Ridiculous things that you do for actually no reason

[KenAdams]

Whenever I pick up a parcel from the reception desk at work or from a neighbour I have to tell them what's in it. I have no idea why, they obviously don't care but I do it EVERY TIME.

Please tell me I'm not uniquely weird?!

Count things and have no idea why !

@booksandhearts I was running late as it was and had to come back home to make sure I turned the oven off by the wall. So tiring all the running up and down

I 'write' words on my thumb with my index finger. Usually in a loopy, fancy type of handwriting (that's how I imagine it would look anyway ) and always along the line on my thumb. I do it when I'm nervous/anxious. Either one word over and over or a sentence or just whatever someone is saying to me.

I also have imaginary confrontations with people in my head and get a bit worked up. Wish I could just actually just say the things I need to say.

I get really annoyed when my pee takes ages and I’ve paused Netflix and others are waiting! ! I even tut to myself!

I always sing one of my children's name, always. The other two I say their names, but there's one name I just always sing. If I say his name to anybody, I sing it in my head instead.

I also run my tongue along the back of my teeth whenever my mouth is closed and count them like the dentist

@SorbetK6 Whenever I am talking about months or times of the year I always have the image of an elliptical shape in my head.
December is on the right and June is on the left and it sort of slopes down from Christmas to Easter and up from September to Christmas

I do this! Apparently it's Space-Time Synaesthesia.

You're doing it all wrong though . The week goes from side to side; the year goes over and round the back, with January up behind my head somewhere.

Whenever I see anyone using their asthma inhaler, I breathe in with them. I was doing it the other day when my DD was using hers and I tried to stop myself and couldn't!

I count the letters in numbers and then find the middle letter or the centre space if there are an even number.

If i am a passenger on the motorway or on a train, I imagine someone running really fast alongside and leaping over the fences and walls etc.

@merryhouse
I have just Googled space time synesthesia and it's exactly that!
I never knew it had a name, just shows we're not all as weird and unique as we think.

@LutherRalph1

I do a similar thing - tap out every syllable using each finger, from the thumb to the little finger and then back again. I like it when the line finishes when I'm at either end!

I see you, your ridiculous things and raise you mine: when ever I have sex and I'm getting really aroused I picture a place near to where I live.. If I don't see it in my head when I'm having sex I know I'm not going to orgasm!! 😂

It's not even a nice place, it's a derelict piece of land near the river and has a railway bridge nearby.

I have no idea when this started but I've wanted to tell someone for ages!! 😂

If I'm reading a book and the character does something with their mouth, I do it, too.
Purse their lips, suck their teeth, chew their top lip, curl their lip.
I don't do it with any other body part or gesture.
I don't know why I do it.

When I put petrol in the car the amount must end in a zero.

If I go over-say £35.01 I then have to go to £36

I also salute the magpies but that is obviously not for no reason

I count everything as well. Tried to stop its impossible

I count when I've put conditioner on my hair, to make sure I leave it on for at least a minute. Trouble is, I don't seem to realise I can stop at 60, and a while later I realise that I'm still counting... 877, 878, 879! 😂

I fake yawn if I'm in a situation I don't like. Someone letting me cross the road, trying to reverse park, walking past a big group of people.
My identical twin does the same so we must look like right twats if we are out and cross a road together!

I count the steps as I walk up/down stairs. Silently now but it's a legacy if doing it with 4 children.

Every time I sit down on an easy chair I have one leg under me.I draw shapes with the dangling foot. Sometimes its a figure of eight or infinity symbol and sometimes its a star. I cant not do it.

I always tell people where clothes were from (and invariably how much they were) when someone compliments me. E.g. 'oh I like that top' 'thanks! Got in from a charity shop for about 3 quid/ih uve had this years/ oh it's only Sainsburys'.

Meeeee tooooo, whyyyy?

I'm useless at accepting compliments and my husband and friends are aghast. I do exactly the same...blurt out how inexpensive it was or that it came from a supermarket....I'm trying really hard to accept the compliment graciously....

Reading this thread has been fun

It has to be said there's a lot of us with anxiety here!! Esp with the obsessive counting (since as far back as i can remember) its an anxiety reducing behaviour which bugs the hell out of me when i can't stop myself.
I still count all the windows each house has facing the street we're driving on. Doesn't matter how fast we're going. I MUST. COUNT. EACH. ONE!

Also, used to do spill on clothing price and place of purchase. I think that's to do with not feeling totally comfortable taking a compliment?

I'm also like a juke box. Any word said in any melodic way can get me going.

I cover my phone/laptop camera when i'm picking or cleaning my nose - with or without tissue!

I have to swish my mug with boiling water, even tho i know its clean, before i make a cuppa.

When i put my knickers on every morning i bend down to semi squat to make sure they're comfortable and not shrunk in the wash or something.

I do the 'wana go home' thing when upset/overtired too. I've never felt safe or at home growing up (unsafe environment/people) or even now not fully 100%

I put on a well spoken "phone voice" when im talking to a seemingly posh/middle class person and watch their face as i slowly start talking in an accent not so "proper".

When im at the shops or bus and skim read titles of articles in the paper or book and it's BS (almost always) i shake my head vigorously and start mumbling how brainwashing we allow our media to continue. I mean... people must know its bias bs!!

I always leave a last biscuit or 2 in the packet

I smell my fart before letting someone know - just incase its not that potent ha....ha...

If I put on shoes or slippers without socks, I sometimes say "goodbye" to my toes; and have to keep feeling the inside of my shoes by moving my toes around, as if to reassure myself my toes are still there, even though I can't see them. I remember being three or four years old and some red closed-toe sandals were forcibly buckled on to my bare feet; I was upset because I couldn't see my toes, and I couldn't get the shoes off myself.

I edit people's speech in my head to make it sound better, mostly people on TV. For example if they've used a word and I think an alternative would sound better. I repeat back what they've said in my head but with my improved version. I can't help it and I annoy myself so much!

I say 1 2 3 when i sit on the loo. 🤔