Dear CitizenPained

[Farmer_Jane]

@CitizenPained

[li]I go grocery shopping every Saturday. I hate it. Sometimes i leave my cart behind and go home and order in for a few days. Sometimes my son eats cereal in his sack lunch because I couldn’t make it to the store. [/li][/LIST]

@pbbth

Your son is occasionally eating nothing but cereal because you can’t go buy food for him. Your son sees you being incredibly anxious because you have to come pick him up from school.

@CitizenPained

My son eats breakfast for lunch every Friday. It’s his thing. Sometimes it’s an egg and cheese sandwhich, sometimes it’s Cheerios and fruit. That’s not the entire meal and I won’t even apologize for that. But yeah, sometimes I’m so stressed out I don’t want to go to the grocery store and he gets Cheerios for his main course on a Wednesday. I never claimed he had ‘nothing but cereal’.

@pbbth

Now I’m confused.

If this is the case why did you even mention the cereal thing as an issue in your OP? When you say, “Sometimes my son eats cereal in his sack lunch because I couldn’t make it to the store” that reads as though you are ashamed of this and that you only do so because you literally have no other food to send with him to school. If this is a normal thing and he gets plenty of other food along with cereal what were you so upset about?

@CitizenPained

I am ashamed because I meticulously plan out his lunches. Because I want him to have the best.** Because it is not normal to be scared of Safeway. **That is shameful. I hate myself. Doesn’t matter if he loves his Cherrios, Craisins & banana main course - it’s there because the anxiety of leaving was too much and we still had some food in the house and maybe we’re out of salad dressing or Quorn (his meal has to be vegetarian kosher).

But I have a system for things. **Fridays is breakfast day. Every other Friday I get up **early (4:45) and make him an egg and cheese for lunch (and breakfast). Fridays we go to shul (with the exception of today - he’s with a friend tonight) and usually eat at the Mexican place across the street or make homemade pizza or something. Sundays I get up before he does and I make him eggs.

Wasn’t aware we had a Autistic Doper’s Guild. Can’t you filter anything? Does everything have to be hyper-literal?