What's your weirdest quirk?

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There are too many to list them all. I'm careful not to visit the same place more than one or two times per week. I make up new words and speak them in private. I will decide that I want to eat something, change my mind, get something else, then obsess about the first. I chew anything that I can reach; I have to childproof my desk to protect myself. I have to touch things as I walk. If I touch something unusual with one hand or foot, I have to touch something similar with the other hand or foot. I hold my breath if someone coughs near me.

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-I live alone and hate to be nude...at all. I always close my bathroom door, and lock the front door for a shower, toilet use, whatever
-I hate hate hate people who say 'your mom'. I have tried to kill someone for that.
-I hate the SOUND of shaving. the 'rip rip scratch' sound it makes on your face.
-I send all text messages in real type. i can't use T9 in English, nor do I want to. I almost never use non standard abbreviations like ug LOL or stuff. I will use ETA and aviation/military slang but never stupid things like 'c u @ 4. '

I always eat the same food menu on a Saturday.

I always eat the same flavour of Ice-cream on a Saturday..so much so it becomes a running joke with people who know me.

From around age 2 I had a tickle (a large piece of material that I would cut small pieces off) that I used to carry with me and rub all the time right up until it wore out and there was no more left. I am 35 and seeking a replacement as I am lost without it lol. I need the calming effect of rubbing it and the replacement material needs to have exactly the same feel as the old one!

I sit in my pyjamas all the time because day wear irritates me and drives me mad. If I can get away with it I will put my coat on and wear pyjamas out to the local shop as well (they look like jogging bottoms). Always put on day wear for going into town etc though.

I can spend 10 or 12 hours a day doing nothing but sequin art (presently) or jigsaw puzzles etc back when I was obsessed with them.

I always have to brush any bits out of the bed before I can sleep at night. One crumb and it feels like I am trying to sleep on sandpaper!

I can listen to the same song over and over for hours at a time and not get bored with it lol.

If there are noises in my environment (a beeping microwave, reversing truck, etc), my brain builds a song around them so it doesn't bother me. Then I I tend to 'sing along' with the sounds.

-I am always moving/ stimming. apparently the feet rotate when i sleep or my fingers tap.
- In lectures, concerts, movies, television shows i talk back under my breath or Yell if i get upset.
- I bounce and jump around when i am happy. (I worked as security at an army base outside the mess and the officers used to put on my fav songs so i would start bouncing.) lol
- I always have to say hello to everyone and anyone i see. lol. I suck in shopping malls.
- know the public transport in my city off by heart and know i will never drive because i love it so much.

This is my first post. I chose this thread because I was surprised how many of these quirks I shared. I haven´t been formally diagnosed, but will likely be doing so once I have insurance or am more financially stable. Anyway, here are some of my quirks:

I hate the sound of flossing. If someone is flossing, even in another room I´ll turn the TV/stereo up and shove my fingers in my ears.

I have a hard time reading analog clocks (I´m surprised this is so common)

I can´t do simple arithmetic, although I´m incredibly gifted at higher maths, love algebra and number theory and am about to complete my bachelors degree in mathematics.

I have no visual imagination/memory, although I do dream in vivid, full-color images. I also have a strong auditory imagination (is that the right word? audination maybe?) and can remember sounds well.

I bite my cheeks and knuckles to the point where I have thick calluses.

I have imaginary friends. I talk to them out loud and I voice their responses back to me while attempting to mimic their voices. I have been in the practice of having imaginary friends since I was 5 years old, and the ones I have at a given time are always based on whatever my special interests are. My current roster of imaginary friends includes Alice and the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland (2010), Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd, and Edward Scissorhands. I went through a phase when I was a child where I would talk to my imaginary friends whenever and wherever I felt like it, including public places such as school and the grocery store. Nowadays I only do it at night within the comfort of my own home, where I'm positive I won't be caught.

Having to hear other people's music feels like pressure on my ears, a red weight descending on my brain and worms crawling in my head.
It tends to make me very agitated and angry.

I only eat a tiny selection of food and flatly refuse to try anything else unless I really like how it looks, sounds while cooking and smells.

I refuse to wear any clothes made for males of any description. I would wear something masculine if it was made for women, but not something feminine if it was made for men.

My hair has to be rough, tangled, messy and never, ever symmetrical, or I'll overload on practically every negative emotion you can think of.
I discovered this when I went to the hairdressers for the first time, noticed it in the car, tore some of it out, put a crack in the window with my fist, squeezed myself hard enough to gouge bloody crescents with my nails, and cried a great deal.
That lasted a while.

A few of mine:
1. I can't leave the house without showering. I just feel so gross, even though I shower everyday.
2. I have a very low tolerance for spicy foods. My boyfriend was cracking up, because the "Mild" wings were making me pour sweat. Needless to say, I usually eat plain food, which also makes him crack up. I greatly appreciate the "natural" taste of food. I don't mix foods. I feel like one cannot appreciate the flavors when you mix them all together.
3. I have a difficult time using public bathrooms. I don't want people to hear me "going". I'll walk to the other side of the building to an empty bathroom or hold it in. I used to hold it in so long when I was in public school that I used to make myself sick.
4. I can't stand people who talk during movies. *Laughs at the previous posts* It makes me near-violent unless it's really important.

Just thought of another.

I can't leave work until I feel like everything is tied up and my desk is mostly cleared off. I look like a real workaholic.

I do this, as well, since I don't have a washer or dryer and have to take the bus to the laundrymat.

We've been having really severe storms down here, lately, with tornado warnings. I always have to debate whether to go ahead and put some clothes on just in case a tornado blows my place down.

I am asocial but friendly, people don't understand this, they seem to think being polite and interacting nescesitates that I should want more - They think it is weird that I am indifferent, it causes me problems especially as I don't seem to have the skill to gracefully disengage. I want to be left alone most of the time but I say hello to all my neighbours and anyone who makes eye contact in the street gets acknowledged in the local vernacular way 'gidday' or the upwards flick of the head and the raising of they eyebrows polynesian thing we do down here.

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-I don't seem to have a clear or consistent idea of who I really am. I'm usually not certain about how I'll think, feel, or act next. This is the weirdest one of em all. I know for a fact I'm a moody person, but I should just be less emotionally stable, not have no freaking self-identity on top of that so I think there's something else about me. Sometimes I'm serious, other times I'm easy going. Sometimes I feel like I can take on anything, other times I feel really weak. One day I might feel really angry and militant about how unjust the world is, the next minute, hour, or day I will have a "s**t happens" attitude towards it. Sometimes I am I know people are gonna be like "Well personalities are complex", but the thing is most people are able to predict themselves and I usually have absolutely no insight into why I acted, felt, or thought the way I did after the fact. Personalities are complex, but I seem to have absolutely no insight into mine and I dunno why I seem to feel so ambivalent about myself.
-My train of thought is really incoherent so I always find it really hard to find the right words to describe things.
-I always test myself to see how I'll manage when the s**t hits the fan. Like I'll intentionally take cold showers just to see how long I can last since hot water isn't guaranteed to me. It's a weird little insecurity I have living in such a crazy and unpredictable world and I always keep myself in check.

That's pretty much all. It all boils down to my erratic self-identity and how my world is so chaotic and unpredictable. It's basically 24/7 cognitive dissonance.

• I'm terrified of escalators & refuse to use them even if it means going out of my way to find another way up or downstairs.
• I constantly correct people no matter if the person is there or not.
• If I go somewhere with a lot of seating I've to be on the end, preferably near an exit.
• I hate wearing shoes.
• I alphabetize my books, CDs, DVDs, files, etc. I even alphabetize my clothes by what they say.
• I'm afraid to go out at night alone.
• The volume of everything I use has to be set at certain levels, but it does vary by item.
• I hate when people ask if I need help or asking for help from people.
• I repeatedly check locks.
• Clocks have to be exactly on time, not fast or slow.
• I count everything I use (like food/drink, toiletries, cleaning supplies, etc) and try to keep it to the minimum. I hate waste.
• I hate when people talk with food in their mouth or brushing their teeth.
• I hate texting slang, abbreviations are fine.
• I've to use a handrail on stairs and panic when one isn't there.
• I won't call people for no reason or just to talk.

Apparently I over-gesticulate sometimes when I talk, probably overcompensating.
Most of the time, I feel like I am studying some animal, like a primatologist does, when I am around people I don't know well instead of interacting with them. There is a lack of a connection and common ground.
I don't seem to readily recognize status. I'll treat a custodian and an accomplished professional the same, which allows me to connect better with the worker and ruffle the feathers of somebody who is likely my superior.
I am not bothered or stressed by difficulties or crises the way most people seem to be. I am more calm and comfortable in situations where most people seem to freak out. But, I seem to wear down with frustration over day to day things that probably aren't that significant individually.
I usually procrastinate by default, even if I enjoy what needs done.
I see the connection in bigger picture issues and why something works the way it does, but will miss the painfully obvious.
I don't seem to care about my individual well being that much or have my best interests at heart. It feels like my corporeal self is a tool to study people and the environment with.
I generally don't know my limits and will push myself to the extreme to test them.

- I stare at the walls and ceilings, making shapes out of any marks
- I follow patterns on wallpaper and carpets, and get annoyed if the pattern doesn't line up
- I have set routes for walking to different places
- Nobody is allowed in the kitchen at the same time as me
- I make random funny connections in my brain and then laugh out loud
- I've eaten the same thing for breakfast for the last 12 years
- I notice numbers everywhere