Eating issues

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I noticed that lifelong I've had some issues with eating:

1.) I remain a very picky eater. There are some things I will not eat, that I cannot stand. I hate lasagna, mayonnaise, mussels, and various other things. There are some things that when I try eating them, I will slow down and the experience will become quite subpar. Some other things, like the lasagna, mayonnaise, and the mussels, if I try eating them, I will start feeling like I am about to throw up; as I struggle to swallow the food, the gag or retching, or whatever you call it, becomes very strong and it begins to make noise. I am very afraid of such situations, because they might result in embarrassment. It results in me looking unreasonably picky and childish. I try to suppress the gagging or retching, but to no avail. Because of this, I tend to avoid social eating, where I don't know what food will be served.

2.) I always finish what I'm eating before moving on to the next food. I didn't know this was unusual, but I've always been this way.

3.) As a kid, I hated it when 2 different pieces of food touched, but as an adult I am glad to say I don't have this problem nearly as much.

4.) If I particularly like the taste and texture of a food, I will tend to overindulge in it, getting more and more. I want to keep experiencing that taste and texture, so I keep eating more and more of that food.

What about everyone else?

Reading this article, I seem to use the gag reflex in a way that most people don't:

Can't say I haven't experienced a slight gagging reflex from eating mayo.
If I were to eat much of it I'd probably throw up.

Also applies to other foods, but I don't really pay attention to it because it's good food and as long as I don't throw up it "has to be eaten".
Actually just today I ate something... I think its called avocado. That wasn't too pleasant.

/e: Just because I don't pay too much attention to it doesn't mean I won't refuse to eat certain foods sometimes. Like mortadella that "tastes" off.

You mean...that's not how the gag reflex usually works? Well that's news to me. I do remember doing that a lot when I was younger, but I don't really do it now. Huh.

Yes to all four things. There are so many things I can't eat because of the odor they give off. It makes me unhappy becuase I'm afraid I'll never be able to eat a diverse amount of healthy foods, even though I really want to.

I also finish one food, then go to the next. More specifically, I start with my least favorite food in the meal and work my way up to the favorite.

I also hated when food touched, but that's gone away for the most part.

I only recently learned overeating was an autistic trait. In high school, on the rare days they served Bosco sticks, I would get about five bags of them (ten sticks), and everyone else wondered how I did that; most others only bought one or two bags. I never knew if it was because they were full or if they just knew when to stop eating.

I'm very sensitive to the texture of my food. I once puked trying to eat a blackberry cobbler a classmate of mine made based on the texture alone. It was delicious cobbler, but the texture was something I couldn't handle, unfortunately.