To ask if you have any weird quirks

[PenguinCuddler300]

I'm here publicly admitting (although with name change) that I'm 27, married and a mother of one and I like to sleep cuddling my jelly cat penguin my hubby bought me when I was 18

Anyone else a bit random?

I rehearse even the most mundane conversation; e.g..

'Do you need help with your packing?' (supermarket cashier)
'No, thanks, I can manage.' (me)

There are a couple of songs I cannot listen to because I see them as unlucky. No matter what the situation, I have to leave the room/area if they are played (even in, say, a job interview).

When reading I tap the syllables out with my teeth. Not noticeable to anyone else as my mouth is closed and these are tiny movements but I read a loud in my head and tap with my teeth. I often find myself doing it in meetings and wondering if anyone is wondering what that noise is?

I can't walk over 3 drains

I will not feel comfortable eating a meal unless my cutlery matches

I can only sleep if my bedroom is cold.it doesn't matter what the weather is like outside I will have the window open and then snuggle into bed. The colder the better. (Much to DHs dismay!)

When in bed I HAVE to be able to see the door

When I really can't sleep I find gently stroking my pubic hair really really relaxing [shame] in a strictly none sexual way!

I don't have OCD, but I do wash my hands a lot due to emetophobia. I can't relax unless the last thing I did was wash them, depending on what I last touched. When preparing food I might wash them 20 times. If I think I've forgotten I dash to wash them...even at 1am. If I am unable to wash my hands with soap and water I do have wipes and foams which kill norovirus etc, but mostly I just won't touch my face, eat food or even handle a cup of tea.

The skin on my hands is fucked and wherever I've worked people think I'm a little bit strange.

I always watch the lottery numbers and pretend in my head that I've won and what I'm going to do in the next few days with my new found wealth - I don't do the lottery though!

If I'm walking with somebody, they must be on my left. DH also sleeps on my left and sits to the left of me on the sofa.

I had a beanie bear that DH won for me about 15 years ago, I slept with him every single night, he came on holiday with us to Majorca and the housekeeper 'stole' him. I was and still am devastated, this was in 2014!!

Total weirdo, you'd never know to look at me

I get quite upset if I have to eat soup without a proper soup spoon. I like to only drink coffee from a Small China mug, preferably blue.

Frozen I did end up Googling it and found posts on other forums from people that do the same! So it's not just us. But couldn't find any explanation as to why. Someone said something about it 'helping your lymph nodes drain' but I have a sneaky suspicion that may be quackery.

I have to sleep in the right side of the bed as I'm laying down in it.

All drawers and wardrobe doors must be closed properly or I can't sleep.

I like heavy weight on top of me whilst I sleep. No lightweight duvet for me. Blankets and throws please.

I tend to watch the telly with Subtitles on drives my partner crazy
I can't sleep with the wardrobe door open
I like to use the side lights rather than the main lights

I can't have a remote control pointing at me. The airwaves will zap straight through me

Even if it's across the room, I will make excuses and have to move it (sneakily if around someone else's house)

Also terrified of dp's laser level...

I also bite my lips and the inside of my cheeks all the time - anxiety induced.

Reading through these I think I have a lot of things that are associated with anxiety but I don't feel anxious.... But then I can't stop doing these things!

Bite inside of mouth all the time
Bite nails
Pull/stroke/play whit my hair in the same repetitive movement continuously which results in it getting super matted and wild

I'm also a picker if I get a scab.

;-(

tis I do the letter counting thing too! Letters must reach a multiple of three. If they don't, I add words on until I get the right result!
Nuts

I talk to DD’s Jellycat mouse as if he’s a real pet, if I find him lying around when nobody else is home. I also like to hold him as I work at my desk and rest my hand on his rounded tummy.

Sometimes I give him a kiss, and I half believe the affection I show him will sort of transfer to DD next time she picks him up - even though I’m not at all a “woo” person and I know it makes no sense

When I was a kid I wouldn't walk on cracks in the pavement. I forced myself to stop because it was so stressful (thsnkfully).

All toners, except for alarm have to be on odd numbers. The alarm has to be set at one minute past each quarter.

I have 2 main quirks - the swags at the top of my curtains have to match exactly otherwise I can't relax and am up and down like something possessed until they do !! The second is shopping lists - they have to be in the order I go round the supermarket - and if I get to say beans on the list and have forgotten lettuce - I have to start the whole list again so that the lettuce is in the right place - my friends think I'm mad

Hate being in a room with open doors, if I can I always shut the doors.

I too salute magpies

And have to go for a wee very last thing before bed, needs to be the last thing I do.

I HATE being touched if I'm wet or damp. And I hate the feeling of wet hair on my bare back. And the feeling of a fleecey dressing gown on damp body, boak. Towelling is fine though, obvs.

I'm another that makes up stories in my head to go to sleep. A common one for me is rewriting well known fairy stories from a more feminist outlook....

This thread is amazing, I always hoped people did some of the weird shit I do. I always pretend I am in a TV show, mostly in my head now but sometimes I will get really into it and act out the part. Yesterday I was in the Walking dead universe

I do the counting of letters to but I try and get two words to fit into each other, I sit facing the fire door in work and it soothes me that they are both four letter words.

I am also a fellow throat itcher and I have a theory it’s genetic, my dad and his sister can do it and me and my son can. My DH calls it the pig in distress, he’s just jealous he can’t scratch his inner ear the way we can!

So many. I was telling Dh about how when I was young I had an annoying habit of rubbing the side of my nose-he was like "you do realise you still do it?"

I don't know if this is unusual but my rl is completely different to the one I play out in my head.

This all seems like perfectly normal behaviour to me. I can undress and get into bed like a normal person in DH is there, but if he's away on business I can potter around, right up until bedtime where I fling myself across the room in case the underbed unpleasantness happens. Flushing the toilet is terrifying and mirrors are not to be looked in after dark. Last night I read out this thread and DH now knows that if one side of me gets touched or brushed against something the other side has to get touched too.

@ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs My bear travels everywhere with me and has had no drug smuggling based searches - I've got some cracking photos of him

If peoples clothing/accessories don't co-ordinate I get a headache, a real proper pain in the head.
i have had to turn the TV off this morning because Holly W looks so dreadful, and my head started to hurt!

I want this thread to continue forever - reading these made me feel much less weird!

I'm in my 20s and still suck my thumb, legititmately cannot sleep without doing it.
I've gone through a string of t-shirts since I was a child, so that I can touch the silky labels on them when I'm going to sleep.
I have to unplug stuff/turn plugs off/double check - but as pointed out by previous posters, the checking thing can be OCD as I was diagnosed because of it. Also the irrational panic that if I don't say "drive safe" something bad will happen.

And the not looking at mirrors after dark - I do it with windows and doors too! Can't look at the kitchen window at night in case there is a person looking back at me!

Please stop with the mirrors.

My room faces a big mirror that i can see in bed.

When i go to the toilet in the dark, i pass the big mirror...

When on way back from toilet i face another mirror.

The last couple of days, iv looked at the floor when walking and covered my head in bed. They never use to bother me.

Ooh I also never quite finish my plate of food. Like the PP who does it with coffee. Doesn't matter how much I have I leave a tiny bit. Drives both my DH and Mum mad