If your child has peculiar eating habits such as severely limited food preferences, hypersensitivity to food textures or temperatures, and pocketing food without swallowing, then these may be indicators that your child should be screened for autism.
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Research by Susan Mayes, professor of psychiatry, found that atypical eating behaviors were present in 70% of children with autism, which is 15 times more common than in neurotypical children.
According to Mayes, these behaviors are present in many 1-year-olds with autism and could signal to doctors and parents that a child may have autism.
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Source: neatorama