I have just been looking up texture eating and ASD was one I kept coming back to, I think my grandma had similar food issues too. I can't help myself self picking herbs and or black pepper out of my food. In restaurants the edge of my plate is usually covered in bits I pick out of my food, I'm also very easily put off of foodstuffs.

I think the worst incident was when a neighbour who would mind me when my mum went back to work decided she had had enough of my 'faddy' eating, she had 5 daughters who would eat what they were told to and I guess looking back she saw me as a corrupting influence. So on this day unlike others where she would tell me I couldn't get down from the table until I had eaten everything on my plate and after an hour or more she would have to give in because as she saw it I was stubborn and spoilt rotten, my plate was placed in front of me and I ate everything except the cauliflower my child minder then decided to force feed me. I can't remember exactly how it was done.... Maybe holding my nose ! But as the last piece disappeared and she was cooing "see it wasn't so bad" I vomited cauliflower up over her Oops ! From then on my mum sent me round with a loaf of bread and block of cheese and that was my lunch but I was no longer allowed to sit at the table with everyone else, I would sit on the couch with my sandwich while everyone else "ate properly at the table"

As an adult I can see she did it as an example to her own children but that it was very harsh as I was only 6 or 7. Luckily I was a little madam and thought it was great that I got to sit comfortably in front of the tv with a lunch that I enjoyed, but it could have really had a bad affect on a child so young.