Girl pretty much eats Ramen Noodles for 13 years.

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  • phjorg
    phjorg Posts: 252 Member
    my child is on the spectrum cusp, so i have an idea of what dealing with this is like. so a lot of the parenting fail comments in here are also fail, as you guys have no clue.

    that said, assuming they have access to nutrition and healthcare specialists, getting a proper nutrient split to mash into her water/juice is possible. and obviously was not done in this case.
  • ahamm002
    ahamm002 Posts: 1,690 Member
    It's not completely her parent's fault. Yes, they should have supplied her with real food. But she is now an adult and is responsible for her own health.

    Also. Ramen is disgusting.

    There is no evidence that states this is the only thing the parents bought her... unless i missed it. If she didn't want anything else she wouldn't eat it.

    Can your link some case studies of five year old children starving themselves to death even when given plenty of real food to eat? I sure don't know of any! Parenting is hard work, and her parents were just plain lazy and bad.

    That said, I think there are some serious psych issues in this family, so I'm not judging them as being bad people. They're most likely just sick/crazy.
  • glovepuppet
    glovepuppet Posts: 1,710 Member
    Sounds like she might be on the Autism spectrum. Let's not judge.

    ^^^^ this.
    if she went all this time without seeking specific help for this problem, i'm judging and i'm judging hard.

    the only way i'd not judge is if the parents had tried every approach, pushed their doc for specialist therapy, etc.
  • boroko
    boroko Posts: 358 Member
    The family definitely have a problem and need to get help. She should be speaking to psychiatrists and dieticians not smugly posing for journalists. Whatever her issues are they should not have been ignored or pandered to for so long. There are all sorts of reasons for weird eating and a range of recognised food disorders but they can and should be treated just as you would any other illness. If she's been eating like this since she was 5 then her parents are responsible as I don't think kids that age do much grocery shopping.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    if she went all this time without seeking specific help for this problem, i'm judging and i'm judging hard.

    the only way i'd not judge is if the parents had tried every approach, pushed their doc for specialist therapy, etc.

    Ditto. If my 5yo only ate ramen noodles (which by the way they haven't had and I don't think I'll ever buy for them), I'd be at the doctor looking for help right now. I mean she lived to 5, so I'm assuming she was eating something else before that.
  • heather4132
    heather4132 Posts: 7 Member
    How can someone survive for so long on basically no protein? That's pretty amazing.
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    How can someone survive for so long on basically no protein? That's pretty amazing.

    Isn't wheat a decent source of plant protein?
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    Sounds like she might be on the Autism spectrum. Let's not judge.

    let's absolutely judge.
























    her terrible parents.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    How can someone survive for so long on basically no protein? That's pretty amazing.

    Isn't wheat a decent source of plant protein?

    yeah...... not ramen. bleached, enriched wheat flour is not a good source of protein.

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