sensory issues with non ASD child

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I just remembered something. My two-year-old had an issue where he would only eat "perfect" food. For example if you gave him a plate of strawberries he would only take one bite of each one, then not touch it again! Fortunately he seems to have grown out of this.

thanks! I hope she outgrows it as well, it seems to have grown WITH her so far, but now she can be reasoned with and I have been working hard on modifying her behavior. When she screams at the table she gets removed. If she wants more butter on her noodles, she has to stop crying and ask nicely, if she doesnt like the food she has to tell me nice and I will take it wasy (vs her throwing the food on the floor and screaming), etc...it is a work in progress, but I can see she is slightly getting that she has to change her behavior. I sure hope she does!! !

Funny or maybe ironic thing to note, DD fell off the charts (height and weight) between 1 and 2, and she was followed by a dietician and gastro who BOTH instructed me to add butter and or oil to pretty much every food she eats. Also, they instructed me to feed her any fattening foods like chips, french fries, donuts, ice cream, etc...even our pedis said the same thing. I was worried about repercussions from that, and they told me she is so young and the main focus was to get extra fat and calories into her. I am not a junk food eater, we dont have junk in the house, and it killed me to hear professionals over and over telling me to feed my baby that stuff.

She LOVES fruit and veggies, all different kinds, as does my son. She eats them every day with every meal. We shop at Whole Foods and buy organic, whole grain and recently gluten free, we dont have junk in the house, and I agree a stick of butter (ok, more like a half of a stick) is excessive in her noodles, but isnt it ironic that the medical field instructed me to do so???

She is still on the tiny side but back on the bottom of the chart, and thats all the docs care about, she no longer is folloewd by the dietician or gastro. They did determine that she was eating more then enough calories for her age, for whatever reason she was just tiny, and still is smaller then most kiddos her age, but she has a big personality to make up for it...lol.

Then I take back what I said. I was concerned about the butter. People nowadays eat so bad! Did you read the article about the girl who only ate nuggets? DD is lucky for having such a good mother, so concerned about her. My GA has always being average for height/weight. We don't eat junk food, either. We allow GA to eat McDonalds about twice a month because she LOVES it. But while she eats it we keep repeating how bad that food is for her health. Hopefully eventually she will stop eating that.

And yes, I find weird that the doctors instructed you to feed her that way, but if it is a matter of calories intake I kind of get it. I have a friend with the same problem: her son is below height/weight. She did EVERYTHING, and he did not gain an ounce. She just stopped trying. She just focused on giving him a balanced diet and giving him his vitamins. As long as his test results for blood, etc., are OK, she does not concern anymore.

My DS who has Aspergers does this too. We recently started working with a nutritionist for him, getting him on GF diet, and all healthy foods, and he knows what is good and not, and when he eats something that might not be on the healthy list, he tells me how bad it is and he really shoudlnt have eaten it! Same hope as you, that eventually he gets it and wont want the food. I have the only kid in america(exaggerating I know) who wont eat fast food. He hates french fries and chicken nuggets, and never has eaten McDonalds, and I am proud of that...lol.

And back to DD, that is how I felt at the time, she was developing fine, all her test results were normal, so what, if she is tiny so be it! THey would ratehr her have clogged arteries and be bigger, then healthy and tinier? It made no sence at the time, and still doesnt!