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Pica is actually usually seen in children. 

red hots are so good

I cannot wait to get a copy! love this girl so much and am so happy for her and her new life!

no “worst”. 

I’m not a freakin dump yard dog. 
the thing people consider most “odd” is probably something I made involving feta cheese, red wine vinegar, and pasta. ohhh sooo delicious. craved it during both my pregnancies :p

During one of the darker periods of my life, I was in a relationship with a very pretty russian girl who was pica.  She had so much going for her.  Tall, pretty, and a 19 year old musical genius who composed for the Boston Symphony Orchestra but was a high functioning autistic like myself, with the same kind of f*cked up defects we end up with.  When we are disturbed, we deal with different things.  I enjoy pain a little too much.  And she liked to eat glass, and metal and all kinds of inorganic things that ended up tearing a hole in her intestine, that I ended up taking her to the ER in the middle of the night for.  I remember nights holding her, sitting on the floor in the dark, with a stack of staples in her hand; her hand in mine so I could keep her from eating them and reassuring her, her face against the bruises on my face, rocking each other to sleep because we seemed to be the only ones who understood each other’s f*cked-up-ness.  

Just something I remember.

i used to float red hots…well, sink them in a glass of water as a kid. it made artificial cinnamon flavored lukewarm water and weird tinier slick red hots.

that’s really gross now that i think about it.

I think Pica and pregnancy cravings are different things.  I have never meet anyone who was pregnant that had pica.  If I had pica while pregnant, I would talk to my doctor about nutritional deficiencies so that I could adjust my diet/change pre-natal vitamins not think about how cute it was that I was pregnant and wanting to eat dirt like it was rocky road ice-cream.

When I was pregnant I wanted rare steak and spinach.

@Erika_Steele@xanga - Sounds like your body was telling you it needed iron.

When I was pregnant with my twins I didn’t have any cravings, just foods I couldn’t eat: pizza and salsa. With my youngest baby I craved pineapple and salt&vinegar chips

She’s pregnant?

@MangoWOW@xanga - @Erika_Steele@xanga - I actually just learned about Pica in my epidemiology class. My professor said pica tends to be pretty common with pregnant women. And I think the rare steak craving might be a case of pica, but I’m not too sure.

This is the definition of Pica: 

“an abnormal appetite or craving for substances that are not fit to eat, as chalk or clay, 

common in malnutrition, pregnancy, etc.”
Last time I checked, Red Hots are fit to eat therefore she doesn’t have pica. 

I’m actually an adult with pica. Have had it all my life. I eat paper, chalk, and I tear my own skin off and eat it.

I learned the word pica from the “My Strange Addiction” show. There was one lady who was addicted to eating her husband’s ashes. She had already eaten about half of the ash when she got help. It was sad… (she was in the same episode with someone who was addicted to being/behaving like a baby). Oh, television….

@anchoredreams@xanga - Exactly.

@sarahsmurfette@xanga - lol.  I think it was telling me that I needed iron. Toward the end, it was the only thing I wanted.   I was recovering from an eating disorder at the time and after my son was born my doctor prescribed iron pills which reduced the cravings.
@pick_my_friggin_nose@xanga - rare steak is food and therefore it is not pica (even steak tartare (raw beef) is not pica) .  Define common. 1 in 100? 1 in 1000?  I said I didn’t know anyone with pica while they were pregnant.  I did not say that it wasn’t common or that pregnant women did not get it.  I said that a pregnant woman with pica should talk to her doctor and not gossip about craving dirt as non-food items are harmful for both herself and her child.

macaroni and cheese with whipped cream on it. washed down with a gallon of ranch dressing.

Fried pickles. . . and frozen strawberry lemonade. . . together. I’d basically take a bite and then instantly drink the lemonade. Something about it was just ever so amazing. . . <3

@arenadi@xanga - I am so touched by this…

I’ve been eating mustard with almost everything…. 

@LKJSlain@xanga - me too. it’s romantic in a strange way. 

@arenadi@xanga - i don’t think it’s fucked up. or that you are fucked up. I’m going into early childhood special education, and I’ve always wanted to know what it was like to be autistic. It’s really hard to talk to a child about it because they don’t have the vocabulary to define their emotions or physical sensations. I read something on Autisable that made me really think about things, and autism, and how it would feel. Maybe, if you have some extra time, you could answer some questions? If you don’t want to, that’s fine. I want to know what goes on in the autistic mind. 

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Eating your skin is considered pica? 

@ohheybbyitscorixx@xanga - If you’re doing it excessively, or doing it to a point where you leave a lot of raw, bloody skin, yeah.

@mle26@xanga - The girl that acted like a baby was from where I live. It was sort of strange…

@anchoredreams@xanga - I can accept her weird addiction of being a baby… but I think the wearing diapers part takes it too far. 

@lyrics_and_lists@xanga - Sure, no problem.  Anything I can do to help, just message me and I’ll do what I can.  If it’s very extensive, it may take me some time to respond though.  I’m high functioning though, so it’s a little different.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Oh man. I do that. My nails, cuticles, lips, inside of my cheeks, scabs..so on. But I also have compulsions with skin picking and hair pulling, and I only thought it was considered pica if you have urges outside of those compulsions. I know that a lot of people with skin picking/hair pulling eat the skin or hair, too. 

@galaxie_s@xanga - I gagged when i read that. 

my pregnancy cravings were snickers ice cream, mustard and nuggets and probably anything spicy because i loved spicey.

@Erika_Steele@xanga - I wasn’t trying to come at you or attack you, so why did you come at me like that? =| I know what Steak Tartare is, but there’s a difference in how you wanted the meat. Did you want it prepared like Steak Tartare or just straight out of it’s package? If it was straight out of the package, that COULD (like I said I wasn’t sure) be a case of Pica, but like I said I’m not sure because I’m not one to diagnose which I wasn’t to you in any way. I guess you can say it’s pretty common enough for my professor, who’s been in the epidemiology field for  20+ years, to talk about it. And she said that it is the body yearning for nutrients, so I’m agreeing with you on that. But she said it could also be a psychological thing.. Have you seen My Strange Addiction? A lot of times, those people are ashamed of having Pica. 

@arenadi@xanga - thank you. I might just post a bunch of questions and tag you in it. if I can even do that? I’m a little behind on xanga’s capabilities. if not, I’ll send you a message.

@lyrics_and_lists@xanga - That’s fine  If you do that and tag me, it should assure that I see it.  

i actually have pica. it’s common in people with anemia. so, i eat ice as food a lot. horrible habit i know. 

also red hots are spicy and pica is spicy in spanish. holy mackerel. obviously spicy is “picante” but if you want to ask someone if the food theyre eating is spicy you can ask “pica?” like i guess that would be “do it burn?”

@foreverdiet@xanga - sorry “does”