I’ve had food issues like this all my life, but much worse when I was a child. I think I can pinpoint it to the day when I was a toddler and was eating wide buttered noodles. A noodle flattened out on my tongue about halfway down my throat, and I started choking. My dad had to reach his fingers in my throat and pull out the pieces of noodle. I was never the same about food after that, and I still can’t deal with anything but the thinnest noodles.

I’m sure I ate fewer than twenty foods when I was a kid and, even though I’ve grown out of it a lot, I still have what Hubster calls “texture issues”. No eggs, no milk, nothing with a runny or slimy texture. I love to cook, but my friends nicknamed me “The Picky Foodie”.

I remember the first time I had it in Asian cooking - one bite and I was done. I was sitting there thinking "I'm a grown man and can't take another bite of this or I'll hurl."

That was 20 years ago and I won't try it again.

who only ate chicken nuggets & they had to be from McDonalds- this went on until age 7.

I believe that “Super Nanny” delt with a British child who suffered from this condition, as well.

As a result of PTSD. She had to spend 2 months in a residential eating disorders center last year. She had dropped to 95 pounds… the doctors were worried for her health.

Fortunately, she really wanted to recover and despite hating being in the place, she has recovered.

She still struggles with it most days, but she is doing pretty well.

Unfortunately, most treatment centers don’t actually treat ARFID per se. They treat it as if it were Anorexia or Bulimia. My wife found some papers on treating ARFIDand that had helped her caregivers.