A plain hamburger from McDonald’s can feel like the perfect safe food. It’s predictable, familiar, and the same every time. Someone with ARFID learns the look, smell, and feel of that hamburger so closely that their body relaxes the moment they open the wrapper. It becomes a food they can trust. But that trust is fragile. If even one time you open the wrapper and it isn’t plain and maybe there’s a pickle, ketchup, onion, or anything unexpected, that moment can imprint itself like a snapshot the