This is a YouTube video titled "Anxiety and Oscar Worthy Performances in Parenting" containing a monologue or talk discussing the challenges parents face managing anxiety, especially when feeding children with special needs or ARFID. The speaker emphasizes the difficulty of modeling calm behavior despite internal anxiety. The content appears to be a single speaker sharing insights rather than a multi-person conversation.
You can't project your own anxiety are they going to do it onto that child? And that takes your best Academy Award performance. You're going to win an Oscar here. Model calm. Make sure you have a pleasant look on your face even if the pit of your stomach is in knots. Are they going to eat it or not and just exude that energy that it's their decision they eat it and man is that hard because that makes your anxiety go up instead of when the food goes in their mouth making the anxiety go down for the parent. So you're right. It's very, very complex and there have been some a little bit of research around parents who have kids with special needs with ARFID et cetera different studies where their level of anxiety is and of course just kind of common sense but of course they have a higher rate of anxiety and anxiety disorders. I should say of course they do. This is really challenging.
What I Was Missing in Feeding Therapy: ARFID, Airway, and Myo with Samy Hernandez
