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5 Autism Fussy Eating Tips You NEED to Know · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK, so here are my fussy eating tips for autism and you
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  definitely need to know all that is right here.
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  Coming up guys, welcome back to the Astro world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism at ADHD and I'm making weekly
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  videos just like this world all about helping people achieve
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  greater life success being on the autism spectrum.
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  So if you want to come with me on this journey and help 10X
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  people's lives on the autism spectrum, then make sure to hit
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  the subscribe button down below, but click on that notification
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  bell. It really does help guys, what
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  is going on? I know that, you know, different
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  seasons come up and it seems like birthdays and holiday
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  season and there's a lot of different types of food outings.
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  You know, we're going to go to a restaurant with our workers or
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  we're going to go here with our friends and family and family
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  dinners and holiday dinners and Thanksgiving and all this kind
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  of stuff. It gets a little crazy, I know,
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  but it's not the end of the world.
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  Autistic individuals are notorious for being fussy
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  eaters, right? I myself are a fussy eater.
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  Everybody in my family is a fussy eater.
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  My meal family, not like growing up family, my my kids and my
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  parents. So that being said, I thought
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  what the best thing to do is to give you 5 really awesome tips
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  about fussy eating that you can really help create a better time
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  for people on the open spectrum. And it's just going to be
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  amazing. OK, so guys, here we go.
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  OK, guys. So the first thing is respecting
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  the sensory preference. Now, sometimes it could be a
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  sensory need that you don't like pasta cold or you don't like
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  having your food too cold. So you have to eat it, you know,
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  straight away as soon as it's served.
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  And a lot of people will wait around until everyone have them
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  plates before they start taking into a meal.
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  But you have to respect the sensory needs.
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  You know, that means like having specific eating habits or maybe
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  they cannot have, you know, wet foods, touching dry foods on a
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  plate. If you respect that, you can
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  have an easier time having the personally or satisfactory
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  actually eat with you guys. Imagine having something that
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  you, you know, imagine you're a vegetarian, right?
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  And so we came to give you like some steak and bacon, you'd be
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  like, I can't eat it because it's not for me right now.
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  For it's like for sensory issue with food, it's simple that you
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  can't eat something you can't attest to.
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  So think about that and respect those kind of boundaries, right?
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  So #2 is creating a structured meal time routine because a lot
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  of the time we'll be going to families houses for, for kind of
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  like, I don't know, Christmas or Thanksgiving or something like
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  that. And the routine will be all over
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  the place. So if you can create a
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  structured routine, even if you're not at home, if you can
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  follow the same type of routine and just make sure that you're
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  able to identify the fact that you're going to be outside of
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  routine, you're going to be outside of your norm.
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  Can I put a routine down to this to help this situation?
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  You're going to have such an easier transition with that food
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  because we're all after structure and routine, and
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  especially autistic individuals thrive from routine and
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  structure. So having a structure around
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  meal times, it's a no brainer and it's super, super
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  beneficial. Okay, so the next one is
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  exploration of food through play.
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  So encourage people on the suspension to play with their
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  food a little bit to kind of explore it.
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  Because if you're not exploring your food to play with it, then
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  you're never going to get a chance to actually try new food.
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  Say like having a fruit platter for the first time in election.
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  You've never experienced those certain textures that allowing
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  someone to play with it and pick stuff up and have a feel about
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  it is going to be so much more beneficial for their confidence
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  OK guys back to the video. Okay so the next one is
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  utilizing visual support. Now all the time we can get
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  worried that my assistant kid and my assistant boyfriend part
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  however isn't even the food because of XY and Z.
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  But one of the time it's down to visualization.
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  Like if they don't know that this is what having now or
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  having something else next, it can get confusing.
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  So one of the things I'd like to do is prepare for you to take
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  with me to somewhere. So if I don't like the meal
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  ahead of me, I've always got somebody else.
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  So you can always have a small kind of like visual chart that
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  says this is the video I'm in now, but we also have backup
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  OK, so the last one we're talking about is offering a few
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  choices within limits. Like you don't want to have an
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  approach where you're saying like, OK, we'll try everything
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  out. You know, you're going to have
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  to have some kind of like finite way of saying, OK, well, this is
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  what we're going to have for dinner.
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  This is the backup. And other than that, we're just
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  going to have to not even go home.
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  You have to have realistic expectations.
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  And the person on the autism spectrum also has to encourage
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  themselves to have realistic expectations and go with the
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  flow a little bit in terms of the fact that sometimes there's
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  going to be places where you do visit.
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  Is it that you're not going to be able to eat at?
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  I've been there 100 million times and that's absolutely
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  fine. OK, so if you want to download
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  my free Autism Life Hacks PDF book, you can download it right
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  below. So don't forget to check that
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  out. If you found this video helpful,
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  please give it a thumbs up and share it on Facebook and social
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  media to help spread the word of helping this type of situation
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  out. OK guys, I love you.
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  Always peace out. See you in the next one.