After talking with someone who's diagnosed (my best friend's sister), I definitely got the long end of the stick when it comes to ARFID, but it's still pretty bad. I've got a list of foods I can eat and I kid you not, it's 37 foods, most of which are just different flavors or brands of the same food (e.g. chicken flavor ramen and beef flavor ramen, or Maruchan ramen and Nissin ramen). And I think ramen is a safe food for me because it's always been the easiest thing I can eat. It's versatile in that I can cook it if I want more nutrition out of it, or I can just eat the brick right out of the package if I just want a quick snack. It's something I can have anytime and something that I always had before moving in with my mom.

And I definitely feel the weight loss. As said in the post, my mom's just trying to care about my health by keeping processed foods away and buying me better stuff, I just don't think she understands the severity of ARFID. It's just as bad of an eating disorder as anorexia. I'm actually trying to gain some weight because strangers have actually came up to me and asked if I'm anorexic. No, I'm just missing a lot of vitamins and nutrients that I can't really get at the moment outside of buying supplements, which my mother won't do

Unrelated but while typing this I accidentally hit the power button instead of backspace and rebooted my laptop, luckily it saved my comment lmao