Food & cloth & touch issues can very well be associated with ASD. I was doing research on the issues I had when I was married to my H. He had terrible food issues before we were married. If his mom fixed something he didn't like (which was most foods) he would storm out of her house & slam the door & drive to McDonald's & buy a hamburger with NOTHING on it except the meat & bun. Needless to say I wasn't willing to be treated like that in my marriage & let him know before we ever got married not to even try to pull anything like that on me. ASD was not even known about in the states to be Dx'ed back in the mid 1970's. Studying about the different traits, ended up explaining 100% of the things I had dealt with in the marriage. It was good for me to understand. Don't remember him having much cloth texture issues but then that wasn't something that I was involved with & he pretty much did his own thing in many areas of our marriage.

I had an issue with raw carrots growing up. They were so dry, I couldn't swallow them. Remember my mom giving me carrots before nap & I would wake up after the nap with a mouth full of chewed but unswallowed carrots until I could get into the bathroom & spit them out into the toilet. That was the only food I ever remember having a problem with growing up. I love cooked carrots but after having oral surgery last year & have no teeth & can't tolerate dentures in my mouth, I can't eat anything hard & my ninja food processor is my best friend.