ARFID

My son and I also have ARFID. He would not eat any meat besides chicken nuggets for years.

My daughters eating disorder is killing me financially. Icy-Gate-213 2025

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) was introduced to the psychiatric nomenclature four years ago1 as a reformulation of Feeding Disorder of Infancy and Early Childhood.

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Three-Dimensional Model of Neurobiology with Implications for Etiology and Treatment 2025

ARFID is a fairly new addition to the modern parenting lexicon: A behavior far more severe than pickiness, it’s an eating disorder provoked not by the desire to change one’s body but by the fear of food itself.

What If a Child Was Terrified of Food? Caitlin Moscatello 2025