Oh no, some scientists studied a common phenomonon and gave it a big-wordy name! Next they'll probably study the root causes and test hypotheses for treatment under scientifically rigorous conditions! Oh the horror! Why, in my day, we just whacked the kid with a wooden spoon so they'd eat their four servings of dairy and fruit juice and go get a job they don't deserve to be paid for.
You mean the sub where 99% of the time they're either bullying people with real disorders or actual children. Yeah such a cool place full of normal people.
No, I never saw that sub when I was over there, but I'd wager my comment would apply equally well to anything posted there. These kids today with their words for problems we ignored.
ARFID is a very real phenomenon that is staggeringly common, and yet we have very little information on the causes or fixes for it. Treating it like the kid is just being "picky" leads to food avoidance, binge eating, obesity, and eating disorders. "Just stop being picky" didn't work, and was a criminal neglect of duty of care among parents and doctors.
That's a lot of words for 'I'm privileged with good health and can't empathize with people going through mental and physical illnesses'.
I don't have AFRID, but I know people who do. Your delusional if you think it's a choice and they can just decide to eat other things without wanting to throw up
This is this the same as telling people with depression to 'just be happy' or telling people with anxiety to 'just calm down'. There is no 'just eat the food' with AFRID. The whole point is that they can't.
That Goodboy needs a steady diet of tendies and dewie to maintain his robust athletic frame! If he strays from his diet he may drop below 300lbs and become dangerously underweight!!!