How do you know when its sensory issues and when its just fussy bloody eating!

[pantsonbackwards]

That really.

Not even sure what sensory issues mean.

what are the issues you're having?
is it just eating that's the problem?

Yes, just very fussy eating. Often seems scared of foods.

Has some things that he'll eat but others that he won't try at all, or might try and be ok with but then not eat at all.

He likes some spicy foods but won't eat most fruit and veg or meat.

Often he will surprise himself by finding he likes a food. So hard to get him to try though.

He's 5.

I meant will try and like but then refuse to eat again.

Is it the smell, texture that upsets him do you think?
What types of food will he eat?

does he have problems with other sensory issues
like loud noises or bright lights, certain types of clothing, hot/cold things?

DS2 has ASD and sensory issues with foods. Some textures make him gag. He struggled for ages with pasta - would like the taste of it in a tomato or cheese sauce, but gag on it, because it's smooth. It's taken persistence for him to work through those issues. He still can't tolerate most vegetables.

And there are certain foods that he loves, but he doesn't have the motor skills to eat them with a fork and cannot bear touching them with his hands. He will eat them if we feed them to him.

When he was a baby, he was late weaning - about 8-9 months. He couldn't tolerate smooth purees (gagged again) but had some success with food with a bit of texture. He couldn't manage anything bigger, that needed a bit of chewing. He also refused to pick up finger food, at all, until he was about a year old. Finally had some success with leaving an organix biscuit on his tray then being too busy to help him, but he'd put it down again, once it got soggy.

I think it might be the look?

He will eat crackers, bread, sandwiches, spaghetti (the only thing he'll eat meat in), cereal, crisps, chocolate etc, biscuits, yogurt, pizza, garlic bread, pie crust (but no insides), milk, juice, occasional apple, raisins, nan bread, onion bhaji, lentil dahl (quite recent and pleased about that one), raw carrots sometimes cooked, Yorkshire pudding, sage and onion stuffing but only if its in balls, heinz tomato soup, rice with nothing in.

Doesn't like chips or mc Donalds type food, never tried banana, has tried an orange and liked it but wouldn't try again, mashed potato, or actually any
potato, anything eggy etc etc, nothing in sauce apart from pasta sauce so no casserole type foods, no soup with lumps.

Writing this down it doesn't sound horrendous but it is limiting and worrying me that he doesn't get enough nutrition.

He worries about it being too hot, the food that is, but i think that might sometimes be an avoidance thing.

No trouble with loud noises apart from making them