Aspies and unusual eating habits

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i hate cheese, particularly those in slice forms. one time, i ate a cheese sandwich. i was feeling nauseous for the next few days just thinking about it. the feeling of having that cheese inside my mouth.

I cant stand fat on meat. This also includes chicken skin that hasnt been roasted till its like paper thickness. I just cant stand it. I used to cut every single line of fat of my meat. Ive worked on getting better at it but the fatty edge some meats have I cannot eat and have to cut it off. Pretty much Ill gag if I try to eat it. If I force it Ill probably projectile vomit everywhere Also I cannot really eat mashed potatoes on its own. After a couple mouth fulls Ill start reaching trying to throw it up. Plus Im really fussy. Wont eat fruit with any marks on it, wont eat fruit unless its fresh. A lot of vegetables I dont like the taste of. Lastly anything soggy- things like cereal, bread thats got soggy, some desserts, etc. Again the texture makes me gag.

As a kid, I wouldn't feel comfortable eating something anywhere but at home. I was afraid of getting sick in a time or place where it would be very inconvenient to feel sick.

There is def something in this ! !


Somebody wrote :-

"I have a thing with food textures. Certain foods, like tomatoes for example, almost certainly make me gag. "


I am the same with tomatoes or onions ..... fish bones AGHHH !

Loads of weird textures in food bother me .

Well, the first thing people have found strange is the fact that I hate ketchup. Always have. The texture, first of all, and the vinegar in it-- I HATE vinegar in anything.
I don't like mayonnaise or mustard, either. Ordering sandwiches from fast food places has always been a pain, because they never seem to understand that I want JUST the meat and cheese ONLY-- just scraping it off does not help, because I can still taste the disgusting pickle and mayonnaise etc left behind.

Actually, I would probably be considered eating disordered. With me, it's either one extreme or the other-- either I heavily restrict my intake, or I binge.

Anyway, some other habits--
I prefer to eat things in coffee mugs, (instant rice especially, with cheese and hot sauce and soy sauce).
Certain foods have specific way to be eaten. Bread, for instance (when I could still eat it). I first eat the crust off, slowly. Then I tear the bread into small pieces. Then I roll each piece into a tiny ball, and eat them one by one -- sometimes dipping them into hot sauce or something. I put hot sauce on just about everything.

I prefer to eat meat with maple syrup. I like savory+sweet combinations, it just tastes better to me. Like a sandwich I used to make all the time which involved ham, bacon, strawberry jelly, butter and brown sugar, all on hawaiian or potato bread. I highly recommend it.

When I was younger, I often used a medicine dropper to drink things. I would still do this if we had a medicine dropper around..
although sometimes I drink things in bowls. Not like.. a dog, or anything, but with a spoon, as if I were eating soup.

I'm extremely paranoid about food going bad, expiration dates etc. I annoy my mom with this a lot by practically interrogating her about the state of something in the fridge or wherever-- worrying that it's poisoned or will make me ill just by tasting it, and so on.