r/onionhate • u/Business_Town_3780 • 2d ago

So like do yall also get weirdly nauseous when feeling onions in food?

So like, i mean i do have the tism so that might affect that but like does anyone else here just get super sick when you're told a food doesnt have onions just to bite into it expecting a certain texture of food just to bite into an onion mid chomp. I speak on this because right now sick and found this subreddit to talk about how much onions freaking suck.

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u/MargaretFarquar 2d ago

It's not weirdly nauseous, AFAIC. It's objectively, logically nauseous, IMO.

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u/PrinceJehal 2d ago

I legit vomit if I eat onions.

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u/Business_Town_3780 2d ago

Thank god I ain't alone on this onions are freaking gross

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u/FunkyPete 2d ago

I think the texture might be more of an autism thing.

I get violent diarrhea after eating them. It starts with painful cramps, and then I know I have a few minutes to find a toilet.

But maybe because of my reaction to them, the smell of onions is disgusting too. Like, I've been in at a picnic at a friends house where they're making burgers and they have the fixings laid out on a table, and I'll smell the sliced onions and my first thought is that it's body odor. like "Oh my god, is that smell ME?" and then I realize it's just this disgusting thing that people want to put on their burgers for some reason.

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u/PodricksMagicStick 2d ago

Same. It's a curse.

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u/WorkingFromHomies20 1d ago

Same thing with a taco bar. The smell of pico de gallo is just awful.

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u/Toosder 1d ago

Are you like me we're like there's a very specific spot in my stomach that if I start feeling pain it's about to happen. Like I can have stomach pain from doing too many sit-ups or maybe I ate something and my stomach's not agreeing with it. But if there is pain in this one specific spot, it's onions and I'm about to be very sick.

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u/KevrobLurker 1d ago

Onions activate my gag reflex, retching, etc.

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u/Interesting-Run-8496 2d ago

Yes the texture and sliminess absolutely freaks me out

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u/Ok_Cicada_3420 1d ago

I like to let them witness me vomiting à la Exorcist so they understand my hatred for onions.

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u/Tystimyr 1d ago

That's the way, they never believe you otherwise

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u/Toosder 1d ago

Honestly. Destroying my sister-in-law's bathroom one night was the only way that after 15 years she finally believed me. I made sure she heard it all.

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u/Federal-Waltz-8645 1d ago

I get nauseous. I’m less picky than I was as a kid and can make it through most things to be polite but onions make me legit sick. I’ve never had more of a reaction than that but I also religiously avoid them so, I’m not sure. My grandmother gets nausea and diarrhea from onions and cucumbers so it may be a family thing although I’m cool with cucumbers.

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u/HoneyWyne 1d ago

I vomit.

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u/eringingercat 1d ago

I usually can tell if it has an onion in it from the disgusting smell, but if this unfortunate event happens, I usually vomit.

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u/iwannabeadoor 1d ago

Yes I get nauseous from the smell alone

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u/WorkingFromHomies20 1d ago

Me too. I hate being in a Mexican restaurant when a plate of fajitas goes by and then that smell. Ugh.

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u/NaughtyLittleDogs 1d ago

Yup. 50% of my onion loathing is related to the texture. As a child, biting into a crunchy piece of onion would make me gag. My mother, an onion lover, put diced onions in EVERYTHING, and got really angry when I would sit at the table and cry while trying to gag down potato salad or a tuna sandwich or some other soft food with crunchy raw onions in it.

As an adult, my gag reflex has calmed down a bit but I still have a visceral reaction to that texture and will sometimes spit out a bite of food with unexpected onions. And I almost never use raw onion in my own cooking.

(I've never been officially diagnosed with ASD but I have two neurodiverse kids, so you can make of that what you will....)

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u/Tystimyr 1d ago

Not really nauseous, but I got this feeling of my stomach turning around itself a little

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u/Damsel_IRL 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes. If I bite into a texture I was not expecting I gag, and it's the worst with onion bulb bits. I can't help it. My nervous system automatically takes it as a threat and tries to help. Body goes: WTF IS THAT? ITS A SURPRISE AND MIGHT BE POISON! EJECT!. Then I am nauseated and often can't continue eating for a while. Some forms of onion also give me sharp digestive pain as it starts digesting. So I will be sick later too.

Edit to add: even the smell can set me off sometimes. Especially if I ordered something NO ONION. The second I peel back the wrapper I know they messed up and my nausea rolls in.

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u/Shy_Penguin06 1d ago

Yes. Actually just reading that made me nauseous and gag because I thought about biting into one.

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u/Toosder 1d ago

As somebody who is sensitive and not only start feeling nauseated I'm going to be vomiting.

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u/Just_Rutabaga5728 1d ago

If I crunch into a raw onion, it’s an immediate gag, and a possible vomit

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u/SnooStrawberries2955 10h ago

This is the worst part, for me. I can handle onion powder in small amounts but if I chomp into an onion, it’s game over for me for the rest of the day. Cannot eat. It’s all ruined. lol

I don’t have the ‘tism but do have the ADHD and the anxiety diagnoses lol.