My aversion to vegetables started at a young age. You can say it's a choice and a sign of immaturity, and that may be true but there are other reasons people's diets are the way they are. As with everything, everyone is different.

When I was young my mom would ask me what I wanted to eat for dinner, and usually it would be either pasta, potatoes, chicken or some combination of those. My grandparents would also cook for me and would always make me something extra if the family was having something I didn't want to eat.

Then my parents would introduce vegetables into the rotation and I was having none of it because: 1 - I had always been able to choose what I eat and being a child I didn't want vegetables and 2 - they would occasionally tell me that I could have whatever I wanted, after I eat my vegetables. Being the stubborn fuck I am I said no thanks and refused my dinner that night.

This continued for years until they gave up trying and I was set in my unhealthy ways. Eventually I did expand my diet but to this day I eat very few fruits and hardly any vegetables, and I believe it's because I was conditioned to think of eating them as a punishment. Children don't have to worry about maintaining a healthy diet, or at least I didn't because I was always skinny and in good health.

If you think I'm a weird person or any less of an adult than you because of what I eat, I'm sorry you feel that way.