Post by redpenmama on Dec 14, 2015 21:10:04 GMT -5
1. My grandmother (who I'm named after) is missing one permanent tooth -- it just never appeared. Once I lost all of my baby teeth and my permanent teeth came in, my dentist discovered that I had an extra tooth ... in the spot where my grandmother is missing hers.
2. I hate salad. Can't do lettuce no matter how much I try.
3. I would "sleep shower" when I was a kid. My mom was fortunately a night owl and would hear me getting into the shower, totally asleep, at like midnight and come and wake me up and tell me to get out of the shower.
Post by waterchurch on Dec 14, 2015 21:15:01 GMT -5
I can't stand the sound of people playing with their nails. Like clicking together or picking at them. Shiver. I was home schooled for the first two years of high school. I didn't teach myself a lick of algebra 1 or 2 and gave myself all As. Any time I eat popcorn, I want ice cream after.
3. I'm a freakishly fast reader - like, can read a 500 page book in a few hours.
Me too! I just read a book that took me a couple weeks because I kept falling asleep (damn kids) and it was so annoying! I told DH and he was like "you know this is what normal people do right?" Lol
Post by scribellesam on Dec 14, 2015 21:18:56 GMT -5
1. I hate swimming in the ocean. The sticky saltwater, the sand everywhere, stringy seaweed - yuck. I much prefer th pool. And yet I refuse to move away from the coast.
2. I have never used a tampon. The idea squicks me out.
3. I hate any board game involving strategy. Risk, Settlers of Catan, etc. Ugh. Can't we just drink and play CAH instead?
I have hyperhidrosis - my hands & feet sweat too much. It's super embarassing. It has gotten better on its own but I still almost never wear sandals, even in the summer and I loathe shaking hands. I'm pretty sure my DS2 has this too
I took sign language courses in high school and now when I daydream I absent-mindedly spell out words in SL.
i can't sleep without socks and covers over my feet. I can't stand the feeling of exposed feet to the air in bed.
I love pulling out my eyelashes, but I really try not to.
Me too! I can feel when they are loose and pull them out. Occasionally I also grab ones that aren't loose and pull them out too. Hurts like a mother. Eta- yes to the counting stuff too!
I do this too. It drives my husband crazy. He is a constant volume adjuster and will decide 9 is a perfect volume and I will make him change it to 8 or 10. Then 8 is too quiet and 10 is too loud, but I can't let it be at 9.
1. I was almost kidnapped as a child. My father's side of the family thought my mom wasn't doing a good enough job, and that we were becoming too American. So, they came up with a plan to steal my older sister and I, and send us back to Africa. My mom would've kept my older brothers. Luckily my mom thought something was off, and decided to stay home the day things were supposed to go down.
I was actually kidnapped as a child by my biological father. (For all of a couple hours)That probably would have been a much more interesting weird fact than the fact that I sleep in old lady nightgowns. I always forget about it since I was so young I don't have many memories of it.
1. I used to work in a historic house (colonial), and I wore a costume to work every day. H proposed to me there. I was wearing a shift, a drawstring skirt, a vest, and an apron when I got engaged.
2. I am always hot, and it makes me fucking RAGE.
3. I have trypophobia so bad that I once saw a picture that freaked me out so much, I actually wished to be dead to stop having to live with the image. It's not that I was suicidal or had made a plan, but I just thought being dead would be easier than living with how much it freaked me out. It was a particularly difficult time otherwise, but that was kind of a low point where I realized I needed to get some help!
I still would never look at said picture again. Never.
In case anyone else was wondering what trypophobia is, trust me when when I tell you not to google it unless you want to have it too.
1. I decided I wanted to be a dentist at age 16 after a selection process that involved a personality test that I gave myself and interviews with any and all of my parents' friends in healthcare.
2. I won >$10k in savings bonds competing in my State Geography bee and Citizen bee in middle/high school.
3. I played water polo for 4 years in college. On a men's team.
Post by pinkdutchtulips on Dec 14, 2015 22:56:36 GMT -5
1- my first job was giving tours at a colonial house, in colonial dress. the best part was baking bread in the HUGE brick ovens on Fridays.
2- despite hitting 6' at 16 ... i was never a first string basketball player.
3- i had surgery when i was 6wks old to remove a tumor growing in my neck muscle. the stitches were supposed to dissolve (they didn't) and left me w/ a scar that looked like a faded hickey. imagine trying to explain THAT to teachers in middle school :/
I lock all of the inside doors each night before bed. Even rooms like the office and bathrooms.
One of my college boyfriends is an NFL player.
I went to Israel for a 10 day trip and decided to not get on my flight home and stay an extra 10 days with a guy that I had just met. He ended up dating one of my best friends.
What exactly is it then? Fighting the urge to google
It's a fear of small holes, especially irregularly shaped holes. It triggers our monkey brains, fearing like poisonous insect hives or similar.
Some people would be freaked out by a shower head, for example, but that doesn't get me. Usually for me, it has to be a living thing. It doesn't strictly HAVE to be holes, but a similar idea. Someone once showed me a picture of a person who had teeth all over the roof of their mouth, and I almost lost my mind over it.
A picture of teeth all over the roof of their mouth would make anyone lose their minds! EEEEEEEEEEEEW
It's a fear of small holes, especially irregularly shaped holes. It triggers our monkey brains, fearing like poisonous insect hives or similar.
Some people would be freaked out by a shower head, for example, but that doesn't get me. Usually for me, it has to be a living thing. It doesn't strictly HAVE to be holes, but a similar idea. Someone once showed me a picture of a person who had teeth all over the roof of their mouth, and I almost lost my mind over it.
A picture of teeth all over the roof of their mouth would make anyone lose their minds! EEEEEEEEEEEEW
1) I hate the beach. I have lived in CA my entire life so I have spent many days at or near the beach and I still hate it. The sand, the gross, dirty water, seagulls, yuck! Every other year DH's family rent a beach house for a week and I always volunteer to stay home with the kids that are napping so I can avoid having to actually go to the beach.
2) I was interviewed for a new piece when I was at the post office mailing the SS gift to greycat. A lady ran up to me and asked if I had been a victim of mail theft lately and I had. It has been a big problem in my city recently. I didn't realize she was a reporter until I had said we had out outgoing mail stolen. I was very grateful I had done my hair and makeup that day.
3) I have a weird hole under my nose that I have had since birth. You can't see it unless I pull my lips in so it stretches out the area under my nose. It is big enough that I can stick the end of a ball point pen in it. I would take a picture but it is impossible to get a picture without also include my entire nostril and that is just weird.
1). I can barely tell time. On my own I can, but if someone asks me, I panic. I used to wear a watch (why, lol) and I would lie and tell people it was broken when they asked for the time.
2). The first thin H and I had sex, it was in my parents bed.
3). I was goth for a year in high school, on a dare.
1. I was an all-island and all-Europe soccer player in HS. 2. I've been to more countries than I have states. 3. I can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, diet or regular, fountain, can or bottle. I have just recently been able to tell the difference between soda and root beer.