Eating

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Any of you find it harder to eat than NTs? As in eating properly in general. Biting food the right way, cutting food the right way, etc. I didn't learn how to cut my own food at all until I was about 12.

I've always been horrible at cutting my food. I hated to do it in front of people and I'd rather not cook in front of people.
There are certain foods I'm awkward with eating. Pasta or spaghetti being one. I guess that's two. It's got a lot to do with my poor motor skills.
Some food is too hard to chew too, like lamb. My sister tells me that my mum overcooks meat though. But i don't know there's a lot of food that's hard to physically eat. I think it's motor skills related and taste sensitivity related too.

until young adulthood, i had trouble swallowing anything larger than a level teaspoon. i would literally choke-on a bite-sized item such as a bite from a sandwich, i would have to nibble at my food to get it down. i couldn't swallow pills until young adulthood, either- i would have to take mortar and pestle and powder 'em up nice and fine, then mix 'em up with milk and swallow 'em that way. to this day i cannot eat PB, i have to mix it with margarine so that it is smooth/slippery and doesn't stick to the roof of my mouth.

I couldn't swallow pills too. Still find it a bit hard.

I've never had trouble eating.

I was definitely bad at this, but I think it was more of a matter of practice than anything else. These days I have to take 8 large pills a day, and after doing that day after day, you have to get better at it.

I think I may have had issues cutting up food, but I got it eventually. Kind of like tying my shoes. (Compared with my peers, I was a few years behind on that.) I had more issues with mixing up food. I used to eat one item at a time in its entirety then move onto the next. I also used to eat really, really slowly.

My lack of good corredination makes eating messy at times

I just manage to get crumbs everywhere

And eating feels like a chore to me most of the time...don't know why

Lamb is supposed to be really soft, almost falling apart in your mouth. So it's likely your mother is overcooking it, or speed-cooking, as lamb likes to be cooked slowly.

On-topic, I've never had trouble eating food. In fact, I was put on solids earlier than normal because I was so demanding (10 full bottles a day was exhausting for my mother)! Both my mother and my father liked to cook, so I was introduced to all kinds of textures and flavours very early on. Which might explain why I'm not a fussy eater. My brother, however, was allowed to eat whatever he wanted as my mother went through a breakdown after my father left, and felt guilty that he didn't have a father, so just left him to graze. He still can't use a knife and fork properly. He's only just got the hang of eating bacon. He's 16, and SO fussy.

One thing I do have a problem with is different foods touching each-other on the plate. If it's all been cooked together, fine, I'll eat it together, but if it's some meat, potatoes, and vegetables, say, then I'll eat them individually.

What I meant to say, is that I've never had trouble eating and chewing, as I love to eat, and it shows. I'm a very messy eater, though. I get crumbs all over the place, and there's always rice on my place mat, if I have rice at my mum's house.

I never cut (and still don't cut) my food... it just seems unnecessary when I have perfectly good teeth to do that for me...
I remember when I was little my mom didn't like taking me out to eat, and once said, "people are going to think I'm starving you!" because I ate so fast haha. I bent my face down towards the table and shoveled.
My friends made fun of me for it so much that I eventually learned to eat like a normal person lol.

Me too Maybe I never looked starved, but it seems like I was back from the prison. I eat so fast. Because it's for me thing to do. I don't like when sb's looking at me, so in public places I have compulsion Do what you have to do and go away!

When I was a child, I used to throw food around the plate. Because I had little problems with coordination. Now it's all ok. Excluding this above.

I've guess I have some sort of OCD eating habits that make me a pretty neat eater. Usually when I'm with other people (say we're eating something messy) and they have made a mess, my space will be pretty clean. I do stuff like eat my sandwiches in circles or eat tacos back and forth on each end. I've never been the most graceful eater, like twirling my spaghetti all nicely and taking just the right size bite of salad, but I don't have problems with eating. The only time I feel like I eat funny is when I watch a date scene from a movie and see how some girls just eat in a really 'dainty' manner

I've no real trouble eating but it seems that my knife usually goes unused. I'll cut soft things (vegetables) with the side of my fork, and use those handy-dandy cutting teeth humans are so courteously provided with for meat. When I eat in private, anyway.

I'm 29 and still can't cut meat properly, lol. Half the time while I'm doing it, food goes flying off of my plate, and everything is just kind of a mess when I'm done.

I am getting better at it though-when I met my boyfriend 5 years ago, he always hated watching me struggle with it and would take over and cut it for me. Now he just giggles when things go flying off of my plate, lol.

It really sucks if I have something like mashed potatoes and gravy, or buttered corn on the plate, because I know there are going to be pieces that hit it while I'm trying to cut things that I'm just not going to be able to eat.

I've always been a pretty fast eater, also. I just assumed some of it was because at my aunt's house (who I stayed with quite a bit), I couldn't eat the food she gave me, and it was always the same yucky stuff over and over. So by the time my mom picked me up, I'd be really really hungry and would eat really fast-aside from the fact that it was almost bed time anyway when we got home, so I kind of had to. Guess it was also rather emphasized in school, because I was often near the end of the line, so I had a lot less time to eat by the time I got my food and sat down.

I eat fast, too. I guess I just don't see any reason not to. Food doesn't taste better to me or anything if I savor it, and since I need to eat regardless, I figure I might as well finish quickly. I'm only self-conscious about it when I am eating with someone else, because I feel like their normal or slow eating speed emphasizes my own shoveling. My significant other eats really, really slowly and I can often finish two helpings before he's even halfway through his first. Once someone told me I should be in an eating contest because I shovel things in so quickly, and I can eat a lot of food for my body size, haha.

I am extraordinarily messy, always spilling and dropping crumbs. Perhaps this would be remedied by eating a bit more slowly, but I don't know. There are some foods that are just harder to eat gracefully. I have particular trouble with pasta, sandwiches, salads, and pizza. I'm not bothered by my messy eating unless I spill on myself, because lots of food stains are hard to remove from clothes. I stained a favorite shirt with balsamic vinegar when some salad fell off of my fork on the way to my mouth, and it wouldn't come out in the wash.

Of all of the steps involved with eating I find the process of getting the food to my mouth and then biting off a suitable piece the most difficult. Most of the time, once I get the food in there, I'm successful the rest of the way, but sometimes it falls out again, embarrassingly. I am careful to chew with my mouth closed, as I find it particularly disgusting to watch other people's mouths gape open while they eat. I often don't mind the size of my bites and then choke, particularly if I'm eating something I really like. Because I eat so fast, I end up with incredibly noisy hiccups nearly every day.

I don't eat with people very much because I think I'm a really unattractive eater, and I'd rather eat and be done with it than linger over a meal while conversing or something.

I don't have problems with chewing or swallowing, but I do have a problem with "smacking" my food when I chew, a habit I developed from my years of living with buck teeth. Even though braces corrected the problem back when I was 12, I'm still noisy when I eat to this day.

I'm also a ridiculously messy eater. During every meal, without fail, there will be bits of food all over the area where I sat, and stains all over my clothes. I'm not quite sure how this happens, but it does and it's embarrassing.