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Hi,

please excuse the title, but it is quite apt for us at the minute.

We have a 6 year old daughter with ASD, who has never had any issues with eating throughout her young life, but during the past fortnight in particular (odd occasions in the past too) she is crying at every evening meal. Never during lunch, or breakfast which could be toast, cereal, soup, sandwiches, burgers, curries (Korma), cowboy pie (desperate dan steak pie) and so on.

Her paediatrician isn't uch use tbh ( e.g. apparently our daufhter got so upste at flies in a room because she could see the likes of their eyes so mclearly. Couldn't be further from the truth, we had her eyes tested and she's got horrendous vision), neither is the speech and language therapist (the good person who asked our son to sing all his answers at school to help with his tourretes! seriously, a 13 year old with ASD???) and the doctors will usually just throw another referral to one of them and move us on.

Any help and advice greatly appreciated.

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  • I know it sounds daft, but do you eat different meals in different rooms or with different people there, For example at breakfast its just my kids in the dining room, lunch time can be a relaxed affair if we are watching a film or something we might eat in the lounge, but dinner is always everyone together at the dinning table for a catch up on the days event etc which I feel is very important for how my family works but sometimes this is difficult for my 16 year old son who has AS and he bolts his food and leaves or becomes agitated, if we have guests (even just friends of his siblings) this can be difficult as he sees it as a social thing and we dont force him to join in.

    So it could be the room or the conversation or something else is upseting her at the moment and she cant cope with to many people at once. Or even something as simple as she has had a big lunch and isnt hungry but doesnt know how to tell you that or is someone sitting in a chair she has decided is her faviorite chair.

    Dont know if thats any help to you.

    Sam

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  • I know it sounds daft, but do you eat different meals in different rooms or with different people there, For example at breakfast its just my kids in the dining room, lunch time can be a relaxed affair if we are watching a film or something we might eat in the lounge, but dinner is always everyone together at the dinning table for a catch up on the days event etc which I feel is very important for how my family works but sometimes this is difficult for my 16 year old son who has AS and he bolts his food and leaves or becomes agitated, if we have guests (even just friends of his siblings) this can be difficult as he sees it as a social thing and we dont force him to join in.

    So it could be the room or the conversation or something else is upseting her at the moment and she cant cope with to many people at once. Or even something as simple as she has had a big lunch and isnt hungry but doesnt know how to tell you that or is someone sitting in a chair she has decided is her faviorite chair.

    Dont know if thats any help to you.

    Sam

    x

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