Mom Stands Up for Daughter and Teaches Entitled Son a Lesson After He Devours Entire Family Dinner, Orders Pizza and Gives Generous Tip with His Money

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    AITA For making my son pay for a new pizza when he didn't save any for the rest of the family?
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    I 45F, have two kids: 14M and 17F. My son has High Functioning ASD, and honestly most people cannot tell, but it comes out in certain aspects of his relationships such as thinking about others, compassion, etc.
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    My son also eats a lot of food- way more than someone for his age. He is not overweight in any way so the doctors have not considered this a problem. Here comes the problem-for years when we have ordered
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    food, he has neglected to realize that the food we order is for the whole family, not just him. My husband and I have both spoken to him about this multiple times and usually he just gives half- hearted apologies. We are
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    working on this with his therapist, among other issues he has. On Friday, my daughter had work after school so she drove herself there while my son took the bus home. He said he was
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    hungry so I ordered a pizza and told him to save some for his father and sister. I only took a slice. Usually my daughter does not eat much (1-2 slices) and same thing with my husband.
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    That would've left him with 5 slices of a LARGE pizza. About 2 hours later, my daughter comes home and sees the pizza box empty and starts balling. She usually is not one to complain about food and will usually just
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    make her own food but she did not have time to eat before work today and during lunch she was making up a test, so she did not eat since breakfast. I was furious at my son and deducted the money for a new
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    pizza plus a generous tip to the delivery driver from my son's bank account. My son saw and now he is My daughter thought it was the right thing to do, especially when this is about the 3rd time it had happened to
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    her. My son's reasoning is that he doesn't work so his only sources of income are for his birthday and Christmas, so my daughter should've paid since she has a job. My husband and I both are on board with what I did, but idk, is my son right?
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    AITA? *UPDATE: For everyone saying we are underfeeding him, we have tons of food in the house. The fridge is stocked, we have snacks, ingredients etc. My son refuses to learn how to cook,
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    even when we have offered him cooking classes. Even without learning to cook, we have boxed pasta, popcorn, bread, vegetables and fruits, rice etc. all of which require no cooking ability. He simply chose to eat the whole pizza.
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    Little Loki918 • 8h ago • Partassipant [1] NTA. Having Autism is not an excuse for eating the entire dinner and leaving none for the rest of the family, even after being explicitly told not to do so. Having autism is also not a shield against the natural consequences of his actions. He ate the entire large
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    pizza that was the entire family's dinner, and you had to order another one. It was only fair that he paid for it. In the future, perhaps it's best to affirmatively set aside the food for your husband and daughter and yourself (labeled so there can be no confusion) and then let him eat. Also, there are some diseases that either lead to extreme hunger or prevent the full cues from registering in your brain/body.
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    Kindly_Area_4380 7h ago Regardless of his diagnosis, there should be consequences to his actions. How big was the pizza? Growing kids may have out of bounds. metabolism. We have a pizza place that does personal pizzas. Maybe that's a better solution or a large for the family and a small that is his. NTA
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    ieya404 8h ago Professor Emeritass [93] I ordered a pizza and told him to save some for his father and sister. He knew he wasn't supposed to eat the whole thing - that's a very clear instruction to leave some (which would logically have to be at least two pieces since it's for two people).
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    NTA. for him in this particular instance, but maybe he'll pay more attention in future when he's told to leave some for other people.
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    TRIUM EffableFornent • 8h ago • . Nta Aficionado [14] This is a perfect natural consequence. If he was still hungry, he could have made himself some food, but he choose to eat everyone else's.
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    He pays for that. Why on earth should his sister buy him dinner? It's not about him being autistic, as he clearly knows what the deal is... He's just a selfish teenager, and needs to learn that being. selfish has consequences.
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    My husband and I have both spoken to him about this multiple times and usually he just gives half- hearted apologies. We are working on this with his therapist, among other issues he has.

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