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 read reviews, hundreds of reviews on things I have no intention of buying, I can waste hours doing this, for some reason it entertains me.

I am also the Queen of understatement and cannot for the life of me a lot of the time say the right thing at the right time.

I'm always like 'oh that's a shame' when something really serious happens and people are like Wtaf is wrong with you.

I'm concered, I just can't express it properly!

Preggosaurus9

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Just you and me, mate!

I also have the strange compulsions that I never act on. Are they called intrusive thoughts? Ones like I wonder what will happen if I put the handbrake on now while driving at speed on the motorway. And feeling urges to jump off bridges when I cross them or drop keys down drains.

This is the Imp of the Perverse.

Sometimes I get really horrible thoughts in my head - like the worst thing I can possibly think of like "I want DP to die" or "I wish I had cancer" (I do not want either of these things!) then I have to touch my head six times in a very specific way to stop them from happening and "undo" the thoughts

Sometimes I get really horrible thoughts in my head - like the worst thing I can possibly think of like "I want DP to die" or "I wish I had cancer" (I do not want either of these things!) then I have to touch my head six times in a very specific way to stop them from happening and "undo" the thoughts

Sometimes I get really horrible thoughts in my head - like the worst thing I can possibly think of like "I want DP to die" or "I wish I had cancer" (I do not want either of these things!) then I have to touch my head six times in a very specific way to stop them from happening and "undo" the thoughts

Sometimes I get really horrible thoughts in my head - like the worst thing I can possibly think of like "I want DP to die" or "I wish I had cancer" (I do not want either of these things!) then I have to touch my head six times in a very specific way to stop them from happening and "undo" the thoughts

Oops. Guess I was very keen to share.

I have this super odd thing where I won't like a post, if I'm going to be the 13th or 17th person to like it, plus multiples of either number. I don't know why, I guess it's some weird superstition.

I don't know if this even works this way, if I see a magpie, I'll google magpie to get a picture, so I've seen 2 magpies.

I get obsessive about collecting things I.e funko pops, colouring books, twilight dolls, Sims games, Disney things, make-up etc and to try and complete sets. When I can't I move on to the next thing.

I will have a celebrity of the month, or so it seems where I want to learn everything about them.

I can only watch one tv show at a time.

A rub my feet together to get comfortable and calm down.

I often think I have responded to conversation, but I've only done it in my head.

I need audiobooks to fall asleep to, but can only sleep to ones I've heard, new books keep me awake.

My food tastes change a lot, one month I will love something the next I can't even look at it.

I don't know how my DH puts up with me.

Just been diagnosed autistic though, so that explains a lot.

I also pick up a bit of different tv characters personas. Like I will start watching say Gilmore girls and start talking like Lorelai or Brennan from Bones or Buffy. Not copy, but their mannerisms. I know many autistic people mirror others, but I spend most of my time with my tv than with people.

I also pretend I am in music videos... as Taylor Swift mostly. Like others have said, this is particularly good on a rainy day.

I pull out a strand of hair and bite off the hair bulb. I also pull out individual pubes, but I draw the line at eating it

If my husband isn't home, I'll say his name out loud. To no one. Just the 4 walls. I used to do it when he was home too

• I worked for the police for a while. Every time I walked down the corridor to go to the loo, I hummed the tune to The Bill in my head, and walked in time to the music, like in the opening credits. The tune lasted exactly the distance from desk to cubicle.* @NC4Now I would totally do this too!! 😂😂😂

I can't have a silent house. There has to be some kind of background noise at all time except when I am trying to sleep. (I need deathly silence at that point)

I speak out loud when I type on my computer.

In the days before kindle I used to read the last page of a book first in case I died before I finished the book.
As long as I can remember I count my age on my birthday by saying in my head "I'm not 1, I'm not 2, I'm not 3.....etc" until i get to how old i am. it started when I was really little but now I'm in my 40's it's a bit of a chore yet I can't stop.
Every time I watch a reality tv show like love island or I'm a celeb i pretend I'm a contestant when they start arguing. But I'm always the rational winner of the arguments.
I have lots more but they are either quite outing, or I've been doing them so long I accept them as normal now

I imagine I'm in films I've just watched or characters from a series I've been watching. Cooking while imagining your Walter White is so much more interesting. I ride motorbikes and often feel like I'm in a video game dodging stupid cars pulling out on me.

I used to live near a shopping centre that had banners having from the ceiling and when on the top floor I would imagine myself swinging from one to the next.

@Rememberball same but with the number 3. Love that number. Bizarrely I am fully metric, can't fathom feet and inches at all. Also I hate living in a place which house or flat number isn't divisible by 3.

I can't help but guess what's going to happen in a film - I can normally figure out the twist in a film in the first 15mins and sometimes by watching the trailer. Then I tell DH my predictions. DH hates this, I am apparently the most annoying person ever.

I also do the maladaptive daydreaming. Had no idea there was a name for it.

I spend far far far too long imagining my life if I won the lottery. I spend too long dreaming up ways I could do very little work for lots of money.

I also find the thickest (pube like) hairs on my head and pull them out. Sometimes I'll brush one then spend 20 mins trying to find it and pull it out. I get upset if I pull the wrong one out

A secret's a secret OP

I wait until the microwave is a few seconds from beeping before racing to it to open the door. If it beeps before I get there, I get killed by the queen.

I twist bog roll into fine points and then stick them up my nose to make myself sneeze

I tell the dog all about my day and have have a go at him for not caring

“I also have the strange compulsions that I never act on. Are they called intrusive thoughts? Ones like I wonder what will happen if I put the handbrake on now while driving at speed on the motorway. And feeling urges to jump off bridges when I cross them or drop keys down drains.”

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I do this too, like if someone is carrying a tray on cakes I get the urge to whack the tray out of their hand. If I’m in a white walled house with a cup of coffee I get the urge to Chuck the coffee at the wall etc

@Lillygolightly I too count down to a wee, although it takes the form of me counting really rapidly until it flows. I often do this if I really need to go. When I flush, I imagine it all rushing along the pipes.

I love to wear shoes without socks, especially trainers - I like the way it feels. Surely there's a reason many trainers have soft insides! I especially like trainers with the leather around the heel, such as Adidas Gazelles. I also like to look around to see who else is sockless, although it's harder to tell these days with "invisible socks" - I'm sure they weren't so popular in the 80s and 90s! I loved it as a child too, and was secretly delighted that we were made to wear shoes without socks at school on the way to the assembly hall for PE.

I also have the intrusive thoughts. I really hate the concrete meridians on roads in case i get the urge to smash into them.