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Autism, OCD or a phobia?

Alex_

I don't know whether this is an autism thing that I didn't know about, or whether this is one of many things that should make me seek an OCD diagnosis, but I thought I'd ask. Whenever I eat something, anything, and I accidentally touch some of the food that I'm not currently in the process of eating, I have to eat it immediately. The touched food cannot be on my plate. I have no doomsday thoughts, no "eat it, or *something* happens", I just feel this anxiety about that food lying in my bowl or on my plate, touched yet uneaten. Can anyone tell me anything about this? I feel slightly annoyed, and a tiny bit crazy, by this, and I'd like to know what this is about. (Respectfully, of course. This is not intended as a demand, but as a plead for answers.)

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  • I know inexplicable eating habits are common in autism. As a kid, I used to hate peas and if there was any evidence that there had been a pea on my plate or the spoon had been used to serve up something else, I could not eat anything on the plate.

    Also as a kid but went on into my teens, everything on the plate had to be separate. If anything touched anything else, I couldn't eat anything on the plate. Everything was eaten separately as well. And, as is still the case, I eat everything from least liked to most liked.

    Probably the worst thing for me now is that I will eat whatever somebody has gone to the trouble of making me. No matter how much I hate it. I find it easier than telling them.

    I've just remembered a quite serious argument I had with a girlfriend when she took some mushrooms off my plate. She said she thought I didn't like them because I hadn't eaten any but it was because I was saving them for last.

    Anyway, I don't know if that answers your question but I gave it a go 

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  • I know inexplicable eating habits are common in autism. As a kid, I used to hate peas and if there was any evidence that there had been a pea on my plate or the spoon had been used to serve up something else, I could not eat anything on the plate.

    Also as a kid but went on into my teens, everything on the plate had to be separate. If anything touched anything else, I couldn't eat anything on the plate. Everything was eaten separately as well. And, as is still the case, I eat everything from least liked to most liked.

    Probably the worst thing for me now is that I will eat whatever somebody has gone to the trouble of making me. No matter how much I hate it. I find it easier than telling them.

    I've just remembered a quite serious argument I had with a girlfriend when she took some mushrooms off my plate. She said she thought I didn't like them because I hadn't eaten any but it was because I was saving them for last.

    Anyway, I don't know if that answers your question but I gave it a go 

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