autism

When my child was in kindergarten his teacher initiated something that she referred to as “buy day” The kids were forced to buy a platter of her choosing and eat their age in bites of each item. At first I was thrilled because I thought it would introduce my child to new foods, but after weeks of possibly being forced to eat 6 peas every Wednesday he began to throw up at the thought of buy day. I think the kid knew after three tries that apple sauce wasn’t his thing. Not everybody has the same taste buds. What one person thinks is great another might just not like and that is ok. The teacher and I went to battle over this program. The program was eliminated after it was said and done and I ended up really liking this teacher but we just didn’t agree on that one issue.

My son does enjoy a wide array of foods. He know what he likes and he knows what he doesn’t like and now that it is almost ten years later he still doesn’t like applesauce.

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