fussy eaters

I'm afraid food fads seem to be almost universal with kids with an asd. My sons are both very fussy as to texture,taste and how food is served. Good luck! We almost broke our marriage and family due to visiting a psychologist who wanted to push reward charts for vegetables. If you are really worried -pop in a vitamin tonic. 20 years after these violent ,time consuming and loosing battles I say life is too short to stress over such matters. My gorgeous kids can be perfectly rational and intelligent about 99% of non-food issues but food is too hard-wired to shift tastes. "Chacun a son gout" - each to his own (taste) if I remember my school French

As I said - good luck! You may be blessed with more stamina than my husband and me!

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Permalink Reply by Farah Cherie Wicks on August 27, 2011 at 20:29

Our 5yo autie boy is fussy too. He has a very (self imposed) limited diet which can change a little over time but while the paediatric dietician encourages us to continue to offer new foods, I am not going to get fussed about it (or spend a fortune concocting meals that will get thrown out untasted). I do feed him an iron + other vitamins supplement each night but he's happy to go hungry if he can't eat what he wants and goodness knows plenty of people grow up normal enough eating spartan diets so I don't worry too much. I did feel sorry for those poor families in the floods tho, back in January, with kids of special needs. To not be able to produce the items needed each meal time must have been nightmareish!! And not be able to explain it either, little faces turned up enquiringly. OUCH :(

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