Understanding Dietary Distress, Forced Eating, and Food Deserts While Autistic

• By: Sylvia Cusack Johnson, MSW
• January 1st, 2021
• actually autistic, diet, dietary sensitivity, eating, eating disorders, food, overstimulation, sensory issues, winter 2021 issue
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My name is Sylvia, and I’m an Autistic adult with sensory hypersensitivities that mainly affect my eating, which I’m choosing to call dietary hypersensitivities, or, more simply, food/drink hypersensitivities. For me, these hypersensitivities are oversensitivities based on any combination of...