To ask what weird things you do

[Herecomethedaffodils]

This has probably been asked before but I've not been around that long, so don't shoot me! I'm out on a dog walk and unintentionally I kicked a conker along the path with my left foot. I then spent the next few minutes looking for another conker to kick with my right foot so it "didn't feel left out"!?!? Please tell me I'm not the only weird one out here, what utterly random shit do you do? Please........

@00confusedandemployed that's the spirit!

To the pp who group letters and repeat everything backwards. I've finally found someone else who does this! I've been doing both of these these in conjunction since I was a child! I add the full stop if needed to make it up to 2 or 3. Sometimes I end up with a backwards word or phrase stuck in my head grouped into two or three letter groups and I've lost track of what the original sentence was. It gets wearing at times as I do it with everything I hear.

I can't bear to have my skin or clothes rubbed in one direction without rubbing back in the other. If I knock a body part I have to tap the corresponding part to 'even things up'.

Many more peculiarities but I don't want to post an essay.

I cannot have the car radio on an odd volume number unless it’s a multiple of 5.

Example can’t have it on volume 11 it has to be 10 or 12.

If the kids change the volume I have to check they have put it on an even number.

thequeef I tweeze my leg hair too!! So addictive once you start

I also have to have car radio/tv volume in multiples of 5.

Tins facing forward in the cupboards.

Sing about what I'm doing around the house in the tune of whatever song is stuck in my head at the time (think "did somebody say... crump-ets" in the tune of the just eat advert while making crumpets!)

Ah I've found my people!! There's so many of these I can relate to, or a version of them at least. Another one is counting the number of tiles in any bathroom, whole ones only!!! Why??? And another one is when I see an advertising slogan or a signpost, I have to count how many straight lines there are in the writing.....so for example the word MUM would score 8 points as the M gets 4 points each as it has 4 straight sections. A curvy letter gets no points!! Why??? 😆 Keep then coming!!

I also would do the thing with the conker kicking. If I step on something like uneven paving and can feel it through my shoe, I then have to find something as quick as I can of a similar size to step on with my other foot so they are both even.
If I can't find something fast enough, I have to make do with something smaller and may have to find 2 small things to stand on so it makes it feel the same as the first bigger one. Sometimes it goes on for ages till I feel both feet are even. 😑
The weirdest I do is when I'm washing up, if an item of cutlery gets lifted out of the washing up bowl the wrong way round ( prongs or blade facing me) I have to put it back in and take it out again the right way round. Sometimes I have to put it back in and out several times just because I've talked myself into the fact that it has to be done or bad things will happen 😕

EssentialHummus i do that with the digital clock aswell.

I'm another maladaptive daydreamer. I'm glad it has a name. I have a few regular storylines
I also suck my thumb, have a comfort blanket and pull fluff from it to rub against my top lip.
I pull skin from my lips until they crack and bleed when I'm stressed or anxious.
To get to sleep, I can imagine myself in a hospital room dying but as though being assessed by doctors.
Volumes always have to be even.
If I cut food into sections to eat it has to be an even number.
I eat my food separately, all my broccoli, all the cauliflower, then potatoes etc but not if it's a sandwich, just plated full meals.
I can't sleep unless the room is icy cold.
Tins, jars, packets in the fridge and cupboard have to be facing forward.
I can't abide a messy working area or house. It has to be clean and organised.

Apart from that lot I'm completely 'normal'.

@BlueNeighbourhood I had an ex who was fanatic about not walking on drains where there was 3 together. I know make a specific point of walking over all of them as a final FU to him

Maladaptive day dreamer here too

Everything has to be in 3s

I get obsessed with certain drinks and will drink them till I’m fed up then find another - currently will only drink Ribena and fuck all else

I have sensory issues so if I find something I like to wear I buy several of it

If I'm having a snack / picnic type meal I have to have even numbers of everything. Then eat one thing of each in order - eg one sandwich triangle, one mini sausage, one piece of ham, one mini quiche - repeat until gone.

now. Not know.

I now hate myself

I tap the gearstick in the car with my open palm before grasping it tightly to change gears.

Y to the symmetry thing too.

I can only drink from certain mugs, eat from certain bowls with certain cutlery etc. DH thinks this is highly amusing and will get me the "wrong" things just to mess with my mind. I have to go & change them!

Oh and I respond to the sat nav - so it'll be "continue on this road for 3 miles" and I'll say "ok, we will" and thank it when we get there. And say goodnight to newsreaders when they wrap up the programme.

Just thought of another one. If I'm typing a word and mistype a letter, I have to take away the whole word and type it all again so it "feels right"

Does anyone find that they only sometimes have these weird impulses? Sometimes my tins have to all face forwards and other times I don't care at all!

I don't wear that much makeup, and I apply it in quite a slapdash way, but when I'm putting it on I pretend I'm a beauty vlogger and do a whole monologue. Sometimes I even hold up the eyeshadow pot etc. to the mirror to show the packaging

Mine is going to sound really odd...

When I’m driving, the car infront the last three letters of the registration I’m compelled to make up a name, like girls or boys name with surname with the initials of the three letters. Very odd, but I’ve always done it. Oh and I can memorise a registration immediately which does come in handy!

I've never heard of maladaptive daydreaming before, I shall have to look that up as I too find myself imagining all sorts of different lives and scenarios to music... I just used to call it my 'creative process' - which would be true except I have little time to draw or write since my twins were born but I still do it :')

Other odd things I do, if I'm going out I have to say goodbye to all of my cats (I have four) and if one isn't at home (usually my youngest male cat - he's more of an outdoor cat than the others) I feel really guilty for not saying bye to him!

I have to always put my right sock/shoe on first, something I didn't realise until DH had lived with me for a while and he commented on it one day, I tried to play it off and go with the left foot first for a while, felt weird and I have absolutely no reason why

I have mild psoriasis that gets to its worst in the summer, before I shower I rub my hair over a dark towel and feel a weird satisfaction at seeing the flakes accumulate... but that's done in secret in the bathroom as I'm sure DH would think me a complete freak if he saw (he has an aversion to dead skin such as dandruff and what have you).

I sing along to songs in my car and pretend I'm doing karaoke. In reality I cannot sing and would never in a million years demonstrate my crap voice in public, but in my mind everyone watching is amazed at my brilliance and talent.

If I get any of the words wrong I have to start the song from the beginning again. I love knowing all the lyrics to everything, it's my superpower (that and knowing a shitload about 80s music).

I also harmonise...

I aso do the typing thing. It makes me take much longer to type stuff at work but if only one letter is wrong, even if it's right at the end of the word, I have to delete the whole word and start again.

If I see a wine I like on offer I say ‘Oh yum’.

I make words/names up with car number plates. I memorise them too, so I see the same people on my commute. I feel like waving to them or greeting them a ‘good morning’

I can only drink from certain mugs, eat from certain bowls with certain cutlery etc.

I thought everyone did this! 45 years old and I'm only now finding out my family are weird.

I say goodnight to Ben Lomond, which I can see from my house, in the style of the Waltons every evening when I close the curtains and insist everyone else present does so too.

I also have to count stairs when walking up them. Not down, only up. The footpath from the town centre to the end of my street has 363 stairs. I get annoyed if I bump into someone and they talk to me in case I lose count.

I have to put my left sock/shoe on first, followed by the right.

I feel physically awful if I try and do the right one first (DH wanted me to try...)

Oh and thanks to Witch for that link, I shall really enjoy trawling through that thread later on.