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The joys of parenthood (lemmy.zip)
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[–] partial_accumen 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There’s just no productive reason to eat a whole head of lettuce when you have access to a more diverse option of food.

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?"

It’s basically just a bunch of water with some fiber,

Thats my point. Its pretty benign. Nothing bad or dangerous in a quantity a human could eat.

so it may also lead to some interesting bowel troubles later in the day

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.

[–] Sylver 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] partial_accumen -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Sylver 5 points 11 months ago

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 :)”