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

I like to imagine people I know or knew in the past can "see though my eyes" at times and are watching my life as I live it

OMG I've done this since I was about 10 (I'm mid 50s now) and never told a soul. When I was younger it was people I fancied or people I wanted to admire me. Gawd knows why I thought they'd want to 'see' my life. Sometimes, when I left the house, I imagined I was being watched at a distance by these people.

I sometimes imagine I'm on a programme like Jeremy Kyle or that I'm in court and I'm being asked my side of events from a dispute I've had in my real life. I recently have had to go NC with a much younger narcissistic family member (it's been horrible) and I imagine explaining my 'side' of things. I'm always very calm and rational in my explanations and JK or the judge (depending on the scenario) comment on my calmness.

When buying any clothes for anyone I get the right size out and have a good look then put it back and get another in the same size to buy as I've messed with the first one. Slightly neurotic I know

Lolly, I do that too! The first one has become “used” 😂

I can’t bear to put my lunch on a plastic tray in our canteen at work. Everyone thinks I’m nuts. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have this thing where if I like the look of a house I remember the number and street name just in case one day the government gives everyone a chance to pick a house and you have to know the address... I currently have 3 addresses I have remembered

EjectorCrab you should go to norway.i know you said youll move on to something else but its a wonderful place.my family is from there and it so gorgeous in places

We have a electronic gate at work activated with your pass. It sounds just like the tardis and I thought this every time for three years!

Rememberallball / woolly17 - I do it with the number 2!

Pretend dead composers have come back from the grave and I'm showing them around the modern world

I do this but with random ordinary medieval people. It's fun thinking about all the things they never would have seen before, and how rich I would seem to them.

ejector crab have you tried 'walking around' the streets of Norway using the yellow man on Google earth (or Google maps) street view.

This is one of my favourite time wasters - choosing a place I'd like to visit then randomly exploring it using street view. I've done Norway a few times - looked out over the fjords and decided where I would stay on my Scandinavian road trip I've planned for when I retire.

Before booking anywhere to stay I Google map the address and gave a good look around with street view first.

I pick my skin and have done since a teen, there's a name for it (can't be arsed to Google) e.g. pick at scabs till they become scars

Internally chanting house to let .

I think there is a word for some of these mentioned - stimming (seeking stimulation).

@onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad I do that too but have never told anyone.
I sometimes think my exes can see through my eyes and see that my life is going well.

@onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad
No I haven’t, I will definitely give that a go. Thank you for feeding my current obsession. 😆

I lick the seasoning off of crisps (especially doritos and pringles) before I eat them.

I do this too! I also have a penchant for eating Maltesers is two very specific ways. The first involves simply sucking and letting it dissolve in my mouth. The second involves nibbling all the chocolate off and then dissolving the honeycomb in my mouth. I could easily exist, and be entertained for hours on end, by crisps and chocolate.

When buying fabric conditioner I smell it first (even though it's my usual brand) , then push that one back on the shelf and buy the 3rd one back.
I also sniff my washing powder when I'm doing laundry, and smell the washed clothes.
Which when I was a nanny/housekeeper was remarked on by my employer .
When pregnant I had smell cravings, not food. I Vim'd the life out of my bath and cooker, cleaning them 3 or 4 times a day just to inhale the smell. But my favourite wasn't easy to get, it was the smell of brick dust from building sites, and once my DH had to stop me licking a brick wall.
Nowadays I tell a silly joke and then cackle maniacally for ages, others laugh too, but I suspect it's at me, not my joke.
I make up songs about cheese. To the theme tunes of the soaps. I thought it would be a nice surprise to meet my daughter from work one night by walking into her shop singing my latest composition. To the Corrie tune. "I'm just cheeeese, have me on a sandwich, orrrrrr on toast" .
And her co-worker popped up from behind the till and said "oh you must be Cherry Jr's mum".
Famous, me

I had a really strong intrusive thought this morning. Walked past an orange at work and I had to resist picking it up and lobbing it as hard as I could at the back of someone's head

@OogieMcBoogie I have the same. I have the same one line of a song going around in my head for months at a time. It’s intrusive and makes me want to bang my head off a wall sometimes. It can take me 6 months to get rid of it each time and then it moves onto another one.

This thread makes me realise how boring I am

I can't talk to a Scottish person without turning into Rab C Nesbit

If I enjoy a book, I always browse the real estate to see what I could buy if I moved to where the book is set. My budget is limited to what I could afford in real life, because clearly there is a real prospect of me moving to Alaska/Botswana/a run down former coal mining village in Appalachia.

If i watch a reality TV show with arguments ie celebrity big brother I get involved in the arguments in my head for days.

I also respond to people in my head and forget to speak. It drives people bonkers that I'm looking at them waiting for a response.

Before I became Debra Winger i had a best friend called Colon (i named him when I was 3) and we had many adventures together.

I call maladaptive daydreaming Barbies in the Head. My best friend IRL knows about them and asks about their adventures. She also lets me tell her all about my life as Debra Winger.

If i met Debra Winger IRL I'd be absolutely furious.

I hold my breath through tunnels. On theme park rides, through mountain passes, tunnels through cities, you name it I'll hold my breath til I pass out and I genuinely can't stop.

I also count footsteps and have to know a route out of anywhere so on holidays when we arrive I go and find my route. That way if there's an emergency I'll know how many paces and which direction to escape. I've only had to use it once on a holiday when there was an earthquake and DH was amazed at how calm and certain I was. Little did he know I could see my magical map inside my head.

I don't think I'd ever admit to it in real life, though.

@AestheticPerfection

@EjectorCrab I do this all the time, it's a part of how they diagnosed my adhd

I do this all the time too - I work from home (freelance) and am losing a lot of time and money to it I have been thinking a LOT lately about how I believe I have ADHD (older so wasn't diagnosed in my day). If what you both do is another symptom of it, it adds to my suspicions. I had no idea

I sometimes think my exes can see through my eyes and see that my life is going well

Yup that's it. I do exactly that too!

When my house is a disaster I pretend social services are coming to investigate the house. Makes me clean hard!!! I also fall asleep listening to crime podcats. Nothing like the soothing descriptions of awful murders to help me fall asleep.

@LettuceLeave

Omg I never thought anyone else would do this but I do it to all names, signs etc!

I also like to look at words or signs with multiple words and try to find the centre so that I could fold them in half perfectly.