Do you let different foods touch?

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My mum said that when I was a baby I was so messy with my food that most of it ended up on the floor, no matter how carefully she tried to feed me with the chunky plastic spoon. So I certainly didn't care about things being ''perfect'' then, and I don't now either.

Like they say, it all goes down the same hole!

When I was younger I ate every type of food with a different piece of silverware, so I'd end up needing about 3-4 forks. I really really didn't want my food touching, but nowadays I don't care.

Most of my foods cannot touch. Things like breaded chicken and chips are okay but liquids or sauces are not. I think that some people, even NTs don't like when their foods touch, my sister had to have everything on seperate plates as a kid and nobody could touch them (this still remains). I hate eating at other people's houses because they don't know how to arrange my food right. The thought of most foods touching nearly makes me vomit.

It all ends up in the same place anyway, so why get uptight about it?

I do not like foods touching. It's not so bad when it's something like a piece of bread touching a chip, but if it's macaroni salad touching pickles, and the pickle juice mixes with the macaroni salad sauce, it grosses me out too much.
I just push the two aside and ignore the part that got mixed, so I still eat the rest of the food. No sense in throwing it all away.

Sounds like a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder ( just yesterday Dr. Phil had a lady guest who couldnt allow the yellows and the whites of eggs to mingle without getting suicidal).Not of asperger's.

Some aspies happened to be OCDC, but most are not. And some NT's are OCDC, but most are not.

I am autistic, and yes my foods touch. I PREFER that they aren't mixed together (unless it is a mixed dish like a stirfry--I mean like my corn kernels getting pushed into my mashed potatoes--yuck!), but I don't freak out if it happens. I just pick them out, and carry on.

I don't let foods touch each other on the plate. I want each food to maintain its individual flavor and texture. I also eat one food all at once, then move on to the next.

Is this an Aspie thing or OCD? I have traits of both.

I used to really hate letting my food touch, well into my twenties. A former housemate would tease me about it rather frequently, but I just hated the idea of food touching.

At some point, I stopped caring about that. I don't remember exactly when. Some things I'll even mix on purpose.

I love it when foods touch and mix. Often times I purposely mix foods together then eat them. One of my favorite combos is peas and potatoes or macaroni and cheese or rice I don't mix them together like on the plate but I you know take a bite of starch and a bite of peas together. sometimes I put my peas on top of my mashed potatoes. I also love to mix pepperoni and sour cream. So yeah I love it when foods mix.

I don't really care, but my aspie bf won't eat anything that is not properly mixed

I tend to mash foods up together a lot of the time before I eat them: eggs and grits, mashed peas and cabbage, curry and rice.