If I see the GP will it open a can of worms and will they question my parenting ability or anything like that?
I have ASD and I think I have ARFID. I’ve always had a limited diet, struggled with textures etc. it’s just getting progressively worse and I’ve found now that I’m experiencing autistic burnout and some days I just can’t eat, so I’m losing weight (5lb this last week) in the last year 2 stone total. I wasn’t big to start with.
I thinking I can either go to the gp but what can they even do or do I find private counselling and/or try to adjust my intake just by eating more safe foods but it’s the days where I’m so overwhelmed I can’t eat that worry me. My dc have regular meals and snacks and I never even speak about this near them but obviously sometimes they see I’m not eating and even when I do I have to eat in a separate room they eat meals with DP.
My safe foods are toast, chicken nuggets, chips, bananas, melted strawberry ice cream . I can’t even think about adding more things I keep buying Greek yogurt and full fat milk intending to make a banana smoothie but then I can’t but I think I need to try and wait to see the gp?