Autism | Calderism

When Calder gets hungry, he gets hungry. He will act as if he is starving and if you walked by, you would think, “this kid has never eaten a meal in his life.” But Calder does eat. In fact, he eats extremely well. He enjoys homemade gluten-free brownies, cornbread, chocolate chip cookies, stews, soups, spicy foods, and even a red pasta sauce that takes hours to make. But rather than taking his time and enjoying the flavors and textures, he prefers to stuff food straight down his mouth. He is so against using utensils that he will take whatever food is on a fork, rip it off, shove half of it down his throat, and run away crumpling up the rest and leaving it on the ground.