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TIL: a disorder called Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) that typically occurs in children. such children are sensitive towards food and have to keep testing their limits as to what they'll like or not, and the cure is cognitive behavioural therapy as mentioned in several sources.

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