Hello. My name is LaShon and I'm 45 years old and have been eating different from everyone around me all of my life. With the exception of barbecue sauce and hot sauce, I absolutely do not like condiments. No ketchup, mustard, mayo nor miracle whip, so I do not eat foods like potato salad, tuna fish, pasta salads, etc. I hate the way they smell and do not want them anywhere near my food. There is only one salad dressing that I will eat and it's called Italian Robusto and that's only because it tastes like pickles or vinegar to me. I do not eat any other salad dressings at all like ranch, blue cheese, french, etc. When I eat a burger, I only want cheese on it, just the meat cheese and bread/bun. Occasionally, I will get pickles on the side and add them myself if I have a taste for them. When I eat a hotdog, it's only the hotdog and the bun, that's it. I don't eat salads outside of home for two reasons: I don't like the combination of foods that are added for a salad and I don't like everything touching all the time. I don't care for tomatoes and some other things that are added. I do not want to taste tomato on my lettuce. I prepare my own version of a salad at home which may consist of all of or a combination of the following ingredients: lettuce, cucumbers, broccoli, and cauliflower. No tomatoes, onions or other things that people add. I do not like for certain foods to touch. I can eat fried chicken with French fries, but don't want my fried chicken and spaghetti to touch. Something about the spaghetti sauce touching the chicken bothers me, so they have to be separated on my plate. If I'm eating a dinner roll or some type of bread, I don't want that to come in contact with the spaghetti as well. On holidays, I will either have several dishes in front of me with a little of the different foods that I do eat in each one or I will add two foods at a time on a plate that I can eat together like mac & cheese with a piece of chicken, wash the plate when I'm done with that and add my next food or two washing the plate in between each time. I don't like onions nor bellpeppers; I hate the way they feel in my mouth and pick them out of my food when I see them. I will cook certain foods with them for their flavor, but I cut them up big enough to pick them out easily. My son is 13 years old and worse than I am. I never let him see the way that I eat when he was smaller because I wanted him to try things on his own and not dislike them because of me, but it didn't work; he is extremely picky as well. Where as I don't eat ketchup, he does along with barbecue sauce and hot sauce, but like me, he will not eat all the other things mentioned above. He does not like salads at all. He will not touch broccoli nor cauliflower. Of course I get teased all of the time, but I'm used to it now. I am just glad to know that I am not alone. It's good to know that there are people who understand me.