Squishy??

As I was working with one of my autistic kiddos yesterday, we were working on his food tolerance program which entails eating vegetables. What 6 year old really loves vegetables anyways? Well, in the year and a half I have been working with Mr. Jack, I have heard alot of excuses as to why he can't eat his vegetables, followed by very long aggressive screaming tantrums. Well, we have passed that point {thank goodness} using positive reinforcement and redirection and have moved onto mostly verbal protesting. Yesterdays most clever excuse went something like this:

Jack says,"I can't eat my vegetables. I don't like vegetables!"  My response, " Why don't you like vegetables?"  Jack's response, " I don't like vegetables because they make me squishy!" {squishy?? Huh?? that's a new one}

Oh kids they say the darndest things!