Just wanted to say thank you! I have lived my entire life eating the same handful of select foods. I struggled for years with anxiety and depression ( brought by anti social tendencies because of how I eat ) and dealing with Anorexia behaviors because I felt overweight but just excersizing wasn't keeping the weight I gained from my limited food choice down so I figured it was best to live off of nothing until I gained control of weight and then eat again and repeat the process.
I remember praying to God that my kids would eat well, that they wouldn't cringe at the invitation to dinner, that they wouldn't get physically sick in front of a group of people because of the food smells and trying so hard to swallow something just to be polite and not seem rude. I always felt alone with my problem. I would try so hard to eat things by forcing myself to eat them only to puke before sitting down at the dinner table.
I hope research can help those of us with this for it truly is not a choice. I would not choose this for myself, I would not choose this for my family to deal with.
Thank you for the work those involved in the website and groups who have strived to make this known and heard of. Make people aware that it is not a case of just picky eating but something more and that no one is alone in this.