
Post my mom made about my picky eating when I was 9
My mom has posted on online for about half my life and sometimes has posted about me during my childhood. This is one of the posts made long before I found out I have arfid.
The posts and the comments saying I should just eat what I'm given (since I'm 9 atp) and that I should be punished or food should be withheld from me until I eat fruit made me sad cause they just reminded me of being a kid with arfid. It really sucked being punished so much for something I couldn't control. Especially since the zoo was my favourite place as a kid, and I didnt often get Christmas presents from my parents to begin with (so withholding them on one of the few years I couldve gotten one really sucks).
Mostly posting to vent, but also to let parents of arfid-kids know to not do shit like this because I'm 22 and it's still upsetting thinking about getting things I enjoyed taken away because I was too scared to eat properly. To this day I don't eat fruits, but my diet is getting better day by day and trying new foods became a lot easier when my parents gave up on trying to force me.