Autistic children and adolescents and their parents: being and having meals together

ABSTRACT Objective his study analyzed collective activities, involving eating with autistic children and adolescents, their families and professionals and included walks to street-food markets, picnics and participating in Festa Junina, aiming at investigating feeding in the perspective of commensal...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista de Nutrição 2021, Vol.34
Hauptverfasser: OLIVEIRA, Bruna Muratti Ferraz de, FRUTUOSO, Maria Fernanda Petroli
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Zusammenfassung:ABSTRACT Objective his study analyzed collective activities, involving eating with autistic children and adolescents, their families and professionals and included walks to street-food markets, picnics and participating in Festa Junina, aiming at investigating feeding in the perspective of commensality. Methods Ethnographic research carried out, based on participant observation during a walk to the street-food market, picnic and Festa Junina, conducted with 19 children and 13 adolescents of an Institution for autistic people. The data recorded were analyzed within the phenomenology framework. Results The activities showed the interaction of autistic children/adolescents with space, people and food, revealing the way autistic people relate, belong and position themselves. The investigators highlighted commensality, emphasizing food as a mediator of relationships, considering a scenario that may present contradictions and power relationships, and allows new possibilities of being together with this audience, outside home and beyond therapeutic care. Conclusion Staying and eating in a group influences the autistic child/adolescent and the activities were configured as an invitation to shared meals, with unexpected behaviors that went beyond institutional therapeutic purposes. RESUMO Objetivo Este estudo analisou as atividades coletivas envolvendo o comer com crianças e adolescentes autistas, familiares e profissionais (passeio à feira livre, piquenique e Festa Junina), com vistas a explorar a alimentação na perspectiva da comensalidade. Métodos Pesquisa etnográfica, a partir da observação participante de um passeio à feira livre, piquenique e Festa Junina, realizados com 19 crianças e 13 adolescentes em Instituição que atende autistas. Os dados produzidos foram analisados segundo referencial da fenomenologia. Resultados As atividades evidenciaram a interação da criança/adolescente autista com o espaço, pessoas e alimentos, apontando formas de se relacionar, pertencer e se posicionar. Destacaram a comensalidade, enfatizando o alimento como mediador das relações, a partir de um cenário que pode apresentar contradições e relações de poder, e permitiram novas possibilidades de ser e estar junto a este público, para além dos cuidados domiciliares e terapêuticos. Conclusão O estar e comer em grupo influenciam a alimentação da criança/adolescente autista e as atividades configuraram-se em um convite às refeições compartilhadas, com comportamentos inesperados e que v
ISSN:1415-5273
1678-9865
1678-9865
DOI:10.1590/1678-9865202134200254