Published on 12, July, 2020
Are you able to eat anything now that you couldn’t as a child?
I didn’t think I had any food issues until I realised I was Autistic in 2019, and subsequently went through my existence with a fine toothed comb.
My sensory issues don’t stop me eating anything specific as such. It’s more of the case I avoid certain things, and I can, because I cook for myself as my children have flown the nest. I had a little think just now, and I still avoid the things I did as a child. Do you?
Weird tangent maybe, but I was just thinking about that expression yesterday. You’ve said it correctly- fine toothed comb. But I seem to hear a lot of ‘fine tooth-comb’ from people in general and it just seems odd.
I was also thinking of the phrase yesterday as I was using a fine toothed comb on my daughter's hair, getting rid of things that shouldn't be there, and thinking about how it was an apt metaphor.
Oh, I hear things said wrong all the time. One that annoyed me was on countdown of all shows. A contestant kept saying continent instead of consonant . No ‘s’ was pronounced throughout the whole show.