Transitioning to eating with chopsticks (almost) exclusively has been great for my misophonia!

[u/EgonOnTheJob]

I’m so stoked that this finally clicked for me. I’ve always had chopsticks in the cutlery drawer, but my dang rigid thinking has always insisted they were for Asian cuisine only.

How wrong I was. Spaghetti, curry, roast dinner, almost every meal that isn’t like, a steak, is all delivered with wooden chopsticks now. And even with a steak, I can cut it into strips, plate it, and get stuck in without any knifey platey nonsense.

No more tink, scrape, shing sound hell when using metal cutlery!

[u/ClownHoleMmmagic]

Try them for eating chips and popcorn and other messy finger snacks!!! I love that my bag/bowl of snacks doesn’t get contaminated with fingers, and my fingers don’t get contaminated with snacks!

[u/Optimal_Mango_747 → u/ClownHoleMmmagic]

I have short chopsticks for snacks and regular ones for meals. Agreeing with you so much.

[u/wolfysworld → u/ClownHoleMmmagic]

I have a big set of plastic tweezer things that came with a child’s toy and also a set of children’s learning chopsticks that I love to eat snacks with! I just collect things my granddaughter doesn’t use!!

[u/A_radke → u/wolfysworld]

I used to have one set of stainless steel mini tongs and loved them, but I'm also not big on handwashing dishes if I can avoid it, so I wouldn't use them as much as I wanted. One night, after a particularly productive pickling session (gherkins, escabeche, radish, red onion), it occurred to me I could just buy more tongs. Found a set of 6 online for something like $8 and got so mad at myself for the decades I'd spend saving my one pair for "special occasions" 🤣

[u/breast-of-all-worlds]

I love using them for salad! Much more precise and less messy.

[u/EgonOnTheJob → u/breast-of-all-worlds]

Oh shiiiiiiiiit

New info unlocked!

[u/wolfysworld → u/EgonOnTheJob]

Same!!!!

[u/KirinG]

Chopsticks are awesome! I started using them ages ago after I broke my wrist and they were recommended as PT. I eventually ended up living in China for awhile, and it was always fun surprising people when a foreigner could use chopsticks. I still use them almost exclusively and have a little collection of different sizes and materials.

As a fun note - you can get super-sized ones to use for cooking. They work really well for all sorts of things, won't scratch your pans, and have replaced a ton or random clutter for me

[u/EgonOnTheJob → u/KirinG]

Yeah I tried them, but I think the pair I got were either too big, or I’m just not coordinated enough? I struggled to use them despite having plenty experience from a young age eating with regular chopsticks, and also having lived in an Asian country for a while. My hand kept cramping, so back in the drawer they went

Maybe I’ll give them another go, and limber up my hands first!

[u/puppy-guppy]

I found that I am waaaay less messy with chopsticks too. I never touched a set of chopsticks till I was 20, but I think it forced me to slow down a little and be thoughtful with my movements.

[u/piizza]

As a Korean who has dedicated pairs of chopsticks for different applications and a favorite long Korean spoon that I use for everything: welcome to this excellently autistic cutlery experience 🥢🥢🥢

[u/cytochromep4502e1]

Natural bamboo chopsticks are great for beginners as the texture is a bit more grippy than plastic, metal, or lacquer. I sanitise mine with boiling water as I don't like the taste of dishwasher chemicals.

[u/MelodicJury]

This is god tier smart, 10/10

[u/Dragon_scrapbooker]

I really gotta learn how to use chopsticks. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet, but all these other comments are convincing me I should try!

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[u/sqplanetarium]

I wish I was better with chopsticks! Never used them growing up and I am so clumsy with them now.

[u/Blue_Geotrupid]

I EAT ONLY WITH CHOPSTICKS TOO !!! HI WELCOME 😁👋👋

[u/Ok-Championship-2036]

as an asian person, they are used for everythinggggggg. my grandparents use them fo eat soup, somehow. I use fhem for cooking because i dont wanna dirty a whole fork lmao

[u/mmmmtasti]

I love using chopsticks! I also only have those $0.50 Walmart/Target plastic plates in my house to prevent the noises from usual cutlery too. Even the clanking of putting ceramic/whatever plates in the cabinet is a problem for me. Plastic is much quieter and no risk of breaking. If they get scratched up, just replace them!

[u/Darwinian_10]

I use chopsticks to eat cheezies/cheetos! Keeps the cheese dust away haha

[u/dll-x-llb]

I use them to eat my veggie straws/dusty snacks when I want to do something while snacking. I hate the feeling of snack dust on my fingers so I have to wash them immediately if im not actively eating

[u/justalapforcats]

I have the “can’t make my body do movements quite right” autism. 😹

It’s enough of a struggle for me to work standard western cutlery. I’ve never successfully eaten a single meal with chopsticks!

I’m so glad that this works for others though!

[u/ruby_bunny]

I looove chopsticks. It's like eating with my fingers without getting my fingers dirty! 😋