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 agree with the other commenter, we need a description of your chewing before we can offer any real advice?
I guess here’s my explanation?
1. No, I tend to favor one side but will switch for maximum flavor
2. Usually one go if the bite is small enough
3. usually adjusting the food as it is being… processed. getting it out of weird mouth dips.
4. it’s supposed to be both, thats what our teeth are designed to do.
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