An unrelated side question: with food, does it appear to be a flavor or texture issue? Does color play in at all that you know of?
It was two things. Texture was half of it. Smell was the other. He was extremely smell sensitive, even as an infant, to the point where he would start screaming his lungs out the minute I *opened* the door at the photo development store a few blocks away. He identified people by scent, as well.
I remember when I had been forced to change my deodorant, because the one I'd been using had been discontinued. He was just under four years old at the time, and he asked me:
"Mom, why do you smell terrible?"
(I said, "Not terrible. Different." He repeated the question he'd asked, because of course, different was terrible.)
Having said that? He loved olives. I can't stand them because of the strength of smell and taste; he could.
Colour played, as far as I can tell, no part in it at all; the only time appearance mattered was if something "familiar" looked different. Taste mattered only in minor ways. If he ate a cake that *looked* like it should be delicious, and it wasn't, he'd stop eating it, but never in a forcible way.
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Date: 2011-05-30 07:50 am (UTC)It was two things. Texture was half of it. Smell was the other. He was extremely smell sensitive, even as an infant, to the point where he would start screaming his lungs out the minute I *opened* the door at the photo development store a few blocks away. He identified people by scent, as well.
I remember when I had been forced to change my deodorant, because the one I'd been using had been discontinued. He was just under four years old at the time, and he asked me:
"Mom, why do you smell terrible?"
(I said, "Not terrible. Different." He repeated the question he'd asked, because of course, different was terrible.)
Having said that? He loved olives. I can't stand them because of the strength of smell and taste; he could.
Colour played, as far as I can tell, no part in it at all; the only time appearance mattered was if something "familiar" looked different. Taste mattered only in minor ways. If he ate a cake that *looked* like it should be delicious, and it wasn't, he'd stop eating it, but never in a forcible way.