Does your autistic child have very limited foods, gag on textures, or panic at new foods? For many autistic kids, “picky eating” is really sensory anxiety oral-motor predictability. This is what helped our family (OT/feeding-therapy strategies real life experience). STOP doing this (why it didn’t help us): ❌ Stop turning meals into pressure. 👉 Real life: “Just try one bite” led to tears, gagging, and total refusal the next meal. Why? Because my son started associating the table with stress. ❌ S
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Does your autistic child have very limited foods, gag on textures, or panic at new foods? For many autistic kids, “picky eating” is really sensory anxiety oral-motor predictability. This is what helped our family (OT/feeding-therapy strategies real life experience). STOP doing this (why it didn’t help us): ❌ Stop turning meals into pressure. 👉 Real life: “Just try one bite” led to tears, gagging, and total refusal the next meal. Why? Because my son started associating the table with stress. ❌ S
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