Hello,I used to like vegetables until the age of 6, until I got a virus one winter, and after that moment, it became much harder for me to eat vegetables. Just seeing some of them would gross me out, and their texture started grossing me out too. A workaround was to eat soups or have vegetables mixed with other food like in couscous, other wise I would struggle with eating them, especially crude vegetables like cold tomatoes or salad which could go as far as making me throw up. But I never decided that I was suddenly going to dislike vegetables to annoy people, it happened and I could never figure why. There are explanations for fears like fear of heights or hydrophobia, but for fear of specific food I never heard anything other than it’s in your head or it’s comedy.
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Humans are pretty sensitive in what we can eat without getting sick, so we have various “gross out” responses to avoid things we shouldn’t eat. My dog enjoys eating random poop, half rotten road kill, etc. when we’re out on a walk. She’s never had any real issues from that. It would be a real problem for my digestive system if I ate those things, and I would puke if I tried.
Your body will learn things that have “poisoned” it. For example, many people drink too much tequila in college and can never smell it again without feeling sick. You likely had an overreaction of the same system when you were sick.
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