionally (its always after eating a healthy thing, i just think it tastes better that way) the old friend was the definition of candy obsessed, whenever i had meals with her shed refuse to eat anything (and it wasnt because of my fathers cooking, most of the time shed bring leftover spagetti from her own place that her mother made her, she still refused to eat it) it was like the only thing she ate was candy, im suprised she loves the dentist she was like 1-2 years younger than me and we met when we were really little, so it seems like as her parents did when she didnt eat anything, the old friend was given candy all the time because she refused to eat her meals oh also about that helping children eat healthy thing, i dont think snack schedules would help correct me if im wrong im not a parent myself but snack schedules feel like the parent is forcing the child to have a snack even when theyre not hungry, being forced to eat meals kind of makes sense (is still a little bad though) but snacks? nope

Thanks for taking about this. I have way too many connections to this video. 1) I struggle with food & tried talking with the food specialist person at my school but because it had nothing to do with body image it was completely written off. I would suspect I have a lesser struggle with ARFID because a large portion of it for me is food avoidance due to texture and smell. There are textures of food that make me gag and feel like puking and just the thought of it destroys any appetite I night have been able to muster up having because I don't tend to get regular "you need to eat" signals. I barely even get stomach pain. It mostly just makes me tired. I've been working my way around it though as I'm content with the texture of smoothies so I blend and juice my fruits and veggies to try and help balance my diet more. My fiancé used to not eat veggies because they had a gag reflex and subsequent, negative interactions with it after that. But I helped them find veggies they could actually enjoy and helped over ride the negative associations with some positive ones. I also know someone who doesn't eat fruit because the taste is so inconsistent it messes with them. I feel like if what it is they like in the thing they eat vs what they can't do in the thing they're avoiding is understood, it's easier to find and build up work arounds to help balance out their diets. 2) the info on wet macular degeneration is wild because my mom has that at an unusually young age. She'd always been good about fruits and veggies, even when we could barely afford to survive, but with her type 2 diabetes diagnosis & drs not listening to her struggles of how nothing was working, the only foods she became allowed to eat were largely meats and eggs and nuts. Which would've opened the door for nutrient deficiency to impact her eyes. Now she has to get stabbed in the eye every month to slow the progression. When I'd talk with my eye drs about it they noted its highly genetic and very aggressive and is the sort of thing they're finding to happen younger and younger. But I now wonder how much the food factors into it, because kids are raised with their parents eating habits.

I'm pretty sure I have this. Especially the texture thing. Thankfully I've been experimenting with cooking in order to change. Like burning green beans until they're pretty much black to get of the slimy texture. Or my mom would cook alfredo sauce with noodles chicken and broccoli and cut the broccoli extremely small and call it seasoning. I still do that, even though I know it's a placebo effect

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Not being a picky eater is one of the few things my parents taught me as a child that I am thankful for. They would get mad if I left anything on the plate uneaten as a kid, save for anything that I am allergic too, I just wish I was allergic to dried frozen peas which inaddition to being bitter gave me dry mouth and blisters, which lead to my nasty habit of pouring water generously to my meals.

I know someone who eats like this. He is absolutely disgusted by fruit and vegetables (maybe it's a phobia). I don't know how he get his nutrition, but I decided not to ask, because this must be a not easy topic and he's an adult. I hope it gets better someday, without irredeemable health issues. He is other than that a nice person.

I always had this problem. I'm very afraid to try new food and I wish I could just put the vitamins straight in me without trying new food.

Oh no I’m blind Mom: it’s that dang phone Me: I’m only on it once a day Mom: it’s that phone

love the videos very informative!

On another note, I find it interesting that if I'm the one preparing the stuff that I am already not particularly interested in tasting, it just turned into a situation where I'll either end up actually enjoying the thing I made, or it get trashed because it's still extremely off-putting (or once: I salted it too hard whoops). And I guess that's also how I discovered my love for using certain mushrooms, or how I made cauliflowers actually edible to me, as opposed to a white mash with an awful taste accompanying it. (haven't figured how to deal with broccolis yet though, because the same method I used for cauliflower just turned said broccolis into a nigh inedible salty mess)

I was recently diagnosed with autism and it explains why i never ordered anything else besides mac and cheese out at restaurants. However my dad never forced me to eat but he always encouraged me to try different foods, and i would watch him cook them so i knew what was in it.

My neighbor former coworker has gone half blind from alcohol use. He couldn't tell me what dr said but this fits bill.

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I've heard someone on Reddit describe how they slowly lost the ability to eat different foods until all that was left was waffles. She takes vitamins to supplement her diet.

I tend to eat ground turkey in burger form every other day. It's very easy on my sensitive stomach and quite satisfying to eat. I only ever make it with ketchup, hand sliced kosher dill pickle due to it's heavier vinegar taste rather than saltiness and a nice helping of jalapeno slices.

Maaaan I was a lucky lad. I was the same way untill around 16, picky, picky, picky. Then I had a scare with prediabetes, and my retired nurse grandma took matters into her own hands, and showed me what life of a diabetic was like. Then told me it's not too late now, change your diet and life style right now. It scared me straight, and I began to eat whatever was in front of me. Some things were pretty Gross, but I actually enjoyed a lot more things. A few weeks of eating properly and I immediately saw a difference in energy levels and my general feeling. Diet is a lot more important to a happy life than most other things in it.

I definitely suffer from undiagnosed ARFID. It affects my personal relationships and limits what I eat when I go to social events like weddings. I don't even enjoy eating the foods I "like". Sometimes I'll make a plate of something that's usually fine for me but by the time I'm finished making it and plating it up, I'm no longer interested in it and may even be disgusted by it.

I'm curious if the supertaster theory could be tested with babyfood.

Oh so I had this my whole life... I didn't know it had a name till now. But I recovered from it after almost 30 years and that was the most satisfying moment in my whole life, when I could eat anything without the vomiting/texture issues.

FYI: Holding a bar of soap in one's mouth was once an optional punishment practice parents would have their children do, usually if socially inappropriate terms of the time were used or thought to have been used by that child. A way of getting closer to the concept of washing one's mouth out with soap.

I cant imagine having this disorder. I need variety in my diet, even though my diet isnt the best. I'd get so tired eating the same foods over and over. The only exception would be pasta lol

deep-fried potatoes of any variety is probably the most health detrimental food.

I live not far from Bristol and went to school with a kid who would only eat one flavour of Pringles and pretty much nothing else. He wasn't the kid mentioned in this study, I knew him until he was 18, with him not having any visual problems. However, due to him eating so little, he had special prescribed milkshakes he would drink at every meal. He was always super skinny because of it, but thanks to those milkshakes and limiting how often he ate Pringles, he was mostly healthy. Unrelated, but you mention the kid in the video would eat fries from a fish and chip shop. No good fish and chip shop sells fries, they do actual chips.

I love how at 0:22 there is idk what it's called in english but the red poisonous mushroom with white dots on top .

I've had a lot of luck helping my friends with this. My method is to find out what they like to eat and make that, so they feel comfortable eating the food you make. Then, when they're comfortable with it, introduce a small amount of a food that's not on the list of things they'll eat. I find it's best to cook it up with food they already like, and to have something on standby that they can eat if they don't like the new food. That takes a lot of pressure off of them. Usually it goes pretty well. They'll eat a small amount of the new food, feel kind of overwhelmed, and move on to the safe food, but the feel good about trying the new food out later. They'll usually try it a couple more times before they can just eat that food without any problems. Then you can move on to foods that are like that food. You just have to be patient. I've helped a couple of people who were food avoidant become run of the mill picky eaters.

You'd think they'd at least have put him on some miltivitamins, potatoes are pretty amazing though, he didn't get scurvy, though they didn't say what he drank. I was a picky eater as a kid with anxiety around trying new foods but I think that may be related to being a super taster as I mainly had issues with vegetables at first and very seasoned foods. But through repeated exposure I learned to love both and food is not scary when you have a wide variety of experiences to base taste of a new food on. It was thinking something new might taste really bad and that made it scary. The first times I ate pizza I scraped the toppings off and like the crust, it was too much for me but a bit of the taste was nice. I didn't have texture or visual issues with food.

I was actually just diagnosed with ARFID recently and it hasn't been as bad as this boy yet but me and my parents have realised that am I pretty picky with what I want to eat

I think many people have a similar condition, it may be in part to foods you grew up eating, or awful experiences where food was present. Imagine biting into a salad and its crawling with bugs, drinking juice and theres floating piece of pen lid or plastics in your OJ. Or you try some seafood and much like potato fries can sometimes have a green/soggy gross awful tasting one, those fries often have a visibly different one or discolored or wet looking which you may notice and avoid. If you find or eat a 'bad' one amongst a batch of seafood.. you would maybe avoid ALL seafood forever. I think some people maybe suffered great injury or pain possibly while around or near food and just dont want food due to some association. Imagine you mistakenly took a bunch of medicines that dont combine well at all right after a meal or during a meal unknowingly like thinking a medicinal chocolate bar like laxatives or worms treatment or some other thing was cooking chocolate and threw it in then later develop a distrust of all foods psychologically. Fried potatoes are cheap and easy to see signs of tampering or ones that should be avoided often enough. foods like oysters and other 'unusual' foods like insects might be a bit out there as some insects might have certain parasites on their shells that arent found in regular or more common foods or muscles might give u hep B. or something. Im aware im a fussy eater who basically lived off of sugary soft drinks and instant noodles and hated the chlorine taste of tap water. I dont even like the plastic taste in warm bottled water unless it was chilled in ice. Im now fighting off diabetes and other health issues. Was it the sugary soft drinks? or potatoes being a member of the night shade family and deadly if raw? was it my huge portion sizes of pasta? or the huge amounts of meat and processed meats i'd plate up. hard to say, its maybe a cheap preservative or additive or industrial waste products like salts from chemicals/plastics processing and production or weapons grade foods like citrus or potatoes or melons being sold as edible when meant for industrial use. Diabetes can be from thousands of years old glass being unsafe and needing high ceiling churches and lining with lead so people know not to touch it.. then triple glazing and special cant handle with your hands window tinting.. then theres plastics like glad wrap/seran wrap that maybe arent glad wrap or seran wrap or window tinting and must not be used to 'cover food in the fridge'. Theres countless people we could blame for illnesses like diabetes and things we could blame food avoidance on. But all of it stems from there being people who have no clue how to make a glass window or how to make glad wrap or fast food containers or how to cook a meal or 'process meats' or what is food and what isnt food as so many wars and famines happened that we now just shovel in whatever is tasty. I think sugars being too poisonous and being super refined and diluted means they're much safer than people think coz u can sugar up every sugary drink in massive excess and still not use a fraction of the original 'sugar cane' but that when you get wrecked from other stuff it may react with those 'refined' 'processed' 'preserved' things and super trigger like mixing meds or like a cancer patient trying to eat greasy fried foods/sugary drinks its that theyre damaged so they cant stomach it. I think that if u cant have soft drinks theres something super wrong with u elsewhere causing it.

7:12 We were all little kids once, and little kids put things in their mouths. It's just a natural part of learning. We remember what soap tastes like.