14-year-old eats entire large pizza without saving any slices for his 17-year-old sister, mother deducts money from his bank account as punishment: 'He ate 7 slices out of a 16'' large pizza'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 23, 2025 2:00 PM EST

Whatever happened to sharing is caring?

As we prepare ourselves for the Thanksgiving holiday (mentally, emotionally, and physically), let us take a moment to remember to be mindful of our fellow family members to avoid unnecessary conflict. Far too many squabbles and fights arise over nothing during this holiday. If your family is anything like mine, then you know that some of those ridiculous arguments involve the sharing of food.

These family members had better prepare themselves because it's not even Thanksgiving yet, and they're getting into fights over pizza. It turns out that this author's 14-year-old son tended to forget that dinner was communal. He was specifically asked to save at least one pizza slice each for his 17-year-old sister and for his father, but he somehow forgot that request. He ended up consuming all seven slices of a large pizza order.

The funny thing is that if he had done the bare minimum and saved a slice each for his relatives, he still would have gotten five slices of pizza for himself. For the average teenager, that should be more than enough. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the more amusing reactions to the mother's subsequent choice of punishment.

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  • Two teenagers in casualware eat pizza from a box while sitting on a carpeted floor.
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  • "[Am I wrong] for making my son pay for a new pizza when he didn't save any for the rest of the family?"

    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.
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  • Here comes the problem- for years when we have ordered 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
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  • 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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  • On Friday, my daughter had work after school so she drove herself there while my son took the bus home. He said he was hungry so I ordered a pizza and told him to save some for his father and sister. I only took a slice. Usually
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  • my daughter does not eat much (1-2 slices) and same thing with my husband. That would've left him with 5 slices of a LARGE pizza. About 2 hours later, my daughter comes home and sees
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  • the pizza box empty and starts balling. She usually is not one to complain about food and will usually just 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.
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  • I was furious at my son and deducted the money for a new pizza plus a generous tip to the delivery driver from my son's bank account. My son saw and now he is pissed. My daughter
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  • thought it was the right thing to do, especially when this is about the 3rd time it had happened to her. My son's reasoning is that he doesn't work so his only sources
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  • 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? AITA?
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  • *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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  • OP Lanky-Cake7355 He ate 7 slices out of a 16" large pizza. A small personal pizza WILL not be big enough for him Imao
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  • Kindly_Area_4380 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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  • OP Lanky-Cake7355 For everyone wondering if we are not purchasing enough food-I know this is not true. My husband likes to bake and sometimes makes cookies for the family. He usually makes a dozen large cookies, which means there are 3 cookies per person. My daughter and I are usually upstairs when he bakes them, while my son plays his video games downstairs. By the time we come down- the cookies are all gone without my husband even realizing it.
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  • OP Lanky-Cake7355 A large pizza is 16 inches in diameter (41 cm). I've been to Europe (Which is where I assume you're from) and large pizzas here are around 3-4x the size of the pizzas I had there.
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  • LilLight_x INFO: Because I'm not American and I'm feeling entirely lost right now-how... how big are the pizzas over there? Because I've never eaten less than 3/4 of a pizza and I'm quite skinny. I've also never met anyone here who ate less than that, really. Are the pizzas really this big over there that 1-2 slices is enough to feed an adult?
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  • Little_Loki918 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 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 yo
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  • ieya404 > 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). NTA. Sucks 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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  • NTA plsuh > 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. This is invalid reasoning. Neurodivergent or not, he can see that this leads to the conclusion that if you have no income it is ok to take what you want from someone who has an income which is theft. > My son does not have much money to begin with and he is neurodivergent which makes it difficult for him to consider others. Wh
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  • Nta EffableFornent 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. 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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  • Pretzelmamma This is nothing to do with ASD, this is to do with your son being an entitled AH. >my daughter should've paid He ate her portion and expects her to pay for it? Usually when you point out to someone with ASD that they've behaved badly they are apologetic, he just didn't care until there were consequences and even then he's sorry for himself not his sister.
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  • BadWolf_Corporation >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. Your daughter isn't the one who ate everyone else's food.
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  • Temperature Tight465 Nta. He knows what he's doing. You've explained it; you explained it in the moment. He just doesnt think it's reasonable and there haven't been sufficient consequences to stop him thus far (And I'm autistic, so y'all can miss me with the excuses. Too many autistic men get away with doing whatever they want to women because they blame their ASD.)
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