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<blockquote data-quote="Winnielg" data-source="post: 584346" data-attributes="member: 16059"><p>This is fascinating- frustratingly so, of course. I just joined this site. My 17 year old bipolar/Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) steal food all the time. Then denies it - aggressively to the point of violence. I cannot keep peanut butter in the house - I do not even try anymore - gone after a day. My husband and I follow a low carb diet and rarely eat processed food - but we keep an occasional Atkins bar in the pantry. He knows they are off limits and sneaks and steals them. He is so not stealthy - never has been - we find the wrappers for a whole box in his room in the garbage can. Or he takes food and sneaks to eat it in the bathroom (???). He has his own cabinet (and has for some time) filled with food he can eat. Unfortuntely he will eat anything not nailed down within a few days and then argue that it took him a week to eat it not a day.</p><p></p><p>We see a spectrum disorder guy - and he said that my son has to buy his own groceries (we give him $$) on a Sunday and dole out his portions for the week (we came up with a list for breakfast, lunch and snacks with him - we take care of dinners). This way he knows when HE bought it and cannot argue how fast it took to consume. Of course, now he does not argue - he is just out of stuff by mid week. We always have eggs or other food he does not want to eat as a replacement. His new thing is with his budget instead of buying normal boxes of cereal - he buys the off brand double size one and then is consuming like 10X the amount of cereal in a few days that normal folks might take weeks to eat.</p><p></p><p>SO CRAZY! We have SO many other fish to fry, so to speak - with violent menacing behavior - but these food isses are sometimes the start of stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Winnielg, post: 584346, member: 16059"] This is fascinating- frustratingly so, of course. I just joined this site. My 17 year old bipolar/Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) steal food all the time. Then denies it - aggressively to the point of violence. I cannot keep peanut butter in the house - I do not even try anymore - gone after a day. My husband and I follow a low carb diet and rarely eat processed food - but we keep an occasional Atkins bar in the pantry. He knows they are off limits and sneaks and steals them. He is so not stealthy - never has been - we find the wrappers for a whole box in his room in the garbage can. Or he takes food and sneaks to eat it in the bathroom (???). He has his own cabinet (and has for some time) filled with food he can eat. Unfortuntely he will eat anything not nailed down within a few days and then argue that it took him a week to eat it not a day. We see a spectrum disorder guy - and he said that my son has to buy his own groceries (we give him $$) on a Sunday and dole out his portions for the week (we came up with a list for breakfast, lunch and snacks with him - we take care of dinners). This way he knows when HE bought it and cannot argue how fast it took to consume. Of course, now he does not argue - he is just out of stuff by mid week. We always have eggs or other food he does not want to eat as a replacement. His new thing is with his budget instead of buying normal boxes of cereal - he buys the off brand double size one and then is consuming like 10X the amount of cereal in a few days that normal folks might take weeks to eat. SO CRAZY! We have SO many other fish to fry, so to speak - with violent menacing behavior - but these food isses are sometimes the start of stuff. [/QUOTE]
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