Any of you have to inspect something before touch/eating it?

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I've been like this forever, but even more fanatic about it when younger. Whenever I eat a piece of food I must inspect it to make sure it has zero blemishes, then remove them if so. Likewise, I -have- to survey every fork, spoon, knife, glass, etc, to make sure it has zero marks and is clean. Do any of you have this problem?

Yeah. It sounds like you might be 100% vigilant about that, while I'm maybe 90%, but yeah, I check out my food, silverware, glasses, etc. before using them. Fruit gives me a hard time, because it's hard to tell if it's okay or not...I hate having to go through a bunch of fruit at a store to find some that doesn't look weird.

Also (maybe related?) I like having a lot of light when I eat. For some reason that I can't really put into words, it makes me uncomfortable eating if I can't see my food. My dad was like that too. My mom says she would be trying to do a romantic dinner or something, and he'd need to turn on the lights full blast before eating

Yes, I do the same. I have to check everything before eating.

Also, when someone outside my family gives me a candy or food, I sniff on the piece of food and check its smell

I've got to have a light on too. No way I'm gonna eat something without being able to perfectly see it and all its details. I also have problems eating around other people. Generally, people can be quite disgusting in their eating habits.. and being unable to filter out the sound of the food squishing around in their mouths drives me nuts.

I dont like to eat around people...dont like to see their food and self-concious about my own chewing(why is this considered a social activity?I only like to eat watching TV or reading....I dont like to talk and eat at the same time...yuck for eating and dating.)

I dont like a lot of light EVER,so eating is no different.I check veggies and fruit for bugs but that is about it...I eat a lot of chinese food and the sauce covers up any "bad spots" so I try and not think about it.I do have to check it for onions and mushrooms....only like very small,well cooked onions(no crunch allowed)and NO fungus for me.Somethings should just not crunch....why must you people add celery to my Tuna salad...how will I know it is not a bone crunching?(Actually I am on a Tuna ban,now.....fish are just polution sponges and cant stand "fishy smell".....weird how tastes change.I used to like it.


I dont freak out about germs to much...I think some small dose of them is healthy and will "innoculate us to illness" but I will wipe off any silverware with "spots". and wont use one with dried food.(most times it has been sterilized,even if it doesnt look clean.)

Yes....I always do the smeel test before trying anything new.My family always made fun of me for this but I can smeel some "chemical" things that always taste bitter and toxic to me.I used to not be able to eat canned soup because I could "taste" the metal....my taste buds have either mellowed from smoking and age or the cans are different then 10 years ago,because they dont taste to bad to me recently.

I would like fruit more if it didnt taste so "chemical"...that taste does not wash off and most fruit has very liittle "fruit" taste now adays...so much for genetic modification.We now have some really good looking things that taste like cardboard and chemicals.

Now for something unrelated to the topic:

I'm not sure if this is aspergers related, but I know it's linked to autism. I've always had what I've only heard been called a 'nervous twitch'. I don't like that term though. Regardless, I'll get fixated on something trivial like.. popping my neck. I'll HAVE to do it a million times all day. My mind essentially forces it. It can manifest in differant ways. For instance, I also have to do my mouse into the bottom left corner of my screen every so often whenever it hits. Anyone else experience something similar?

No; as long as there is not something obviously wrong with the food I just shut up and tuck in. I'm like that, me.

The only thing I have to inspect is those prepackaged crackers with cheese or peanut butter. Once I took some of those apart just like you do Oreos for the fun of it and there was a tiny little worm crawling across the cheese spread. So ever since then I don't trust those crackers.

that was me as a child- I wouldn't eat anything if I thought someone had toched it, I checked for unusal colorsand smells, I was really obsessive. I still do that on occasion but for the most part I don't anymore, now its a rare thing- I think being in the military cured me of that osession to a degree, as all the food is suspect.