The second dinner, cooked to order and eaten by no one. The safe-foods list you could recite in your sleep. The appointment where you did all the explaining, then went home with a pamphlet and the same tips ChatGPT already gave you.
If any of that is your house, you’re in the right place.
Some kids arrive here with letters attached: ADHD, Autism, PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance, a profile where the nervous system resists everyday demands), ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, when restrictive eating goes beyond fussiness), PFD (Paediatric Feeding Disorder, the umbrella term for complex feeding challenges).
Plenty arrive with no letters at all. Just a parent who’s known for a while that something needs attention, and hasn’t been heard yet.
Both belong here. Your child isn’t a problem to be solved, and they’ll be met exactly as they are. What gets our attention is the why underneath, and we don’t stop until we’ve found it.