I don't have the receipts but I'm pretty sure that we've seen Ronnie eat watermelon before. He actually looked quite excited when he saw that watermelon originally, it was the sloppy strawberry sauce that he didn't want. Why does she make everything so extra?
Yep, he was fine until he tasted the obviously sour dip.
My daughter is an undiagnosed ASD adult, but its quite clear, that she's on the spectrum. She doesn't want testing and I respect that, but even with the diagnosis it wouldn't change anything or how I parent anyway, as I've always just worked my way through it and accepted any difficulties that she has.
She used to eat loads, but younger than Ron changed her eating/likes and dislikes, so I can almost be on-board with her saying that Ron's likes have changed.... however, I'm with you and he clearly loved what he was looking at and showed no hesitation in trying. Every child is different, but that's nothing I've ever witnessed in over 20yrs.
To publicly document that is
bleeping cruel. Everything new, in my experience, can be quite traumatic and his little face confirms that. It makes me so sad that he'll be able to look back on that and relive that moment, which will cause relived trauma. Especially when a huge amount of strangers have seen it!!
I personally think the whole thing was staged, and the photo that she picked was one of loads that she took just for effect.
I'd bet that Ron ate lots of watermelon and judging by Lon's very clean mouth that he also didn't like her super sour concoction either.
As for the reading, well for a kid a fair way short of his 5th birthday and the fact that he's been let down with parenting, I'd say that him sounding out phonics is bang on his age.
The professionals have done a great job with him and he's clearly responded well! No credit to his emotionally abusive parents at all!