Food Being Hugely Culturally Important As Well As One Of The Main Ways Ppl Connect To Each Other (cooking

food being hugely culturally important as well as one of the main ways ppl connect to each other (cooking together, eating together, going to restaurants together, etc) makes me rlly sad (especially bc of how much my partner loves food) because food is just not something I enjoy at all. I've tried different foods and recipes and changing how I eat and where and everything and I just can't enjoy it. even my "favorite" foods sometimes are so disgusting to think about that I just don't eat. I hate having to eat so bad that I'd almost rather have a permanent feeding tube and it takes everything I have to eat anything, and not even in like a restrictive ed way specifically it's just, so disgusting and all I can think about the entire time is the food being contaminated in some way. I have exactly the right combination of arfid, trauma from being force fed and starved as a child, and ocd that eating feels like the most burdensome chore in the world, and that's not even mentioning the gi issues I have from eds that makr me get rlly sick from eating anything I can actually tolerate the thought of and it feels so isolating. like no sorry I can't go out with you to try that new restaurant and no I don't want to go to a dinner party and no I don't want to cook with you and no I don't want to get a bunch of snacks to with you while we watch a movie

It's well established that many artists genuinely don't seem to know what fat looks like, but I'm convinced a lot of them have no idea what hairy looks like, either. If I see one more artist who's like "oh, I love fat hairy guys!" and their work is just a solid wall of dudes of average build with a neat patch of hair in the middle of the chest, nothing on the belly, nothing on the forearms... well, I'm probably not going to do anything about it, but I'll definitely keep on complaining.

Literally being skinny and becoming more educated in fat liberation is like opening your third eye and you cant go back. Like you start noticing shit you never did before.

Go into the character design tag and look at how many characters are skinny and compare them to how many characters are fat. Go watch several movies see if the fat character is rich or is food obsessed or if theyre the tank or dumb or the comic relief etc. Im not even looking for these it just became blatantly obvious at some point and theyre everywhere

Funniest thing about lifelong ARFID is having no idea how foods are eaten or prepared. Today I learned people don't just bite into tomatoes like they do with apples for some reason

Safefood list!

And uh. Yeah that's the list of every food I can eat. Yyyyup.

“You shouldn't force-feed your children! They might be autistic or have ARFID!” even if your child is perfectly healthy and is genuinely just a picky eater you shouldn't force-feed them.