My son was scared of food

Podcast: Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids · Jessica Shaw, Understood.org

Opublikowano: 2026-10-01

Tehrima Rai spent years being told her son was “just picky.” Relatives blamed her parenting, and she struggled to get help. But Tehrima, a pediatrician herself, trusted her instincts and kept searching until she found the real answer: ARFID, an extreme fear of food that’s more common in neurodivergent kids. Through feeding therapy, logbooks, and her own experimentation, she helped her son eat — and finally healed deep wounds of her own. For more on this topic Listen: Why I stopped hiding my kid’s neurodivergenceWatch: Guiding a neurodivergent kid through grief (by breaking all the rules)<b...