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'm being interviewed. It's mostly about my life or topics I've seen on this morning.if I'm caught by dh or the kids I pretend I'm singing and burst into song

I do it in the car too when I'm driving and it makes me feel really good because people probably think I'm on speaker phone. When infact the truth is I'm talking to myself like a complete lunatic..

I am also pretty obsessed with Christmas... I hate the warm weather but I love it when it’s slightly cold in the summer and I can imagine it’s winter. I buy Christmas decorations in the summer and I watch Christmas TV specials on YouTube all year round.
I think it’s a nostalgic thing because it reminds me of Christmas when I was young and my Dad was alive. Ironically, over the last few Christmases I either been proper stressed or poorly so not really enjoyed it all!

I dance.

supersop60 totally i dance all the time while having my earphones in its nice to cut off the sound of 4 children and just dance!!!

I like to live out a separate life in my head (or the notes in my phone) about my current obsession (was AHS but I’ve gone back to Criminal Minds).

I also stroke my ears but only when they are cold. I used to suck my thumb and stroke my ears when I was a kid. I also rub my feet together when I’m bed.

I read fanfic. Currently working my way through the M/E rated fics for Jaime and Brienne from Game of Thrones

If I'm home alone I sometimes put music on and pretend I'm at a gig. Sing along, clap along, wave my arms etc. I'd die of shame if anyone came home and saw me!

@JacktomyDaniel I used to do something very similar, sayni knocked my elbow, I’d have to knock the other one in the same place and If I didn’t knock it correctly, I’d then have to knock the other one afain. This could get quite out of hand.

Just one of my many coping mechanisms I’ve had over the years.

And maladaptive daydreaming, who knew it had a name 🙈

Another one who has a whole other life in her head, often someone living abroad somewhere hot and sunny!

I also LOVE all the songs you get at the kids mini discos on holiday - nothing cheers me up like wacking my playlist on and having a boogie.

I go on Mumsnet

AuntieCorruption....
What does that mean?I have no idea😂🤷‍♀️

I watch ASMR.

GraceV
Mads ASMR
ASMR Music are my three tops at the moment.

I play with my boobs a lot.

I binge eat. I purge.

I count the letters in words, doors and drawers. Has to be an even number.

I pretend to be on X factor a lot. I'm more than often signing an empowering fuck you song directed at an ex while looking fabulous.

I just looked up maladaptive daydreaming on a psychology site and have found and confirmed what I have suspected for years, that I have obsessive- compulsive personality disperser. I have most of the symptoms except, thank goodness, the one where sufferers prioritise their obsessions or work over their family.

Thus, I spend a ritualistic morning cleaning the house or sorting out the garden or ironing and, when they are perfect, I have a great sense of relief. I also suffer from extreme anxiety at times and the rituals dispel this to an extent as do walking or cooking.

Luckily, I am married to a man who share my OCPD to a lesser extent so he is happy with the extreme cleaning and perfection. He gets anxious if a single thing is wrong with any of the machines or devices in the house and has to fix them on the spot.

I can live with all of this as I am aware of the nutjobbery of it so it is a neurosis not a psychosis and no one else is hurt by it. I also have a lovely house and garden and get plenty of exercise with my cleaning, gardening, ironing and walking. While I am working I listen to the radio or stories and dramas so I am not being totally vacuous.

Where it presents difficulties is that I am increasingly reluctant to leave my home as I cannot control my environment elsewhere. I make myself do this though as I don’t want to withdraw from real life. I am going to an afternoon party today with people who hoard and live in complete chaos to the extent that several rooms are out of commission they have so much junk in them. They have their own problems. They have about ten holidays a year because they are running away from the difficulties in their lives.

Is anyone ‘normal’, I wonder?

Personality disorder not dispenser! Predictive text! Doh!

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I love this thread and how everyone is weird but pretty much everything someone does who thinks is really odd, there are others who do the same!!! I do a few, most, if not all if which have been mentioned.
I often imagine conversations in my head between me and other people, where I am winning them over with my stellar wit.I most often do this when I am walking somewhere alone, but it can be down the street or even if I'm just walking to the loo at work. Sometimes I just replay conversations I've had where I think I've been really helpful (at work) or said something really funny. The downside is I almost always mouth the conversation akong to myself, so if I bump into someone it's quite embarassing!!
Along the same lines, I play out scenarios in my head when I'm home alone, making dinner etc.
I google obsessively. If someone mentions something I don't know the answer to, I HAVE to google, even if someone else has told me the answer. I don't believe anyone until Ive checked (although I don't tell them I don't believe them!) I also google favourite tv shows and actors in them, their other tv shows, personal lives etc, glad that's not just me!
This one is actually kind of sad, but still kind of weird. We have been trying for a baby for the past 4 years and I have spent hours and hours over the years, almost certainly it would add up to full days, picking out prams, car seats, nursery furniture, clothes etc etc online. I read full reviews, watch youtube videos on the items I'm thinking of picking, price up my purchases so I know how much it's all going to cost. I think I have everything all picked out, then ill change my mind. I've changed the complete list countless times now. So yeah, it's actually a bit sad, but it's like an obsession. It also means all my targeted ads are baby stuff, which is awkward if I am, for example, at work and check something on my phone with a co-worker - the first thing that pops up is usually the last page I was on, which will be baby equipment or IVF related, or it's an innocuous page it will have ads for pushchairs flashing all over it.

I can't walk near a balcony or anywhere where there is a big drop without thinking I'll throw my kids/me over it. I always stay as far away as possible.

@DNo Not as bad but I always get the urge to throw my glasses over the edge if I'm standing somewhere with a big drop!

I know this is strange but can't stop myself. Every day when I use deodorant and a bit of hair spray I have to shake the tins exactly eight times...weird I know.

Prolific daydreamer here, I default to being a shield maiden if I haven't got a current day dream on the go. I also renovate houses in my head. If I'm watching a programme about a murderer, I imagine how I'd murder them and how I'd get away with it, I haven't been caught yet.

@Dno I'm a little bit like that but with train platforms. I used to get the train every day and have a recurrent daymare of my daughter who was then a toddler falling onto the tracks. Im still now very wary of going too near the edge of the platform in case I/we fall or are pushed or I often rhink how easy it would be to push someone over myself. Not that I'd ever in a million years actually want to. It makes me shudder!!

Thank you all - you have normalised some stuff for me.
I jump lampposts with my teeth whilst a passenger in the car. Mouth closed, teeth together until i reach a lamppost and jump over it with my teeth. Have done this since i was a child! Also sometimes do it for shadows - to mix it up!!!!

I day dream alot too!

I open the window, or stand in the garden, hold my right hand in a 'gun' shape and point it at a pigeon. Then I shout BANG.
They no longer fly off, but they used to.
Once I imagined the pigeon falling dramatically to the ground, dead, then getting up and winking at me before flying off.
🤔

My current daydream is how I’d survive the tide coming in when my feet are stuck in quicksand on the bottom and the water is rising.