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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, I'm a 28 year old male who still to this day Hum's while eating. However, I don't do it consciously, nor all the time, but I find that it occurs the most when it is food that I really like combined with a place or people with whom I am very comfortable, ie: I will be humming when eating food I like around my close friends at my home or their homes, but if I'm out with strangers or at a public restaurant etc. then I generally don't hum. Most of my friends find it hilarious, especially since they can call me out on it when I'm doing it and I will stop for a few minutes till I forget about it while I'm eating and start up again and then they all start laughing and I realize it again. I have heard all kinds of different explanations ranging from food releasing Dopamine in the brain, to it being a sign of schizophrenia. I don't really know what it means, but I have been doing it for this long without any negative effects, so I consider it to be mostly harmless. I don't know that this is relevant, but I have a six year old son who does not (and never has) hum while he eats, none of my other immediate family members do either, so I don't think its something that is genetic or learned behavior.[/quote]

Thank you for sharing.

I am the OP.  I actually thought to update a couple of times but kept putting it off.  So, it has been about 3 months.  I am not sure that it has gotten worse, but since first posting this it has felt like it.  I think I just think about it more.  We also had an incident at a nice family (quiet-- which was the problem) dinner.  Basically someone asked us to stop her, but we could not.  We had to remove her from the dinner.  (It had turned into a "can't you control her" situation.  It was yucky, and we are both still upset about it.)  Since then, I have put more effort in trying to figure this out.  But, I am still clueless.

She is four.  She does it at every meal.  If she is chewing something there is at least a 50% chance she is also humming.  She is showing no signs of growing out of this.  In the grand scheme of things it is not a big deal.  However, as she gets older I can see more issues like the one we had at a family dinner.

I was also wondering if anyone has any experience with this being a stim associated with ASD.[/quote]

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