My 9 year old boy is really skinny for his age compared to nearly every other kid I see. He's on the 2nd centile for weight. When he was born he was 50th centile for both height and weight and he's still 50th for height but his weight has dropped right down. He just doesn't eat. When he has friends over they ask for snacks 24/7 - he never asks for any, and if asked if he wants any 99% of the time he says no. He's not even fussed about junk food particularly - you can have sweets, chocolate etc out in front of him and he just ignores them most of the time. We suspect he has ASD (going through a battle to get him diagnosed at the moment) and as a result his diet is massively limited as it is. To complicate matters he is allergic to most fruit and, of the fruit he can eat, the only fruit he actually will eat are mangos and bananas. Veg wise he will only willingly eat cucumber which I'm sure has very little nutritional value. He can sometimes be persuaded to eat broccoli and peas under duress, or carrot sticks and peppers. He will not eat any hidden veg sauces on pasta. He will eat plain pasta or spaghetti (with a cheese sauce only), any bread product, chicken, plain rice, fish fingers, plain cous cous, any potato product, plain fruit yoghurt (not greek yoghurt, he won't touch that), and that's pretty much your lot.
The GP won't do much just says to wait for him to grow out of it as he's not technically underweight he's just hovering down the bottom.
He just eats so little compared to every other child I know and I find it really upsetting - I love to cook and I've always made him healthy stuff from scratch but he will not touch most of it.
Has anyone else experience of this at this age? I was always told he'd grow out of it but if anything he's worse now than he was as a very young child.