I could have written a month or so ago. PB&J was only readded to the menu this week. Is it a peanut butter thing? 8-) The only thing he appears to have permanently subtracted from his menu is salad. (But not fresh tomatoes & nasturtium leaves & petals??)
My other kids would phase in & out of favorite foods growing up, just faster & not as rigorously.
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did your autistic child refuse faviot food
Posted on 10/24/08, 06:39 pm
ok i still cant belive this but my daughter who loved peanut butter all of a sudden decided she does not want anymore peanut butter ever! that was about a month ago. she has gotton tired of her foods but not this long. its weird.
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Reply #1 10/24/08 8:40pm
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Reply #2 10/24/08 9:20pm
my son is 14. and he use to like eggs and then one day he stopped for 6 years. i bought a case of his favorite cereal on day and then the next day he refused to eat it. that was 10 years ago still won't look at cereal
i never buy things in bulk anymore. it been a lot of trial and error. plus he still won't make any food nor does he ever know what he wants.
i take him to the groc store and he says there nothing good to eat here.lol some days i want to pull my hair out -
Reply #3 10/24/08 9:32pm
"nothing good to eat" at the grocery store. LMAO -
Reply #4 11/01/08 11:13am
Daniel only ever eats pizza.He used to love spaghetti,but won't touch it anymore.We did get him to eat spicy chicken a couple of months ago but now he won't even look at it,so it's back to pizza!LOL.When he used to eat spaghetti,i had to put it on a seperate plate because if it touched the other food on his plate he wouldn't eat it cos he would say it's dirty. -
Reply #5 01/14/09 7:59pm
Austin went through things like this. Now he has a page with pictures of different foods. He has to pick one new food a day to eat. He gets to choose. We have fought his only wanting to eat Mac & cheese for years but now he tries each new food. As long as he picks it its ok.
He went through things like that with nuggest. Just one day stopped eating nuggest and didn't eat them for over a year. Then one day he ate them again. I don't know why.
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Reply #6 01/18/09 2:35pm
Same here...Jayden could easily eat 3 scrambled eggs for breakfast...now he has a fit if you offer them to him...we recently discovered that if you put a meal on bread he'll eat it like a sandwich...lol..it's his new favorite food...sandwiches! The other night he had pot roast dinner on a sandwich,and ate it all...but when it was on his plate he refused it????? -
Reply #7 01/20/09 6:00am
If putting food on bread means he will eat it,then why not!Does he have evrything on bread?The taste obviously doesn't bother him,lol.The things we have to do!Lol. -
Reply #8 07/28/09 4:56am
Hello all i haven't posted for ages and ages or been on ds for ages and ages till the other day either.
my son doesn't have a diagnosis for an ASD however much of his behaviour is very much similar or the same as children with an ASD.
I'm wondering if your kids did this as babies - I know ASD doesn't become apparent till 3+ years, I'm just wondering tho if this pattern has been around for a long time or just starts at random.
For my son he has always been difficult at eating and sleeping in particular as a baby - although for sleeping it was the opposite of what it is now, which was being unresponsive and sleeping all the time till 6 months old-ish. and eating, well he wasn't hot on milk and didn't thrive all that well, and when on solids he liked mashed bananas for a while, but then suddenly didn't and accepted purreed carrots instead.
His eating now is a nightmare, every few months sometimes even a period of one month, sometimes a period of 6 month, he develops favourite foods which he will accept, then at random he hates them and we have a transitional period where trial and error discovers the newest favourites and edibles. Not one food type has stayed consistantly a favourite forever.
(It should be noted my son has a physical disability, which makes it very difficult to get a diagnosis for his behavioural and emotional / psych problems. And if an ASD is what makes his behaviour and emotional wellbeing iffy, I think he'd fit into the high functioning category; we haven't got a diagnosis of anything in th do with his behaviour, I don't know if he ever will before it's way too late.)
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