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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m another parent of a child with ARFID. My child used to vomit before she could even get the taste of a non preferred food in her mouth. Sometimes she vomited just from looking at food. We did many years of feeding therapy and now she can pass for a regular picky eater in many situations. The thing that continues to break my heart is how ashamed she is about her eating. She has another diagnosis she is very open about but she’s heard people rail against picky eaters her entire life. All she wants is to pass for normal. I promise you she is SO motivated to eat more. I am constantly trying to walk the line between protecting her privacy and making sure she can eat.[/quote]

I am a PP and I just want to send virtual hugs on this and say I understand. My DD sometimes tells me "I feel so embarrassed about my picky eating." I also am certain that our own challenges with trying to give her what she needs have contributed to this despite her best efforts (we do our very best never to shame her and to meet her where she is at but we've had our days where were are just frustrated and not at our best).

I have always been a picky-ish eater and have lived with people drawing broad conclusions about my intelligence, social class, and income level based on my eating habits my whole life. I really, really wish food wasn't such a source of judgment in our culture but it is. I do my best to make DD feel accepted and loved regardless of where she is at with her eating but yes, it breaks my heart when she still gets the message that there is something wrong with her because she cannot physically force herself to eat a lot of foods that other people think she should eat.[/quote]

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