Your quirkiest aspie quirk

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Something hopefully a bit lighthearted to start the new year.

I have a funny thing with socks & shoes, basically I don't like wearing them. Shoes feel like they are trapping my feet, I get quite panicky putting on shoes and I have to prepare myself for it first, sometimes having to quickly take them off before taking a breath then putting them back on again. Similar with socks, new socks are too tight, they go on, I whip them off quick smart in a panic then I out them back on again.

I wish I had some funny quirks - mine are all stupid/uncool/embarrassing quirks. Though I suppose the constant misunderstandings I find myself in can be pretty funny. Also my general clumsiness and executive dysfunction problems, blundering into walls while forgetting why I was trying to go that way to begin with... It's not so much a 'quirky habit' as just me trying to get through an average day!

I started off 2017 by dropping our new calendar behind the stove. Typical!

I can only get to sleep with a pillow both under and on my head..

I have a tendency to tap objects when I pass them.

I sleep with 8 layers of sheets of blankets even in the summer, and 10 layers in the winter because the weight of the blankets against my body helps me sleep.

I would say my interest in Denis istomin is pretty quirky. Many people have never heard of him and that's a shame. More people should read his story. It was a great source of inspiration to me.

I thoroughly research facts about every country I have ever been interested in. Right now, I am paying attention to what goes on in Russia, probably because it has been at the top in the news, but also because of Denis Istomin. I am interested in knowing what life was like for him growing up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

I have been checking to see if the doors are locked before I leave the house and before I go to bed. I also constantly check to see if I have my purse and keys.

How I always seem to fall in love with characters that I share the same autistic mindset with.

I go into a state of nothingness, sometimes when I'm talking or being introduced. My mind becomes empty and I have no awareness of a situation I should address. It lasts a few minutes and then, ping!, I'm back.

I touch things that look nice (plants, cars, things in stores). My boyfriend laughs everytime were in public with friends and I run off to pat a car.

I walk from my front door to my car door several times in a row to check the locks. I won't stop checking until it feels right.

cool thread.

i cannot sleep on my couch if i don't have a stool with a pillow on top, next to me.

i like being boxed in like that.

I still think that self talking is my weirdest quirk.


But in comparison -- I would only eat three different fruits, walk for about at least 10 hours a week, I call 'doing things', 'experiments', 'practicing' as 'play', randomly go outside the house at past midnight then run around the street while laughing, and only mainly wear 5 to 8 sets of clothes I wear for work then sleep every respective nights with it.

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Just the usual twitchy stims and little rituals of autism.