Does anybody have experience with a phobia for eating soft-textured foods?

Sounds more like an over-indulgent mother who takes the easy way out rather than feeding him good food.

Why not test him to see if it really is a phobia about soft textured foods by giving him some crunchy raw vegetables and fruits to eat?

If it really is a soft textured food phobia, he should have no problem eating some carrot and celery sticks.

A "phobia"???

How old is your grandson?

Mother is aware and concerned about the eating habits.

Bambi, could you explain more?

I think both your posts are on target.

Maybe the kid just gets a satisfied feeling from grease.

I do just fine with soft textured food, as long as I'm expecting it. Pudding, flan, etc. Now, toss me something like a hamburger that turns out to have the texture of processed vegetable protein, and I am apt to reject it.

I was a child, long long ago, who hated food that wiggled, so I have some sympathy here. I think I was forced to try some foods at other people's houses.

I originally hated spaghetti, which, if you know me now is funny. I also hated pudding, tapioca, well, the list is long.

Re Roger's comment about grease, that could make sense. I figured myself out, some time ago, as then being addicted to salty grease with a followup of sugar/fat, which made me then want some nice salty grease. Took me a while to walk away. I still like a treat once in a while, but I'm not caught up in the grease/salt/sugar whirl as a daily thing. You are talking about a child, though, so I've no idea, maybe the child just hates mushy.

Oddly, if you know me, I never minded spaghetti. Now, macaroni always looked like grub worms. I have no idea why I never made a similar connection regarding spaghetti.

Some kids can be really sensitive or tactilely defensive.....

How old is the child? Does he have any other sensitivities to an unusual extent? (Like noises, clothing labels, texture of clothing material, dislike certain types of touch that most kids enjoy?

Some kids can develop phobias for some reason, too.

Does he have any speech or swallowing difficulties?

yes i do, I can eat mushy or slimey food.
such as mushy peas, potato, chips. Baken beans, spaghetti, pasta, lasagne etc.

I saw a dietician about it, never really helped. I'm 18 now and I'm worse if anything.
help him conquer it while he's young.

my husband can not eat anything soft or mushy and by the way, he eats very healthy. No cooked vegetables, only raw. No potatoes, no lasagna, no pizza, sauces, anything you can think of that's warm and mushy, he will NOT eat.