To ask if you have any weird quirks

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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 can't only dry one hand. For example if I'm cooking and rinse the hand that's got chicken germs, I need to get the other one wet before I dry them. It just feels really weird to only dry one wet hand.

I pull out curly hairs. My hair is pretty straight but I have the odd wiry frizzy hair. I store them up and have a hair pulling session, it's very very calming. The most satisfying sessions are when my hair is greasy as it lays flat except the frizzy ones. I justify it because the frizzy ones don't hurt so I say they must be ready to come out. The straight hairs hurt if I accidentally pull them out.

Oh goodness, where do I start!

I have to count every word someone says when they're talking to me (I've been doing it so long now I can count and listen at the same time).

I cannot sleep without my first childhood teddy in the room with me.
I cannot eat unless my cutlery matches.
I have a morning cup and an evening cup and freak out if my husband makes a cup of tea for me in the evening using my morning cup (and vice versa).
When eating (or doing anything!) I have to have things in 3-2-3 formations and I have to 'seal' the whole thing off by ending it at 12. All my numbers have to add up to 3, 5, 8 or 12 (i.e. 44 is 4+4=8).
I cannot sleep without my feet being covered up in bed - this stops the monsters getting me. Even if it's 30 degrees, I still have a duvet / blanket on my feet (a sheet won't cut it, it has to be something sturdy).

(The numbers thing is nuts but it makes sense to me!).

And I have so many more than this too! Makes me feel good though as I always thought I was alone in this craziness.

I thought of some more.

I hate seeing into a house when it’s dark outside and they have the lights on and the curtains open.

I have to say ‘Hello xx’ out loud if I drive past the home or work of someone I know well. If I know hey are away, I say ‘hope you’re having a nice time’

I treat inanimate objects as if they have feelings, don't like to leave one out in case it's upset. Talk to myself way too much, keep getting caught

If I’m eating chocolate I have to flick through cake recipes at the same time.
I have a Bear that I snuggle and a turtle that I hold in my hand.
I make animal sounds.
I time myself doing my make-up so it takes no longer than 4 minutes.

Tisfortired
I do the dividing words and sentences by blocks of 3 letters too, it drives me mental!
If Im in bed and can't sleep, I count down from 100 backwards but spell the letters out in 3s. I can't stop it.

I can’t look out of windows when it’s dark outside as I’m convinced there will be an evil clown staring back. I can’t sleep in a room with mirrors that are uncovered. When I have a nightmare I have to imagine a wall being built in my mind before I go back to sleep.

Also I like to twirl my hair around my finger until it knots and then pull the knot out. If I’m stressed I even do it in my sleep.

I do the touching with both sides thing too I also like patterns of four.

I can't blow my nose properly and hate bogies, so I pick it far too much and I also pull my eyebrow hairs out with my fingernails. God I'm weird and gross

If I see a lone magpie on its own I have to say 'hello Mr magpie' or something awful will happen. Even if I'm out in public on my own I will say it. No fucks given.

I can’t look out of windows when it’s dark outside as I’m convinced there will be an evil clown staring back.

Thanks for that. Thoroughly creeped out at the possibility now! Although I'm similar with darkened windows in case I see someone standing behind me that shouldn't be there in the house.

If I eat a burger, without fail, I will always leave the top bun. No idea why I do this. But then I eat it with a knife and fork like a weirdo

OMG applebags are you me???!

I HATE drying one wet hand! Have to wet the other one too.

And the curly hairs... my hair is poker straight apart from two random curlers I know about. But DH... you would LOVE my DH. He has straight hair peppered with single squiggly ones. I spend entire evenings rummaging for them and pulling them out, then I present them to him and say things like "God, look at that one! I missed that one for a few months didn't I!" and he just grunts, flicks it away and lets me get on with it... it's bliss.

I rub my hands together really fast if I'm bored/tired/stressed/sad etc. I've done it since I was little but family etc still ask if I'm cold.

I rub my foot against my mattress when I'm in bed like a comfort thing. It's dead weird. Only my left foot. I don't realise I'm doing it.

I also count how many strokes of my roll on deodorant I put on- I don't want a total of 13. Fruit loop.

I agree with PP that the magpie saluting is just common sense.

When I put petrol in my car the price must end in a naught or a five.
I have crammed it in til it's practically pouring out because the worst is when it goes from £24.99 to £25.01

And I hate doors open too! I should've thought before I posted

I talk to myself constantly
Im 35 and still "trot" up the stairs on all fours.
Public information adverts scare the bejeesus out of me
I have a huge thing about symmetry
Hundreds more that I can't think of!

Oh god the inanimate object thing too! If I'm in a shop and put something in my trolley, then later change my mind and take it out, I'll feel ridiculously sorry for it, like it was so excited to be bought and now I'm just causing it's little world to come crashing down....I usually will buy it even if I don't want it any more lol

I’m 50 and I sleep with the teddy bear my mum gave me when I was 32 and in hospital. She died a few years later and I feel like he’s a link between us.

Some of this rings true but I always thought it was normal ... rubbing my feet against the mattress (I do this all the time)
Can’t ever dry one hand they both need to be wet.
Have to eat food in an order every time. Worst bit to best bit. This included cottage pie (potatoes last), lasagna (cheesy top last), roast dinners etc.
Whatever meal it’s worst veg first, nicer veg next, meat then carbs. Don’t mess with the order!!

I rub my feet together to get to sleep and can't wear socks in bed! I also can't sleep without a pillow between my legs - a habit I developed in pregnancy and it's stuck with me!

With regards to food I can only use a certain pattern of cutlery in my house and I don't mix things. So if I had a chinese takeaway I wouldn't put any of the rice or chicken on a plate and mix, I'd eat them out of their containers. Whenever I do mix food it would be like dipping it into a sauce. Or if I've specifically made a mixed food like pasta bake.

I sleep with a teddy, but he’s alive! My shih tzu. He’s a furry cuddle bundle and I adore him!

I also have a thing to get me to sleep. I imagine I’ve on a private jet going somewhere very glamorous and have had a sumptuous meal, and have gone to bed in a lovely large bed in a lovely bedroom. There’s something about flying along with just space underneath which I seem to find very soporific.

I have ASD so my list is long and full of 'tics'.

I chew the inside of my mouth incessantly.
I have to cut the hanger ribbons out of any clothes. I cannot wear odd socks; even the same material feels odd if they're a different colour. Got a little trichotillomania. I meow, even though I don't like cats. Telly and radio volume have to be lower than a certain number. Foods may not touch and I have an eating order beginning with the least good veg bits. I have to jump the end of an escalator, despite arthritis in my knees, in case the monster gets me.

I flick all metal door handles before I get hold of it and open/close the door. I'm strangely scared of static shocks. I do it that fast now people hardly notice unless they watch my entire hand movement then I get 'did you just flick that door???'