Do you like sharing food with others?

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My personal preference is to eat alone, like most solitary wild animals.
But, for the sake of socialising, I don't mind sharing my food, and I can in fact enjoy it if I really like the person in question. In our family, we're always either eating or cooking all throughout the day, and offering or sharing food is kind of a way of saying 'I like you very much'. So, when I share my food with someone, it usually means I feel very comfortable with that person.

I don't mind offering people my snack food, like my Cheetos from my bag of Cheetos or my Skittles from my bag of Skittles. What I don't like is people not being able to avoid farking with my food on my plate while I am eating it. I don't like it when people add or subtract things from my plate. Can they pleeez just keep their hands to themselves to eat their own food on their own plate and avoid farking with my food on my plate?

I don't mind sharing my food or drink, unless its too small a portion to be shared.

I won't share my food with humans if it means they will touch it and contaminate it. That means no touching food on my plate and no drinking out of the same glass as me.

That's how I feel but back when I still dated I wouldn't share with a boyfriend either.

It depends. Usually I don't want to share food when the other person will be touching the food that I could also be touching when I eat. A bag of chips, for example. I don't want to put my hand into a bag that someone else has been in. However, I am fine with sharing the contents if there is a second container for the other person to use. Then again, I can't say this is too hard and fast of a rule as I will share with family or (some) friends if I am hungry enough. I will not share beverages though as the backwash from the other person's mouth will contaminate it and possibly make me sick. Likewise, I don't want to share food off my plate or eat from anyone else's plate unless I can determine that there is no cross-contamination.

I am not sure this is an Aspie thing. I am NT, and the thought of others putting their fork into my plate of food, or asking for a drink of my drink really grosses me out. I have one friend that does this without asking, and I will just not finish eating my food if she sticks her fork into my plate. I guess I should say something to her.

Not sharing one's food or being grossed out by sharing food is, as far as I see it, not related to autism per se. I know plenty of non-autistics who are grossed out by having other people rummage through their French fries, or sharing a lollipop, or drinking out of the same glass. However, I think this thread is appropriate for the General Autism Discussion forum because of the element of 'sharing', being a primarily social endeavour requiring an amount of putting-oneself-in-the-'other's'-perspective.

Uhg, I hate having to share my food, when my ex-wife and I were together, she would want to order a meal and share it, and it drove her crazy cause I didn't like doing that, even if we knew there was going to be more then I could eat by myself. As someone else in this post said, my food.

Once at a fair me and two other people were going to get this large plate of stuff that was too big for one person. When one of them asked for an extra empty plate for me to have some they acted like they didn't know what the person was asking for and gave them a small soda lid. I just didn't bother having any. I wasn't going to eat off the same plate as them.

I don't like people even breathing on my food let alone SHARING it.

Go anywhere near my food and there will be a fork sticking out of your hand/face.

I only share my food with Willie, a co-workers Maltese dog that she brings to the office. If Willie doesn't like what I'm eating, I fix him something that he likes. I often tell people that I'm Willie's personal chef.

Of course, Willie eats off of his own plate.

I should add that Willie is just about the only other living being besides me who will even eat my cooking except on rare occasion.

I would rather buy you a meal then share mine. I have done this before ......on numerous occasions. I enjoyed doing it.

Other than THAT, children have unlimited access( i always think kids might be hungry, long story) and ofcourse the women in my life....

accept for the fries. LoL.

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NEVER!! !

I also hate people in my house, for the same reason.

Willie died a few months ago and the co-worker has a new dog named Charlie. I fed Charlie a small piece of chicken once and he puked for an hour. It turns out that he can't tolerate much in the way human food at all.

So I'm no longer a dog's personal chef.