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The worst part? That shit never stops if they have moderate-severe autism.
No, you may not eat an entire head of lettuce for lunch. No, drinking 9 cans of soda in a day is bad for you. Yes, you must eat something besides plain pasta and kool aid. Yes, we can tell you skipped your shower and just turned the water on while you stimmed because you still smell like ass. Also, quit taking hour long showers!
Wait, why is that one bad? Its likely not enough calories for 1/3 of the day's meals, but if they're hungry later they'll consume different calories elsewhere in the day, yes?
Eating massive amounts of what amount to useless food items is rooted in Pica for most ND.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/features/ASD-digestive-issues-and-pica.html
Considering he used to eat paint chips and other shit and got lead poisoning from it, yeah lol.
Eating nothing but empty calories when you're hungry is a pointless endeavor that only denies others from using lettuce later. Eat something that will satiate your appetite. An entire head of iceberg lettuce does not. Which is why you're hungry again in an hour.
Want lettuce? Make a salad. Finding a lettuce wrapper surrounded by pop cans and candy wrappers just shows that what you're eating is terrible lol. There's only so much a multivitamin can do.
When you're an adult and want to eat nothing but junk and have your inhouse case worker give you another speech for the hundreth time, go ahead. Until then, it's the parents job to try to instill those good habits.
Want to eat whatever you want with your own money? Go ahead, spend your allowance or find a job. Until then, eat properly because there is plenty in the house to be able to.
Finding every tomato eaten in a day or an entire head of lettuce gone after you started making sandwiches is frustrating as hell lol. Let alone the gnats after from trying to hide all your evidence.
There’s just no productive reason to eat a whole head of lettuce when you have access to a more diverse option of food. It’s basically just a bunch of water with some fiber, so it may also lead to some interesting bowel troubles later in the day
You can't be unaware about how humans interact with food. There's all kinds of non-productive eating we do. The question I'm posing is "how is this one harmful?"
Thats my point. Its pretty benign. Nothing bad or dangerous in a quantity a human could eat.
If eating a whole head of lettuce in a day causes you bowel troubles, I think you could easily argue your diet outside of the lettuce is much much more worrisome.
I think you’re leaning too hard into “we stopped them from doing it for their own good”
Remember that the original person eating said head of lettuce is autistic, and so this is serving as a gentle reminder that one does not need to eat a whole head of lettuce.
It’s not bad, it certainly may even be “healthy”, but it is not conducive to forming good habits. That’s all!
Perhaps it my lack of awareness with the intricacies of autism. Isn't it sending the wrong message that a rule can be in place to prevent harm/danger or a rule of the same caliber is just to enforce an arbitrary habit? Doesn't that encourage rulebreaking because there's a decent chance there's no actual danger?
Again, this isn’t some hardline rule or someone saying “you cut that out!”
It’s just a gentle reminder of “hey man, let’s look for some stuff to add to that lettuce instead :)”
e.g. I want everyone to have salad tonight and I'm not going shopping again today.
Also, you can pry my hour-long showers from my cold, dead hands.
The insane farting will destroy the house/apartment