Food & Eating Habits Formerly, Autistic 6-year old charged with

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>

> That's hilarious. Whenever I heard that line about the children starving in

> Somalia or China or Detroit, I wanted to put my food in a box and mail it to

> them!

>

> On the other hand, I mis-spoke when I said that I'm no longer a picky eater.

> I will eat a wide variety of foods. However, the food items cannot touch, I

> have to eat them in a certain order, and I need different eating

> utensils whenever the texture is different between any two foods. I don't

> think any of this is weird, but sometimes other people do...

LOL I am so happy to have found that there are other people in the world

that I have so

many things in common with. I didn't know there was anyone else who wanted to

put food

in a box & mail it.

I do eat a much larger variety of things now than I did before but I still don't

want them to

touch. I too have to eat it in a certain order. First all of one food then all

the next, so on till

there is no more.

Most of my life people have argued with me about my seperation of food. They say

" It's all going to wind up in the same place anyway, what are you worried

about? " Which

makes me say, " Well If you like your food so mixed up why don't we put your

roast meat

and veggies, chocolate milk and fruit cobbler all in one big bowl and mix it up?

How do

you think that would taste? " To which of course they say that just wouldn't

taste right.

(barf)

Speaking of eating utensils: I can't stand using utinsils that are bent out of

shape or

roughed up and have taken to carrying my own with me in my purse when I go

somewhere.

I cannot eat instant oatmeal because of the texture and have done everything to

improve

it. Nothing work's and I prefer to make mine the old fashioned way on the stove

with the

type that has to be cooked a while. In general I do not like canned vegetable's

because

they have a metallic taste and are over cooked due to the canning process. One

of the

wierd thing's that I do like is original or frosted Cheerios and milk with

pineapples on top.

And no I'm not pregnant, and the pineapples will not spoil the milk. I've been

eating that

for almost 20 years I think it's great.

Kellie