Autistic 4 YO and eating.

[pinkmarshmalloww]

Hi. My son is being assessed for Autism on Thurs so I will be given support on feeding but in the meantime thought I would comment here for other in similar situations.
I have a 4 year old boy and his diet is so poor and consists of..
Cheese sandwich cut into 4 and he only takes 1 bite of every square.
Munch bunch yoghurts.
Pancakes.
Billy bear ham.
The rest consists of Wotsits/Skips/Quavers and chocolate.
I'm extremely worried about his health and what this must be doing to him 😭
I've tried everything with the help of a health visitor and nothing is working.
He would rather starve than eat a new food 😭

Sounds like ARFID to me. I think there may be an ARFID thread running in the eating disorders section and some of the MNers who are in the SN Children Section should be able to help.

In our experience though they need a good multivitamin and time

I'm also struggling with vitamins I forgot to mention. He won't eat the gummy ones and the stuff we put in drinks smells vile and he can tell it's not right 😩 but I shall have a look at the other threads x

How's his understanding? I'm pretty lucky that whilst DD was non verbal for a long time, she has always had good understanding so whilst getting vitamins into her is a bit of a saga, she will at least concede that she does need them.