Stolen from MM what is your biggest quirk

[Deleted]

How are you quirky?

Me: I count my steps. If I only walk an odd number of steps I will continue walking so that its an even number.

[ginger]

I don't know where to start.

[kaybee85]

I get freaked out if my H tries to change the grocery shopping aisle order.

I hate small talk and hide from acquaintances.

[snowflurry]

Volume level on the tv has to be an even number.

[wambam]

Jul 31, 2015 10:07:03 GMT -5 ginger said:

I don't know where to start.

This.

I'm just a weirdo. I can't help it. I promise I'm weird in a funny kinda cute way and not a stalker creepy way

[McGavin]

Jul 31, 2015 10:09:36 GMT -5 kaybee85 said:

I hate small talk and hide from acquaintances.

For some reason I read this as you hide from appliances and thought huh, that's a good one.

[shamrockshake]

Jul 31, 2015 10:09:36 GMT -5 kaybee85 said:

I hate small talk and hide from acquaintances.

lol I do this too. omg please don't talk to me

[Deleted]

I don't know if it's my biggest, but I hugely dislike coated paperclips. I'll only use the plain metal ones, and throw out any of the coated ones I get (e.g. at work). Texture plus they don't work as well (IMO)

ETA: I also really like it when numbers end in fives or zeros, especially with budgeting; filling up the gas tank or when my checkbook balances out with a five in the cents column. 

[ginger]

Being tickled sends me into an anxiety attack and makes me cry.

[Doggy Mommy]

My hatred of mustard is almost in the territory of mustardphobia.

[rubysapphire]

I can't use regular, metal spoons. Only plastic. I can use regular forks and knives, this only applies to spoons. I generally try to avoid eating items that require spoons. Yes, I realize how bizarre this is.

[ninjabridemom]

Jul 31, 2015 10:10:21 GMT -5 snowflurry said:

Volume level on the tv has to be an even number.

Multiple of 5 for me.

My socks have to match in kind but not necessarily in color. But even if I buy the exact same kind a year or so later I have to match them up on my feet with when I bought them. B/c my feet can feel the difference in thinness/wear and it will drive me crazy all day. This drives Jake NUTS. I have all these ways of figuring it out lol.

I don't even know how to explain my pillow thing...

[LeggsBenedict]

I only murder people on thursdays.

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[Deleted]

I "type" as I speak. Like in my lap or in my head, my hands are typing what I am speaking on an imaginary keyboard. I've done it since my early teen years, and I have no idea why. I don't even realize I'm doing it most of the time.

[kaybee85]

Jul 31, 2015 10:15:51 GMT -5 TR said:

Jul 31, 2015 10:09:36 GMT -5 kaybee85 said:

I get freaked out if my H tries to change the grocery shopping aisle order.

I hate small talk and hide from acquaintances.

This does not count.

I almost didn't include it, but I do think that the extent of hiding is sometimes ridiculous.

[Deleted]

Caterpillars legitimately send me into anxiety...i cant even step OVER them.

[fuckyourcouch]

Jul 31, 2015 10:40:55 GMT -5 kaybee85 said:

Jul 31, 2015 10:15:51 GMT -5 TR said:

This does not count.

I almost didn't include it, but I do think that the extent of hiding is sometimes ridiculous.

The other day I was making a lap through the building to get away from my desk for a minute. I heard a familiar voice around the corner and shuffled away like a threatened animal into a stairwell, and ran down to the next floor, took another stairwell to the bottom floor to be safe, and rounded the building to a different door to go back inside. LOL

[05heel]

I'm an unwilling WWI buff. I can't stop reading books about it, and it's taking over my lyfe. I don't want to know anymore, but apparently people intend to keep writing about it. The 100-year anniversary last year nearly ended me.

[scottyderp]

I can be kind of phobic. Weird stuff like if someone drank out of my drink, even a close friend, my mom, or my spouse, I won't drink out of it. I hate weird feet. Won't fly on airplanes anymore. Don't like tall buildings for work. Don't prefer crowds. Won't eat a lot of processed anything. Read labels any time I can. Kind of a toxin phobe for genuine and paranoid reasons. Childbirth seems foreign and alarming to me, as well as being pregnant. I associate it with a parasite. I like kids, though. I hide most of this and go along with things whenever I can. I am fun, ask my peeps. One thing I go full pickle girl crazy on are planes. I really am Larry David.

[lilafowler]

I HATE people trying to help me in stores (like, the people who work there and are trying to do their job).
"Can I help you....?"
NO
NO
NO

[05heel]

I'm also afraid of plants, waffle fries, upholstered chairs in public places, and can break into hives almost on command.

[Deleted]

Jul 31, 2015 10:31:38 GMT -5 @drewly said:

I "type" as I speak. Like in my lap or in my head, my hands are typing what I am speaking on an imaginary keyboard. I've done it since my early teen years, and I have no idea why. I don't even realize I'm doing it most of the time.

I do this too. when I am thinking things or thinking of a list in my head I am literally typing it out in my mind

[scottyderp]

Biting on wet cotton is a sensory experience that should be saved for prisoners.

[Deleted]

OH I thought of another one. I twirl my hair. ALOT. If I am anxious I twirl it faster. If I am sitting and one hand is free I am twirling. Driving reading etc

[05heel]

Jul 31, 2015 10:55:48 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Jul 31, 2015 10:50:00 GMT -5 05heel said:

I'm an unwilling WWI buff. I can't stop reading books about it, and it's taking over my lyfe. I don't want to know anymore, but apparently people intend to keep writing about it. The 100-year anniversary last year nearly ended me.

I'm the same way about a few weird, random topics.  Commercial fishing; Civil War diaries; Jacobite exiles; theological sociology.

Every time I get a straw wrapper I have to try to tie it in a knot; if it unknots, it's good luck. 

I have to make the sign of the cross whenever I see an ambulance. 

I have strange sensory issues sometimes -- loud noises hurt.  Fireworks kind of suck.  The feel of fleece and cardboard make my skin crawl.  

Lol at commercial fishing.   I'm intrigued.   I tried to move on to WWII (naturally), but it just doesn't do it for me.

[scottyderp]

I make new posts instead of editing old ones. I pick at my scalp. Crusties, I call them. I pull them off and look at them.

[frkls]

Jul 31, 2015 10:15:40 GMT -5 ginger said:

Being tickled sends me into an anxiety attack and makes me cry.

me too!!! apparently that's an ADHD thing...it registers as pain. 

mine is that i go to sleep easier if the numbers on the digital clock make some sort of true number sentence.  like, i can go to sleep much easier at 11:13 than 11:12  because 1+1+1=3  

[AuntFlo]

I have to read everything out loud. Road signs, movie posters, billboards... I do it mostly to myself, but im sure it's annoying to other people in the car.

[rockpaperscissors]

I have to sleep on the side of the bed closest to the door. I've done this since I was kid.