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AIBU?

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To still be annoyed about this

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MyGhastIsFlabbered · 27/08/2021 09:59

This is so minor and trivial but I'm still annoyed! On Wednesday I bought a 5 pack of doughnuts - DP had one and I had one so there were 3 left.

It was DSD's birthday yesterday (12) and as I was leaving for work she found the doughnuts and ate one. I (semi) jokingly said there had better be a doughnut for me when I got home.

Anyway, at around lunchtime DP and I were texting when he said if I wanted a doughnut I'd best get some more - DSD ate all 3! DP said that he'd tried to hide them away on top of the cupboards but she could reach them.

This isn't the first time she's done something like this - earlier in the week DP bought a 6 pack of crisps, I had 1 packet but she ate the rest by the next day. She's demolished entire packets of biscuits, packs of babybels and so on.

We can't afford to keep replacing the food she eats so I've said to DP she has to learn that once the food is eaten that's it for the week. But he seems to think the solution is to hide it out of her way. But I don't want to hide food and don't think we should have to. I have DCs too but don't have to hide food away from them.

To avoid a drip feed she has ASD but is high functioning, attends mainstream school etc.

So who IBU? I'm not annoyed about not having a doughnut more the fact that she has no consideration for anyone else and whether they'd like to eat whatever.

OP posts:
girlmom21 · 27/08/2021 13:08

YABU. There were 5 doughnuts and 3 people. Why do you get 2 if it meant someone else only got 1? Would you have been annoyed if DP and DSD had an extra one each?

They're like £1 for a pack of 5.

TractorAndHeadphones · 27/08/2021 13:13

YANBU at being annoyed that she eats everything.

YA(might)BU at her not being able to control herself like your other DC because she has ASD.
You don’t need to go to the extent of hiding food yet. Give her own space in cupboard and tell her she can only eat what’s in there. Make the division very clear. put the other foods somewhere else (not hiding it but not in her immediate line of sight either).

TractorAndHeadphones · 27/08/2021 13:16

Also to add as @HMG107 the point isn’t that she’s being thoughtless or greedy she might not be able to help herself…

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