| Doesn't seem like it is after some looking. Not liking one type of food because of texture isn't enough for a diagnosis, at least according to this criteria: "According to the DSM-5, ARFID is diagnosed when: An eating or feeding disturbance (e.g., apparent lack of interest in eating or food; avoidance based on the sensory characteristics of food; concern about aversive consequences of eating) as manifested by persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs associated with one (or more) of the following: * Significant weight loss (or failure to achieve expected weight gain or faltering growth in children). * Significant nutritional deficiency. * Dependence on enteral feeding or oral nutritional supplements. * Marked interference with psychosocial functioning." If they're meeting their nutritional needs with other foods just fine, they don't have this disorder. Like take my wife as an example. She refuses to eat several foods because she doesn't like the texture (fish, solid fat on meats, cottage cheese, a bunch of other foods I don't remember offhand). But there's plenty of other things she will eat, and she doesn't have a nutritional deficiency. Source: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-diso... |