Hi, I'm Cassidy.
 

I've had ARFID my entire life — I just didn't know it had a name.
 

Growing up, I was told I was a picky eater. I believed it. I had strong sensory aversions to food, little to no appetite, and a deep need to stick to what felt safe. Exploring new foods was never something I wanted to do, even as I got older. This was just my relationship with food. The only one I'd ever known.
 

A few years ago, after learning what ARFID was, I sought out inpatient and residential treatment. For the first time, I was surrounded by people who understood what it meant to struggle with food — and again for the first time, I felt real community in that experience. I received my official ARFID diagnosis there, and something shifted. I finally had language for what I'd been living.
 

Coming home was hard. The daily structure and support that had helped me make progress disappeared, and maintaining that progress on my own was a different challenge entirely. But something else was born in that space — a need to make sure other people with ARFID didn't feel as alone as I had.
 

That's when I started sharing.
 

Four years later, I'm still here — still creating, still educating, still advocating. My ARFID shows up as sensory sensitivity, a lack of appetite, and a general disinterest in food. I'm also neurodivergent, which adds another layer of complexity that most tools and resources completely ignore. The executive dysfunction alone makes navigating food feel impossible some days. And I've never found anything built with that reality in mind alongside ARFID.
 

That's why I'm building FindMyFork.
 

I got tired of the safe food fatigue. The quiet pressure to expand. The social discomfort of explaining what I can and can't eat. The frustration of trying to find safe options out and about and coming up empty. I wanted something that finally worked the way my brain works — that met me where I am without judgment or pressure.
 

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