# Dear CitizenPained **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 1, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362 "2012-02-01T00:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 275
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362/275 "2012-02-12T04:47:10Z")
> [@The Anxiety is Killing Me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anxiety-is-killing-me/612368/1): > > [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] > [@The Anxiety is Killing Me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anxiety-is-killing-me/612368/9): > > 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. > [@The Anxiety is Killing Me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anxiety-is-killing-me/612368/24): > > 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’. > [@The Anxiety is Killing Me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anxiety-is-killing-me/612368/33): > > 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? > [@The Anxiety is Killing Me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anxiety-is-killing-me/612368/36): > > **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? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362)._