Now how do i get my 12 year old to finally start eating vegetables? Anything green tastes bitter to her. Ive tried the fast, she still cant stand the taste even after fasting edit- am excellent cook and have done veggies in all sorts of ways. She will eat a salad as lonng as its not purple or green
Is it a taste thing or a texture thing? I personally don't like onions unless thoroughly cooked because I don't like the crunch in my head. I thought I hated peas because we only had canned ones growing up, once I tried steamed I loved them! Turns out neurodivergency lends itself to being picky about this sort of thing.
Also, you can supplement with multivitamins and fiber powder while you get her used to vegetables. Threatening her with fasting only makes her associate hunger/unpleasantness with veggies and could lead to disordered eating later in life
I have this issue, I’m 45. I’m both autistic and a super taster, I can’t eat or drink anything bitter or it comes right back out. That applies to alcohol, coffee and green vegetables (except lettuce with a sweeter creamy dressing). I know how absolutely terrible it is for my health not to eat it, but I can’t physically do it. The only positive is, I don’t have a drinking problem.
I’m on the spectrum but according to my dna I am lacking a certain gene that would allow me to taste really bitter things. So alcohol tastes fine to me, but I can’t digest it and it makes me really sick. So, also no drinking problem here but for a different reason lol.
Weird how varied our bodies can be, even under the same umbrella of neurodivergent tastebuds/flavor preference.
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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 1d ago edited 1d ago
Now how do i get my 12 year old to finally start eating vegetables? Anything green tastes bitter to her. Ive tried the fast, she still cant stand the taste even after fasting edit- am excellent cook and have done veggies in all sorts of ways. She will eat a salad as lonng as its not purple or green