Do you stare at your food while you eat?

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My brother used to bug me often about staring at my food. It's something I can't help. I like to see what I'm eating, because there are things I hate eating, like onions, but sometimes I still do because it's too much work to get rid of them. But I hated that he made such an issue out of it; it feels like an aspie trait, so that's why I'm wondering.

In public places, I often look at my food to avoid looking at other people.

I do the same thing. I am a horribly picky eater and always look at what I'm eating.

I won't eat onions, doesn't matter how much work it is to get rid of them

Mushrooms.. feels like slime in my mouth

raw chicory / endive, when i chew on that I get the sound in my head like the high pitch of a bad CRT TV, only 20 times as intense and that on each bite.

But you'll always see me picking mushrooms out of my food and checking what i eat if i think that there might be mushrooms involved.

Nope, I scarf it down.

Yeah, I always stare at my food. Someone once gave me a bread roll and I stared at it so they said 'we didn't poison it'. But it had fallen on the ground.

Yes

ditto

I've spent many hours as a child picking out all the onions out of my moms cooking, and sometimes even after an hour of picking out the onions i bite into a missed onion, and there goes my appetite.


So yeah, i do stare at my food, if it has onions, or i just don't like it.
If i DO like the food, i might look at it occasionally.
If i LOVE the food, there's no time to look at it, its already in me.

Ok, reading this thread makes me feel so much better.

I've picked onions out of my food as a kid so often it's crazy. Parents used to hate it, but didn't ever stop preparing the food that way. They used to tell me that, cooked, the onions have no taste at all. Maybe. But they still had that awful texture.

Now, all grown up (lol), NO ONE tells me what to eat. If it has onions in it, I'll pass thanks.

I avoid dinner parties for just this reason. "Um let's go out to eat instead, whadya say?" And yeah, I'm a terrible picky eater with a truncated diet that drives gfs nuts. As a result, I ask no one to cook for me--I'm capable of doing it myself.

Last edited by Exile on 03 Dec 2008, 3:11 am, edited 1 time in total.

I hate onions too. When I was younger I would pick almost everything off a pizza except for cheese and bacon. I hate the taste of cooked pineapple too.

I felt like onions DID taste awful, despite what I was told. But is it the texture that gets to everyone else? Or the taste? Or both?

I had to see an oral pathologist a few years back. At one point he told me that I had more cebaceous glands in my mouth than anyone he'd ever seen or treated. I wonder if this is an aspie trait? Anyone know about this? When I asked him if that's why foods tasted so bad to me but apparently good to almost everyone else, he said of course and then guessed that I preferred bland foods and avoided spicy food because they were "overpowering." I wonder if anyone else knows about this. Do we have an excess amount of cebaceous glands? Everywhere or just oral?

For me it's the texture.

I love onions! And garlic too, for that matter.

If I don't look at my food what really drives me nuts is that it's a grab bag of textures that I'm shoving into myself. I'm all right not staring at my food when I'm eating fries or chips or other "quantity" items that I'm not likely to experience a new texture with.

I do it; I have to. But isn't that rather common? Doesn't everyone want to see what he or she's eating?

I am huge on food texture. I don't eat dark meat, raw red apples (mealy), animal fat, uni( sea urchin), nuts (minus peanuts), water chestnuts

drives my husband insane.