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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 589883" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>If you ever listen to NPR, they had a great guest who spoke on autism and mentioned why autistic kids will not eat normal foods and therefore often have deficiencies that are very hard to treat because they tend to refuse to eat normally. They sort of like a 'gray" diet more than a multi-colored, healthy, balanced diet because they don't like the texture or smell of some of the foods that are really good for us. And they taste things more intensely and smell things more intensely since most have sensory issues. They end up gorging on junk food if you let them or else when they are adults and can no longer control what they eat, they choose to eat this gray diet. Some will even eat mud or paper, but that's extreme, rather than blueberries.</p><p></p><p>That is Sonic to a "T." Even if I take all the junk out of the house, which I often do, he finds ways to eat his gray diet. Being nineteen, I can't watch him all the time...he'll be moving to his own place in about a year anyway. He goes to work and does buy the food he wants to buy with his own money and at home it's impossible to make him eat with us. He'd rather not eat, or eat a whole loaf of white bread, than eat dinner with us. He's not being defiant. He just can't stand things like steak and vegetables. Literally, they make him throw up.</p><p></p><p>No answers, but I thought the show was interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 589883, member: 1550"] If you ever listen to NPR, they had a great guest who spoke on autism and mentioned why autistic kids will not eat normal foods and therefore often have deficiencies that are very hard to treat because they tend to refuse to eat normally. They sort of like a 'gray" diet more than a multi-colored, healthy, balanced diet because they don't like the texture or smell of some of the foods that are really good for us. And they taste things more intensely and smell things more intensely since most have sensory issues. They end up gorging on junk food if you let them or else when they are adults and can no longer control what they eat, they choose to eat this gray diet. Some will even eat mud or paper, but that's extreme, rather than blueberries. That is Sonic to a "T." Even if I take all the junk out of the house, which I often do, he finds ways to eat his gray diet. Being nineteen, I can't watch him all the time...he'll be moving to his own place in about a year anyway. He goes to work and does buy the food he wants to buy with his own money and at home it's impossible to make him eat with us. He'd rather not eat, or eat a whole loaf of white bread, than eat dinner with us. He's not being defiant. He just can't stand things like steak and vegetables. Literally, they make him throw up. No answers, but I thought the show was interesting. [/QUOTE]
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