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A month or so ago all I wanted to eat was mangoes, then the adhd goblin told me that mangoes are too hard and I moved on to microwave hamburgers.
where do you find microwave bamburgers
Try mangos with tajin
I feel like this is more an autistic or audhd trait. I’m way more likely to forget food exists for 24 hours than to ever eat the same thing twice in a row. My novelty seeking ensures my diet is pure choas.
Those mangos are really freaking good though right?!
I’m not autistic but I got the same with music, I’ll listen to the same genre/subgenre or artist for about a week straight sometimes.
Hyperfixations are a symptom of autism but not exclusively so. Anyone can hyperfixate, even NT individuals. It’s just more likely for those of us with the tism or ADHD.
When I suddenly fixate on a food, the shelf is not restocked, and even 2 or 3 days later, I can’t buy it again.
Feel like “Truman Show”, as if the store and other shoppers are just some illusion for me and they can only restock in great numbers what I usually buy.
Edit: Can’t believe it’s happening to so many others here!
I once got a fixation with a certain spicy hummus. I emailed the grocery store to ask them to stock more of it because I was constantly buying all of it.
The head manager emailed me back saying they would, and they would order a larger quantity just for me.
I stopped eating that hummus 3 weeks later. I was so ashamed that I never went there again.
Sometimes I feel like I’m personally responsible for a store’s ordering system going haywire. Like, a store can stock like 1 or 2 of the item a month and be fine , then I become fixated on it and they need to start stocking 20+. By the time the store catches up with me ive moved on and they are stuck with dozens of that item.
I have literally seen this happen to my local dollar general with Cheese-Its Extra Toasted. They used to never stock them. I randomly caught a hankering for them after trying them out.
They went from only ever having maybe 5 boxes on the shelf to having it 3 rows of 5 deep after a month.
After 3 months I lost the hankering. Still get me a box every now and then though. They still keep that shelf filled.
I definitely fixated on specifically mangos for a while last year. They’re tasty.
Then the fixation disappears and you have a shelf full of food you never want to see again.
Edit: on the shelf just above the expired food from the last fixation that never got thrown away.
My autistic ass is around 4 months in into eating the same dinner almost every day. And like 3 years into eating mostly the same supper.
This is me, I have had the same thing for breakfast every day for the last 5? maybe 6 years.
Hot sauce! Hot sauce on pizza! Hot sauce on pasta! Hot sauce on rice! Hot sauce on bread! Hot sauce in a spoon! Hot sauce on fruits! Hot sauce in a yoghurt because desserts are a social construct! Hot sauce on quiche!
You guys are eating?
Only until the obsession ends. Then back in the underweight hell I go until I find the next taste, texture or whatever I’m obsessed with.
I hate the days I’m left alone with the decision what to eat…
