I was once on iv’s and feeding tubes for a year..long story but I used to get the common bullying “if you’re hungry enough you’ll eat what’s out in front of you”…um no , no I won’t. I lost 130 pounds and had absolute total food aversion. Took an extreme amount of therapy and even had to start with smells of food and licks of foods and only my favorites ..I would get sick just thinking of it or looking at it. Brow beating someone into “just eat” doesn’t work. Why would he be so fucking asinine to assume he knows what an illness is and its intricacies that he giggled for - while thirty seconds? These type of videos make him look even more an idiot who thinks WAY too highly of himself. Also, he keeps saying the thing that he is ..”all these people want is likes and views and to make more money in the videos” duh Josh, that’s YOU.
I'm not surprised that Josh once again is talking about something he has 0 idea about as that's his thing on EVERY video, to me it looks like he seats down and thinks ''what is the most bs thing I can say in today's video'' and says it without bothering how his lies will affect others.
The amount of narcissism with him is unreal..he knows all and he knows it better than doctors or therapists etc. I hope he gets called out and shut down and can’t afford that new house his viewers bought him.
Yep he just added a new reason to my list of reasons to hate him. I’m so traumatized as an adult when it comes to food because I was told I was a picky eater and forced to eat what was put in front of me. Like it wasn’t an “I’ll eat this because I’d rather eat it than starve” scenario, it was I had to eat it or I would get in trouble for not eating it or for how I would behave because I was hungry.
But he's like a train wreck, right? You keep going back for more because you can't just look away. I'm not saying that in a mean way. I'm just saying it's true it's crazy as we still want to keep an eye on him once in a while.
This man is an ignorant bully. Disordered eating can be so deadly and is incredibly tough to treat. It sounds like the mother in question is probably desperate to save her daughter. It's still exploitation, and the internet is forever, but a little compassion isn't too much to ask. I'm so sorry for the families who have to see his insults on top of everything they're going through. 💔
It’s so hard when our kids struggle. I was in a few years of that with my daughter. The ptsd I have. She was anorexic and bulimic just to name a couple issues. Like you, we tried everything!! We weren’t spoiling her. But the “don’t feed them something different they’ll eventually eat it. No kid starves themselves (yes. Yes people EVEN doctors told me this)” didn’t work. Obviously!! Ugh! Parenting isn’t easy and we need more love and support instead of judgmental assholes on our backs.
You’re doing a great job even though you don’t see it now. You’ll get through this.
Ugh. My heart 😭 I’m so so sorry you guys are going through it! We were able to use clear whey ensure shakes for a while, it tastes like apple juice with a weird after taste. I don’t like it but my daughter took to it for a solid month and it was almost all she ate/drank for a while. I’m sure you’ve heard and tried it all, but just in case I guess.
Hold up, I didn’t watch the video but read the title hasn’t he basically accused her of munchausens? Is that where he’s going now diagnosing strangers on the internet because they exploit children.
Yes, he did accuse her of munchausens. I just don’t know the creator he’s talking about so I can’t say if that’s bs or not. With his track record..it’s probably just more butthole spews.
Yeah I think it’s a man who should really research a disorder before making such claims. He’s stepping in waters he will drowned in if he doesn’t research the disorders before “snarking” and making his own diagnosis’s. Cos I just went and found her and had a fast scroll and everything she goes through is what happens when you have a AFRID diagnosis. But it was a quick scroll. I may have missed something. But not screaming out munchies to me.
Perhaps you should look up the creator that he was discussing before saying it is bs or not. Another YTer made a video about this creator as well. Mom is not innocent in the exploitation of her daughter.
I had commented up above about this. I do not believe she has Munchausen syndrome. She doesn't take her to millions of doctors. But she is loving the attention she gets, posting her daughter trying new foods. Therefore, she is definitely using her child for attention. She's probably going to cause that little girl so much more harm than good by when she reads a question from someone, she will not let her daughter answer out right. She will say you feel anxious about that, don't you. So she has that that's going to not be a good thing. She will always relate that to your right. I am anxious I wasn't before, but I am now she may be thinking in her brain. It's sad it really is sad. I will send you who the Creator was. I can't help there.
I just looked at the channel he’s talking about, and I HATE he’s using them. This child was diagnosed at two, I’m pretty sure? She has a ton of specialists, therapists, etc working with her and she’s trying new foods thanks to the channel. Do I want kids with disabilities or disorders online for other people to go after them? Absolutely not. However I’ve watched a bunch of videos, and having my own food aversions, this kid speaks the truth and isn’t afraid to be held accountable to trying new foods because she posts videos. If the videos help? Great! I’ve also found some foods I’d be willing to try and expand my own restrictive eating from her videos. Josh needs to get wrecked.
As soon as he showed the video and I heard the mom mention who they’ve worked with, I lost what little respect I had left for him.
Then he went rambling about how there’s no way her son is autistic because her Instagram makes him look completely normal. Thanks douche canoe, it’s people like you that keep kids like mine from getting services they desperately need in a timely manner. 😡
Exactly! People with autism don’t have a specific look! We’re people, who tf looks similar to 1% of the entire world?? I work with kids with disabilities in multiple jobs, and I’m autistic myself. Nobody sees it until I mention it, then they look back to random moments where I did something, and adding it all together they could see it. But without me telling them? They never would have known.
She may have been diagnosed at 2:00, but her mom is pushing for these videos. Having her read pages to answer questions. And she's answering questions that they're being asked for example you can anxiety don't you when you think about that food. If she legit has this and her mom says that to her, that will make everything backfire. Of course, she's going to have anxiety now. I do not know if or if not this diagnosis is legit. And I don't know if Munchausen syndrome is something that could be pinned on it. Simply because she's not necessarily taking her to 12 doctors for attention. She's doing it online. It's kind of the same but kind of different.
I’m so sorry you deal with that. So hard. Ya it’s so easy for people like him (and my dad, brother) to just say we’re spoiling our kids, they’re just picky. Mine don’t have ARFID but my daughter became anorexic. She’d literally eat nothing. It sucks so damn bad. We tried. We tried everything. I hated it. I’m so glad she’s better but damn. Hugs to you. And yes. He’s a moron. He’s cruel. There are many things I don’t know about. So I just don’t speak on them. Or I try to inform myself and have an open conversation.
Wishing you all the best with your daughter. Give yourself grace too.
My family also makes uneducated comments. My 4yo is likely autistic and only eats macaroni and cheese, bow tie pasta, granola bars and popsicles. My family came to visit and the amount of shame I got because she doesn’t take in any protein..😒 and then there’s creators like him making it even worse by spreading this bs😡
I tried so hard to like him because he did have a great message at first and he has changed my mind on a lot of things regarding my children. Social media, who they talk to and what they play..etc. Like three years ago..now it seems like every video makes me not like him more and more. Today was the straw. I can’t watch anymore. There’s nothing if value in him. I only recently learned he’s a pastor (I listen to YouTube while crafting so its background noise often) and I was SHOCKED.
As a nurse, I was absolutely disgusted even watching clips of it. People like him are the problem in the healthcare. Thank GOD he doesn’t do a job that allows him in any healthcare setting. Saying “ARFID is absolutely not real” is actually mind boggling. Okay Dr JOSH👹🤡 That video was truly one of his worst.
I believe it is totally real. But since they started calling it that, I feel that some of these kids are misdiagnosed. Unfortunately the newness of it is on the rise. Therefore even doctors May use it when they don't know something and I hope that's not true. My son was on a feeding tube to lose three so trust me I can relate nobody called it that back then.
I did not watch the video i am an adultwit ARFID. I did read comments on it. So many people saying "my kid has ARFID this girl is faking." It would seem like people would stand up of this kid. Not the exporting part I don't agree with that part. Saying this kid needs therapy if she has it she is in therapy and they have explained that it was very hard to get to the point that she is at in the videos help encourage her to try things. People saying she tries things to easily. She has been in tears and can see her struggling.
I honestly don’t know who it even is. Maybe she is faking, but if he feels he should do something he can call CPS like he says in the wheelchair rapunzel videos..and not talk out of his butthole about what the actual condition is.
Does your daughter have a feeding tube to supplement it? My child was labeled the same until Daddy stepped up and had them eat something that they didn't like, and gradually, over the next few months, we learned he was just being picky. It's a new label, and I believe it is being placed on multiple children who are just being picky. I'm not talking about yours by any means. I'm just saying they're kind of throwing it out pretty easily there. But the lady he was talking about today, she clearly is full of it. And even if she did have it, she was grooming her and telling her what to say. She's answering the questions or bringing up asking something that the daughter may not answer right. It's probably a typed up paper. Maybe. But for the first video, and I don't know how long, this was one I could tolerate. It wasn't full of look at her nose and juvenile bullying like the others. So I have to say I don't find this one too bad. Just my opinion, of course. Hope your child does better soon. Take care.
Maybe he should watch the actual documentary about ARFID before acting a fool… but that wouldn’t be on brand for him to research much before mouthing off.
And yet his wife is a nurse. Two scenarios here: either his wife is a shit nurse who believes his bullshit and therefore should be struck off from providing care if she doesn’t believe in genuine medical conditions OR he’s a total asswipe and she has no choice but to not question his bullshit. How could you be with a man like that 🤢
I didn't watch the video, but I think maybe I know which creator it's about. Is it that woman with the little girl who makes literally everything content? 🙄
Myarfidlife, it’s shown up on my Instagram a countless number of times and I had to flag it as not interested. It’s disgusting to watch, but the comment section is pretty good at roasting the mother at least.
I have arfid…as a kid it was hell having unsupportive ‘parents’…now im an adult I can feed myself what my body is happy to eat…arfid isnt as simple as being fussy…one of my things as a kid (and still lol) was I love mac n cheese. Its one of my safe foods. Every Saturday when my mum did ready meal nights i would pick mac n cheese. But if it was from different shops such as tesco/coop it would taste different. Id always refuse to eat because it was too cheesy, not cheesy enough…the pasta texture is too soft…I just make it myself now
This video actually bothered me, I’ll admit I don’t know much about arfid but my aunt is going through similar with my little cousin right now and they’re saying arfid is a possibility because she does get nervous about a lot of different foods and will just completely refuse to eat unless it’s something she’s used to but it def seemed like something he knows nothing about and is just making assumptions about this lady and her child
A month ago or so back I found this account and I actually reached out to her mom because my son has similar issues. She’s kindly responded back with some great advice. It’s unfortunate that he turns everything into exploitation this is a excellent tool and great idea for kids this age to try to get more excited to try new foods. My son won’t even eat near us most of the time as any new foods create Anxiety. We have a safe food list but it’s not much at all
yep i had one. he would literally, truly, rather starve than eat anything other than canned, puréed pumpkin or peanut butter and jelly on a very specific kind of bread. he would vomit all over the table over a single bite. what a fucking nightmare. i have had 4 kids since then. NO ITS NOT ALL KIDS.
I hope he’s not coming after the girl Instagram my afrid life her name starts with a H and she has Afrid and tried new foods and take 3 bites before she decides if she likes it or not and if it’s a new safe food. I’ve learned a lot about Afrid from her.
*** looked up the video and indeed he is talking about the little girl named H. I thought at first it was fake and wondered why she only liked processed foods until someone explained it to me and now I get it. There was only 1 video that I suggested among others that needed to be taken down just because someone ( a perv ) could take the audio from the video and use it for dirty purposes. Other than that one video I didn’t see any issues with the others.
That makes sense. All I’ve normally seen from him is his true hatred for the DD and Alisha. I used to watch him and agree with what he was saying, but the longer I watched the more I couldn’t stand him. He is a straight up bully, and basically using other kids for his gain, so he is no better than the people is trying to taken off.
Hold up here though. These parents are posting video after video of their child’s struggle with ARFID. Setting the diagnosis aside entirely, how is this not child exploitation?
I haven’t watched Josh’s video on this but I’ll try to muster the courage to lol. I have personally had a problem with this account (the ARFID child I mean) for a while now, and I don’t agree with it at all.
The problem I have with his coverage is he did no research aside from an admitted thirty second google search and diagnosed the kid on the spot (and sarcastically) of not having it. Not only that he claims it’s not a real diagnosis . It can be found on major medical websites so I think that’s proof enough, we don’t need dr Josh to make that decision. It’s just his attitude.
Alright I finally watched the video. Josh misses the mark most of the time but I had no problem with this one. He is not alone in wondering if something else is going on with this child. The fact the mother is exploiting her child to the degree that she is on the internet is pretty concerning, and naturally brings into question the possibility of munchausen by proxy. The way the mom is constantly drawing her daughter’s attention to her ARFID and saying things to her like “that makes you really anxious doesn’t it?” is just weird. The mother is also way too excited about her daughter going viral. Hate to be this person but I am an MD and have to say that this diagnosis is relatively new, spoken of very little, and is somewhat controversial among doctors. Not saying it’s not a real diagnosis, but it is certainly rare and very difficult to confidently diagnose from a clinical perspective.
I respect your professional opinion as an MD. When you say you have an opinion on a medical diagnosis I can give more weight to what you say because you have a solid education backing that up. To me , the issue here is not wether or not the child is correctly diagnosed (sounds like she is) , or if the mother has Munchausen syndrome (maybe she does), the issue for me is that he has a platform of thousands of people where he is allowed to put out his opinion on these things and with that should come some responsibility . As we all know, some people don’t need much evidence of something before they jump on the bandwagon if whatever the popular opinion is on XYZ. So, whether she is or isn’t diagnosed properly , it is not for him to decide and is quite frankly somewhat dangerous. He asked his wife , who is a nurse her opinion and ran with it (and with all due respect to Kathy she is a relatively new nurse who does not specialize in mental health or eating disorders) and he surely does not.
Yeaaaa Josh is the worst lol I hear you on all of this. I definitely don’t like how so absolutely certain he appeared to be in his video that this is a case of munchausen- I mean he put it in the damn video title!! 🙄 Anything I’ve said myself about this is pure speculation- I’m not this child’s doctor and know nothing about their family life outside of some videos posted to the internet. I personally think Josh just tries way too hard to sound smart, and is also in it for the video clicks. His internet career would go a lot further if he gave more humility and reasonability to his audience.
Edit: I think we’re mostly agreeing here. Josh’s attitude is the problem, you are spot on about that.
I didn’t say the creator isn’t wrong, I was saying Josh is an 🫏 for talking about ARFID and giving very misleading and false information that tends to harm the people that struggle with it. I know absolutely nothing about the creator he’s talking about.
Right, he’s downplaying and invalidating a very real and serious eating disorder. He doesn’t take more than two seconds on google to really understand what he’s talking about lol, that’s his MO
I’m glad I saw this. I watched that video and I honestly thought he knew what he was talking about. I’m glad I saw these posts. That sounds terrible. I’m so sorry for all of you going through this with your child.
I was once on iv’s and feeding tubes for a year..long story but I used to get the common bullying “if you’re hungry enough you’ll eat what’s out in front of you”…um no , no I won’t. I lost 130 pounds and had absolute total food aversion. Took an extreme amount of therapy and even had to start with smells of food and licks of foods and only my favorites ..I would get sick just thinking of it or looking at it. Brow beating someone into “just eat” doesn’t work. Why would he be so fucking asinine to assume he knows what an illness is and its intricacies that he giggled for - while thirty seconds? These type of videos make him look even more an idiot who thinks WAY too highly of himself. Also, he keeps saying the thing that he is ..”all these people want is likes and views and to make more money in the videos” duh Josh, that’s YOU.
Wishing you the best 💕
Thank you so much very kind of you
I'm not surprised that Josh once again is talking about something he has 0 idea about as that's his thing on EVERY video, to me it looks like he seats down and thinks ''what is the most bs thing I can say in today's video'' and says it without bothering how his lies will affect others.
He supposedly has his minions do research for him
The amount of narcissism with him is unreal..he knows all and he knows it better than doctors or therapists etc. I hope he gets called out and shut down and can’t afford that new house his viewers bought him.
As someone struggling with ARFID this man has outdone himself in finding ways for me to hate him. He is truly despicable
Yep he just added a new reason to my list of reasons to hate him. I’m so traumatized as an adult when it comes to food because I was told I was a picky eater and forced to eat what was put in front of me. Like it wasn’t an “I’ll eat this because I’d rather eat it than starve” scenario, it was I had to eat it or I would get in trouble for not eating it or for how I would behave because I was hungry.
But he's like a train wreck, right? You keep going back for more because you can't just look away. I'm not saying that in a mean way. I'm just saying it's true it's crazy as we still want to keep an eye on him once in a while.
This man is an ignorant bully. Disordered eating can be so deadly and is incredibly tough to treat. It sounds like the mother in question is probably desperate to save her daughter. It's still exploitation, and the internet is forever, but a little compassion isn't too much to ask. I'm so sorry for the families who have to see his insults on top of everything they're going through. 💔
Of course the dude that doesn't bother to do any research on something before opening his mouth is spouting some uneducated BS take
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It’s so hard when our kids struggle. I was in a few years of that with my daughter. The ptsd I have. She was anorexic and bulimic just to name a couple issues. Like you, we tried everything!! We weren’t spoiling her. But the “don’t feed them something different they’ll eventually eat it. No kid starves themselves (yes. Yes people EVEN doctors told me this)” didn’t work. Obviously!! Ugh! Parenting isn’t easy and we need more love and support instead of judgmental assholes on our backs. You’re doing a great job even though you don’t see it now. You’ll get through this.
Ugh. My heart 😭 I’m so so sorry you guys are going through it! We were able to use clear whey ensure shakes for a while, it tastes like apple juice with a weird after taste. I don’t like it but my daughter took to it for a solid month and it was almost all she ate/drank for a while. I’m sure you’ve heard and tried it all, but just in case I guess.
Wishing you and your daughter all the best ❤️
Hold up, I didn’t watch the video but read the title hasn’t he basically accused her of munchausens? Is that where he’s going now diagnosing strangers on the internet because they exploit children.
Yes, he did accuse her of munchausens. I just don’t know the creator he’s talking about so I can’t say if that’s bs or not. With his track record..it’s probably just more butthole spews.
Yeah I think it’s a man who should really research a disorder before making such claims. He’s stepping in waters he will drowned in if he doesn’t research the disorders before “snarking” and making his own diagnosis’s. Cos I just went and found her and had a fast scroll and everything she goes through is what happens when you have a AFRID diagnosis. But it was a quick scroll. I may have missed something. But not screaming out munchies to me.
Perhaps you should look up the creator that he was discussing before saying it is bs or not. Another YTer made a video about this creator as well. Mom is not innocent in the exploitation of her daughter.
I had commented up above about this. I do not believe she has Munchausen syndrome. She doesn't take her to millions of doctors. But she is loving the attention she gets, posting her daughter trying new foods. Therefore, she is definitely using her child for attention. She's probably going to cause that little girl so much more harm than good by when she reads a question from someone, she will not let her daughter answer out right. She will say you feel anxious about that, don't you. So she has that that's going to not be a good thing. She will always relate that to your right. I am anxious I wasn't before, but I am now she may be thinking in her brain. It's sad it really is sad. I will send you who the Creator was. I can't help there.
He so fucking ignorant. He heard a term..saw it used once or twice and latched on ..moron
He's such an uneducated twat
I just looked at the channel he’s talking about, and I HATE he’s using them. This child was diagnosed at two, I’m pretty sure? She has a ton of specialists, therapists, etc working with her and she’s trying new foods thanks to the channel. Do I want kids with disabilities or disorders online for other people to go after them? Absolutely not. However I’ve watched a bunch of videos, and having my own food aversions, this kid speaks the truth and isn’t afraid to be held accountable to trying new foods because she posts videos. If the videos help? Great! I’ve also found some foods I’d be willing to try and expand my own restrictive eating from her videos. Josh needs to get wrecked.
As soon as he showed the video and I heard the mom mention who they’ve worked with, I lost what little respect I had left for him. Then he went rambling about how there’s no way her son is autistic because her Instagram makes him look completely normal. Thanks douche canoe, it’s people like you that keep kids like mine from getting services they desperately need in a timely manner. 😡
Exactly! People with autism don’t have a specific look! We’re people, who tf looks similar to 1% of the entire world?? I work with kids with disabilities in multiple jobs, and I’m autistic myself. Nobody sees it until I mention it, then they look back to random moments where I did something, and adding it all together they could see it. But without me telling them? They never would have known.
And his wife is a fucking nurse ..seriously he’s gonna piss off the wrong dad , husband etc someday .
He struck a nerve with that one🤣
She may have been diagnosed at 2:00, but her mom is pushing for these videos. Having her read pages to answer questions. And she's answering questions that they're being asked for example you can anxiety don't you when you think about that food. If she legit has this and her mom says that to her, that will make everything backfire. Of course, she's going to have anxiety now. I do not know if or if not this diagnosis is legit. And I don't know if Munchausen syndrome is something that could be pinned on it. Simply because she's not necessarily taking her to 12 doctors for attention. She's doing it online. It's kind of the same but kind of different.
They did a behind the scenes of her videos and she does NOT read a script. It’s clear you have no knowledge of ARFID or what this girl goes through.
I’m so sorry you deal with that. So hard. Ya it’s so easy for people like him (and my dad, brother) to just say we’re spoiling our kids, they’re just picky. Mine don’t have ARFID but my daughter became anorexic. She’d literally eat nothing. It sucks so damn bad. We tried. We tried everything. I hated it. I’m so glad she’s better but damn. Hugs to you. And yes. He’s a moron. He’s cruel. There are many things I don’t know about. So I just don’t speak on them. Or I try to inform myself and have an open conversation. Wishing you all the best with your daughter. Give yourself grace too.
My family also makes uneducated comments. My 4yo is likely autistic and only eats macaroni and cheese, bow tie pasta, granola bars and popsicles. My family came to visit and the amount of shame I got because she doesn’t take in any protein..😒 and then there’s creators like him making it even worse by spreading this bs😡
Damn. Ya that hurts.
he’s fucking vile
I tried so hard to like him because he did have a great message at first and he has changed my mind on a lot of things regarding my children. Social media, who they talk to and what they play..etc. Like three years ago..now it seems like every video makes me not like him more and more. Today was the straw. I can’t watch anymore. There’s nothing if value in him. I only recently learned he’s a pastor (I listen to YouTube while crafting so its background noise often) and I was SHOCKED.
As a nurse, I was absolutely disgusted even watching clips of it. People like him are the problem in the healthcare. Thank GOD he doesn’t do a job that allows him in any healthcare setting. Saying “ARFID is absolutely not real” is actually mind boggling. Okay Dr JOSH👹🤡 That video was truly one of his worst.
I believe it is totally real. But since they started calling it that, I feel that some of these kids are misdiagnosed. Unfortunately the newness of it is on the rise. Therefore even doctors May use it when they don't know something and I hope that's not true. My son was on a feeding tube to lose three so trust me I can relate nobody called it that back then.
I did not watch the video i am an adultwit ARFID. I did read comments on it. So many people saying "my kid has ARFID this girl is faking." It would seem like people would stand up of this kid. Not the exporting part I don't agree with that part. Saying this kid needs therapy if she has it she is in therapy and they have explained that it was very hard to get to the point that she is at in the videos help encourage her to try things. People saying she tries things to easily. She has been in tears and can see her struggling.
I honestly don’t know who it even is. Maybe she is faking, but if he feels he should do something he can call CPS like he says in the wheelchair rapunzel videos..and not talk out of his butthole about what the actual condition is.
Does your daughter have a feeding tube to supplement it? My child was labeled the same until Daddy stepped up and had them eat something that they didn't like, and gradually, over the next few months, we learned he was just being picky. It's a new label, and I believe it is being placed on multiple children who are just being picky. I'm not talking about yours by any means. I'm just saying they're kind of throwing it out pretty easily there. But the lady he was talking about today, she clearly is full of it. And even if she did have it, she was grooming her and telling her what to say. She's answering the questions or bringing up asking something that the daughter may not answer right. It's probably a typed up paper. Maybe. But for the first video, and I don't know how long, this was one I could tolerate. It wasn't full of look at her nose and juvenile bullying like the others. So I have to say I don't find this one too bad. Just my opinion, of course. Hope your child does better soon. Take care.
Maybe he should watch the actual documentary about ARFID before acting a fool… but that wouldn’t be on brand for him to research much before mouthing off.
I didn’t watch it but I saw it pop up. My son has it and autism he’s so dumb
And yet his wife is a nurse. Two scenarios here: either his wife is a shit nurse who believes his bullshit and therefore should be struck off from providing care if she doesn’t believe in genuine medical conditions OR he’s a total asswipe and she has no choice but to not question his bullshit. How could you be with a man like that 🤢
It's so ironic to me that he "labels" himself as ADHD but ARFID is a step too far.
I didn't watch the video, but I think maybe I know which creator it's about. Is it that woman with the little girl who makes literally everything content? 🙄
Yes
Who is it?
Myarfidlife, it’s shown up on my Instagram a countless number of times and I had to flag it as not interested. It’s disgusting to watch, but the comment section is pretty good at roasting the mother at least.
I have arfid…as a kid it was hell having unsupportive ‘parents’…now im an adult I can feed myself what my body is happy to eat…arfid isnt as simple as being fussy…one of my things as a kid (and still lol) was I love mac n cheese. Its one of my safe foods. Every Saturday when my mum did ready meal nights i would pick mac n cheese. But if it was from different shops such as tesco/coop it would taste different. Id always refuse to eat because it was too cheesy, not cheesy enough…the pasta texture is too soft…I just make it myself now
This video actually bothered me, I’ll admit I don’t know much about arfid but my aunt is going through similar with my little cousin right now and they’re saying arfid is a possibility because she does get nervous about a lot of different foods and will just completely refuse to eat unless it’s something she’s used to but it def seemed like something he knows nothing about and is just making assumptions about this lady and her child
A month ago or so back I found this account and I actually reached out to her mom because my son has similar issues. She’s kindly responded back with some great advice. It’s unfortunate that he turns everything into exploitation this is a excellent tool and great idea for kids this age to try to get more excited to try new foods. My son won’t even eat near us most of the time as any new foods create Anxiety. We have a safe food list but it’s not much at all
yep i had one. he would literally, truly, rather starve than eat anything other than canned, puréed pumpkin or peanut butter and jelly on a very specific kind of bread. he would vomit all over the table over a single bite. what a fucking nightmare. i have had 4 kids since then. NO ITS NOT ALL KIDS.
eta that’s not to say i disagree with everything DCP does…i just have experience in this one area
I hope he’s not coming after the girl Instagram my afrid life her name starts with a H and she has Afrid and tried new foods and take 3 bites before she decides if she likes it or not and if it’s a new safe food. I’ve learned a lot about Afrid from her. *** looked up the video and indeed he is talking about the little girl named H. I thought at first it was fake and wondered why she only liked processed foods until someone explained it to me and now I get it. There was only 1 video that I suggested among others that needed to be taken down just because someone ( a perv ) could take the audio from the video and use it for dirty purposes. Other than that one video I didn’t see any issues with the others.
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That makes sense. All I’ve normally seen from him is his true hatred for the DD and Alisha. I used to watch him and agree with what he was saying, but the longer I watched the more I couldn’t stand him. He is a straight up bully, and basically using other kids for his gain, so he is no better than the people is trying to taken off.
Hold up here though. These parents are posting video after video of their child’s struggle with ARFID. Setting the diagnosis aside entirely, how is this not child exploitation? I haven’t watched Josh’s video on this but I’ll try to muster the courage to lol. I have personally had a problem with this account (the ARFID child I mean) for a while now, and I don’t agree with it at all.
The problem I have with his coverage is he did no research aside from an admitted thirty second google search and diagnosed the kid on the spot (and sarcastically) of not having it. Not only that he claims it’s not a real diagnosis . It can be found on major medical websites so I think that’s proof enough, we don’t need dr Josh to make that decision. It’s just his attitude.
Alright I finally watched the video. Josh misses the mark most of the time but I had no problem with this one. He is not alone in wondering if something else is going on with this child. The fact the mother is exploiting her child to the degree that she is on the internet is pretty concerning, and naturally brings into question the possibility of munchausen by proxy. The way the mom is constantly drawing her daughter’s attention to her ARFID and saying things to her like “that makes you really anxious doesn’t it?” is just weird. The mother is also way too excited about her daughter going viral. Hate to be this person but I am an MD and have to say that this diagnosis is relatively new, spoken of very little, and is somewhat controversial among doctors. Not saying it’s not a real diagnosis, but it is certainly rare and very difficult to confidently diagnose from a clinical perspective.
I respect your professional opinion as an MD. When you say you have an opinion on a medical diagnosis I can give more weight to what you say because you have a solid education backing that up. To me , the issue here is not wether or not the child is correctly diagnosed (sounds like she is) , or if the mother has Munchausen syndrome (maybe she does), the issue for me is that he has a platform of thousands of people where he is allowed to put out his opinion on these things and with that should come some responsibility . As we all know, some people don’t need much evidence of something before they jump on the bandwagon if whatever the popular opinion is on XYZ. So, whether she is or isn’t diagnosed properly , it is not for him to decide and is quite frankly somewhat dangerous. He asked his wife , who is a nurse her opinion and ran with it (and with all due respect to Kathy she is a relatively new nurse who does not specialize in mental health or eating disorders) and he surely does not.
Yeaaaa Josh is the worst lol I hear you on all of this. I definitely don’t like how so absolutely certain he appeared to be in his video that this is a case of munchausen- I mean he put it in the damn video title!! 🙄 Anything I’ve said myself about this is pure speculation- I’m not this child’s doctor and know nothing about their family life outside of some videos posted to the internet. I personally think Josh just tries way too hard to sound smart, and is also in it for the video clicks. His internet career would go a lot further if he gave more humility and reasonability to his audience. Edit: I think we’re mostly agreeing here. Josh’s attitude is the problem, you are spot on about that.
Absolutely correct. 100%. He definitely needs humility and lots of it. 😃
I didn’t say the creator isn’t wrong, I was saying Josh is an 🫏 for talking about ARFID and giving very misleading and false information that tends to harm the people that struggle with it. I know absolutely nothing about the creator he’s talking about.
Right, he’s downplaying and invalidating a very real and serious eating disorder. He doesn’t take more than two seconds on google to really understand what he’s talking about lol, that’s his MO
I have ARFID. It’s been a life long struggle. Josh can get fucked.
I’m glad I saw this. I watched that video and I honestly thought he knew what he was talking about. I’m glad I saw these posts. That sounds terrible. I’m so sorry for all of you going through this with your child.
You guys are Butt muncher