Does it make you autistic to be a regular at a restaurant?

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I tend to be far more varied.

I've had 3 meals at the same bar plenty of times. I was a regular for sure. I drank every day until I realized I couldn't do it forever.

After I finish my tennis lesson, I go regularly to a nice Italian restaurant. If that makes me autistic, maybe it isn't such a bad thing to be. I like the food and the owner is very nice. She is of partial German ancestry, like me, and her husband is from Greece. We talk about a lot of different things all the time.

I tend to get into restaurant thinking I will probably take dumplings with potato and cottage cheese stuffing, called "ruskie". Then I read the menu to see if there is anything else tasty and affordable. And I either buy one of the random things or end up with "ruskie" as I planned to. "Ruskie" is my sure choice in case I don't recognize/don't feel confident in the taste of anything else in the menu.

When I were a child and a young adult I was ordering "ruskie" in restaurants every single time because I never had a chance of eating them at home (our home meals were designed for my dads taste, everyday: "potato, meat and salad"). On every family vacation I was known as the child that orders "ruskie" for dinner and also for breakfast if it was possible. Noone eats "ruskie" for breakfast - it's a dinner meal - but some restaurants do what customer says.
But now when I am living alone I can make/chose my own meals every day I want some variety for health reasons. I try not to eat "ruskie" every single day. I need some meat, vegetables and fruits too to keep a healthy diet.

Do you have a photo you have taken of the dish? Something to hang on the wall perchance?

I've worked at a couple casual eating places and there are always people who like to order the same thing over and over. I do it too. It's comforting. Every so often I find a new food that I fall in love with and then I eat that for the next few months to years. I definitely feel self conscious when I see the same people serving me but I just try to ignore that feeling and try instead to smile and be friendly. Order without hesitation as the less uncomfortable you are the more at ease you will make the people serving you.

The term you are looking for is "Regular". You are a regular at the restaurant.

I've been one too, as soon as i walked into a certain Chinese restaurant in a town i used to live in, they almost always knew what i wanted to eat and put a glass of Cocacola with no ice on the specific table i always used to sit at (then they moved back to Taiwan, their kids took over the restaurant and ruined it).

If you want to be invisible, if you can - move to a larger town and spread out your restaurant visits to different places.

People on the spectrum are supposed have a very limited number of foods they actually eat and hate trying new things, which is wrong, but it's okay if you're NT.

But it seems like kids are getting more food-ophobic every day. I'm hearing more and more about kids who only eat like two things, and anything else is like poison to them and their parents would actually be happy to see them eating and enjoying hamburgers and pizza!

Yeah I go to Wendy's a lot and the staff recognise me and know the foods that I want. It makes me feel autistic because I dont see anyone going in there as much as me.

Its weird that autistic people like only certain foods. Im autistic and like many foods and trying new things.

Why do you think there's an "autistic spectrum?"

Autism comes in all shapes and sizes.