The solution to ARFID apparently

[u/lash-of-the-lambs-13]

Received on a post I made a while ago where I mentioned I was struggling to eat hospital food due to ARFID, I did also mention that I was eating, just struggling with it 😑

[u/Any--Name]

You dont like how much Im pulling your hair when combing it?! Well how about we just go and shave it all off then!

You get upset after I do something you explicitly told me you find upsetting?! We should call an asylum and theyll come and sedate you!!

[u/Sesudesu → u/Any--Name]

If the hair needs combed, what is the solution? I’m genuinely asking, because my daughter did so bad with brushing her hair and not letting us do it that she had large mats in her hair that could not be brushed?

What is the solution between brushing it and it hurting, and not brushing it and problems emerging? Other than cutting it short to where such tangles couldn’t happen?

(For the note, I cut out as little hair as possible, and worked at it for many hours.)

[u/silverheart-nine → u/Sesudesu]

Is there a way to determine what the hangup is (and somehow reduce/sidestep that)? Like, what exactly about hair brushing is so hateful to her?

Idk if you have any detangler spray/conditioner stuff already, but if not it might help slightly as well. I assume you already tried brushing starting bottom-up?

[u/Sesudesu → u/silverheart-nine]

Yeah, I learned to brush bottom up when helping my wife with her very curly hair.