The thing that really gets me.. Is Val goes out of her way to deliberately let Jess know she's changing an ingredient, or intentionally used the term healthy ..knowing it triggers Jessica..and gets her riled.
There is absolutely no reason for Val..to run recipes, food choices and ingredients by Jessica for approval .... If Jessica has her way she'd eat nothing but chocolate cake 10 times a day.
She's not mentally capable of most decisions other than what colour icing or balloon she likes....and it's blue it's always blue. She doesn't need to know what ingredients belong in something ....she's just going to argue it anyways..she loves to argue and has no clue if she's right or wrong ..she's not mentally capable of comprehending anything past a toddler level. Even my 5 yr old grandchild knows sugar and sweets is a sometimes food...only eaten as a treat. Jessica doesn't .
So the only reason Val videos these hard moments ...is to try to save face ..like she " tries" to change Jessica's diet but Jess has Autism and well... That trumps everything...so it's not Vals fault.
Jessica gets ANGRY and has tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants, she gets violent, hits, screams, LIES... That's not Autism that's poor parenting...that's behaviour That Val has let Jessica get away with..because it's just easier than actually teaching and helping Jessica learn and grow.
Like I said there's thousands of recipes and ideas, techniques to cook for fussy eaters... There are healthy swaps Val can make for Jessica ..but it's extra work ...extra money ..and well Val has no time for that.
Remember the monthly 5 ks? The chickpea pasta she cooked and Jessica wolfed down...that lasted one meal. Val could puree vegetables to add into spaghetti sauce, make healthy muffins with oats, pureed banana, use honey as sweetener not sugar, make smoothies, there's tons of things Val can change and she doesn't need the permission from Jessica. Vals her parent, her caregiver, the one in charge of Jessica s wellness 100%...because Jessica is mentally and legally incompetent.
It's Vals responsibility. Period.
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Well we know Val pretty much has Jessica isolated from any type of professional , teacher, dentist, hairdresser, bus driver,therapist, autism groups, etc... The only doctor visit I've ever seen in the last 5 years was to get her shunt checked...and to have a nurse come in during covid to check her for seizures ...which she was not having even though Val claimed she was having 50 a day.
So there's no chance Val is taking Jessica for yearly checkups, blood work etc... No way....because she knows it would be clear in the blood work her nutrition is in the toilet ...just look at her.. Grey skin, grey dried hair, infected scabs that never heal, brown circles around her raccoon eyes...( Val says it's hereditary ... Yet no one else has it) .
Jessica looks extremely unhealthy and any doctor would spot that immediately. More reasons why Val has removed Jessica from any and all professionals.