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Patient will not eat tomatoes, bananas, avocado, yogurt, mashed potato, or any food that is, in their private classification, 'slimy.' Is an adult. Has tried, on three separate occasions, to 'just get over it.' Has gagged all three times. Has, at restaurants, spent 14 minutes picking tomato out of a dish that was built around tomato. The issue is not taste. The issue is never taste.
Chronic. The texture classification is inherited and will not move.
None. 'It's just a texture thing' is a complete diagnosis.
Patients with Chronic Texture-Based Food Refusal typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Texture-Based Food Refusal belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Textura cibi abominatio, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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