On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Marc Harmon wrote:

> I have no dealing with autistic children, but I do know that no normal
> child will willingly starve himself with food available.  If the food is
> not what they want, they may resist - for awhile, but if they don't get
> what they want, they will sooner than later eat what's put in front of
> them.

Autistic children are different.  Their internal reward system
can be very different from that of normal kids.

Todd Moody
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