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Advice for a mum from your past experiences please

NAS74727

Hi! ive spent the last 3 days reading all of your posts trying to understand the best way to deal with my childs recent autism diagnosis, if you have any advice what has helped you as a child or even as an adult id appreciate it. Abit of background - he has meltdowns, he has alot of anxiety, hes sensitive to noise, hes not really the type to isolate himself (not from me anyway i cant move for him haha) he eats the same 4 meals on rotation, doesnt really enjoy going outside just to mention a few things

i just dont want to mess this up! thanks :)

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  • I'm autistic and have an autistic daughter. My daughter, at one stage, would only eat cheese sandwiches and one type of processed baby food and only drink water and milk. We found that grinding persistence, offering different foods and bargaining - "try one mouthful, if you don't like it, that's fine" - worked in the long run. However, it requires a lot of patience and never taking the easy option of giving in entirely in to the child's narrow preferences. At 20, she now has a very varied diet and will eat things like squid (a favourite), fish, paella, roast dinners and a wide variety of pasta dishes. She still dislikes anything with hot spiciness, like curries, and dislikes some vegetables, like peas and sweetcorn. However, she has an essentially normal diet.

  • in reply to Martin

    its bizarre youve just said that because hes pretty much the same apart from the baby food, its always fish fingers, chips, pizza cheese sandwiches. ill keep at it, did you just make her something else if she didnt like the mouthful?

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