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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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  Guys, What is going on? I know that, you know, different
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  seasons come up and things like birthdays and holiday season and
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  there's a lot of different types of food outings.
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  You know, we're going to go to a restaurant, we have workers, so
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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 it a little crazy, I
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  know, but it's not the end of the world.
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  Artistic individuals are notorious for being fussy
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  eaters, right? I myself am a fussy eater.
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  Everybody in my family is a fussy eater.
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  I meet a family, not like growing up family, my my kids
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  and my palace. 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 fuzzy eating that you can really help create a better time
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  for people on the Austin spectrum and it's just going to
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  be 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's have
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  them play to voice, start tucking 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've got
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  an easier time having the personally or satisfaction will
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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, oh, I can't eat it because it's not for me, right.
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  That's what it's like for sensory issue with food.
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  It's it's something that you can't eat, something you can't
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  attest to. So think about that and respect
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  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 the 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 types, it's a no brainer and it's super, super
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  beneficial. OK.
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  So the next one is exploration of food through play.
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  So encourage people on the other satisfaction to play with their
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  food a little bit to kind of explore it because if you're not
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  exploring your food through play with it, then you're never going
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  to get a chance to actually try new food.
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  You know, say you're like having a a fruit platter for the first
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  time in your life and you've never experienced those certain
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  textures. Now allowing someone to play
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  with it and pick stuff up and have a feel about it's going to
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  be so much more beneficial for their confidence and they may
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  OK guys, back to the video. OK, so the next one is utilizing
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  visual support. Now a lot of the time we can get
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  worried that oh, my assistant kid or my assistant boyfriend
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  partner however, isn't eating the food because of XY and Z.
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  But a lot of the time it's down to visualisation.
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  Like if they don't know that this is what we're having now or
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  I'm 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 ahead of me,
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  I've always got something else. So you can always have the small
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  Like you don't want to have an approach way saying like, OK,
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  we'll try everything out. You know, you're going to have
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  to have some kind of, like finite way of saying, OK, well
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  this is 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 that you're not going to
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  be able to eat out. I've been there 100 million
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  times and that's absolutely fine.
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  OK guys, I love you always. Peace out.
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  See you in the next one.