Dude I used to know a guy in his 30s that ate this way his whole life. Breaded chicken + fried potatoes of some sort + vanilla ice cream. No idea how he’s doing now but he’s gotta be feeling the effects his 40s.
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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
I know of an 18 year old boy who is autistic and eats nothing but chicken nuggets and potato waffles. His rigid diet has caused him health problems and it’s been very difficult for his parents. It’s sad to see.
jade52@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Could they sneak vitamin stuff into his food/drink or does that only help so much?
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
I think they tried something like that but it didn’t work out. Very difficult situation sadly.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I have a less severe version of the same thing. ARFID. Turns out I’m not that crazy.
plm00@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
For my cousin it’s day old Caesar’s pizza, literally nothing else. For someone my SO grew up with, it was noodles with ketchup, also nothing else. It’s wrecked havoc on their bodies.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Any tips? You’re freaking me out with regards to my little dude.
plm00@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
I have a daughter on the spectrum. It took many hours each week and many weeks in a year of ABA (RBT, hopefully getting my acronyms right) therapy to get her to accept a variety of foods. Fast forward to a few years later, she’ll eat anything including spicy food (by her own choice). It was definitely a texture thing, as well as her wanting a constant she could reliably predict. As part of her therapy we always included something she liked alongside the things she didn’t. We were firm she had to try everything every time, even if she couldn’t finish.
You got this!
wabasso@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Thank you so much for your tips and encouragement.
Since I had to look it up, here it is for others’ benefit:
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Don’t take no for an answer. What’s for dinner is what you get or you can go to bed hungry. My mom just didn’t put up with my bullshit and let me not eat my food if I didn’t want it but absolutely refused to let me have anything else until dinner was eaten. If I ate my dinner I could have whatever I wanted (in the house, which was pretty much all healthy food).
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
My mom used this strategy. The problem was there was and still are a lot of foods I just straight don’t like. Not “I’d just rather have spaghetti-os” but, “I cannot stomach this because of the taste or texture or whatever”. She also was not a very good cook so even if it was something I liked usually I sometimes wouldn’t like it. This led to a lot of nights of us sitting at the table with me getting yelled at and not allowed to leave the table until my plate was cleared .
wabasso@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
I’m willing to try this if I can introduce it gradually.
I’ve heard talk of this causing “disordered eating” but haven’t done the reading myself on that. Do you think it caused any negative outcomes for yourself?