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Eating raw meat as a child

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I was just thinking about peculiar behaviours I had as a child and one was to eat raw me. Usually just read meat. I am wondering if this was an early sign of autism and how many other people on here have had similar experiences if at all?

  • I used to eat lip balms, pencils, rubbers, paper, lollipop sticks and I'd chew my jumpers to death. Oh and pen lids. I still chew the pen lids until my mouth hurts, and lollipop sticks. I actually eat them 

    I have an aversion to what I call "hard crunch". Thinking about crunching through a Malteser makes me tense up. I don't mind some crunches like crisps, and softer biscuits, but a lot of crunchy things just need to go away. Finding a crunchy thing in a dessert can ruin the whole thing for me. I can chew other hard textures (food and non-food things) as if it is a comfort even though it often hurts.

    I used to eat dried spaghetti and I love dipping my finger in gravy but especially oxo cubes (mouth is watering now). I binge eat and I also save the best food until last, whatever that may be, as like others have said I like to end on the best taste. 

    I actually thought I was a normal eater before I wrote this - I'm not a rigid eater and like to try new things - but maybe not as normal as I think after all?! 

    I'm not diagnosed yet.

  • in reply to Embracingmyself

    I do the same thing but I also need to calculate which taste I want to be the last one in my mouth - to savour it a bit more   Smiley

  • in reply to Plastic

    I always balance it out so I eat a portion of each equally. Which involves making calculations constantly in my head to determine how much I need to eat of which food before I move onto the next, in a cycle... Funny that I never knew I was autistic until a year ago, you'd think that things like this made it obvious.

  • in reply to Embracingmyself

    Separated food must be eaten in the correct order as well.  Smiley

  • in reply to Ben

    Sorry to hear that. I like the taste of meat. I used to eat it raw as a child sometimes until I got it pullled out of my hand. I always wondered why I did that and after getting diagnosed I wondered if it had something to do my ASD so thats why I through this out there. Not many replies so maybe not :) I might have just been raised by a pack of wolves :) I'm joking

  • As a child I wouldn't eat any meat at all. I couldn't stand the taste, or smell, or the 'feel' of it,  and I still can't today. 

  • in reply to Valgal

    Toothpaste is something I used to eat as well :) as a child

  • in reply to Valgal

    I'm the same about seperating foods! Even as an adult.

  • I liked to eat raw spaghetti. dried lentils, tubes of toothpaste. But as a kid I didnt like my mum mixing my food together, I liked it all separate. I ate them all separately too as I could not handle the mixed textures and flavours.

  • Should say raw meat? Forgot the a and the t!