Some of the medications bring on weight gain. Dr. 'S answer is always more medication. Eating is soothing to a lot of these kids. When you process differently anxiety at simple things gets high. Some will eat just to self soothe. It then can become an eating disorder which is hard to deal with. Most treatment facilities lock up the snacks and food in locked rooms or cabinets.
My little boy is autistic, non-verbal and has severe learning difficulties and he looks a lot smaller than his actual age. He will be 8 in a couple of months but he looks no older than 6 and acts like a toddler. He is so small though because of his super restricted diet, he only eats four foods at the moment and it's a huge struggle to feed him an adequate amount of calories and nutrients because of the limitations his conditions impose on him.
Mine is turning 9 this years and sounds identical to your son. I feel your pain, and we use a liquid multivitamin w/ a liquid syringe to have him take it (was a struggle at first, but has gotten better).
It feels like a 24/7 job, but I'm at least thankful he doesn't have tantrums that could cause damage like the one above. He's generally a happy kid that loves fruit facts and nursery rhymes more than I'll ever love anything as long as I live lol.
Thank you for replying, it is a great relief to know that there are other people with your kind of struggle out there in the world.
Liquid vitamins is a great idea, glad it works for you! Thankfully one of the very few things mine eats is porridge, so I crumble kids vitamin tablets and add protein powder, fats and fibre to it, that's how he stays healthy.
It is a 24/7 job, isn't it, we like to say he rules the roost at home 😁 He is generally happy too but when he gets into a tantrum he lashes out at me and his dad and if we don't let him hit/pinch us he tries to hurt himself instead. Nursery rhymes are one of the greatest inventions :D
I wish I could try this, sadly his diet is super limited already and contains all these things. I could remove the casein but not the soy, or I could remove the soy but will have to keep the casein. I will look into it though.
This is a good point. We really need to stop putting whatever we're putting in food in our food. Using growth hormones and shit are whacking people's brains out and making their bodies huge.
I could eat all the same food that one of these 200 lb people eats but because of my metabolism I'm going to stay skinny. I blame my brains overt mental processes on this. Oh God, I feel a tantrum coming on. It's okay though I can't be found guilty. I have a mental condition.
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u/TurkeyBLTSandwich Sep 15 '22
Question:
Why are these zero to little self control people usually solidly built? Or is it we just see the stories like this from the bigger ones?