Autism

My wife and I made the 32-hour drive to surprise my parents years back in 2018. I hadn't been home to visit for quite some time after having moved out of country. While there, I came across a particular fork that I realized I had favored my entire life and had all but forgotten about after moving away. It was completely unlike the other (albeit somewhat mismatched) forks in their collection. It featured four slightly shorter, slightly sharper tines, seperated in the center by a wider, deeper gap than found between the rest of them, and with fancier metalwork along the handle. As I held that trusty piece in my hand, I felt as though I had been reunited with something I never realized I had lost. It was like having a mannerism pointed out that you didn't realize you've been doing, but have grown hyper-aware of it now. This was my fork. This was an extension of myself practically worthy of a name.

So I took it. Unapologetically. I simply informed my parents that I had found my fork, and then I took it. I carried it 1,794 mi (2,410 km) back to where she belonged, and I've used that fork nearly every evening of my life ever since, for the past 6 or 7 years.

This is her here. Look upon her gently. See how she glints in the light.. They say that the elves have a special word for her, though I've never heard it spoken.. But I know how it sounds in my heart.

omg I'm holding it right now.

My parent's have this fork with dull teeth. Can't even pick up salad. Fuck that thing.

Screw that noise. When i moved into my own place, I bought a matching set of silverware and they are all still here a decade later. Hated having 27 different styles of cutlery.

I have this 3 pronged fork that's not quite small and not quite big that has weird fat prongs with a point at the end of each prong, I've actually picked it up lion king style and told it's a failure of a fork and I only keep it around to punish it.

If I find random cutlery in my drawer that doesn't match the matching adult cutlery that I purchased so we can look like adults...I chuck it into the recycle bin. I don't care anymore. I don't know how they get there and make them disappear.

I bought a full matching set around that age and donated the rest. I felt like a supreme human being. Years later... where the fuck did these rogue forks and spoons come from?

I definitely have silverware I hate, but you know what I hate even more than my least favorite silverware? All but a single wooden spoon we have because they all have rectangular handles instead of being rounded. We have a SINGULAR round handled wooden spoon! Makes me irrationally angry, even if I don't ever show it.

That's why me and my girl just dumped all our silverware and got a single set, it's been awesome

one of my forks has an absurd amount of hard water mineral build-up on it and i have no idea why....

now it sits in the drawer unloved and unused for eternity.

My wife brought it home and I hate it. I refuse to use it.

My identical twin likes the thick heavy utensils. Or so they told me. So every time I served them I gave them the heaviest ones. Only to be told years later no! None of them were the right ones!

Of course none are the right ones, the best utensils are the light delicate ones so I don't feel them at all!

true.
i also have a favorite fork that i'm always sad when i didn't clean it and it's not available -.-
yes i realize i only have myself to blame...

I have a plastic fork I never use. I keep it around because it's a pretty damn fancy plastic fork and I'm just amazed at its existence. Too light, and too fragile to use, I just keep it in the cutlery drawer to inspire the others

I have been using the same spoon for breakfast cereal for at least ten years, now. Not that I always eat cereal for breakfast.

You mean the ones that have a dumb shaped handle and all the edges are sharp, as if it was just punched out of a piece if sheet metal and dumped directly into the fork bin in my utensil drawer?

Why is it flatter than the rest? And why does that matter?!

Glad to know Ive achieved at least some normal milestones.

I have a fork that doesn't match the rest. It was bought about twenty years ago for me to use at work. I absolutely hated that job and unfortunately this poor fork now is now forever associated with it.

It tastes weird. It belongs to my spouse, he has to use it like all the other cutlery that looks irregular compared to the majority. I only like the irregular spoon, it's nice!

And it will never he broken or used up because you never use it.

How is everyone obsessed with cutlery. I just eat with whatever I get and am fine with it. My parents bought an expensive set of cutlery, because "it's paintful to use the cheap, sharp spoons/forks". How and why does this matter? I feel no difference.