Eating Habits and Aspergers

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I don't know if it's an autistic trait or not, but I tend to eat my meals in stages, working through the contents one at a time. I've been told this is quite weird.

I'm a pescatarian, so I can be a little fussy too. I don't understand people who eat eggs, they look, smell and taste utterly rancid! And that's not even considering what they actually are! My mind just can't register them as food. Also milk, every time I see a glass of milk, I think of giant cow udders! When I was in Marrakech, I saw someone drink it straight from the cow, Yuck!! As the great Billy Connelly once said, "Who was the first person to milk a cow?", "and what did he think he was doing at the time?".

Some of my earliest memories of eating peculiarities are of being yelled at by my dad for using my fork with my left hand even though I'm right handed.
"PUT THAT GODDAMNED FORK DOWN AND PICK IT UP AND USE IT WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND FOR CHRISSAKE!!"
I have no idea why I'd use my fork with left hand but it drove that man bonkers to see me do it.

I cannot stand eggs prepared in any way. The last time I ate one I had to smother it in picante sauce The taste and texture grosses me out.
I can only drink chocolate milk. I know some people that cannot eat honey because it is basically bee barf. Strangely, that does not bother me even though it seems like it should.

I have issues with food textures. I don't know if they are also combined with colors. I am not sure why certain things affect me and others don't. For example, I love oatmeal and can eat it anytime. However, I cannot even stand the thought of cream of wheat. I also like my oatmeal to be lumpy. I can't deal with soft white bread or soft cheap breads. Also if the bread gets soggy I can't deal with it. I do, however love to dunk graham crackers in juice especially like grape juice and that sogginess doesn't bother me. I can't eat things like mussels because I can't stand the texture. I can't even watch other people eat if they are playing with their food. And even reading about it makes me repulsed as well. I had to just briefly skim some of these posts to get through them.

Thanks man you gave me a great Halloween idea. I'm going to eat a gallon of honey and dress like a bee. When kids come to my door for candy I'll barf in their bag. That way I can give them a healthy treat and scare the s**t out of them at the same time.

I am still resentful of how in kindergarten when I wanted chocolate milk at snack time they refused to give it to me and said it was only for the higher grades. They would only give me regular milk which I would not drink (probably 2% milk too. In my house we only buy the regular milk) I also got in trouble in second grade and wasn't allowed snacks at snack time because a lot of the kids brought in fig newtons and I wouldn't eat those. I only had snack time when it was my turn to bring them in. I guess the teacher figured she couldn't stop me from having them if I brought them in.

I drink milk now but usually only if I'm eating something where I think the taste of milk would go good with the food, such as chocolate or cake.

Some odd eating habits I have:

When I eat pizza I like to eat the toppings, then the cheese, then lick off the sauce, and then eat the top of the crust with a fork unless it's very thin or the bottom is soft.
When I eat chicken nuggets I like to nibble off the coating around the edge, then the top and bottom, and then eat the bare chicken.
I almost always examine and sniff my food or drink before I eat it. On a reality show I once saw people on it go to some gimmicky restaurant where you ate in pitch black darkness. This horrified me. I would absolutely refuse to eat there because I couldn't examine my food.

I am still a very picky eater. Some tastes and/or textures don't agree with me at all and i have indeed rushed to the bathroom to throw up if someone sneaked a food particle of something i could not eat into my dish.

Also, i have to each thing separately and foods cannot touch each other, especially if they have different textures. My gag reflex will identify the harder or crunchier food as a foreign object and throw it up. Plus mixed flavors don't agree with me, such as i can eat a peanut butter sandwich or a jelly sandwich but absolutely can not eat a peanut butter AND jelly sandwich.

I never could stand fig newtons.

I got in trouble for eating things one at a time in clockwise order.I would not drink milk unless it was in my baby bottle,which I clung to to age five.It mysteriously got lost when we moved to a new house.I would not drink milk(unless chocolate or strawberry)till in my twenties,I still am not crazy about it.I hated eggs till my thirties,I never remember eating them as a kid.Same for school lunches,I had a teacher force me to eat a dry chicken fried steak sandwich.Or she tried,some of it wound up under the table.I was about to cry and puke.I was so glad when I was old enough to go straight to the playground.I hated that noisy,crowded cafeteria.When I brought my lunch it was usually stolen from me so why bother.One family vacation I got yelled at because all I would eat for breakfast was a BLT.I don't know what is wrong with that,it had veggies on it. The one thing I CANNOT eat,I will spit it out is licorice,and the worst is something chewy and sticky like a licorice jelly bean.There was one hidden in a cupcake and I had to spit it out in the floor of my car,barf.
I eat pizza and pie from the tip.I hated sticky cake icing and I would eat a tunnel in the cake.That did not go over good.I still hate anything sticky,I have to get it off my hands immediately.

Oh, before I forget (sorry, should have said this earlier) I hated green ketchup, had a hard time with a green eggs and ham thing I did for kindergarten. But, otherwise, I love eating eggs, but I guess everyone has their own preferences.

I like to eat the wet part of soup before I eat the dry part. I just slurp all the liquid out with a spoon. I just like eating all the remaining meat and veggies and pasta/rice/dumplings or whatnot, relatively dry.

Dedicated carnivore here, grain free, poison free. I eat food because of it's health properties. Coming from poverty, like so many others, I can easily channel my inner hungry child and eat everything from beef liver to goat cheese, even though I don't like the flavor. (I don't eat dairy too much anymore except for grass-fed cheese, but I did when transitioning to my new way of eating)

I tend to eat what most people would consider ingredients. I rarely mix foods. I'll open a can of fish and just eat it. I'll take an avocado, cut it open, and just eat it with a spoon. I'll eat a whole block of cheese just the way it comes, and eat raw/soaked chocolate beans straight, in whole, unground form.

I eat for keto sometimes, but mostly just making sure I get enough protein takes care of my mood and energy in general. Most of my calories come from fat, usually coconut milk/oil, bacon, chicken broth, tallow, and the like. Eggs, sunny-side up in coconut oil - usually duck eggs because they are more nutritious per dollar thanks to having giant yolks. And budget meats, from grass-fed local cows, so lots of heart and liver, etc.

I do supplement berries, and seaweed and nuts, and a few other foods to make sure I am at or over my micronutrient needs most days. It's all about the numbers and having cured my obesity, arthritis and other problems. I'll never eat bread again.

if I indulged in that kind of eating, my arteries would be clogged with cholesterol, as I seem to lack protective genes that enable some people to eat all the rich food they want and still stay slim and healthy [like that Japanese cat that could eat 2 dozen egg yolks a day and still be rail-thin and have subnormal cholesterol levels].

Cholesterol does not clog arteries. Higher cholesterol is actually associated with longer life and fewer chronic ailments. My HDL is around 90 and my LDL is up there, total cholesterol just above the sweet 240 to 260 range at about 275, but my trigs are so low I'm basically heart and liver disease-proof as far as current data can tell. Raising your cholesterol is a great idea, anybody who says otherwise is selling something.

I remember circulating [as a student] on a AAA [abdominal aortic aneurism] case, and the surgeon had the aorta laid open and was using something akin to an ice cream scoop to scoop out this waxy orangish/yellow stuff in the arterial walls, and one of the other students asked the surgeon, "what's that stuff" to which the surgeon mordantly replied, "oh, about 5000 bacon-double cheeseburgers digested over a lifetime."

Yes, Ancel keys cherry picked data to make it seem like fat had something to do with heart disease. But he was wrong. Saturated fat is lately proven time and time again to be healthy and protective. Doctors and surgeons are among the most indoctrinated with incorrect, outdated information. Look it up for yourself, you have the internet, too! The world's healthiest people, historically, ate very little or no grains and ate a ton of animal foods, with wild plants thrown in for nutrients and seasonal abundance.

Believe me, I wouldn't be living on bacon, liver, grass-fed steak, wild fish, avocados and coconut milk if the research didn't prove it was safe. I spent months reading about this before I started my high-fat paleo way of eating three years ago. All of my health markers improved so much, I have no reason to quit. Lost 50 pounds, arthritis is gone, why would I ever go back? And my HDL climbed from a paltry 50 up to 90.

Saturated fat has nothing to do with heart disease, except that it can help prevent it because it's found in so many nutritious foods.