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22 March - Ever Given Eve. Many celebrate by completing some small task they’ve been putting off, symbolically clearing blockages in their own lives.

23 March - Blockage Day! The main celebration. The exchanging of memes.

24 to 28 March - Hilarity ensues. Memes continue to circulate. The best are saved for next year’s observances.

Most parents can't even distinguish between random whims and autism dietary limitations and end up saying shit like this and starving their disabled children.

I would eat a lot of things if I got hungry enough; spoiled food, defiled food, food that might make me sick but definitely will give me some energy.

Traditionally Australian bogan food is typically at least half meat product, usually more, and the rest like mashed potatoes, with steamed carrots and peas. The patties or the sausages or the steak is where most of the nutrients are.

So she refused to eat any meat and my uncle refused to feed her any differently, insisting that if she wasnt going to eat it then she wasn't getting more food and that he would just wait for her to "get over herself". 9 months this went on. She lived off mashed potatoes and cereal for 9 fucking months.

She ended up so sick she was in hospital and he had to ring the whole family and tell us that the doctors think she has leukemia, they're just running some more tests.

Turns out she was so malnourished her immune system had given up and she contracted galandula fever and another virus at the same time and was fucking dying because he wouldn't give her food she would eat.

Yes he got screamed at by a bunch of doctors and nurses, and then the rest of our family, because you can't just starve a kid bc you think they're being difficult.

We needed to get them to eat more variation

So we got advice and were patient

Our firm line was that we were not going to traumatise them about food

So we offered food. We enouraged them to try just touching it with their tongue and if they did they got heaps of praise and if they didn't that was okay

They could walk away from the food and come back when they were ready

And we always always had a safe back up food ready

Kiddo's palate did expand as they found things they liked and what they didn't like we asked why so we could learn not to offer foods of certain textures or flavours

To further encourage them we grew carrots and got them involved with cooking and baking so they wanted to try the things they made

Kiddo is still pretty restrictive in what food they will eat at 15 but it's much much broader then it was at 3 and they still are willing to try new things

Not often. They need to be in the right mood, but they still ask.

And they aren't traumatised by the experience

You can't force your kid to eat without fucking them up for life but you can be compassionate and help your kid expand their diet through patience and rewards and most importantly - by respecting a no

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