Hi, my name is Christy and I'm 37. I've been a picky eater my whole life too. I've had so many embarrassing and traumatizing experiences because of my inability to eat many foods. I've been ridiculed and picked on my whole life. I tried to change it but I couldn't. For me it's not just tastes and smells but textures as well. Sometimes I may like the taste of something but the texture will make me gag. I thought my mother was to blame...and then...I had a son. And I noticed that as a baby when he started eating baby food, he would reject all the same flavors of food that I didn't like. I kept trying and trying, hoping that I could get him used to things but to no avail. And as he got older, I noticed he had an issue with texture as well. For example, he would eat a hamburger, but wouldn't eat anything else with ground beef mixed in. After age 2 he primarily lived with his father who is not in the least interested in trying to understand anything out of what he considers normal. And many nights my son went to bed hungry. By the time he was about 10 I started to realize that my eating problem was not my mom's fault. Because I tried everything imaginable with my son. He is now 15 and his father has finally accepted his food issues (which, by the way, are worse than mine). I'm so happy to know I'm not alone. I can't wait to share this with him.