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I actually commented this somewhere else, but I wanted to post it here as well, because I decided that I want a post based off of this.
Some papers that my mom filled out for my counselor questioned about me having "unusual eating habits."
My question is, would you consider this to be "unusual eating habits?"

Alright, here it goes.
As far as my eating and drinking (not alcohol) habits, I have some interesting specifications. I remember before my parents and I were asked by my counselor if I have unusual eating habits, but now that I think about it, I think that we didn't really understand the question.

I go through monthly/yearly cycles of obsessively eating a specific food/meal very, very often. I go through usually even longer cycles with particular drinks. For a while it was ice tea with no sugar. For a while it was sprite in a glass. For a while it was very vanilla soy milk. For a while it was yellow gatorade. Now, it is lemonade halfway watered down in a tall glass with a table spoon.

I am also one of those people who does not like many foods to touch. It's just disgusting and wrong to me. I do NOT, and I repeat do NOT eat fruit salads. I do NOT want to taste pineapple on my peaches!! !! ! The times that I have had fruit salads, I usually picked out one fruit that I would eat from the whole salad, and it would be disgustingly tainted by other fruit, which are just fine BY THEMSELVES.

My food can not touch other food on my plates. I hate buying school lunches, because the lunch ladies get beans all over my peaches and bean juice underneath my bread or pizza or something. It is literally painful for me to even witness.

There are many, many foods that I only eat a certain way. My mom makes cream of wheat a certain way. That is the kind I eat. She makes ice tea a certain way. That is the kind I drink. I eat cheese tortillas with no ham. I didn't say I want ham. It's not enhancing it. It's making it wrong. I am a very, very picky eater. I didn't always realize it either.

Many foods and or drinks have a taste far too strong for me. I hate barbeque sauce. I only drink lemonade watered down VERY much. I also must drink it with a spoon that isn't evil. I LOVE spicy foods, however. I hate many sweet foods. Well, I like a lot of them too, but there are more that I dislike. I don't obsess over candy. I'd rather eat broccoli. I love broccoli. I love salty things. I hate icing. It is way too sweet.

There was also a period of time a few years back in which I would only drink things with a straw. I also for many drinks will only drink it from certain things. Some drinks only go in glasses. Some only go in bottles. They rarely fall into the bottle category. I don't like bottles very much.

I have to have my mini pancakes in a certain pattern places on a certain plate. The only time I do not eat mini pancakes on that plate is if I go to my other parent's house, for it is not important to the point of which I'd bring it with me. They still must be in a certain pattern, however.

I have overcome one thing about my pickiness and standards. I now can sometimes manage to eat things that have little bits and pieces of things that I don't like in them, but there are still situations in which I will not stand for it.

Do you guys think that these are considered "unusual eating habits?" We just said that I didn't have unusual ones, but now I question that.

edit: An acception to food touching is if I have both mashed potatoes and corn. In that case, I must use my fork to make rows in my mashed potatoes to plant my corn in, and then eat it quadrant by quadrant. I am not kidding.

Edit: I also switch utensils per meal. I don't eat crusts on sandwiches, but I do on pizza. I don't like putting my mouth where someone else's has been on a cup or utensil; I don't even like putting my own mouth on a spot on the cup twice.

Edit: if I am drinking a warm drink, I must be also drinking a cold one as well

Do you have any siblings? I am the youngest of seven kids - would have starved to death had I ever tried to meet any of those requirements before I ate.

I did a few of those things when I was young. to this day, I still eat my sandwiches in a circle, crust first so I can save the yummy middle for last

I can't stand olives, caraway seeds and bitter beer.

When I was growing up, we kids didn't have the luxury of choice or pickiness. As a matter of fact, there wasn't much food. We ate once a day - if we were lucky, and if we were picky about it, we'd simply starve. My mother wasn't around and my father didn't work. He just used to get stuff from his friend and bring it over. Once he brought us a large can of butter. That was all we had to eat. Just my sister, the youngest at 3 years old, ate it. The rest of us starved.

My brothers, sister, and I didn't starve, but Dad made it perfectly clear that he was the breadwinner, and if he wanted everything that was on the kitchen table, no one else ate until he said it was ok to eat. I made the mistake when I was about 13 of grabbing the largest steak on the platter. He was ready to shove the carving knife through my chest. I was, from that point on, persona non grata with him.

Yes, I would think that qualifies as "unusual".

I'm horrible with food sensitivities. There are more foods that I can't eat than those that I can. When I lived with my parents they'd have to make me something different from what they were eating most nights. I also don't like food touching. I even use separate utensils for each dish.

I like it when the food touches and the juices mix. If I had something that wouldn't go with something else, I'd probably put it on a separate plate.

My grandpa used to fill his plate up with however much food he wanted, mix it all together like a salad, put molasses on it and eat it with a knife. It sounds weird but he was in his late 90s when he died, pretty healthy and he only lost his mind in the last six months.

I eat when I am hungry, that doesn't seem to gel with the people around me, because I am never hungry when they are. Or on the time they are suppose to eat.

When I was younger, I had a problem with food touching. I also felt the food was tasteless or plain gross. I asked for salt, but salt was considered bad. So they left me to finish eating but I never did, I just fell with me head in the plate when I slept.

I am very careful with the food I pick to eat. I don't like chicken that isn't de-boned properly. I have to concentrate really hard not to gag if I bite into it. I am 34 years old and it still hasn't changed for me. I do try eating new foods and experiment what goes good together. It's not easy when people don't understand.

Habits of mine include:

-Eating mustard with every kind of meat and fish available. I will cut steak and dip it in mustard.
-I have to eat certain parts of cereal first before the others.
-I have to eat exactly 2 chicken wings and 2 legs at the same time.
-I cut my pancakes and waffles all the way into pieces before putting syrup on and eating it, public or private setting.
-Ketchup goes on fries exactly as such, unless in fast food restaurants where I'll dip it.
-I'll gladly mix 2 or 3 kinds of soda or juice together just to make it interesting.
-Rice and broccoli mixing is okay.
-After buying hot wings from the market, I eat only 6 at a time.