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Should I be concerned about difficult child weight?
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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 172685" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>This is a real challenge for us as well. Our difficult child is an Aspie too, and the list of foods that he will eat is very, very small. He has always been very thin and honestly, I worry about this constantly. We've had visits with a nutritionist and she says he is getting his dietary needs met, but I'm suspicious about this.</p><p></p><p>We have purposely never made a big deal about this problem, and we don't alter our menus. But I will say, if difficult child doesn't like the food being offered, and there are no other choices, he simply will not eat. This is not normal in my honest opinion. It's not that he's not hungry - it's just that he is so repelled by so many foods he won't eat them. We have believed that he would outgrow this problem with time, but he has not. He'll be 17 next month and the food choices have not expanded. I guess there is always hope for the future!</p><p></p><p>Curiously enough, husband is famous in his family for the same issues. When I first met his mother she told me several times that husband would only eat 5 foods as a child. Now, though, he'll eat just about anything.</p><p></p><p>I'm reading the ideas presented here. Good luck, and I hope that we both find some answers for our difficult children' eating issues!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 172685, member: 3704"] This is a real challenge for us as well. Our difficult child is an Aspie too, and the list of foods that he will eat is very, very small. He has always been very thin and honestly, I worry about this constantly. We've had visits with a nutritionist and she says he is getting his dietary needs met, but I'm suspicious about this. We have purposely never made a big deal about this problem, and we don't alter our menus. But I will say, if difficult child doesn't like the food being offered, and there are no other choices, he simply will not eat. This is not normal in my honest opinion. It's not that he's not hungry - it's just that he is so repelled by so many foods he won't eat them. We have believed that he would outgrow this problem with time, but he has not. He'll be 17 next month and the food choices have not expanded. I guess there is always hope for the future! Curiously enough, husband is famous in his family for the same issues. When I first met his mother she told me several times that husband would only eat 5 foods as a child. Now, though, he'll eat just about anything. I'm reading the ideas presented here. Good luck, and I hope that we both find some answers for our difficult children' eating issues! [/QUOTE]
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