What's your weirdest quirk?

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I thought of one: When talking to someone/some people online, or in a text, I have a habit of commenting on everything they say, which I do because if someone doesn't comment on what I say I feel like they're ignoring me or something. I assume I do this partly out of paranoia, and partly because I greatly lack (the understanding of) social skills.

I've offended a few employer/supervisor like people by relating the thing they are teaching me to something I have done before.

I'm only trying to show that I'm listening and that I can relate to the task but they think I'm a know-it-all

-When I look at the stars in the sky I think I can see the lines between them. I don't know it's really weird I think it's my mind playing tricks on me or something.
-I chew on my fingers constantly if I don't chew gum.

or you could be descended from the greats who also saw lines 'tween the stars and so gave us the constellations we now point at in the night sky.

I do something pretty similar, like if I see a half-circle, I can almost see the rest of it, that's created in my mind.

I've done that n worse...just trying to let them know I understood It also seems to me that they didnt believe they have taught enough for me to understand
..knowing what and who i am...now ...and in hindsight ..I.m pretty sure I shouldn't of told them I learned that when I was 7yr old..

I probably now would just say ...ok and nod

I tend to talk during the movie too.
I also talk too loud
I walk on my tippy toes when I go up the stairs
I say things like "oh" when I speak on IM when someone speaks to me so they know I am not ignoring them.

Boy ...can I relate..
lines between the stars...I'll even use dimmer stars as distant and brighter stars as closer. The lines match the brightness so it ends having depth..lines over lines

half circle too, and worse..almost seems like my brains telling me.....its missing.....its not right

I've been calling it "my minds eye" but have only recently discovered on here about Synaesthesia, and still reading up on that

The towels must be folded in a very specific way. I've had workshops with the kids to teach them how to properly fold the towels. My husband is just outright banned from folding the towels, which actually bothers him but the poor dear never gets it right!

Not knowing how much pressure to apply. I've broken so much crap over the course of my life because I just didn't know that's not supposed to open or that doesn't fit. Conversely, I'm now so paranoid about breaking things that I often don't apply enough pressure. I recently bought a headlamp for a hiking trip and couldn't get the batteries to fit in the battery compartment. I became convinced there was a manufacturer defect. I brought it back to the store and the clerk popped them right in. I felt like an idiot.

I mix my cereals, I don't like just one kind in a bowl
I have to change my socks when I get home from work
I have a leg stim that annoys the hell out of my wife

The quirk I display that most people consider the weirdest is my ability to go on incredible tangents in a conversation. I am guaranteed to wander off into theoretical physics, evolutionary biology, the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, and lambda calculus, while trying to prove a point about anything. This elicits a common reaction: "how the hell did we go from this to Desmond Morris?"

It doesn't help that my common reaction is "It makes perfect sense. Consider, for instance [insert a completely different tangent I employ to try to make my point]."

It continually astounds and annoys me that other people do not know what I know.

Nobody makes my eggs for me. I always make them. One time in a Waffle House in Georgia, the cook was so fascinated by my inability to accept eggs made by someone else that she allowed me to make my eggs on the grill so she could watch me do it. I didn't do anything special... but it's just a thing with me. I have to make them myself. Anytime we go out for breakfast, I just order my breakfast without eggs.

My weirdest quirk, hmmm is that I am into psychology and learning things and this drives people nuts at work.

ah yeah, leg/foot shaking constantly. Got told off at work because it made a noise.
knuckle, neck, wrist, toe cracking... Another co-worker annoying habit

I can do a SQWAK! noise that sounds like a bird; well birds that go SQWAAK!
I somehow use my cheeks and teeth to conjure the noise. No throat and lung-air needed. I can make it sound like words too. Works wonders when you need to entertain someone else's curious kids for a moment.