Long time mouth breather, first time poster to ELI5.
I’m in my late 30s, and I realise l’ve been chewing and swallowing food wrong my whole life, and am bugging the heck out of my loved ones with questions… but I still need answers, so please take a moment to help me out.
When you chew food, do you use both sides of your mouth equally?
Do you swallow an entire mouthful’s worth of food in one go? Or does it slide down your throat bit by bit as you are chewing?
Where does your tongue go while you’re chewing?
Do you chew up and down or kind of grindy side to side?
I know I sound like an alien or an Al but I’m just an undiagnosed tongue tie kid with a weirdly high palate whose tongue has been hanging about the bottom of my mouth like a slug for the last few decades.
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I usually favor my left side, my tongue acts like a damn and keeps my food over there on one side unless I take too big of a bite, in which case, both sides may work on the food until it’s small enough I can shift it back to one side. I always swallow that bite before I put more food in my mouth. And absolutely keep your mouth closed when you’re eating. No one wants to hear you chomping or slurping.
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