[BDPpartner]

I don't know if anyone else has similar issues but for my whole life I have had problems with the textures of food, I can't stand lettuce as I find it furry, I cannot stand lamb I find it slimy and as for milk even from a baby I refused to drink it. My poor mother was beside herself and doctors had her start me on solids at 4wks old. The other problem I have is that sometimes I hate my skin touching itself. It feels really uncomfortable and I have to use fabric to keep my fingers and toes and every other area of skin from touching. Anyone else experience this ??

[barbella]

I haven't personally experienced this but I do know that some people are really disturbed by certain food textures. I understand that some professionals (naturopathic doctors? nutritionists?) may be able to help to expand the range of acceptable food textures.
I hadn't heard of the skin/skin issue before but I wonder if that is something similar.
Hopefully other members who have personal experience will reply.

[Angelique67]

I have a mild form of this. I use lotion because I hate the feeling of dry skin on skin. Not so much with food textures though.

[BDPpartner]

I have tried lotion but it doesn't seem to help, my family laugh at me because at times I sit contorting my hands because of this uncomfortable sensation and I'm not even aware that I am doing it. I do it so often one of our dogs starting imitating me

[BDPpartner]

I'm currently having my skin on skin issues and can not get comfortable

[Angelique67]

Originally Posted by BDPpartner

I'm currently having my skin on skin issues and can not get comfortable

I'm so sorry. I can only imagine how miserable that is. Lately with a recent med change, I've been getting extreme restless leg. So I have to try to massage it out, and I just hate the feeling of my bare hands trying to massage my legs touching my bare skin. Oh what a maddening sensation. I wonder what sets off the skin on skin thing. I know I hated it from early childhood.

[sabby]

As far as the skin to skin tactile issues, have you considered that it may be an anxiety issue? I have GAD and sometimes I don't like how my skin feels when other parts of my body are touched and I realized that it was anxiety that created that feeling of wanting to crawl out of my skin as well. It may be worth looking into for you.

With the food tactile issues, I have an issue with peas. I cannot stand the feeling of the mushiness of the peas. My brother used to have issues with mashed potatoes as a kid but he grew out of his problem, I never have and I'm a senior now.

[BDPpartner]

Originally Posted by sabby

As far as the skin to skin tactile issues, have you considered that it may be an anxiety issue? I have GAD and sometimes I don't like how my skin feels when other parts of my body are touched and I realized that it was anxiety that created that feeling of wanting to crawl out of my skin as well. It may be worth looking into for you.

With the food tactile issues, I have an issue with peas. I cannot stand the feeling of the mushiness of the peas. My brother used to have issues with mashed potatoes as a kid but he grew out of his problem, I never have and I'm a senior now.

As far as I can remember I have always suffered with the skin issue but I have been stressed today so it may be worth me perhaps keeping a diary of when if happens and how I was feeling, thankyou.

As for peas I completely understand, I can't eat cooked peas. However again for as far back as I can remember I would pinch and eat frozen peas so can definitely know it is not the flavor that I dislike. My parents even asked doctors about whether they should stop or encourage the behavior they were told that actually the way I prefer them is slightly better as you don't lose any goodness to the water

I just had a brain storm moment..... I wonder if my food issues could be linked to having to have speech therapy as a very small child ?

[The_little_didgee]

I cannot stand wool against my skin and my bare skin being touched. I get a horrible and overwhelming sensation that isn't painful. It is due to ASD.

Cottage cheese and some types of yogurt have a disgusting texture.

[Pikku Myy]

I do. Eating meat is like biting into my own arm. It is sick.... to say he least. I understand it now. Oatmeal is my friend, lol

[BDPpartner]

Originally Posted by The_little_didgee

I cannot stand wool against my skin and my bare skin being touched. I get a horrible and overwhelming sensation that isn't painful. It is due to ASD.

Cottage cheese and some types of yogurt have a disgusting texture.

I have just been looking up texture eating and ASD was one I kept coming back to, I think my grandma had similar food issues too. I can't help myself self picking herbs and or black pepper out of my food. In restaurants the edge of my plate is usually covered in bits I pick out of my food, I'm also very easily put off of foodstuffs.

I think the worst incident was when a neighbour who would mind me when my mum went back to work decided she had had enough of my 'faddy' eating, she had 5 daughters who would eat what they were told to and I guess looking back she saw me as a corrupting influence. So on this day unlike others where she would tell me I couldn't get down from the table until I had eaten everything on my plate and after an hour or more she would have to give in because as she saw it I was stubborn and spoilt rotten, my plate was placed in front of me and I ate everything except the cauliflower my child minder then decided to force feed me. I can't remember exactly how it was done.... Maybe holding my nose ! But as the last piece disappeared and she was cooing "see it wasn't so bad" I vomited cauliflower up over her Oops ! From then on my mum sent me round with a loaf of bread and block of cheese and that was my lunch but I was no longer allowed to sit at the table with everyone else, I would sit on the couch with my sandwich while everyone else "ate properly at the table"

As an adult I can see she did it as an example to her own children but that it was very harsh as I was only 6 or 7. Luckily I was a little madam and thought it was great that I got to sit comfortably in front of the tv with a lunch that I enjoyed, but it could have really had a bad affect on a child so young.

[possum220]

I really can't stand the texture of pears. ewww. I know of other people who cannot tolerate the skin from peaces or kiwi fruit.

[sabby]

I think the worst incident was when a neighbour who would mind me when my mum went back to work decided she had had enough of my 'faddy' eating, she had 5 daughters who would eat what they were told to and I guess looking back she saw me as a corrupting influence. So on this day unlike others where she would tell me I couldn't get down from the table until I had eaten everything on my plate and after an hour or more she would have to give in because as she saw it I was stubborn and spoilt rotten, my plate was placed in front of me and I ate everything except the cauliflower my child minder then decided to force feed me. I can't remember exactly how it was done.... Maybe holding my nose ! But as the last piece disappeared and she was cooing "see it wasn't so bad" I vomited cauliflower up over her Oops !

Oh my, that reminded me of when I was about 7, my mom was hospitalized for a miscarriage so I went to stay with an aunt and uncle for a couple of days. The served me cauliflower and I turned my nose up at it, I couldn't even stand the smell of it, it made me gag. Well, they made me take 3 bites of it and I was gagging the whole time, ended up throwing it up all over the my plate and the table, dirtying the tablecloth. Well, that was the last time they ever forced me to eat anything. hehehe I love the stuff now, but at 7, no way!!

Oh, and wool, I can't stand it on my skin either! I itch so badly from it, no matter how soft it is. *shiver*

[likewater]

There is a word for it , but I can't remember it. Some people are more sensitive to textures etc. I just now at 43 can eat peaches bcuz they are fuzzy. I hate dry skin feeling and sand ony toes. I hate skin touching mine.

[BDPpartner]

So glad that I'm not the only one

[avlady]

i also can't wear wool. it itches me and drives me crazy!!.

[eskielover]

Food & cloth & touch issues can very well be associated with ASD. I was doing research on the issues I had when I was married to my H. He had terrible food issues before we were married. If his mom fixed something he didn't like (which was most foods) he would storm out of her house & slam the door & drive to McDonald's & buy a hamburger with NOTHING on it except the meat & bun. Needless to say I wasn't willing to be treated like that in my marriage & let him know before we ever got married not to even try to pull anything like that on me. ASD was not even known about in the states to be Dx'ed back in the mid 1970's. Studying about the different traits, ended up explaining 100% of the things I had dealt with in the marriage. It was good for me to understand. Don't remember him having much cloth texture issues but then that wasn't something that I was involved with & he pretty much did his own thing in many areas of our marriage.

I had an issue with raw carrots growing up. They were so dry, I couldn't swallow them. Remember my mom giving me carrots before nap & I would wake up after the nap with a mouth full of chewed but unswallowed carrots until I could get into the bathroom & spit them out into the toilet. That was the only food I ever remember having a problem with growing up. I love cooked carrots but after having oral surgery last year & have no teeth & can't tolerate dentures in my mouth, I can't eat anything hard & my ninja food processor is my best friend.

Originally Posted by BDPpartner

I don't know if anyone else has similar issues but for my whole life I have had problems with the textures of food, I can't stand lettuce as I find it furry, I cannot stand lamb I find it slimy and as for milk even from a baby I refused to drink it. My poor mother was beside herself and doctors had her start me on solids at 4wks old. The other problem I have is that sometimes I hate my skin touching itself. It feels really uncomfortable and I have to use fabric to keep my fingers and toes and every other area of skin from touching. Anyone else experience this ??

Yes, but not so sensitively. The furriness on some lettuces, ALL peaches. I can't think of people picking up an unpeeled peach and just chomping down – The fuzz of the skin and the slime of the meat! But if you carefully peel the fruit's skin and scoop the "meat" that's as good as it get's.

Actually, since I don't taste food as most people do (anhedonia) I rely quite heavily on texture for any sensation: and since I have but one whole tooth and three other very, very fragile and rotten teeth, I have to be careful about the way that I'm really able to self-texturise my food. It takes me longer to take, chew and swallow a bite and I have be careful I as I determine whether I've eaten enough.

I usually buy food based upon texture, first. Followed by how small I can naturally or mechanically texturise it and, finally, by what it may taste like. I'll go through 5-7 month cycles of of eating one product to death then switch. The things that I do like usually have a naturally mild texture and naturally strong "taste" (salty, spicy, sweet) or no taste at all but that which can be added (fresh homemade hot salsa with flour or corn tortillas). A weird current straight-from-the-tub product that makes two meals a day is Mrs.' Stratton's Chicken Salad. The company makes other types of mush as well. Egg, ham, pimento, potato, Cole slaw, etc. The only one that won't work is the Cole slaw.

You would think that I would like soups; but I never use my stove/oven and my microwave 3x a week for frozen meals. It's been years since I had any meat other than chicken. I had one slice of those Swiss Colony sausages last Christmas and it made me sick. It was so greasy.

If any edible substance is described as greasy, that can be a game changer for me. When I had a mouth in working order, even. I know that men are supposed to love the big, sizzling and fat steaks off of the grill but I'll take the nice salmon steak with a splash of soy sauce. I've just never gone for greasy.

So, yes, I am keenly aware of all of the textures that can be assigned to all different types of food. I could once eat corn chips, potato chips, graham crackers, etc. No longer. These items are just too hard on the gums.

For protein, I eat peanut butter, beans, peanut butter, cheese and peanut butter.

And body-touching textures? Or the textures that touch bodies? I don't recall my age, but I think that I was in 6-7 grade when I had to leave school (which we had just started that year) and my stepmom had to take me to the doctor because I had a body rash on my torso. And it itched and I couldn't help but scratch. My mom had purchased the least expensive Izod shirts at the school uniform shop and they were 100% polyester rather than 100% cotton. The shirt had been uncomfortable when I put it on that morning but my stepmom had told me that was because it was new and she hadn't had time to wash it. That made sense to me. It didn't make sense that my torso would swell and redden as each minute passed. I took off my shirt, the nurse scooped on goo, gave my stepmom some goo to take home and off we went back home.

It would later be a big joke, my allergy to polyester, but I have to be careful about the weave or blend or hand or whatever and if it's some new type of nylon, etc., or whatever. I'm good with cottons and wools and I love a nice light wool suit or pants. When I had feet (!) I was just weird about any cloth between my foot and the floor and I preferred no socks over some socks.

So I have no problems with my skin touching my skin. I do have problems with my skin touching some fabrics or the way in which fabrics have been treated or not, though. I can usually feel, or smell, straightaway, if a new shirt of new sheets have been washed a couple of times or not, but the old saying "not comfortable in his own skin" doesn't ring true for me.

I hope that people have, already, or will, as I've been coming and going back and forth with this between watching movies, reply to this. If "furry lettuce" won't draw them in, what in the world will?

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closest i get to this is not being able to eat veg.

i'm not sure what it is (perhaps because i'm so used to eating sugary stuff, perhaps because of the texture) but stuff like carots, sprouts, collyflower, etc.. before i even lift it to my mouth i gag (auto gag reflex)

i can eat potatoes though

Originally Posted by sabby

With the food tactile issues, I have an issue with peas. I cannot stand the feeling of the mushiness of the peas. My brother used to have issues with mashed potatoes as a kid but he grew out of his problem, I never have and I'm a senior now.

When my son began to, finally, eat "solid foods," he would eat no puréed meats, only vegetables and fruits. So we began a weekly can-a-thon and peas (I'm assuming that you mean what are called "English Peas" in the States or Green Peas elsewhere?) were amongst his top favourites.

They are mushy. You and your brother would have had issues had you lived at my childhood home where green peas served atop mashed potatoes were a weekly staple. My stepmom was a horrible cook, but if my dad ever mentioned a "very simple dish" that he had eaten in some distant land and she had found the recipe in one of her Betty Crocker cookbooks, she would attempt to cook it for him. And if he pronounced it "great! Really damned good!" and it had, in fact, been a very simple dish, then it, too, would become a weekly staple.

But I don't think that you or your brother would have cared for my stepmother's shepherd's pie, either.

Speaking of mushy-when-over-cooked-veg, and there's no way of knowing if this is true or not, but a friend of mine who set off to film school once told me that in order to give the semblance of background conversations, extras would murmur or talk laugh or whisper or whatever the words "peas and carrots" repetitively until the scene was shot. I don't know if that's true.

I did like to eat fresh raw vegetables until I lost my teeth.

Originally Posted by sabby

...I never have and I'm a senior now.

Just what is a senior today?

I only ask because I wanna go to Jackrabbit Slim's for one of those five-dollar shakes and I wanna win that dance trophy and was gonna see if you wanna come with?

Just take ya out, show ya a good time, good night Ms. Wallace, had a very lovely evening, no date, no foot massage, whattaya say?

I'll reserve a car.

Originally Posted by The_little_didgee

I cannot stand wool against my skin and my bare skin being touched. I get a horrible and overwhelming sensation that isn't painful. It is due to ASD.

Cottage cheese and some types of yogurt have a disgusting texture.

Wait. Is this three things?

1. Can't stand wool against your skin;
2. Can't stand another's skin agains't your own skin, and;
3. Don't like the textures of cottage cheese and some types of yogurt?

I think that the wool against skin is pretty common. Back in my adventurous days, I would layer all the wool possible when going into wet snow. Then came Gore-Tex and stuff didn't get as wet. Then came other stuff. People usually describe it as an itchy feeling?

Still don't understand the skin on skin thing.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the texture and taste of LARGE CURD cottage cheese, but small curd cottage cheese makes my nails curl. Can you give an example of a type of yogurt that's disgusting? I would understand if you were talking about lemon Greek yogurt, for example.

This is a good thread. I feel as if I'm just sitting around talking about regular stuff to regular people. I've been going bats around here of late.

Next we'll be trying to describe the taste in the back of your throat after a curry sick versus a Thai sick. I can start that one off if anyone likes. I have the experiences.

Originally Posted by Pikku Myy

I do. Eating meat is like biting into my own arm. It is sick.... to say he least. I understand it now. Oatmeal is my friend, lol

My diabetes doc is now threatening to push me away because of my distaste/disgust of, specifically, red meat. For almost 4 years, he's been patient but he is, as he said quite seriously, quite serious.

He's pushing peanut butter down my throat (not literally), certain types of beans and, well, something else.

Is oatmeal a good protein provider? One day I need to get real and put a list together of some items that I think will satisfy him.

Originally Posted by possum220

I really can't stand the texture of pears. ewww. I know of other people who cannot tolerate the skin from peaces or kiwi fruit.

Yeah, I thought of peaches but I gave up so long ago on kiwi and any other fuzzy fruit that I had forgotten them.

But pears? I haven't had pears or plums, etc., yet this year but the fruit man should start coming around soon. I eat those (after careful washing – I even have some veg/fruit wash for them). They can't be hard, like apples, but if they're soft, as ripe pears should be, I've never noticed any fuzz on pears?

Originally Posted by sabby

Oh, and wool, I can't stand it on my skin either! I itch so badly from it, no matter how soft it is. *shiver*

I believe this is an either/or question. You either love the feel of wool against the feel of your skin or the very thought of it turns you into mush.

And maybe it's hereditary. I was born near winter and I don't recall not wearing some sort woollen garment in the cold. We move from La Jolla, CA, my birthplace, to Cheyenne, WY after my first summer in CA and moved in with the snow. I don't remember a thing about my first winter in Cheyenne, but I once had a lot of 8mm color movies.

When I was working (and dinosaurs had dominion over man) I loved pulling out my heavier woollen winter suits from storage just as I loved pulling out my lighter woollen summer suits from storage as the temperatures rose.

You actually cared for your clothing back then. A bespoke suit made for you at 24 should still fit like a bespoke suit on you at 44. I have shirts made in 1982, the few rescued from the "divorce fire" and various other fires, that are just a wee too large around my torso. But then, I've only one suit remaining and where would I go in a suit these days?

Oops. Sorry.

I don't know anyone who can take it or leave it. Wool. There are probably far fewer of we who love the stuff now.

I must get away from this thread! I intend to watch at least two movies today!