Eating Habits and Aspergers

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I suspect there are different genes in people that make some people respond well on a paleo diet while in other folks it would clog their arteries [like myself]. my cholesterol numbers didn't go down until I ditched most animal products. I have the sneaking suspicion that the Japanese might be on the right track with their blood type-based dietary recommendations [type O = mainly carnivore, type A = mainly veggie, type B and AB = omnivore].

I haven't posted here in quite a long while.

Anyway I think this topic is very interesting. I never really linked my weird food and eating habits with my Aspergers.

Some things that others have mentioned I also do. I'm not hugely picky about what foods I eat. However I do eat in strange ways.

The few foods I'm picky about are onions, peppers, tomatoes and carrots. There are probably more.

I will eat jalapeno peppers if they are in poppers or if they have been canned. Here it is kind of a tradition to can them with chopped sausage or hot dog pieces in a red sauce. Sometimes cauliflower is added. Not sure what its called but I generally like it. However I will not eat jalapeno in anything else.
I hate bell peppers and onions. However I will eat them only if they are stir fried til they are squishy.
I refuse to eat tomatoes or carrots if they are cooked. But I do like them raw.

When eating I usually face the biggest food towards me. Such as meat towards me and sides up top. I eat each food clockwise. My family used to comment on this when I was a kid but no one really thought anything of it.
When I eat a sandwich or hamburger I eat around it. Turning it round and round as I eat. I like flipping hamburgers upside down. I don't know why.
I used to always eat the topping off of pizza before eating the crust. Or I scrape the topping off, eat the crust and then the topping. As an adult I don't do this as often anymore.

As for drinking I do tend to only drink from the same side of the cup each time. I also keep that side of the cup facing towards me. I guess that helps me remember which side I drank from. I will also drink from a side away from any imperfections in the cup.

When I go out to eat at a fast food place and the food comes in wrappers, I always flatten them out before eating. Once I'm finished I neatly fold them before throwing them away. My boyfriend finds this very odd and has mentioned it a few times.

I do usually eat fast. But always thought it was left over from my school years. I was badly bullied by a group of boys in high school. We had an hour for lunch. So I would get to the lunch room as fast as I could so I could be one of the first to get my food. Then I would eat it as fast as possible so that I could retreat to sit in front of my locker for a few moments of peace before my bullies finished eating and came to torment me.

I do hunch over my plate. But I'm bad about dropping food and don't like getting it on me.


That's all I can really think of at the moment.

Also I get choked a lot while eating. Not badly choked. Just that I get pieces of food stuck and end up clearing my throat a lot throughout the meal. Not sure why that is.

Unless it's a carbohydrate when I eat I have to eat it slow or I'll gag and maybe throw up (Happened to me twice), But people always laugh and say "Eat faster." I can't! I do the hunching thing I think too and I was always a picky eater. I'm sure there are more I can't think of right now. Also I can't handle drinks that are too cold. I often have to let it sit or add a little hot water to it.

Yes, the crust has to go first! Any other way of eating is clearly wrong.

Another example of what is correct behaviour.

Also, I will do certain things with certain foods.
When I have a burger, first I open the burger to put in extra ketchup and dressing, on both sides. Then I close it up and re-wrap it. Then I eat all the fries, then I eat the burger.
If I eat anything with potatos, I have to mush the potato and mix with the sauce.

I do that too.

I was terrified to drink chocolate milk. I didn't drink chocolate milk until I was almost an adult.

I can't stand the texture of eggs or of things with egg-like textures. It makes me immediately start dry heaving.

I hate the texture of pork. It's like halfway between meat and rubber.

I hate the texture of most fish.

I hate the texture of ground beef, and of steak.

I hate the texture of macadamia nuts and chickpeas.

I dislike mixing certain textures(like putting nuts or nut pieces into almost any foods, unless the foods themselves are also crunchy).

I almost always hate artificial sweeteners, like sucralose/Splenda. Splenda has an awful aftertaste, like alcohol.

I will not eat anything if it does not smell like food. Things like tv dinners and many pre-prepared things marketed as food often don't smell like food. They smell like chemicals, so I'm scared to eat them.

I eat things in order. If I'm eating something with visible pieces of different foods(like chicken and rice) I will pick out all of the pieces of each food before starting with the next food.

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I do that also [to save the yummy inner parts for last], and I also have to be careful or else I get stuff down the wrong pipe, especially if it is sweet, for some unknown reason.

Eating hunched over ones' food and eating fast is a institutionalized thing to do.

The person is hunched over (those protecting their food from others) and eating fast would be a type of survival instinct for certain personality types in prisons to mental hospitals depending on what types of wards/other patients.

Some bad places would allow others' to steal others food, or only allow short periods of time to eat.


I have always been a fast eater. I do not eat "proper".
It sounds like the OP stepmom was very particular about eating habits...

I'm sorry your cholesterol went down. Now you are more prone to alzheimer's, diabetes and a lot of other chronic ailments. I highly recommend eating more animal products to get your cholesterol back up into the safe range. Shoot for the total range of about 240-260, with very high HDL and low trigs. This is the sweet spot for longevity.

I have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and stroke I have to think about. my total cholesterol was measured as 350 [with HDL <40] before the lifestyle changes [elimination of refined carbs and saturated fats] I had to make. also I am blood-type A which means a herbivorean diet [with some poultry and fish] is proper for me. now at least my total cholesterol if <200 and my HDL is >50.

I'm sorry your cholesterol went down. Now you are more prone to alzheimer's, diabetes and a lot of other chronic ailments. I highly recommend eating more animal products to get your cholesterol back up into the safe range. Shoot for the total range of about 240-260, with very high HDL and low trigs. This is the sweet spot for longevity.

I am a picky eater and as a kid ate food one bite at the time from each category (meat, veggie, starch). I cannot swallow some soft slippery food and have a gag reflex. It used to piss my mom off but I could not get certain food down. I cannot eat seafood unless Salmon cook well done. I cannot eat grisly meat and hated my mom's pot roast. I cannot eat overly ripe fruit. Regarding taste I cannot eat odd flavor foods in some vegetables, cheese, processed meats like most salami. I don't like milk unless in cereal. Smells set me off too. Seafood is terrible.

I always have to clear my throat after a meal too. Never knew why. As far as pizza goes and burgers for ages I would only eat the bread not the meat or topping. So my parents when ordering a Mc Donalds had to ask for a cheese burger without the cheese or the burger. They had to ask in that way.
I began to eat pizza with tomato sauce after I dreamed about eating it that way. Before that I made my parents scrape everything off. The same happened with the cheese then eventually the toppings. Now I can happily say I am a fully fledged pizza eater.
Don't mind beef burgers now either but steak is way too rubbery.
As I said before there was a period of a couple of years where I ate nothing but cereal.
Don't eat vegetables. I did eat them for a little while- trying to be healthier but I put up with it. Now I'm gone back to hating the texture. Mushrooms used to remind me of the texture of an eye ball.

I absolutely love chocolate milk. Always cheers me up. They say it's the ideal thing to drink after exercise too. The protein in the milk and the sugar in the cocoa.

On that note it's time for some chocolate milk.

As a child I used to eat very loudly with my mouth wide open. It took my parents years to get me off of that. I eat EVERYTHING with apple sauce, I just didn't like the taste of food. I did this until I was 19 years old.

I eat WAAY to fast for my own good; my parents tell me to slow down when I eat too fast.

my older brother as a schoolboy, one time sucked his milk down too fast, and it came running out his nose.