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As somebody who’s medically diagnosed with Aspergers, I can personally confirm that this was my diet more or less growing up; I basically subsisted on Spaghetti-Os, oatmeal, Oreos, pizza, chicken nuggets, and chocolate-flavored Ensures when I was growing up.
Nowadays though, I eat a lot more variety - I still have some aversion to trying out new foods from time to time, but I’ve learned to be able to prepare myself mentally to try out new foods and drinks. So when people actually act like in OP’s post and they don’t have autism or something, I can’t help but just roll my eyes because somebody with a social and learning disorder is able to do better than them.
That's a pretty impressive feat and I really applaud your efforts to try to break out of that. I feel for those with that diagnosis that this would be pretty difficult to overcome, especially unassisted and without professional help. I do also think that for others without a diagnosis it might be akin to a phobia that's developed. I myself grew up with A LOT of food hang-ups - went a full decade without being able to eat anything remotely resembling a dairy product. So these things take time and a lot of forward AND backwards steps.