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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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  • My son used to eat anything & everything, but is increasingly being more & more fussy with his food. I can relate to your daughter because I find the evening meal way worse than breakfast or lunch. I honestly have no idea why it's this meal in particular. It may be that he's tired as the day winds down or because the whole family are at the table or that he simply doesn't feel to eat at that time.

    I have no answer or suggestions i'm afraid, but I do know that kids with ASD can develop new habits at any time and issues with food is quite common. I find that giving my son a choice sometimes helps...not a wide choice but basically a choice of one or the other. When he feels in control of what he is eating, he generally will eat much better.

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  • My son used to eat anything & everything, but is increasingly being more & more fussy with his food. I can relate to your daughter because I find the evening meal way worse than breakfast or lunch. I honestly have no idea why it's this meal in particular. It may be that he's tired as the day winds down or because the whole family are at the table or that he simply doesn't feel to eat at that time.

    I have no answer or suggestions i'm afraid, but I do know that kids with ASD can develop new habits at any time and issues with food is quite common. I find that giving my son a choice sometimes helps...not a wide choice but basically a choice of one or the other. When he feels in control of what he is eating, he generally will eat much better.

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