I've just discovered that I'm a monster.

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46 years old and I just realised that when I eat a yoghurt, I stick my tongue out under the spoon and draw the spoon into my mouth.

There's no place for me in civilised society is there?

You sound like you belong on a lily pad.

I lick the lid, then I lick the edges of the pot.

Only when nobody's looking though.

I think I'm going to have to get a yoghurt to see what you mean. I've no idea how I eat them.

I lick the pot :)

I turn the spoon upside down...

Whatever you do don't lick the metal lid!

When I was a kid there was a news report once of people having got ill from licking the lids and it really scared me/has stayed with me ever since.

I met a woman once who worked at muller. She told me to never, ever lick the lid. She'd see now they were made

*seen how

I just got my ASD diagnosis and have been thinking back through my life trying to think what on earth I have been doing that would make people think I was a bit different. It's a rich seam I can tell you.

I used to really like to peel the chocolate off mars bars and kitkats with my teeth (in the work cafeteria mind you). I also very much enjoyed hooting like an owl, also in the work cafeteria. Fortunately I'm a research scientist, so the other people hooting around me were all giving it more welly than I was

May I join you on the lilly pad?

No lily pads because it's karma (Karma? Calm a chameleon)

🤣

I'm getting a yogurt later just to try it out

When I eat jelly I hold the spoon to my mouth then slurp the jelly in.
I’m not even ashamed

I was made to feel like I was a monster when I said I saw no problem in eating a kitkat from one end to the other biting through it rather than taking mouse-like nibbles around the edges of the individual fingers (Christ, who has time for that?!) so it’s okay OP, there is clearly room for all of us in society

@StrongLegs the KitKat thing is nothing to do with ASD (unless I'm undiagnosed). Obviously you bite of the top, then the sides and then sort of suck the rest. How would would you eat a KitKat.

No idea on yogurts though and haven't got any to try. But definitely lick the lid, that's a given.

Get in the sea OP. 🤣

Yup you have definitely lost it. Can't be retrieved.

I have issues watching anyone stick their tongue out to put food in their mouth. Keep it in there. Honestly no need for your tongue to flap about outside your mouth.

I’m calling the police.

Good to know @BookShark. I genuinely have no idea what it is that I do that makes me ASD and am having to reconsider all my social interactions. I also like making crisps in the oven and eating them hot while sitting cross-legged on the kitchen floor. Gawd alone knows whether that is allowed in polite society. If it isn't, I think I'll just stay in my kitchen and hope I don't get found out.

OP I think you should try to do the spoon thing using only your tongue and not holding the spoon in your hand. That would be cooooool.

I think I do the same as you OP .

Bloody hell, my mum does this. Bear in mind I haven't seen her eat a yoghurt in probably 30 years, this is obviously burned into my brain. Ugh.

I once went for a big group meal out and saw that a woman pressed her tongue inside the glass like an extra inner lip when she drank. That's just as haunting, it happened in about 1986.

My husband chews desserts (and only desserts) with his front teeth. He spoons it in normally, then pushes it to his front teeth and does something indescribable using tongue and incisors.

@LubaLuca I had to try the tongue thing! My partner now thinks I’ve completely lost it. It’s actually quite hard to do, the tongue automatically wants to go back in with every sip I take. Need more practice, obviously

Oh no I always lick the lid

What's wrong with licking the lid?

Glad I'm not the only abomination.
I lick lids too.
I am also oddly proud when I get a clean pull and there's nothing on the lid

I'm a bit overinvested in yoghurt.