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Autism Sensory Food Preferences · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  Hey guys, these videos are a little bit different.
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  Today I'm answering questions for you guys but with the help
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  of one of my team members. Now this is Carla.
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  Carla is a healthcare professional in the field of
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  autism and therapy. So Carla is going to be
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  answering a questions that she's specifically taken from the
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  stuff that my viewers, you guys have asked in my videos before.
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  So if you want a chance of being heard answered directly by
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  Carla, then make sure to comment on this video.
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  If you have a question and you'd like us to pick it up now, Carl
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  also has therapy available, which we'll leave links for down
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  below. You booked through the ASPB
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  world, but I'm really pleased to have this now.
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  So I'm going to hand you over to Carla.
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  She's amazing and she's going to answer the questions and you're
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  going to learn a lot. All right, guys.
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  For a free 15 minute consultation, please click the
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  link below. I can't wait to meet you and
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  here are some of the questions that you might have.
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  Let's find those answers. Chat too soon.
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  Hi, my name is Carter Pretorius and I'm a registered therapist.
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  I'm also neuro divergent myself. Thank you for being here.
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  I would like to address a question that we received about
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  sensory diet. So what Dan put out there into
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  the wild was respect sensory preferences to ease meal time
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  with autistic individuals. And one of the comments was yes
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  I get so much Flack from family and others who don't get why I'm
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  willing to warm up noodles for one kid, let the other only eat
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  raw carrots because cooked ones are gross for him, and why the
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  other one gets to make her own leftover plate how she wants.
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  Instead of everyone eating one supper I made, I make my
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  partner's supper and if the kids want to try it, they do and do
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  not force them. It just feels wrong.
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  So firstly, Jessica has ADHD. Well done and congratulations.
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  You're doing an amazing job and I commend you for doing all of
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  that. And during meal time, I have
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  ADHD too and for me it's really difficult to actually even think
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  about cooking. So for you to be able to do all
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  of that, you're an incredible person.
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  So firstly, I would like to commend you on that.
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  And then I would like to say that that's exactly it, right?
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  So we all have our sensory needs, our differences, our
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  sensory sensitivities. I used to really dislike any and
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  all vegetables. Now I really do like it and I've
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  grown to like it. And that is something that can
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  also change. So our sensory profile can
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  change within the day, within a within a few weeks and within
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  years for sure. So if your kid doesn't eat
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  carrots now, that doesn't mean that they that they won't eat
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  carrots later, but they might not eat it ever.
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  And that's OK too. But there are definitely some
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  ways that we can make it a little bit more fun and engaging
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  for not only our our child, but also ourselves.
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  So one thing that we usually ask us as therapists and clinicians
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  is to bring your child into the process of cooking.
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  So to give them choices, to ask them to choose what they want
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  from a specific list of choices. Of course, we can't make like
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  lasagna in 10 minutes. You know, we give them the
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  choices that are feasible and they can choose because once we
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  feel like we have a choice, it also feels a little bit better
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  because then we're not being told what to do.
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  And I think that's a big thing with neurodivergent individuals.
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  We don't want to be told all the time what to do and what not to
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  do, what to eat, what not to eat.
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  So if we're we're in control, that feels better.
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  And then also to make sure that we make it fun.
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  Our child can help us cook. They can help us maybe put
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  things in the pot if it's safe. And maybe that process makes it
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  a little bit easier for them to also get to know that different
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  sensory tastes and different textures are to be explored if
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  they want to. But it's on their terms more and
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  it's a little bit less might feel less forced than then.
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  So I think that's, that's a good way to make little, you know,
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  faces out of food and, and make it fun can also help.
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  But I think once your child is more in control of the whole
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  process and they feel like, OK, this is something that I can
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  explore with, they feel safer. And that could be one way for
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  for them to to experience more and a variety of things.
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  But if they don't, that's OK. Let's try and expand slowly from
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  what they are interested in eating.
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  So whether it is little chicken Nuggets, we can create like our
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  own chicken Nuggets, we can make it safer and more nutrient,
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  nutritious and we can definitely expand from there.
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  So we can, you know, I'd like maybe add one more vegetable
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  while we're eating chicken Nuggets so we can create like a
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  little face with the chicken Nuggets and broccoli.
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  If they don't like broccoli, let's try something else that's
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  a little bit more bland. So, yeah, I'm really not the
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  person to ask because I don't like cooking myself.
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  But what I do know is what works for my for the kids that I work
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  with is definitely to involve them in the process.
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  So again, I take my hat off to all your parents out there that
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  are trying your best and working with your child's sensory needs.
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  It really is important to create that sensory profile.
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  If you need any help, let me know in the comments section
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  below. I can definitely do a video on
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  that. Thank you for listening and
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  thank you for commenting. We really love to.
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  We love getting the comments. Statistic chat.
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  Don't forget, if you want to book a session with Cal, there's
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  a link in the description down below.
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  Thank you guys for watching this video.
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  Peace.