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To ask what your weird secret behaviour is?

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GunpowderGelatine · 23/04/2019 19:52

You know, the kind of behaviour only you know about which is unusual, and would make people go Hmm 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 ConfusedGrin

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

OP posts:
waxahatchee · 26/04/2019 12:12

Wind I meant

Windmyonlyfriend · 26/04/2019 14:32

Haha! I feel privileged that my weird letter writing is at the right end of the weirdness scale! Grin

SecretWitch · 26/04/2019 15:00

I am in a long term relationship with a heavy metal rocker. (Like since the ‘90’s)

I speak very bad French with my very elegant black cat

I spend time thinking about sex with inappropriate people.

pineapplebryanbrown · 26/04/2019 15:30

Witch is your cat real or an Art Deco poster entitled La Chat Noir?

Oui ou non?

pineapplebryanbrown · 26/04/2019 15:32

I'm obsessed with my bowels, sultana bran is like crack cocaine to me.

SecretWitch · 26/04/2019 15:45

thighofrelief He is a thing of truth and beauty!

And, yes, I actually have two framed Tournee de Chat Noir prints in my house.

I forgot to add, I also play Beat The Toilet, in which I must flush, pull pants up and get through hand wash before the toilet stops running. Mind, our plumbing is from the 1889, so it’s not as disgusting as it sounds.

SecretWitch · 26/04/2019 15:46

thigh if you take magnesium tablets every day, you shall run like clock work.

Jellybeansincognito · 26/04/2019 15:55

At the moment I love imagining that I’ve won the lottery and I literally sit and look at rightmove and pick the houses I’d buy and gift to my family members and what house we would buy if we won and plan out what else we would do with the money and look at Pinterest at party ideas etc.

Bonkers, completely bonkers... but I love it!

Summersunsareglowing · 26/04/2019 16:40

@Illberidingshotgun

"On train platforms I have to fight really hard to stop myself pushing people in front of oncoming trains. This includes my own children."
Wow. Do you get scared about this and try and avoid taking trains so that you don't experience it? How do you stop yourself from doing it and how do you know you won't actually push somebody under a train?

I hope I don't offend anyone but I am wondering whether people on here who admit to having some weird behaviours consider themselves to be 'normal' or whether some of you have, say, multiple personality disorder or other diagnosed MH issue.

I have a relative who suffers from depersonalisation and they also had an episode of paranoia and I am reading this thread just to get a handle on any weird behaviours people have, just to kind of understand people more.

From the title I thought it was going to be far more tame stuff like:

  1. I remove mascara from my eyelashes by rubbing my lashes between my thumb and finger;
  2. As a child I used to pull my hair out and make bald patches on my scalp;
  3. I'd get in and out of bed at night to check my sisters were breathing;

You all make me feel strangely boring. Grin

tardyheart · 26/04/2019 16:57

Jellybeansincognito I do the lottery thing too.

I look on the Knight Frank website for property abroad, have a jewelry pintrest board for the inevitable win. What car I'd buy, look at expensive hotels we would stay in, what charity we would donate to, what events we would go to, the fun is endless.

PaintBySticker · 26/04/2019 17:41

Having thoughts like ‘I could run those people over if I put my foot down’ is common and normal. It’s not normal if you can’t stop having those thoughts and they and interfere in your life, or (I hope obviously) if you act on those thoughts.

Starwednesday · 26/04/2019 18:03

If I see a dead animal by the side of the road I do that crucifix thing (touching your head, shoulders etc) but I only do it in my mind, I’m not at all religious
If I’m on a walk I look for where I could park even if I have no intention of driving or parking there
At night before sleeping I pretend I’m telling my life story to a councillor or writing it in a book
Or I pretend I’m like in the Truman show and the whole world is watching my life on tv, or that someone is making a documentary about my life
I also pretend I’ve won the lottery a lot and daydream about buying a castle and horse etc

Jaspermcsween · 26/04/2019 18:15

I like to wave my bare arms around to feel the movement of air on them. Works best if it’s cold .

pineapplebryanbrown · 26/04/2019 18:52

I often think about running people over in my car and secretly award myself points.

If people don't acknowledge me on a zebra crossing i rev my engine and smile when they look at me

waxahatchee · 26/04/2019 19:23

I suck peoples eye balls out of their heads when they are sleeping

AuntieCorruption · 26/04/2019 19:27

I weed on a bathmat and broke the internet!

PaintBySticker · 26/04/2019 19:31

“I have a very strong imagination and frequently enact revenge on people who have wronged me in my head! One person who I hated died (think workplace bullying) one person broke a limb, another, their beloved cat died. Poor cat.

Obviously all coincidence. Thoughts cannot cause another person harm. Now about my current, soon to be ex line manager...🤔”

I thought I’d caused someone’s baby to die (I’d never even met the baby) because I was jealous of her pregnancy when my husband and i were trying to conceive. I didn’t want or wish the baby to die but I thought it had happened because of my jealousy. I wasn’t very mentally well at the time and my psychiatric nurse called it magical thinking. My sensible mind knew it couldn’t be true but I also somehow believed it.

pineapplebryanbrown · 26/04/2019 19:48

I like having sex with people who suck my eyeballs out of my head when I'm sleeping.

ProjectGainsborough · 26/04/2019 19:58

thigh you get 20 points for running someone over if they’re wearing a hat

DogHairEverywhere · 26/04/2019 20:01

Thigh do you have sex before or after they've sucked out your eyeballs?

ProjectGainsborough · 26/04/2019 20:04

I couldn’t resist one small comment...

AuntieCorruption · 26/04/2019 20:13

Is eyeball sex a thing?

findingmyfeet12 · 26/04/2019 20:19

I think eye socket sex is called skulling. I think it's something they do in prison*

  • I don't have a very reliable source for this information Blush
AuntieCorruption · 26/04/2019 20:28
Shock

But where does you're eye go during the act?

Assuming wax didn't suck it out of course!

AuntieCorruption · 26/04/2019 20:30
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