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Autism And Food Issues - This Is Why YOU Are Wrong (3 TIPS To Improve) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video I'm talking about autism and food issues.
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  Oh yeah, you know what I'm talking about All that's coming
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  up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia and I make weekly
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  OK guys, so this video. I am breaking down three of the
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  top tips I've got for helping with autism and food issues
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  because let me tell you, there's a lot.
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  OK guys, before we get started, I'd love to know, are you a
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  person on the spectrum or are you a parent with a kid on the
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  spectrum and you're looking to learn more about the food?
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  Leave me a comment down below. Let me know which one you know
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  where you're coming from, because I want to know.
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  I want to have that discussion with you and I'd love to talk.
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  I read and respond to every comment.
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  It's never wasted. I see every single one.
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  Please do that now. Oh and if this topic is of
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  interest for anybody, please tag them your friends in the comment
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  down below just like at them because I feel like if we do
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  that and then they they see it, then they might get something
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  from it. That's super cool, right guys?
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  So I kind of looked through all of the things that that kind of
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  you know all the issues that we have with autism and food and
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  there's there's so many things that people think is the reasons
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  why autistic people don't like certain foods or don't eat
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  things in certain times. Right now let me put some
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  perspective. Mums and dads, are you sitting
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  down? If the chicken nugget could be
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  the global symbol for autism, then you would have no issues
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  because we all know that chicken Nuggets is kind of like the
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  staple chicken Nuggets, Chicken Nuggets, Chicken Nuggets.
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  I am vegan, but I do have vegan chicken Nuggets.
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  So it doesn't change if you change your diet, and it doesn't
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  change as you get older. You like what you like.
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  But there are certain things that we need to take into
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  consideration when preparing food, when we're situated for
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  food and situations we put ourselves in for food with
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  people on the autism spectrum. And I'm going to break each and
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  every single one of those down I want to go over before we get
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  into the tips. I want to go over why.
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  You are probably wrong in thinking why people on the
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  autism spectrum don't like eating certain foods.
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  Now the current consensus is very simple.
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  People think a few things that people with autism are picky
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  eaters, which feels they are. People with autism are stubborn,
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  so they don't want to eat certain things just because they
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  just don't feel like it. I guess sometimes we all get
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  like that when we don't eat certain things.
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  Another one is that this is the big one.
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  People think that autistic people all have sensory issues
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  with food. Now, it can be said that sensory
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  processing disorder does come come upwardly with almost every
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  single diagnosis of autism, because it's kind of one of the
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  ways that you diagnose it in a way.
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  In terms of that, yes, sensory processing disorder can impact
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  the way that you communicate with food and the way you
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  understand food and the way an autistic person feels like
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  something that they want. Maybe they don't want cold food
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  on a plate. Maybe it has to be really hot.
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  Maybe they want to segregate, you know, peas to one side,
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  gravy in in another side and they want, like, I don't know,
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  meet in the middle or what? I don't know how you want to do
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  it. But maybe they want things
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  segregated off. Maybe they want different balls
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  with stuff like a like a tapas table just for like a Sunday
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  dinner. But that isn't the main issue
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  why people in the Hudson Spectrum don't like certain
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  foods. Let me put a scenario to you and
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  like mums and dads. I know you guys are going to
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  love this. You are.
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  You make food in the house, right?
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  You do a pasta dish, right? So you do a pasta dish and you
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  make pasta for everybody and you put it down and your child,
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  who's on the special looks to the pasta dish and gets freaks
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  out, right? Freaks out.
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  It's just pasta. Like, you know, maybe it's
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  butter noodles and some tomato and basil kind of sauce and they
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  freak out. They can't have it.
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  They end up just having chicken Nuggets and breadsticks or
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  whatever, you know, you make that night helps them out and
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  then they're cool with that, They're cool with it and that
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  kind of that kind of works. Now you you guys are going to
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  know this. You honestly, if you guys
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  understand what I'm talking about right now, give this video
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  a thumbs up, because the next thing I'm going to say is going
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  to make you give this video a thumbs up.
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  Then you go out to a restaurant with family and friends because
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  it's somebody's birthday and you're the restaurant and
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  they're serving up all the food. Now they serve up pasta with
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  tomato and basil sauce and there is a butter noodle pasta, and
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  then they give it to your child because everybody gets seated
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  and plated. And regardless of what you know,
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  you know you've got a bag full of like goodies that you're
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  going to give to your kid because that's what we all do.
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  But your child eats the pasta and the sauce without an issue.
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  So what is going on? Initially you have thought it
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  was a sensory processing disorder because the noodles are
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  too slimy, the food is too cold, the I don't.
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  The sauce is too hot. Thought there was sauce on the
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  noodles, right? It's probably none of those
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  things. And you know why?
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  Because it's environmental. One of the things that people
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  always forget about, and they're always wrong with autism is that
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  they forget that environment is everything.
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  So where a child on the spectrum or a person on the spectrum may
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  like a certain meal in a certain place, they may not like that in
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  another place. So it's not just a meal, it's
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  the setting as well. Isn't that something
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  interesting? So I'm going to go through three
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  of the top tips that to help you overcome most of these issues.
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  When you're trying to prepare meals, when you're trying to get
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  people to eat and when you're trying to just try different
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  things out really with autism and food issues because food
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  aversion and autism goes hand in hand, right?
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  Let's do it right now. Okay situational connection.
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  So try situating and understanding the situation.
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  So if you're at home and they like a meal at home, but then
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  you take them to school or you go to work, don't like that meal
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  in work or in school, then think about it.
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  Make that list. Make that connection.
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  Understand, like, OK, well, you know, I know that they'll eat
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  pasta here, but they won't eat pasta there.
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  I know that they'll eat kind of like, you know, rice crispy
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  cakes here. They want rice crispy cakes over
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  there. When you do that, when you know,
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  when you make those notes, when you complete that kind of
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  calendar that you know, OK, they'll eat this there.
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  So I'm safe. You are going to then be able to
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  make your life a lot easier because by knowing what and what
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  you cannot eat at certain restaurants with your kid or
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  yourself, I mean that in itself just a lot of stress, a lot of
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  anxiety just gets taken off mom and dad and they can just enjoy
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  the time out. So #2 reduced sensory issues.
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  Now there are sensory issues, right?
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  That I can said at the beginning, it's not saying that
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  sensory issues aren't a thing, sensory issues are a thing, but
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  it's not the only thing. Now something I'd say about
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  sensory issues and what we need to do here is we need to reduce
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  the triggers. So when you're making a meal and
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  like you know, maybe your kid touches the pasta or touches the
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  meal and then they get a trigger and a century overload and they
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  like freak out and then it starts to meltdown.
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  Make a note in that same diary book, make a note saying pasta
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  in the house whilst touching causes meltdown because you have
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  to make a complete guideline to a persons needs because but why
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  wouldn't you? You're trying to help them
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  understand and eat nutritious food.
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  So you have to understand and appreciate the fact that some
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  foods are going to be triggering.
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  Like for me, for instance, I can't touch a plate that has
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  cold gravy on it and I can't have gravy on a plate that's
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  cold. I can eat the food when it's
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  hot, but I can't eat the food once it's cooled down.
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  When food cools down, it freaks me out.
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  And the same is when I've got hot and cold things on the plate
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  together. Like, you know, say you have
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  like a piece of grilled chicken and then a salad that freaks me
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  out because the salad is really cold and then the chicken is
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  really hot. I don't eat chicken.
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  I'm just saying as an example and you know, so I can't do
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  that. It has to be cold or it has to
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  be hot. So just make a note of those
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  things and those changes and those requirements because those
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  things are going to save you a lot of stress and a lot of
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  issues because you won't be able to dish something up then that
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  is going to cause an autism meltdown, let alone a lack of
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  eating right. Because you're going to be
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  wanting to, to obviously have them calm in in the chair or
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  whatever you're sitting to eat and also enjoy the food and
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  actually eat the food. So yeah, this is diary idea.
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  It's your new Bible. OK, so #3 is environmental calm.
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  And what I mean by this right, is the setting in which you
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  place on to eat food. And this could relate back to
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  the the situational connection is having you know it's so why?
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  Why would they eat food in a certain place and not in another
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  place, but it's the same meal but in different locations?
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  And it could be down to environmental factors.
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  It could be too many bright lights in your house and not in
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  the restaurant, or vice versa. There could be certain smells
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  that the the the chair sitting on could be triggering the
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  tablecloth could be triggering the knife and fork, the plate
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  could be triggering. It could be a whole host of
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  things. It could be the smell.
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  Maybe they're sitting too close, Maybe they're too hot, Maybe
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  they're too cold. Environmental changes can create
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  issues with sensory processing and food perversion.
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  Now my tip for this is to create a calming environment.
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  Find out what calms your child or the person that you're with
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  on the spectrum. What what do they like?
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  What is calming for them? And create that environment when
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  you're creating food. But don't make it too chills
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  only because then they won't eat food.
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  They'll just want to play games and comic books and watch TV.
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  What you want to do is make it a food area, but a calming
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  environment food area, so that they can enjoy the food, they
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  can enjoy that meal, they can interact with the food because
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  you've already done you know, you reduced sensory issues,
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  you've already, you know, situated the connection and then
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  now you've made environmental calm.
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  So by doing those you then have the best possible chance of
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  creating an environment and a meal that the person is going to
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  enjoy, eat and actually feel calm.
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  And if all else fails, you can always put those chicken Nuggets
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  in the oven or just drive to McDonald's and get some chicken
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  Nuggets. But at the end of the day, this
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  is designed to make sure that you guys can get the best out of
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  your eating experience. And if you think that anybody
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  else can benefit from these tips, please share this video
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  right now on Facebook with your friends and family or tag them
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  in it on Facebook and or on Twitter and let them know that
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  this video exists or you can just copy it and send it on
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  WhatsApp or whatever. As long as we're reaching people
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  and helping people at Super awesome.
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  And on that note, I will see you guys in the next video.
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  Peace.