Sometimes it's not worth fighting

Having a child with aspergers has taught me a lot, but I feel like the most important thing is sometimes fighting is pointless. Children with aspergers are extremely head strong, which is great! They know what they want and there is no stoping them and somethings that may seem odd to us are in their eyes perfect. For our boy some of those things include eating mac and cheese everyday for lunch and wearing a Minecraft hoodie everyday. We were told recently that we need to start making him eat other things and making him wear "clean clothes". I am here to tell you, it's not happening. We work with Hunter every single day getting him to do simple things like saying hello and making eye contact. Things that we do without thinking, he needs extra help. We make him try one new food a day, due to his aspergers he only likes certain textures and tastes so this is a huge thing for him! We decided these battles are best to be fought behind closed doors and when we go out to eat, he goes to school, or a sporting event or wherever it maybe he is allowed to wear his hoodie and eat his mac and cheese. We figured we're already making him upset by putting him in a social situation he deserves to have his comfort items. With that being said, his hoodie is clean. We wash it with his other clothes at night when he's home and he puts it on before going anywhere, it's just extremely worn-big difference guys! I am hoping over time he becomes okay with eating different foods when we're out, but for now it's okay. It works for our family and our boy is happy and in the end that's all that really matters.