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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1. I chew mainly on my left side. I switch to my right sometimes arbitrarily.
2. After im done chewing I swallow It all at one. Not once in my life has food slid down my throat without me actively swallowing.
3. Unless im using it to get food out of my teeth or to move the food to the other side my tongue is resting on the roof of my mouth.
4. A mixture of up and down and side to side. It doesn’t go straight up and down like a nutcracker and it doesnt go super side to side like a llama.
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