To ask what your weird secret behaviour is?

[GunpowderGelatine]

You know, the kind of behaviour only you know about which is unusual, and would make people go but you love doing?

For example, I binge on three different Netflix programmes at any one time in what I call a "3-2-1" sequence, which goes like this:

• I will watch a long series (currently Peep Show) 3 episodes at a time
• then I will watch 2 episodes of a shorter series (Santa Clarita Diet at the mo)
• I'll then watch one episode of a weekly-type series after that (Jane the Virgin season 5 at the moment)
• Then it starts with the 3 episodes again, and so on and so forth

I can't deviate from the 3-2-1 sequence, and if for example I've finished the Santa Clarita Diet episodes but the next episode of Jane the Virgin isn't on until 2 day's time, I'll wait to watch anything more until then. I can't just skip it and watch the next 3 Peep Shows, or the world will probably end or something

I don't know why I do this or when it started, but it works for me

Please make me feel normal and tell me your secret weird behaviour

When I’m alone I pretend I am being filmed for a documentary about how shit my life is sometimes- there are 2 imaginary camera men called Phil and ken and Mary is the interviewer

Er...I spend more time researching and locating where to stream movies and series I want to watch, so much so that I never actually get around to watching them. Does that count?

Sometimes I get caught though and people ask who I’m talking to so I just say I’m thinking out loud

SandraDea that's amazing! I often think that other people can see me/hear my thoughts even though I know they can't

I masturbate. A lot

I pretend I'm a character in whatever show I'm into at that time!

I imagine TV shows I watch are real and fit myself in. Like How I Met Your Mother - I imagine meeting Ted at the university where he is a professor and I’m doing a postgrad course as an overseas student. I meet Leonard from Big Bang Theory in similar circumstances. I “act out” whole conversations in my head.

I read all my books in alphabetical order. I have a list of books 'to read' and every time I buy new ones I slot them into the list alphabetically and carry on from there. I only really do it because otherwise I'd probably spend hours staring at the bookcase trying to decide which one to read next.

JasperSin Why the fuck wouldn’t you? We can crack about twenty out in an ad break!

I have a few different imaginary lives. I always have. I love them all.

sandradea I wanna start doing that! What are your conversations like?

I go on epic Wikipedia binges about whatever random thing is sparking my interest in that time. Inevitably I get distracted, or my thinking tangents onto an unrelated subject, then I play a game to see if I can bring up the Wikipedia page of the new interest solely through clicking links on the pages. This evolved from being too lazy to type.

Goodnight 😳

I never ever take the top newspaper or magazine from the pile in the newsagents.
Also, as we’re on the subject, I mentally narrate every TV show/movie I watch as though I was writing the script - never thought that was odd until I just thought about it.

I flap my hands manically. I find it really calming. I can suppress it in public. So weird

@sweaty - it sounds like you’d enjoy the wiki race game

I move my toes a lot when sitting but when I'm a passenger in a car I press my toes into the floor at every lamppost along the way. Don't know why, it's automatic now!

I'm on a diet, so if I really want to eat something but I know I don't really need it I chew it and spit it out in to the bin

I write fanfiction, would die if anyone IRL found out

I mainly just wear pants when I’m at home, occasionally I’ll put a vest on as well.

I suffer from naladaptive daydreaming

I pace up and down to music whilst imagining scenarios in my head. Can be anything from celeb encounters to having a baby.

My conversations are actually very therapeutic- as ‘Mary’ asks quite pertinent questions and helps me put things in perspective. I then ‘hear’ the audience empathising so on the whole feels much better.

I think the last interview was why my eldest son is such a little shit and we all came to the conclusion it was not my fault and has his fathers genetics 😂

@Namechange8471, I had that severely as a child and teenager. Was an escape from an awful childhood I think.

I still have it now but nowhere near as bad or constant. I had a whole world and stories which went on for years

I spend huge amounts of time thinking about different roses. I know very little about gardening, have hardly any roses and never prioritise spending any money on them. I just like reading up about them and imagining how they’d look in various gardens.

Imaginary lives!! Yes. I'm always pretending I'm a fabulous ballerina in war torn eastern Europe trying to navigate my complicated and dramatic love life.... I mutter to myself and have conversations as I'm pretending this... which has been embarrassing...

I like to chew flannels... if no one is in I might soak a flannel in some water and just have a good old chew of it.

@Arrowfanatic what's ur fanfiction about? Come on you can tell us.....

I also strike a pose when I fart, the last one was like one of the Charlie’s Angels

I get weirdly obsessed about things for no apparent reason and want to learn everything about said things until I move in to the next thing.

My current obsession is Norway. I have no idea why, never been or considered going. But I’m obsessively reading about Norway, Norwegian history, places in Norway, the people of Norway, traditions in Norway. I watch long YouTube videos of trains as they travel through Norway. And I’ve just learnt about a farm that is 10m under water after an avalanche created a dam which flooded the farm. It’s pretty obsessive right? Anyway, it’ll last probably another few weeks before my next obsession comes along (might be another place, a person, an event).