A Short: The Cheeseburger Conundrum Solved!

I have learned over the years that I have a way of over complicating things.  Yesterday, my boys were really good all day and so we stopped at McDonald's (Old McDonald's if you ask my aspie) for a happy meal treat.  This is a big deal because we rarely, rarely stop for fast food.  When we do though my aspie always eats his cheeseburger around all the edges and then throws it down.  My hubs and I could never figure out why he does this.  Because my aspie has many other quirks, like hating to wear long sleeves, having to say "I'm four" every time he hears or sees the number 4, and only drinking milk in a certain glass; we thought it was for some reason that he had come up to eat his cheeseburger in this manner.  We thought maybe he wanted to eat it and keep it in the shape it can in.  Maybe he got his hands dirty when he ate it some other way and so decided to perform the circle consumption.  Maybe he only wanted to eat so many bites.  Maybe he just wasn't that hungry, since eating at all is usually a struggle for us.  We thought of just about everything but the basics. 

Yesterday, out of the corner of my eye I saw my aspie bite into his cheeseburger after he performed the normal circle eating pattern and make a yucky face.  He put his cheeseburger down and reached for his apples.  I looked over at his cheeseburger to see a pickle sticking out at the same point his just bit into.  I can't believe it.  My son does not like pickles.  Nothing else, he just doesn't like pickles.  This whole time he had been eating around the pickles and then throwing it out.  I guess I should have stuck to the KISS method.  Keep it simple stupid.