Aspergers Syndrome

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My Mum read somewhere a long time ago that people with my ‘condition’( meaning Aspergers Syndrome) as she calls it need to eat a balanced diet which tends to mean that I have to eat what she puts on a plate or bowl in front of me at the table. Sometimes I have to eat something new to me which involves new food textures and flavours. New sensations like these always bring the threat of the unknown. The unknown is fraught with sudden shocks and risks of punishment. I hate the unknown and work hard to keep myself vigilant against it at all

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