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[quote=Anonymous]Another ARFID mom here...  all I can add is that beyond your frustration with your kid (and worry they are not getting the nutrients they need) there is a social cost to this.  Other parents, grandparents shame you, the parent, for "giving in" and the kid "for trying to get special attention or being difficult on purpose."  Protect your kid from this.  As your kid gets older, other kids notice and start to bother them about it.  Finally being diagnosed with ARFID around age 12 has been a good thing for my kid because now kid has the why.  We can manage expectations on sleepovers, plan strategies for dinners out, bring safe foods with us on travel, etc.  It seems to be an anxiety/sensory/OCD related thing and often there was some sort of precipitating event or events (i.e. my kid had severe croup and almost suffocated as a young child and as a baby had cord wrapped around neck four times).  My kid is in therapy for this and wants to "get better" - we are gradually introducing new foods.  It is slow going, but otherwise kid is thriving.

Also, I have many other kids and fed them all the same, and the rest of them are completely "normal" eaters.  So this is nature not nurture.[/quote]

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