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

*not restraint but restaurant! Autocorrect!

If I see a very frail, tiny, elderly lady I have the urge to rubgy tackle her to the ground. I imagine her crumbling under my weight and her turning to dust.

When I'm alone and do really loud farts, I look around really quick and say 'what was that?!' Then I laugh.

I always imagine finding a dead body or rescuing someone/saving someone's life and I get interviewed about it.

I have intrusive thoughts all the time. I have to shake my head to shake them away. If I'm alone I'll yell 'stop it!'

My brother has schizophrenia and I always worry I'm the mentally ill one and he doesn't exist, and everyone is just going along with it. I also think I'm in a psychiatric ward and my life is all imagined.

My mum once watched a program about a woman who imagined having a baby and all her family went along with it. She phoned me and told me about it. I'd just had Dd and I thought she was telling me about it because that's what was happening to me. Five years later, I still sometimes think Dd isn't real and I'm just taking a doll to school. My mum died two years ago and I imagine she's not really dead and she just faked her own death to get away from me because she couldn't keep up with the lie any more.

I sometimes feel guilty for moving house after she died because she won't know where I've gone. I think she can only visit places she's been to whilst alive.

I have also done maladaptive daydreaming since I was a child. I've got so many imaginary lives/scenarios going on. I love thinking up new ones but I also have my old favourites that I return to every so often.

Oh Bruce! Sorry if it's inappropriate but I'm crying with laughter reading that.

If I'm sitting in the middle row of a plane with no seats between me and the emergency door, I imagine what would happen if I had the uncontrollable urge to get up and open it. I mean surely you shouldn't be able to just open the door? I kind of want to know but clearly if I ask the staff they will quietly remove me

I sometimes feel guilty for moving house after she died because she won't know where I've gone. I think she can only visit places she's been to whilst alive.
This makes me said @BruceTheMoose but I have to say you win, yours are awesome.

I have conversations with people I know when I am alone in shower.
I interview myself
I clean a room clockwise
I talk to my cats on a strange, high pitched voice

Sad not said. Obviously.

Oh and when I put fairy liquid in a washing up bowl I have to put my hand in and swish my hand 50 times to make bubbles .

@perhapsiwill it's okay, I laughed whilst reading it back

@EjectorCrab

@EngiNerd
I will search public records for anything I can find on people I meet. Sometimes it's friends I've known for a while too. I find out where they live, how much their house cost and if they have a mortgage and how much they took out. I will see if they have any criminal records. Found out my maid of honor was arrested and spent a night in jail for shoplifting two days after my wedding and she never told me! Looking through those records also led me to find out she wasn't alone and another friend did it with her. I did eventually confront her about it. Something in my head told me to look her up as she was acting a little strange and said she had some family issues. I live in the US so all of this is public information you can search for online. I do feel a bit invasive as these are obviously things most people keep private but I just love knowing this info!

You do realise this is called stalking?😂

I do, haha! I should've become a detective instead of an engineer

At least then it wouldn't be called stalking, right?

I sometimes believe I am famous and being papped as I walk down the street or come out the gym. I even imagine what the headlines would be in the papers of me

I also have imaginary arguments with people in my head. Things I really want to say but can't.

If I am standing at a great height or by something fast like a train I always imagine jumping. (never actually would though).

I imagine myself in a "hero" position saving someone's life and being in the papers for it too!

My weird behaviour is I imagine if I died, like who would get upset, what would they say about me, who would come to my funeral, then i think about my kids and my dogs missing me and I get all upset about it.

I put Mariah Carey's can't live, on in the kitchen and sing along with a wooden spoon, but I imagine I'm singing along to karaoke in front of my friend And family and they had no idea I can sing.

I can't start making dinner/tea until I have washed up first, there can't be anything in the sick at all. I daydream all the time, mainly about winning the lottery and what I would do, I also make up scenarios in my head that are quite far fetched, eg what if there was a car accident now or a fire at home, what would I do type of thing. I also fake argue with people that have annoyed me.

Are these normal?

@Stygimoloch haha I do the coma thing too
What is wrong with us

@Lorddening1 I don’t know! I’m just relieved it isn’t just me with the dramatic nightmare hospital bed scenes 😂.

If I'm in a restraint - I always think the meal is nice, but it would be much nicer if I had my plastic bowl and fork

Worrying

I quite like getting lost, being disorientated, and not knowing where I am. If I go to a new place by train, there's almost a sense of wonder of coming out of the station, and not knowing the area around me; especially if it's an underground station. There's a certain enjoyment to being detached from the reality of where I am.

I know my way to a lot of places by road; quite often, I can get there and back without using a map or sat nav (although I have them as backup). But a game I like to play is to walk or drive into a road I haven't used before, exploring and discovering it; and then there's a thrill if I come out somewhere I recognise.

Sometimes I've given myself a more elaborate challenge: I ask my DH to drive me somewhere. The rules are that he doesn't tell me where, I am blindfolded, and I have an iPod so I can't hear the traffic around me; the journey begins with going round a roundabout more than once. He'll then leave me somewhere, and after he's driven away, I have the task of working out where I am, and getting back home by public transport. I really love this! The moment when I realise where I am is thrilling. (No using maps on my phone - that's cheating!)

The opening sgequence of the TV show Shameless always had one character (whoever was going to be focus of that episode) giving a monologue over the music setting the scene. I play the music in the car (when I am travelling alone) and do a monologue linked to whatever is happening in my own life.

Being an obsessive geography graduate, when I eat crisps I firstly secretly look at each one to identify which place it is most similar to in shape. One of the Canary Islands, perhaps, or the outline of an English county, or an African republic. I get annoyed if I can’t quickly spot a match.

LongTermHold That's really endearing. Wouldn't be if you were in any way a gardener but as it is it's endearing, and refreshing as well. I mean sure, if you scatter rose petals wherever you go and insist that people call you Thorn it's weird too but you probably don't do that.

I like to scratch the inside of my ears with Kirby grips