Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas

the foods that you feel safe with as your anchors, and then rather than overhaul your whole diet because somebody on Instagram says, oh, you know, this is the latest thing or this is the latest superfood, a sprinkle of this and a sprinkle of that is a much better strategy because at the end of the day, as you say, it's an everyday thing.

It's not a diet for a week that then you've done it and that's it.

It's a diet for life.

And if you're going to have to live with that diet for the rest of your life, how do you adapt it so it becomes second nature, like learning to ride a bike or drive a car, so you don't need to overthink it every single time.

So it could just be simple things that I'm sure we're going to be talking about.

I don't want to burn all my gunpowder at once.

Well, it does complicate a lot.

And the thing is that one of the things I've been working on recently for the last year, and I'm writing some papers about it that I hope to publish this year, the first one.

And along with that, there's going to be a set of different questionnaires that are specifically designed to ascertain these kind of aspects for a neurodivergent person, because nutrition advice has been issued for neurotypical people.

You know, until probably like very recently, we're starting to touch the very, very tip of the iceberg on this, to be aware of the fact that maybe neurodivergent people have different needs when it comes to nutrition.

And it's not about the foods need to be different.

It's the fact that, as you say, we have sensory sensitivities.

And again, there may be cliches that we just avoid, but no, we are seekers as well.

We could be a mix of both.

I could avoid something like the plague because it's like,

very alien to me like the smell of something already puts me off but then I'm obsessed with something else that's very spicy and like my food in general is quite spicy I cannot really do bland but in some cases I really feel like bland because that's comforting

And I wouldn't think of adding chili to that particular meal because that meal is safe and comforting.

And if I added chili, it would spoil it.

So you know what I'm talking about.

It's down to the minute thing of the chilies need to be dry so they are crunchy.