Food and other predilections

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I have heard that NDs are particular about food.
I am particular about what I eat partly because I have to maintain a gluten free diet (supposed to help with autism but also I have celiac disease), and partly because I have trouble eating food if it is not done right.
Most times food can't touch or mix until just before I eat it. Also vegetables all cut in squares pieces or quartered.

And I have trouble eating if the utensils are not right. So I carry my own or use chopsticks or my fingers. I have the silverware and plates I grew up using because they are more comfortable. I wonder if anyone else has these predilections?

yep. i find it difficult to eat with forks with short tines, and with wide spoons. i also prefer eating everything in a bowl, with a spoon or chopsticks. i'm not quite so particular about the presentation itself, but then i always cook for myself, and so i doubt i'd notice if i have any special way of presenting it, cos i'd just do it (you only notice something when it goes wrong, sort of thing). i do have trouble with meals (other than the occasional one) if there isn't something green on the plate, though, but that might just be my "healthy-eating-must-have-vegetables" thing.

Not much predilection for me. I had 3 slightly undercooked frozen meatloafs for supper. Sometimes I just eat food straight off the baking sheet. Why needlessly make another dish to wash? And I always overcook my fried eggs and undercook my scrambled eggs somehow.

"NDs"? That's an acronym I'm unfamiliar with.

GA

I totally agree here.Living alone, I hardly ever used plates or bowls at dinnertime!
When I heat things up in the microwave now, I'll just eat out of whatever the food is in, too.

It depends on the food for me. I have various patterns. For biltong, I search for a piece which seems just right. And with Dairy Milk, I get two bars (one larger than the other by a few milimetres) and eat the shorter one first in a different way to how I eat the second.

SPORKS ARE EVIL!! !! !! !!

I actually like to slightly burn everything I cook in the oven. Not too much, but it adds flavor if you do it right. Yesterday I had barbeque sauce and tuna inside of a hotdog bun for lunch and dinner. I put them on the bottom rack of the oven, and it tasted awesome with a little black on the bottom of the buns. I also prefer barbeque sauce whenever you could use ketchup, BBQ = Super Ketchup.

Most times food can't touch or mix until just before I eat it.

Haha, this reminds me of a funny anecdote one of my friends told me. I'm like this with a lot of things, but not as adamantly as I used to be, she's very particular about it, though. Anyway, one time she was having quesadillas and she had the sour cream, salsa and something else on her plate. Her friend tossed the quesadilla on the plate and it mixed the toppings together and she yelled "Do you know what you just did!?". I'm not trying to poke fun - she thought it was amusing too - it helps to have a sense of humor about stuff like that.

I really like putting my meals together, or at least fixing the proportions. For instance, I'll get a "mexican plate lunch" with tortillas, beans, rice, salsa and meat and put them together. I also like tortilla chips with a bunch of sides - scoop a little of this, some of that; beans on this one, salsa on the next, etc. A lot of times I'll order things with no toppings and then put them on with the packets they hand out.

If I don't keep my stuff seperate, I like mixing it all together beforehand evenly and in the proper proportions. I eat a lot of casserole-y things, like rice with beans and chili, fried rice, that kind of stuff. I like hash - that is, potatoes, onions and meat mixed together and fried. A lot of times at restuarants I'll get eggs, hashbrowns and sausage, cut up the sausage and eggs and mix them with the hashbrowns.

When I was younger, my dad would yell at me to "slow down" when I ate, which was really aggravating since I usually finished eating last. His real contention was that I was adding food to my mouth before I finished eating the last amount, though. I didn't realize it until later, but that was so that I could adjust the flavor, not so I could "shovel it in" as fast as possible. If I had rice with a piece of meat and the meat got eaten before the rice, I'd add more meat. I never used to eat vegetable besides corn, but I do now. Wow, I never really thought I'd post (or even recall) that much information on my eating habits - weird.

I have seen it used elsewhere to mean Neurologically Different. I think that is what was meant by Neuroman.

Michael.

ND means NeuroDiverse as opposed to NeuroTypical. NeuroDiverse folks have acknowledged and hopefully celebrate their variety from what NTs establish as "the norm." NTs have an investment in seeming to conform, though many of them secretly don't. This is why civilization (at least in the US) is so dependent on deceit.

My fork tines have to be thin or at least come to a real point.
I usually eat with chopsticks from a bowl or the pot I used to prepare the food. The exception to this is if I am going to save some of the food. From Bill Nye, the science guy, I learned that putting extra bacteria in the pot before I put it is the fridge is not a good idea.
I also like burnt food. NTs seem to think there is something wrong with this. I used to burn my toast completely black (that's when I could eat bread); and I still do that to my chicken.
However, anything that can be eaten raw, I eat raw. When I was a kid this included hamburger. Now its just fish and vegetables raw.
And I have to have things mixed in the right proportion. Since I prepare all my own food my predilections are not a problem. But when I am around others they usually complain that I am cutting too carefully or too slow, or that I don't need to arrange things on the plate. Strangely enough, they always devour what I prepare.

food is a tuff one alright. I only like some foods

Mac and cheese
Pizza but please no pinapple or ancahvies!
Corndogs
Corn on the cob but not creamed corn
Dingdongs
Twinkies
Captain Crunch
Pop Tarts
Lasagna

PLEASE NO MEXICAN OR CHINESE!! !!

I have some odd eating obsessions and compulsions. All dishes and utensils have to be perfectly clean and believe me, no matter where I am eating, I will inspect them. I cannot look at other people that are sitting at the table, just in case they do something disgusting, or say something with food in their mouths, or get food on their fingers, or face, or something that will make me want to stop eating and start vomiting. If there is a baby at the table, or nearby, I have to face away from it. There has to be some sort of constant noise going on, or I have to wear earplugs because I cannot bear the sound of people chewing. I do not use the same plate, or utensils for different types of food, if everything is not on one plate to begin with. I eat one type of food on the plate at a time, unless I mix the food together. If any food has been mixed that I don't want mixed then I have to separate it before I can start eating. I could go on and write a monolgue about other food related obsessions, but I am too tired.

oh god - other people's eating habits! aaaaargh! i am sensitive like that too, deepthought. people with inelegant eating habits, or anyone eating crisps or other noisy food near me, make me want to run away screaming. and i can't eat while they are, either. shudder, shudder.

When I was a child I cussed my dad out a lot because of the sounds he made when he chewed. It was like he was constantly swishing mouthwash around in his mouth at the dinner table. At first I TRIED to tell him that I was annoyed by the sound, but he said he had to chew his food that way so it would digest better (he had some OCD stuff going on as well). He never stopped and it eventually got to the point that I could no longer eat dinner with the family.

I know this isn't an eating habit, per se, but I also hate it when people snort a lot, like if they have sinus problems, or when people make that noise that they make when they are trying to hack up phlegm, just before they spit. I can't be around that.

My coworker says you must be a silent eater. I don't believe they exist. I am disturbed by the noisy sounds of eating, but I tempered my expressions of discomfort after one day realizing that I too, am a noisy eater. I crunch loudly. However, I do not make squishy slurpy noises which when I hear them make me want to run headfirst into a wall...