Pink Marshmallow
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From what I've seen, Abbie is not malnourished or starving. In fact, a few commenters on this board (including myself) have noticed she has been putting on weight recently. When DCFS/CPS was called on them, one of the accusations was denying her food and Asa got in a snit about it when the DCFS worker said "She doesn't look malnourished to me." and kind of chuckled.The restriction of food is disgusting and cruel. Even if she does eat to the point she gets sick, she should not be so restricted. Mentally she might be like an infant, physically she is a rapidly growing teenager. If she is on birth control, plus going through puberty and certain meds that girl is probably actually very hungry. I’m sorry, autistic or IDD salmon and cauliflower is not dinner. That’s a diet for a 60 year old man with high cholesterol. All this sugar free crap too is just ridiculous. Give the girl a full meal.
Not letting her eat to the point of getting sick is a GOOD thing. Really, it would be just one more way that they fail her by letting her eat until she throws up on a regular basis. Clearly, since Abbie has pretty much no ability to regulate herself, someone has to do it for her. More than half the time when she asks for food, it's right after she's just had a full meal. If it were left up to Abbie, she'd be eating constantly until she was the size Pricilla was prior to her gastric bypass surgery.
Speaking of Pricilla, most of the stuff she cooks is high fat, high calorie, high salt etc. Abbie definitely gets 'real' meals most of the time. I think it's just recently that they're trying to introduce healthier stuff. Again, I think this is a GOOD thing. I really don't see any of this as depriving or denying her. It's trying to stop her from getting to the size of A&P.
That's just typical Asa. He expects that everyone should just accept and put up with Abbie's behaviors even if they are disruptive or very prominent. If people are not immediately accepting, then they're inconsiderate jerks who don't understand autism. He says he understands that it's natural for people to look when someone is yelling, shouting, clapping loudly... yet, he gets pissed off when it happens.I have such a hard time watching the way Asa gets so defensive if someone in the public looks at Abby if she is doing her yelling stem, and tells his son to go tell those kids she has autism, yet he rode in the car and made fun of her yelling stem by mimicking it. It natural if someone in public hears someone yelling they are going to turn around and look.
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