Selective Eating Disorder - sounds like this is the problem!!

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Hilary--And you have helped ME! I was sure my dh's and 9yo's eating issues

were mild Asperger's. And in the case of dh, they still very well might be,

when combined with the other things going on with him. When you first mentioned

SED, I thought " Oh great--another label to put on people " ! Now after checking

out some of the SED websites (do you know about the parent and adult forums

at _www.fussy-eaters.com_ (http://www.fussy-eaters.com) ?) I am reaching an

entirely different conclusion. I am starting to believe my 9yo is a classic

case of SED. His food list is only about a dozen items long. He has to have

certain brands of certain items (like only using 4C parmesan and romano

cheese). He focuses strongly on carbs. He will NOT NOT NOT try new foods. I

could

not understand what was wrong with this kid, when the seven siblings before him

and one after never had such food issues!

 

Anyway, not sure where to go from here, but wanted to say thank you for

posting about this! After reading through some of the parent forum topics, I can

see I'm definitely not alone with this problem. Marilyn

 

 

 

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(used to be CHANGE THE HUSBAND'S MIND thread)

 

Wow, so after reading the posts suggesting that maybe my husband's

eating issues were due to a disorder of sorts, I did some googling and

found a really close match with Selective Eating Disorder. This is

huge. It also said that it can be linked to OCD, which makes a lot of

sense because my husband's family all have various anxiety disorders.

It is very unlikely that he is the only one of the bunch that doesn't

have to deal with anxiety.

 

So, we'll be looking into this soon for sure. I had mentioned this to

the therapist in my private session and she certainly agreed that this

sounds like what is going on. She also said that SED is such a newly

discovered disorder that there isn't much out there about it yet. I

don't know what is going to come of this yet but it does help me

understand what is going on so much more. I don't know if it will

affect his decision to eat meat again, but my thought is maybe if we

can work on this eating problem to where he can eventually eat more

vegetarian foods, he might start enjoying being a vegetarian. Though

after I say that, I remember that his main issue with being vegetarian

is the label. There is a lot to work on over here, for sure.

 

Thanks to all who put your thoughts about this out there. It has

helped a LOT.

 

Hilary