Let's talk about Autism and Aspergers Spectrum Disorders. Mental Heath with Kati Morton 

You need to do a specific video on people with autism and aspergers who didn't get diagnosed until they were adults. I think there's a lot of people out there who have it and don't even know. This is an important issue that needs A LOT more awareness.

I really really hate how autism is always associated with children. Don't those children grow up? Do they become neurotypical suddenly? As someone diagnosed at age 16, it's very frustating.

Have you thought about making a video specifically about woman and autism or the differences in autism because of gender?

kati, i read women are underdiagnosed with aspergers because our symptoms are different (we are often diagnosed with bpd or depression). i'd love to see a video about that so it could raise awareness, since there are a lot of adult women who struggle and have no idea what is going on

1st: Autism is a very individual disorder. Just wanted to say that. Our brain is just wired differently. And as we're all individuals the signs and symptoms and number of signs show differently :) I know Katie talked about the spectrum as for individuality, but i wanted to emphasize that. 2nd: People often have the assumption that autistic people lack social skills and lack empathy. We miss some tools, that is correct, but that doesn't mean we're robots. There is a part of empathy that you can learn per se. And now is the point were i have to talk about my specific autism. Because one autistic person can also only talk about their experiences and you can never generalize them for each autistic person. Often i have to learn my reactions and actings in very specific situations. If there are changes it is not that easy. But if i recognize that the situation has a specific trait i can remember that really well! :) That makes it hard for new situations, i didn't prepare for, but you know experience all gets us everywhere :) I just have to have more detailled experience and seem slow but who cares. I have to care about myself and don't need to be hard on myself. That's just how i function and who i am really. That went far but it felt nice to write it :)

I really like how you say “we” in a lot of videos. It doesn’t matter if you actually have these disorders, but it’s nice that you’re comfortable with putting yourself with us.

Those with Aspergers have trouble with reading facial expressions and body language too. I had trouble with tone of voice.

I have high functioning autism and I am very routine oriented and change is always very hard for me. I love to swing and rock and pet animals to calm me down. I was always so anxious before the beginning of a new school year. Also on top of being Autistic I am introverted and shy. Sometimes I like to socialize with one person at a time or very small groups but other times I just want to be alone. Luckily I got better at sensing emotional facial gestures and understand sarcasm. Also autistic people usually have very specific interests.

As this was so many years ago, it’s incredible how much the diagnostic criteria and spectrum had been defined. As both are now linked to just ASD.

Thank you so much for continuing to talk about the links between mental illnesses & various chronic illnesses and disabilities. It means so much to me. It's helping me understand more about how my CP & other medical issues relate to my mental health.

Katie and Amanda are fun to watch and listen to. I get to smile while I learn. Thanks a bunch.

Please make an updated version of this video. There is so much more information available now and this video uses outdated terminology i.e. Aspergers is not longer. Thanks!

"We don't have a learning disability we're not mentally handicapped." lol thanks

Thank you SO much for these videos, Katie!

Thank you for the warm compassion. I have a few friends who deal with these symptoms. It's good to know the education is available here as a way to counter stigma too.

I am aware that generalization is a safe thing, but I, an autistic person, am not a picky eater.

My gf says I'm on the spectrum, it's eerie how I was researching one month all about it... And my gf randomly starts thinking about this and tells me I might have it! It's very very hidden though, I've mentioned it to my friends and they find it hard to believe... Its frustrating to make others understand.

I was recently diagnosed with Aspergers. Despite my disability I am a self made multimillionaire. I failed all my school exams, was bullied at school and was told by my teachers I wouldn't succeed in life.

Kati thank you so much for this video. It FINALLY makes sense to me how these things are linked. I feel like I can breathe right now.

I've scratched and picked at my arms since I was 7 years old and when I was 15 it evolved into a more 'common' ways of self-harm. My eating disorder is also greatly affect by my Aspergers because I restricted to fat free vegan food but I had to restrict even further because I hate the texture of most vegetables and fruits. This was one of the most helpful videos ever. Now I understand why I picked at such a young age.

Thank you! For everything.

Kati, I watched this video twice recently. I think you gave one of the most helpful and informative overviews of the subject of autistic spectrum disorders that I've ever watched online. I confirmed that I have Asperger's just c. 3 years ago, and am still trying to grasp how it has affected my life---I'm 60 years old. I like the way to described how autism and other mental health problems relate to each other, You nailed it.

I'm glad that I stumbled onto your channel.

Katie, you speak with such understanding and compassion about ASC. I want to thank you for your positive and nonjudgemental approach, especially as it relates to self harm. This is not something we do for attention. It is much more complex than that judgemental perspective that does not even try to explain how the person may be feeling, and the degree of suffering. When you say its like 50 times stronger in AS, it shows you get this. I always wondered why I seemed to feel things more intensely than my peers. I berated myself, internalizing the anger of others at me for not fitting in, not acting "normal", or embarassing others. Why can't I just not be bothered by things that don't seem to bother everyone else? I've tried to "grow a thicker skin", and to ,"just get over it." Sometimes all a person needs is to be loved where they are at, so they can heal, and grow.

I love how she uses the pronoun "us", like she's referring to everybody, not just a specific demographic. Makes it feel a lot more empathetic.

I'm an adult female who was recently diagnosed as being autistic, my daughter is also autistic. I would also question your use of the word 'suffer' it implies we have a disease that we want to be cured from. We are in fact just wired up differently and are difficulties lay with trying to function in a world not designed for us and so finding ways to deal with this overwhelming world. We also have lots of advantages over neuro typical people =)

We love you too Katie, this helps so much as a student in Mental Health you have shed light in helping me understand the difference in the two disorders and how they related to depression and anxiety!!! Keep doing the great work you are doing!!!Vernae Hicks

She’s sooo nice!!

i recently got diagnosed with Aspergers and i really didnt know anything about it, so this video was so helpful, thank you

Thanks for sharing! I'm 34 now and about a year ago (after seeing Free Solo) I suspected that I might have aspergers. I recognize the sensitivity regarding food texture. As a child, I used problem-solving as an escape. I looked for a feeling of beauty and harmony in solving complex problems. This has made me quite the perfectionist, which caused some problems in the workplace. For me, ACT worked very well. Mindfulness, although sometimes quite hard, gave me the tools to regularly check in on myself and check in on my emotions before they overwhelm.

Wonderful explanation Kati. Keeping a job is very hard for me, so are certain sounds and various other things..odd. Thanks for keeping it simple and clear. Internal Anxiety.

Thanks Katie. I’m a trainee hypnotherapist and it will be useful to be able to spot this in weight loss clients.

Lol I’ve got sooo many duel diagnosis! Autism, MDD, GAD, ADHD, Learning difficulties, and PTSD! Also, asthma, maintains, and an autoimmune thyroid disorder! Sooo many! Lol

I tried to tell people around me. They didn't believe me. So I just isolated myself and tried to stay from them. Been eating excessively, picking at scabs on my neck, and probably drinking myself to death.

I have Asperger's and I do have PTSD since I was 7 or 8. Most of the time I never feel safe regardless of where I am and I am on my guard 24/7 and I do end up working on anything I can as my temporary respite which is not long.

One thing I like about Kati is that no matter the disorder, she always affirms that the person who has it, is ok. It's not that someone is bad for having a disorder, it's that yes, you have a disorder, but here are tools that can help cope with it. The more I watch videos on mental health, the more I think that we all have internal struggles that we must manage.

Thank you so much for making this video :) x

Hey Destini, I find you are doing very well at getting your feelings across. You are lucky to know yourself so well. I would say ''Run with it, girl! Now go explore the world and make it a better place.''

This is a very good video :) I always suffered Asperger's and did not what in had or how to reach out for help. I struggled internally in silence :( With the onset of my heightened anxiety and low mood; I was diagnosed with having Asperger Syndrome by a Psyciatrist, at the age of 33. My anxiety is now managed with medication and I am able to manage or file my disordered thoughts and stress-related anxiety thoughts. I can now have transparency with my thoughts thanks to medicine intervention as the anxiety became a big problem for me in my life. Treatment is very important as paranoid thoughts can interfere with thought process which are confusing e.g. the one where say to yourself: ''do I have Asperger's or Schizophrenia? and left feeling confused. Because paranoia leads to these anxious, intrusive thoughts and it is essential to recognise and distinguish this from being a diagnosis, from being a symptom, which is a huge difference. You talked about soothing behaviour. Also, repetitive patterns of behaviour and interest can be calming and comforting for an Aspie as can flapping their hands i.e. mannerism. This takes their mind of things in dealing with anxiety. This is my experience; understanding of having Asperger Syndrome.

I grew up with ASD and my ED behaviors were related to my obsession with numbers and spreadsheets. I enjoyed chronicling my progress and treated my body like an entity separate from me that I could use like a lab rat in a science experiment. It took a lot for me to understand 1) that people were worried about me, 2) why they were worried, and 3) why I should care that they were worried.

Thank you for covering Aspergers on your channel. I am an Aspie female and my channel focuses on what life is like for people like me

One of my really good friends has Aspergers, as well as my brother and my boyfriend!

Why do you speak in the first person plural "we"? Thank you Kati. Wonderful videos.

i have asd/aspergers, and i have experience much of what you are saying in this video, it is very helpful to know there is a reason behind my behaviours, but then again i dont use it as an excuse.

You’re a beautiful person.

Hi my name is Brennen and I have autism ,OCD depression ,anxiety and a learning disability. I just wanted to say that I really like your RU-vid channel and keep up the good work.

Finally i have learned the proper difference between aspergers and autism. Have been diagnosed with aspergers and now sure that I have it.

That actually makes sense about ED and Asperger's Syndrome being tied together. When I was younger I was really picky and wouldn't eat certain foods. As I got older I became less picky but started binging on foods I really liked such as chocolate. When I was younger I was so afraid of trying new foods because I was afraid I'd like them so much that I'd eat them everyday. I guess even when I was younger I had some anxiety around food.

As a child with a single undiagnosed parent on the spectrum things were definitely v confusing. It all makes sense as an adult looking back - how they couldn't read my body language or expressions at all. It was all v frustrating as a child trying to communicate. Their managing of their anxiety too was not v effective back then too. So I witnessed a lot of anxiety attacks. I basically viewed my parent, from a v young age, as emotionally fragile and someone I couldn't rely on. It's tough to reconcile the fact that even though my parent had good intentions when raising me I now deal with CPTSD from the emotional neglect/parentification. Just knowing, now, they're on the spectrum is useful information - and it brings me a bit of relief because it all clicks!

I can't stand the texture of soft fruit and won't eat fruit therefore. It also irritates me to find fruit pieces in yoghurt... a big no! However, I like all kind of veg as they are crunchier and not soft and sweet... Texture is also important for clothes... Here I like woolen things, can be rough and itchy on the skin but I like that... I have certain soothing techniques when getting stressed, one is to listen to certain movies (not watching them really...) over and over again. It's also a good way to learn a language! :)

This is very helpful as my son has aspergers

Someone who wasn't a doctor but a therapist told my mom I had this but she never told my school. I did great. Now I understand why I only binge on certain things haha thanks again!

My son has just been diagnosed with “Aspergers” or mild - moderate autism as the dr said it’s called now. While going through this process with him I’m learning a lot about it and the more I learn I am realising how many things really applied to me as a child and still now in my 20s. I am thinking about seeking diagnosis for myself because it explain ALOT about my struggles.

Ty so much

I have two brothers on the autism spectrum. I really want understand them. I baby sit my youngest brother a lot and he is really picky with his food and sensitive to sound. He freak outs when someone turns on the hand dryer in a bathroom.

This video explains me so much 😭

It's awesome you did floortime therapy! I'm an Autistic adult who studied human services in school and I'm super interested in floortime. I would love to know more about your experience with that.

Hey, can you maybe make a video with some more information specifically about aspergers in adult women? Would be amazing since I can't find much information about it :)

My husband is self diagnosed as being aspergers He’s 58 and knowing that he Is aspergers has helped him immensely. He says it’s like everything is making more sense even though nothing makes sense. There seems to be little to no help in Scotland addressing aspergers. He has joined the aspergers society on Facebook and feels at home talking with others this condition.

My experiences may be atypical for the average Aspie. I'm high functioning, and usually passable for a very articulate (a skill strengthened in recent years), socially awkward "neurotypical." My therapist uses the cute term "Cuspie." The thing is that since I didn't fit the description of people more severely affected by the autistic spectrum, I went un-DXed until I was I was 26. My parents had rejected one diagnosis, accepted hypotonia and a mild communicative delay as separate, and I was prescribed for Ritalin for a few months under an ADHD misdiagnosis when I began rebelling against the concept of only learning things to regurgitate on Friday, and binge text books for exams. Those things, emotional abuse, and strict parenting led to extremely repressed teen years. At school, there was excessive bullying from classmates and even a teacher, vivid sexual harassment, and my rare times on AIM were trolled by cyber bullies who knew me through school. I felt like such an outsider. Church youth groups, my artwork, poetry, comics, and music were for the most part my only release. In college (especially freshman year), I continued to stand out. I would work late at night in common areas because I could concentrate better in that solitude. It caused me to oversleep some times. I held such high standards for myself that if I slept late, I would go a day without food to teach myself a lesson (I think that's self-harm). I even death with some insomnia after my dad died from alcoholism. It was a few years after getting my degree that I got my own PCP (who diagnosed my migraines as a byproduct of dangerous hernias (and not what my parents dismissed as my staying up late), and I selected my own psychotherapist. My therapist figured how some things in my past are connected, helps me to deal with anxiety, understanding the world, understanding myself, and learning life skills. I also found two Aspie memoirs relatable and inspiring. Look Me In the Eye by John Elder Robison and Pretending to be Normal by Liane Holliday Willey. I... don't know if it's my possibly having a non-binary gender or just being so close to neurotypical, but I found just as much in Robison's book that I could identify with as I could find in Willey's, though female Aspies are said to be more socially adjusted generally speaking.

I'm Aspi and have never ever wanted to harm myself, depression could be when I was very young but not now. We have difficulties to notice body language and in part I can understand more, studying and learning.

I like your videos. I can practice eye contact. I was diagnosed aspergers a couple months ago. Often I cant stand eye contact but sometimes I crave it. And you don't talk down to me. That means a lot.

Hey I bang my head and body parts on walls! I also binge eat,this helped a lot to explain my aspergers

I hope your wedding was amazing!

Many ways to try and get some form of control with food over situations that kids have no control over.

great job mentioning some of those hallmark characteristics - including their restricted preference to only certain texture and type of foods and zero in on those and miss out on having an overall broad array of vegetables and fruits that afford them the vast array of minerals and vitamins. Unbelievable. How can you dislike tomatoes is beyond me?? 🙄😒🤔😶‍🌫

Clearly this video is based on the older dsm and not the dsm-5. I don't know if you have an updated video on ASD that's based on the dsm-5, but if you don't I would ask that you consider making an updated video on ASD please.

Great video I have Asperges Syndrome and I sometimes bang my head on my wall and pick my nails sometimes its a way for me to cope against my brain and sometimes certain textures of food aren't that great for me that's why I struggle eating them, I tend to like my food dry and warm, and even crispy.

"Suffer"?

I'm 47 and was born with a severe case of aspergers and let me tell you it made life a living hell. I was taken to psychologists at an early age and all they did was try all types of drugs over the years. And none of them did anything what so ever. My parents moved a lot growing up and i was in special ed since 1st grade. I was always getting suspended for bad behavior, had trouble focusing on the school work. I dropped out of 9th grade because i had enough of getting bullied by everyone including the teachers. Everywhere i went schools, neighborhoods, jobs and so forth i had to deal with people saying i was an idiot, or retarded, a bad seed. By the time i was 21 i had already gone thru 18 jobs. I would give it my all but when the only coments you get are negitive it would not only shut my mind down but my body also. The only thing i could do was quit and the employer was lucky if i didn't tell them to go fornicate themselves on the way out. I soon turned to heavy drinking and drugs. And for a long time it was the only comfort and peace i found in the world. I could do a multitude of drink and drugs and no one could tell i was on anything unless i drank way too much. You can't hide the alcohol fumes. I never could hold a job, never did get a gf, never had 1 as a friend. Only made 2 friends my whole life but lost 1 of them once he got married. His wife didn't like me at all. Growing up when the family got together they loved playing trivial pursuit, i despised that game because i never could answer 1 question. Now i look at the world as 1 big 3d trivial pursuit except all the questions in it have 4 answers...1 it sucks...2 it stinks....3 it blows....or 4 all of the above. I pick 4. I have been clean and sober since 2008 and i miss it dearly, but i just have to keep taking 1 day at a time. I just wish these flashbacks i get of all the people who ever abused me would go away. You can tell people your problems but unless they have aspergers as well or have profesionally studied it themselves they will never understand where you are coming from....well i never can understand where they are coming from. Well sorry for the long rant, i did try to keep it as short as possible.

You look so beautiful in that purple blouse and you sat there like a Queen! Love it. Thanks for all your information it is very helpful.

This is really good information wise, I'm not autistic or aspergers myself, I use social queues, tone of voice and body language queues way too much to be on the spectrum of either of those. But it's useful to know these things :) Also I love the way you say aspergers haha

my daughter was diagnosed with Aspergers and we were told that she has High Functioning Autism. Her doctor says the diagnosis is a diagnosis of autism. my child actually has severe anxiety, depression and self harms a lot. she will scratch herself, punch her walls and has cut herself. She has been in therapy, but the therapist referred us to another therapist because any time she tried to talk to her, she'd slip in to the characters she is obsessively interested in.

I didn't eat banananananaananananananas for a while because I thought they where to mushy then at about 12 I started to eat them but NEVER the black or brown parts I also don't really like popcorn anything gummy and I dont really like spaghetti but I do eat that because I like it when I eat it in weird ways it makes me think less about the texture

Hi my sister made a comment that I was autistic a while ago and it hurt but now it made me think about Asperger's syndrome I even sent for paperwork. I am terrified of social situations and had to have extra tuition as a child. I've mentioned this to my doctor and she said it is just deep social anxiety! I actually feel more at easy with children than with adults.

Great video Kati, this has been helpful for me getting to know more about autism and aspergers! I just wanted to give you a head up on the titles on the last videos - I don't know if you already have noticed, but it says "Mental Heath" not "Mental Health" as it should be :) Have a great week!

I don't have any sort of diagnosis in this direction, but I've considered the possibility that I may have some form of asperger's syndrome. I have anxiety and panic attacks, but a lot of things that I connect to that don't really fit with what I read (not online, in psychology magazines and university textbooks), or what other people with anxiety seem to experience, but it fits with a lot of what I read about autism. This really hit a nerve, and I wanna thank you a lot; I'm 19, and I'm not sure I really wanna go too much into it, but it's been bothering me, and it would be really nice to know some stuff about adults with autism, and what that diagnosis might mean to them

I love your videos

Hi Katie! Can you talk about relationships between a NT and a person in the spectrum (Asperger)

A good friend of mine has Aspergers and another childhood friend of mine was on the Autism spectrum. I found myself slowly relating to a lot of what was being said in the video, especially pertaining to the self-harm to soothe yourself, as well as the pickiness, anxiety, and distorted eating tendencies that were also described in the video. I often scratch my arms whenever I get very upset or angry. I have always had a thing for textures of food, even going as far as to totally avoid food just for the texture, even if I liked the taste. I've always been a very anxious and nervous person, having my first panic attack at 14/15. I am also battling and dealing with bulimia and bulimic tendencies. I BY NO MEANS AM SAYING THAT I HAVE EITHER OF THESE DIAGNOSES. I AM JUST SAYING THAT I CAN RELATE TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID IN THE VIDEO. That being said, I did find that this video did help me understand a little about what my friends ae going through or went through.

Hey, I love your videos. I was wondering, do you have a video where you explain more the differences between autism and asd?

Hi Kati! 🦋

please make more videos about aspergers

At the age of 60, I’m just discovering this about myself. And that is one of the reasons I hesitate to “Make it Official” I have had many struggles in my time on this planet, but I have obviously figured out how to make it work. And I don’t see the advantage of getting diagnosed professionally.

Hey kati I was diagnosed at the age of two years as autism spectrum disorder. I used to do the self harm and sometimes still do... I would rock back and forth and still do as of today. When I was two years old the teachers would say that I was a sweet girl and cute but wouldn’t socialize with the other toddlers. I just had a glazed over look in my eyes and later on in my teenage years I was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic then my twenties it became schizoaffective bipolar disorder. So I still self harm and I am currently like I have for awhile so I binge and purge and I’m trying to get over that. It’s very hard and scary thanks for the video Kati.

Would you consider making an updated video about autism? It sounds like, in this video, you are talking about autism and aspergers as two different things, but really aspergers is just a different label for what people would call "high functioning" autism. It's the same disorder, with the sensory processing issues and the social disconnect/hidden curriculum thing, but it's just that nonverbal or people who have a really hard time communicating with the disorder are more marginalized because they have a harder time "passing" as neurotypical. There other RU-vidrs [Amythest Schaber of Ask an Autistic and Danny Raede of Asperger Experts are two of my favorites because they are so comprehensive] who speak at length on this topic, as well as on the topic of autism self-advocacy. I really appreciate how you highlighted the links between autism and other mental issues, as well as doing your best to try to explain what life is like for people on the spectrum. I would just like to point out that there is more current content out there that you can use to inform this topic and give your audience a fuller idea of what it's about. Your videos are fantastic, including this one. No hate intended. :)

Can you do a video with tips and stuff to manage anxiety and social anxiety.

Figured out a year or so ago that my mother and one of my sisters have aspergers. I believe my mother's brother and their mother also had it. It seems to run in families.

You should update this video as they got rid of Asperger's as a diagnosis, and just refer to it as High Functioning Autism.

Hi katie. I'm autistic 31 years old Diagnosed as adult. I miss social qs I take things literal as said not as ment. I get really mad and resentful when some one interrupts what I'm doing. I halfto couscously focus on new tasks if I halfto switch tasks. I halfto stop and completly reset to perform the new task. Autistic people are also experts on there thing and we will know all the things about the said thing. We like sensations, like how coffee makes sensations in your body, or takeing a shower the sensation of the running water. We like human physical contact way more then we put out there. If you have a Autistic friend hug them every chance you get they'll like you way better for it. I could go on and on. But I'll stop here

I am so glad I am not the only person who can't eat certain foods because of the texture. When I was younger, my family were just awful about it and weren't convinced it was a real thing and told me (and continue to tell me) I was just being a brat. But even as an adult there are still foods I cannot eat unless they are sparsely mixed in with other foods to hide the texture. Even thinking about trying to eat these types of foods makes me gag

People who have aspbergers or autism , do not have the same problems though. I understand that she is giving a general list. She said it is a spectrum, just like there is many types of people in the world, there is many types symptoms that do not follow the typical ways. People read diagnostic manual or follow what the doctor says without understanding the word, "spectrum." It will not be the same all across the board.

I have Aspergers and I am exactly the same with bacon! just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable. Also, adults have it too.

(cont) happier. When I was a child, to self-soothe, I would rock and groan monotonously. The repetitive action and sound would really calm me. Also, I would suck on the collar of my shirt or the sleeves or my hair when in public. A bit less noticible, until there were stains all over my shirts. When I was younger I'd bite myself when mad or even slap myself/others. When I started SHing this time around, it was for different reasons but I still bit, and now cut. You explained this pretty well. :)

Hey, thanks for this great video! Kati, could you please talk about pseudo-autism based on brain injure or epilepsy? There is a lot of information about classic forms of autism throughout the internet, but googling this one doesn't really help me

i just love the way you talk this is creepy hehe but you say "does it make sense" a lot and you sound so cute x) thank you btw.

Hi Katie, could you talk about NON VERBAL LEARNING DISORDER?

I have aspergers and started speaking VERY young. I actually do have moments, now, that make verbal communication extremely difficult...usually when I'm tired or stressed. It's a tad frustrating, because it happens so little that I don't really have anything I use to communicate during it. I know of resources from my non-verbal friends, I just haven't tried it yet. I had more trouble reading emotional social cues as a kid, but now I tend to hyper-focus on body language and facial expressions because just words and verbal tones have always been EXTREMELY difficult to figure out for me. I have the aspergers on top of a ton of mental illnesses, other behavioral disorders, and learning disabilities, so I'm not sure if mine may react differently to most aspergers cases when everything else comes into play as well. I find that some of my mental illness symptoms can "turn on" my sensory processing issues and my sensory processing issues can trigger my mental illness symptoms(some of them). I tend to say, "they bounce off of each other" though that seems to confuse my doctors often times... I wasn't diagnosed until I was 13, though, making services quite difficult to get. Honestly, I have no clue how it was un-diagnosed for so long.... I even used to see a neurologist regularly for ADHD that missed it. It was a psychiatrist at my first psychiatric impatient hospital that saw it. Thinking back on my behaviors, it should have been EXTREMELY obvious that I had some form of autism long before I was 13...

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I have aspergers and I eat the same foods all the time. I will try new things that don't contain foods on my blacklist but whilst most people get bored of the same things over and over I do not. I do however have a revulsion to bacon, sausages, gammon, pork, lamb, baked beans, strawberries, aubergine or anything strawberry flavoured, most purple food and ham. I am a vegan for ethical reasons but I wouldn't even eat pig and sheep before becoming vegan.