Good morning, readers!
As I sat here staring at the box of chocolates I certainly don't need to eat for breakfast, I began to wonder about food and autistic children.
I have food allergies. If I eat foods with high fructose corn syrup in the ingredients, I get a bad rash somewhere on my body. I never know where the rash will appear or how bad it will be. It took me years to figure out what was causing the rash. The doctors thought it was from nerves. I couldn't afford the testing for allergies, and the few I had done did not reveal the allergy I discovered on my own.
I am a chocoholic. I have to have the chocolate in the house at all times. It is my one huge weakness. It is also a source of mental and emotional strength. I can tell the difference between cheap chocolate and good chocolate. My family laughs at this. True chocoholics know I'm not crazy.
On another note, when my son was young, he would get hung up on certain foods for a period of time before finally moving on to others. At one point, Sesame Street introduced a fun sandwich for kids to try. It was one of those "get your kids to eat healthier" days. My kid caught on to this recipe and got stuck on it for weeks. It consisted of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, to which was added cream cheese and raisins. Sounds weird, but it was good to my son......so he had that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner until he finally (thank you, Lord) tired of that type of food.
My topic today, food for thought, is to help me learn about autistic children and your experiences with their foods as moms. Do you have a funny memory, food quirk, food allergy, and so on....that you would like to share to help broaden my education to learning autism?
Thanks for joining us here at Tammy's place!
Comments (2)
Oh I totally agree with you on the "good" chocolate. I will take a Seattle Chocolates truffle any day over a Hershey bar. More pricey, but worth it!
No real comments on the kid quirks, except that once, Em had mac and cheese 2x's a day for a month. Ugh. Well, at least she was eating, I guess.
lots of carbohydrates -- bread, potatoes, pasta -- as it was explained to me, carbohydrates increase the seratonin level in the brain and make kids with autism feel better. My students with autism also really like chicken nuggets.