🚩 If your child’s picky eating is intense, ongoing, or tied to meltdowns and sensory sensitivities, it may be more than just “being difficult.” It could be a sign of nervous system stress.

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Here’s what might be happening beneath the surface:

1️⃣ Sensory Processing Challenges
Textures, smells, or food colors may feel overwhelming to kids with nervous system stress.

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That sensory hellscape we call dishes, the one I’ve been avoiding for three days? Took 10 minutes. #autism #sensoryChallenges

Designing Environments to Reduce Challenging Behaviors Embrace your child’s autism as a unique, diverse aspect of them rather than modifying their behaviors so they resemble “normal.”

Embrace your child’s #autism as a unique, diverse aspect of them rather than modifying their #behaviors so they resemble “normal.”

#ActuallyAutistic #ChallengingBehaviors #communication #environment #parenting #SensoryChallenges #YourTrustedSource

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