David & Lyric Rivera talk about Autistic Differences – Food Sensitivities and Friendships

This is Pt 8 (the final part) of the interview with David. Stay tuned for a NEW interview next week!!!!

Patreon members and other monetary subscribers had access to this video on January 12, 2023. The video’s public release will be February 22, 2023.

Transcript

David: Action.

Lyric: I know I’m looking for the next question right now.

David: Okay, cool.

Lyric: Uh oh. We’re getting to the bottom now.

David: All right, we’re done.

Lyric: No, I’ve got a few more.

Oh, here’s a number here. Kaden has two questions.

David: Only one, Kaden.

Lyric: Okay. Are there any –

David: No, I’m joking.

Lyric: Good. Well, I’ll go, I’ll go with the the second one first. Are there any foods you just cannot eat.

David: I can eat anything. Doesn’t mean I will.

Lyric: That’s not true.

David: Yeah. I can eat anything I want.

Lyric: Uhhuh..

David: But I’m not gonna eat a hot Cheeto, or hot fry, or that pepper thing.

Lyric: Yeah.

David: I can eat it. I won’t. So what are they asking?

Lyric: I think they’re asking about your food sensory issues.

David: What can I not eat?

Lyric: Yeah. Like what?

David: I don’t know. I can eat anything. What can I not eat… sensory wise?

Lyric: I think you eat very specific things, only.

David: Well, it doesn’t mean I-

Lyric: You eat very limited things.

David: No, no, very true.

Lyric: Okay. You can force yourself to eat anything.

David: Yeah, I can eat anything!

Lyric: So I think you won’t be able to get it down. I think you’ll throw up.

David: I mean there’s things I haven’t tried.

Lyric: Like coconut???!

David: I won’t do that.

Lyric: Can eat anything, wait! A coconut, how a strawberry with the seeds all over the outside.

David: Yes, maybe sometimes. But I- I don’t know about that one.

Lyric: You can eat anything???

David: Coconut? Definitely NAHHH!!!

Lyric: What about spinach?

David: I can eat- I don’t like the taste.

Lyric: Uhhuh.

David: I don’t know. I’m just saying, I can eat it. If I was forced to eat spinach, I can do it, if I was forced.

Lyric: Mm-hmm.

David: Same thing with coconut, I think. I mean, it’s not gonna ruin me or you know.

Lyric: how hard would it be for you to eat that coconut?

David: If it meant saving your life, I’d do it easily.

Lyric: Awwww….

I don’t know that I could force something in my mouth, like once I bought a salad.

David: I don’t know about that.

Lyric: No. And it was like, it was my favorite salad, for like all these weeks, and I had been eating it forever, at lunch. It was the same salad, but like one day, it was just like the last day. I couldn’t eat anymore of that salad, but I had bought it, so I was like, I’m gonna eat it, and I kept putting it in my mouth. And every time I ate it, like it was like, “I’m gonna throw up”. The more I ate, the more I was like, “I’m gonna throw up”.

I gotta, the point was like, I would put it in, and the salad won’t go down anymore, or I couldn’t eat anymore of it, and then I couldn’t eat that salad for like months.

And I was like, I couldn’t, it was no longer an okay salad.

I couldn’t do it.

David: There’s things I don’t like, but I think I can.

Lyric: Mm-hmm.

David: You know, I don’t like the taste of coconut, or the smell or whatever, but if I had to, that was the only thing I- I think I would.

Lyric: We’re gonna have a fear factor challenge and we’re gonna eat our unsafe foods…

David: No, see, I don’t want to… That’s what I saying. Doesn’t mean I can’t-

Lyric: Spicy coconut chips?

David: But see, I won’t eat spicy.

Lyric: Spicy coconut for you.

David: Right? But-

Lyric: And then I have to eat something that’s like a bad sensory thing for me. It has to be something bland and gross. What am I going eat, that I don’t like???

David: I don’t know.

Lyric: Olives!!!! Oh, nope, nope, nope, nope.

David: See, I don’t have that. I don’t-

Lyric: They smell! I can think about it- or tomatoes.

David: I don’t. I can eat anything.

Lyric: Tomatos are disgusting…

David: you know, I just –

Lyric: The devils testicles.

David: There’s some things I don’t want to.

Lyric: Oh, no. Yeah. I can’t do it.

The tomato is not okay. You eat tomatoes, I can’t Uhuh.

David, are you making coconut for breakfast? Turn around.

Yeah.

David: No.

Lyric: You talked a big game in this video, but what are you saying now?

David: Nothing.

Lyric: Do you think you’d be able to swallow, those foods that you.

David: That’s, yeah, I know. I just realized, I mean, like I was talking about, I can chew it, chew it, chew it, right… but not really for long. I’d probably like two chews, or whatever, but I wouldn’t swallow it. I have to spit it out. I couldn’t do it.

Lyric: So, uh, what did you say “Oh yeah. Swallowing is part of eating.”

David: Part of eating, I guess, and I couldn’t do it.

Lyric: Yeah.

David: I had to think about it.

Lyric: Okay. I gotta, see if I can stitch this in there somehow.

Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. Um, this one says, Patrick says, “did you watch lots of sitcoms or standups growing up in order to assimilate into socially awkward situations?”

David: No.

Lyric: Yeah, I was like, I did more like learning how to act from tv.

David: But that’s just it though, we learn how to act by, what we surround ourselves with.

Lyric: I don’t think I had, necessarily, the best examples, at certain points in my life, and so I used TV as my examples. Cause I spent a lot of time alone, cuz my guardians were working, or you know, I had to entertain myself, so.

David: Right.

Lyric: I was-

David: I wasn’t in that situation. I had family, and friends, I grew up with.

Lyric: Oh yeah. No, I didn’t really have very many friends.

David: Mm-hmm.

Lyric: I struggled with making friends, so… yeah. You had friends?

David: Mm-hmm.

Lyric: That could be a whole episode.

David: Can it?

Lyric: I don’t know. You had friends by having friends. That’s pretty cool.

David: Is it?

Lyric: I don’t know. Maybe.

David: Yeah, I wasn’t picked on- like you.

Lyric: Yeah, I got picked on a lot. I got picked on. But you had a big brother, that nobody was gonna pick on you, because you had a big brother, that was like… scary.

David: Are we done then?

Lyric: Yeah, we can be done.

David: Good.

Lyric: You can just stop it.

I don’t think we told them.

David: You don’t have to.

Lyric: It’s a secret. Now I have to kill you.

It happens. Shit happens.

Deezeemenahh?

Emily says, “I’d ask if you have half an hour to tell us about your hyper-focused or special interest.

David: We already did that, didn’t we?

Lyric: I know. They wanna hear you talk about it for half an hour.

David: No. Nah.

Lyric: You wanna talk about cops for 30 minutes? You could. You could totally rant about that for 30 minutes.

David: Nope.

Lyric: You could.

David: Nope.

Lyric: You’re not gonna, but you could.

Uh..

David: I got a question!

Lyric: Yeah.

David: Are we almost done?

Lyric: Do you need to be done?

David: No, we can keep going.

Lyric: Okay. Do you need to be done?

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– Lyric