Hello! Sorry for the late mega last week. How are my disabled comrades doing?
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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
fellow autistics (or others who struggle with certain foods) that celebrate christmas (in whatever capacity)- what do you have for your christmas dinner?
i personally can’t eat turkey or pork, but chicken, beef and lamb are ok so i can have a more ““traditional”” roast (though the house is having curry for christmas eve). some friends struggle with all of them so are doing pizza instead
American chinese food. My immediate family used to be elaborate, cooking a lot and having big meals, but we stopped doing that as a combination of COVID and it being overwhelming for everyone. Now, we see much less family, have some cookies and other pastries, and I essentially just eat black beans and rice for the main meal. We just chill on Christmas Day itself, and get american chinese food. I’ll probably have a sort of Tofu dish, and what’s nice about this is that it allows for my sibilings to all pick foods that they want, since they’re all fairly picky even if I’m not. They also all love some sort of sugar, so the desserts tend not to be the problem.
CW: Meat
My sibilings all eat a chicken dish that my grandmother makes, while also eating the beans and rice.
Edit: Deserts are not related, desserts are