So, Menewsha, I like to learn about people's mannerisms. Idiosyncrasies are always interesting to learn, and if there's something strange about yourself, you may just find in this thread that someone else shares your little tendencies. :lol: Here are a few quirks and unusual tendencies I have:

1: I am extremely OCD when it comes to my food.
The way this works is, when I have a plate with multiple things on it, I must eat them one at a time, and can not allow interference. For example, say I have some chicken, some corn, and some mashed potatoes on my plate. If I start by eating the chicken first, I can not touch the corn or mashed potatoes until I am done eating my chicken. If I eat something from the other two before I eat all of my chicken, I can not return to it.

Another way I am OCD with my food is with multiple pieces and finishing them one at a time. Say I have three slices of pizza. If I pick one and start eating it, I will not touch another slice until I eat that one in its entirety or down to its crust. Once I pick up the second slice, I will not return to the first slice. And I can not bring myself to eat my slice if there is an existing half-eaten slice on my plate. My girlfriend has literally driven me to near panic attack by putting one of her half-eaten slices of pizza on my plate while I also had my OWN half-eaten slice of pizza I happened to be working on. I couldn't continue eating mine, because there was a half-eaten slice on my plate. I couldn't pick up the half-eaten slice and finish it, because the slice I HAD been working on was already half-eaten, so I'd be in the same situation. I nearly started crying until she finally took her slice back. That was in the first few weeks of our relationship, before she knew this about me.

2: I am a wickedly horrid procrastinator.
I will procrastinate anything and everything that "needs to be done" until it CAN NOT be put off any longer.

3: I do not allow people I don't know extremely well to see my bare eyes.
I wear glasses. I have since I was three years old, on account of my esotropia. So everyone sees my eyes, as I have magnifying lenses placed on my face anyway. But I get super self-conscious and shy when I take my glasses off, and if I must take my glasses off around someone I don't know well for any other reason than I am going swimming or about to sleep, I will do everything in my power to hide my eyes until my glasses are able to be restored to my face. If I show you willingly my eyes without my glasses over them, you should feel special.

I'm like that with my food too. I also won't let my food touch. When I eat coloured candies or something like that I eat one colour in the bag before eating another. I do not mix colours/flavors. I also will not eat anything that I know has meat or meat flavoring in it.

I also have to have all my bottles in my shower label out on my show rack sitting upwards. If they're not straight it bugs me. My door knobs and anything else I touch a lot has to be clean. I also change my sheets a lot apparently, like three times a week. I count steps. Everything has to be in some kind of even number. Finger prints on anything is pretty much the most annoying thing ever.

I always carry a pen and a notebook in my car just in case.

I'm OCD about a lot of things. :XD On the subject of food, I've had this 'system' where I'd chew food I like with one side, and food I don't like on the other side. I used to 'rotate' the system so it would be 'fair', such as chewing food I like on the left side for a while and then switching it to the right side. But it's been stuck mostly on 'food I like' on my right side, and 'food I don't like as much' on my left for over a decade now.

Like, I'd nearly always chew meat on my right side, because I love meat, and chew vegetables on my left side, because I don't like eating plants. But sometimes when there's more than enough of one type of food, I'd chew with both sides.

Also, when eating some types of food, I hate 'interference' from other foods...like, if I'm eating stir-fried rice, I hate having vegetables or meat in my bowl at the same time. I'd finish up the rice first before I move on to the vegetables and meat independently. Same goes with spaghetti, pizza, etc. But if I'm having plain rice, then I'd use meat and/or vegetables to eat along with it.


I'm also a packrat that rarely tosses anything out. I'd have loads of random things piled everywhere. Every time I think about throwing something out because it's becoming so cluttered, I'd think, "But what if I need it someday?" because it's happened before; I'd throw something seemingly useless away, only to find that I needed it for something days/weeks/months/years later.

I collect strange things. Like those aluminum can caps (those little pieces of metal shaped like an '8'). Or the metal tip of pens after the ink runs out from one.


Also have a strange OCD mix between clean and dirty. I'd shudder to think of going to bed without having had a shower first, or having other people (includes friends and family) touching the things on my bed or my computer without washing their hands first, yet I'd allow (very) thick layers of dust to gather everywhere on my desk, shelves, etc. because I can't be bothered with wiping the surfaces with a towel. (sometimes I do, but usually that only happens every once in a year or two when I'm in a cleaning mood)


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I only chew with one side of my mouth at a time. It seems messier to eat the other way. I keep the same side for several weeks until I get a sore or something, and then I switch to the other side.

When I am excited about something, if no one is around, I will wave my arms around frantically. I've done this since I was a toddler.

Oh goodness, I could go on all day about my quirks.

I wash my hands twice, always. I try not to step on cracks. I refuse to fold over pages or bend the spine of a book. No touching foods, no silverware scraping. Lights must be off when I leave a room. Must wash my face and brush my teeth three times every day. Mouthwash often. Those are the main ones.

I'm a pretty terrible procrastinator too :[

Something that's not directly me, but related to the glasses story--I've never seen hubby's face naked. He's had a beard since high school, and though I've seen pictures of him when he was a young teen without a beard, he's had one since I met him and I have no idea what he looks like now. I tease him that if he was murdered and his murderer shaved his face, I wouldn't be able to identify the body xD

He also rarely takes his glasses off, only to shower or sleep. I think he looks better with glasses though, and he's not as hard on them as he used to be so he's not having them replaced all the time.

I have a habit of making "funny noises." I have the tendency to randomly make random sounds for no particular reason. I do it a lot around other people, but it still happens when I'm alone. For example, I may burst out with a high pitched "whaaa" just because I want to.

A less obvious thing is my gait. I roll my feet, so I have a scuffing walk. This is slightly problematic when I'm wearing heels or slick soles because I can trip myself up. XD

Of course, the quirk that people notice first is my habit of dress. I have grown into a very eclectic dresser. For example, I regularly wear a jacket that I modified to have a white stripe with maple leaves on it. Apparently when I stopped wearing my "Canada" jacket a lot, there were some sad people. I also like a lot of color - which means that one of my favorite outfits is a lime green skirt, blue corset with gold trim, white peasant shirt, white or black stockings, and either black or army green high-heeled boots. Not to mention the hairstyles and jewelry I favor.

I love lists. shopping lists, chore list, schedules. Even at work I list out my entire day, what chores I'm going to do at what time and if it's not done on time my entire schedule has to be re-written.

I always favor the right side of my body. If I get hurt, its the left side. I'm right handed, right footed, and when gesturing to a side of my body its always the right side, even if it's the left that hurts. I just view my right side as 'prettier' for some reason. Even applying body lotion, my right side gets more attention than my left -.-'

I hate when people look directly at me. I love attention, but when someone just looks straight at me, it makes me uncomfortable, even if it's family/friends/boyfriend.... kinda make snuggling with bf awkward since he loves to just look at me.

Codette, I have the opposite problem. Since I'm always looking at say, the professor, the conductor, etc., they always look at me. This becomes a bit of a problem in wind ensemble because sometimes my director looks at me even though I know that he's talking about a completely different part! I can't tell you how many times he's tried to explain something to the ones playing the Clarinet 2 part while staring straight at me, Clarinet 3 player extraordinaire.

I either snap my fingers or click my tongue when a very unpleasant thought enters my mind. I have a hard time holding it off in public, and I think people think I'm nuts sometimes.

I love to stare at people. Like seriously stare. It's creepier than shit, and I know it, but I just find people's faces and bodies, and choices of dress, etc., so interesting and intrinsically beautiful. I can't help myself. I don't think I've ever seen a person that I couldn't find beautiful in one way or another.

A house without a little clutter in it is weird and unwelcoming to me. But if it's not clean, it's disgusting. Like dust and unvacuumed floors.

I am generally asexual until I get to know the guy I'm talking to, then I fall in love very easily, and become highly attracted to him. If that doesn't occur, however, and I have no romantic interest, sex doesn't interest me at all.

It takes me hours to make a decision between which of two similar things I either want to buy, or do. I get caught up on extremely minuscule details such as the pros and cons of one item being ecru, and one being beige, and how choosing the wrong color could seriously negatively affect my life for years to come. :lol: Can't help myself. I'm going to be an irritating bride.

Also, I just remembered that I absolutely CANNOT study without music playing in the background. Not a lick. Dunno why. Keeps me distracted from my distracting thoughts, I guess.

I can't be around large groups of people for long periods of time - it makes me tired.

If i have something to eat like chicken and potatoes, they must be eaten together. Pretty much anything that hasn't been eaten by the time one or the other has gone, doesn't get eaten.

If i find someone really interesting, what they're saying, how they look, etc, i tend to stare which is a bit strange and unnerves some people.

I'm very indecisive, so it's always a relief when one of my options falls through leaving me with only one.

I cannot, by any means, listen to music when i'm revising or doing work. Being an auditory learner, it just frazzles my brain and i end up listening to whatever it is playing.

I have many additional quirks if you count in all of my aspie traits, like stimming - mostly waving my arms and hands about, my frequent inability to say what i mean, and not just come out with gibberish when i talk. I can become obsessed with something for ages, then at the drop of a hat loose interest in it for weeks.

Most of mine relate to my writing, actually. For some reason, if I want to type out a story instead of writing it by hand, I can't use my own computer to do so. For one thing, the Internet always manages to distract me before I even begin, but for some reason that only happens on my own computer. Then if I do manage to get myself to start writing, I feel like I do a really bad job of it and end up having to start all over. So instead, I basically have to go around borrowing other people's computers whenever I want to work on my writing. xD

I have to be in a certain mood to be able to write any decent poetry, and it has to be nighttime or at least twilight before I'll even attempt it. I also prefer for it to be as quiet as possible, or it ruins the mood for me. I'm not so particular about writing stories, though.

Whenever I find a book, a band, or anything like that that I really like, I'll pretty much obsess over it for a few weeks or months... then one day, out of the blue, I'll find something else to obsess over and pretty much forget all about it for a while.

I have a tendency to just start laughing uncontrollably at things that really aren't funny in the least. This is going to sound totally insane, but looking at things like kitchen appliances and other random objects at Wal-Mart can be completely hilarious to me (mainly if it's something that I have no idea what it would be used for, and start imagining ridiculous possible uses for it).

I have an excellent memory, but mostly only for useless information. Anything I learn in a class I'll forget once the test is over, but I can remember all of the lyrics to songs that I haven't heard in years.

I love shopping, but it's really difficult for me to convince myself to actually spend money on things unless I really, really love them, even if I have plenty of money. I end up unintentionally hoarding up huge amounts of money pretty often, and then I start to feel like I shouldn't spend it since I have so much saved up, even if I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to be saving it.

Oh, and one more: I prefer to do most things in the most old-fashioned ways possible, preferably not involving computers or electronics in general. I do like using the Internet just for fun, but other than that, I kind of really hate technology and how it pretty much controls so much of our lives these days. I managed to avoid getting a cell phone for a long time; I still refuse to start text-messaging instead of calling people. The ironic part is, I'm actually really good with technology and can figure out how to do what I want on pretty much any electronic device in a matter of seconds.

I have a bit of a thing with food too, and I didn't realize I had it until I was in high school.
I like chewing things evenly with each side of my mouth. Like I'll eat a fry on one side, then eat the next fry on the other side. If needed, I'll split whatever I'm eating in two equal pieces and go from there. I do this because it bothers me having food stuck in my teeth, or just over-working one side of my jaw. It's even and everything's fine. (I thought everyone did this up until high school, when a friend offered me candy and I asked for two. Then I had to explain the even chewing, and my friend thought I was weird)

My sister and I are both slight packrats, but we keep each other in check. She likes to collect old toys and clothes that people throw out. And I like to collect books, even though I know I probably won't read half of them.

Also, to the girl above me, I'm the same with shopping. I think it's because I grew up poor and never was able to get what I wanted. I've always been a big window-shopper and I love trying on all the pretty dresses and sunglasses, I even chat up the sales guys at the mall over fridges and video games. But I rarely buy stuff, which makes my boyfriend mad. I want buy things, but I don't like actually using my money. And it stresses me out when people buy stuff for me too.

The Real Nikki: I'm not really sure why I do it myself. I think for me it has more to do with the fact that I usually feel almost guilty about spending very much money on myself, like if I have so much extra money lying around that I should give more of it to charity or something. But then I never exactly know how, so it just accumulates. xD

I actually do sort of the same thing with chewing food, too. I just hate to chew something on only one side of my mouth, because then that side of my mouth tastes like whatever I'm eating and the other side doesn't. I don't know why I even notice, really, but I've been doing that since I was like five.

Mystic - I do that with my candy too. And it's usually in the same order every time. For example, when I eat Skittles it's always purple- yellow- green- red- orange.

I...have a lot of weird quirks.
I can't drink out of glasses without a straw, and I can't drink from mugs. This is because it smells like wet dog to me.

I also like things in alphabetical, numerical and color order. I can find things easier and it looks neat.

I go kind of crazy when people have one pant leg up and one down. Can't explain that one.

I also have to always be facing the entrance/exit of a room. I hate being snuck up on.

There are lots more, but these are the one's off the top of my head.

I can't have people touching and reorganizing my stuff. It gets me really anxious and I can't explain why. One time my dad cleaned my room for me while I was away, which is great ... but it really wasn't. Its not that I can't find anything, its just the idea of people going through my stuff that sets me on edge.

I also eat at really random times of the day. I'll forget to eat all day and then come out at 2 am and make myself a sandwich or something. And then the next day I'll eat like ten meals ... Its not exactly healthy xD

I think of myself as one big weird quirk.
So strangely enough its hard to come up with quirks that would
seem like quirks to me instead of something normal.
If that makes sense....>.<

1.) All car doors have to be locked at all times;
- I don't have electric doors, so the locks and windows are all done by hand. I am also rather paranoid about someone either stealing my car or the things from within. I get rather upset and touchy when someone who was riding in my car fails to lock the door they were at. I will stare at them until they remember and fix their mistake. I won't even leave the car unlocked outside of my house. Even when we are bringing in groceries. Each trip inside I feel the need to lock the doors, even though it means I have to shove the key in my door to unlock it to unlock the back seat to get more grocery bags >< people hate me for this one whenever we end up using my car.

2.) I have a bad habit of fixing people's outfits. Even random people whom I do not know. If I see something off, like their tie is a touch crooked, or their pin is turned wrong, or anything! I get this terrible gnawing feeling inside me until they fix it, someone else fixes it, or I end up fixing it. The relief afterwards is wonderful. ^_^

3.) I am OCD about my hair. Whenever I see a strand of hair that is very crinkled and messed up I run my nails along it because I like the texture, but I then pull it out, because I don't want it infecting the other hairs >< I also pull out the super short hairs on the top of my head because of how they stick up. I swear I am not bald, somehow I still have way too much hair to handle lols.

Hmmm well I can't really think of anything else at the moment... I suppose thats a good thing.

i can not make myself drink or eat dairy and soda in the same meal, itailan and dairy, or soda and spicey.

i crack my knuckles when bored, chew my nails when thinking, and talk to myself when i am typing.

I'll cook biscuits for other people but I won't make noodles for other people. What I mean is I make certain foods for other people but say I hate making food for others. but there are few foods I will make for other people.