What's Weird About You?

[Jack_Dawson]

OK I'll start. Too many to list really but I go crazy if someone adjusts the volume on the TV and they leave it on an ODD number. Leaving the volume on "19" is just not right.

:beer:

[LeftyMom]

1. I go through 4 pairs of socks in a typical day

I can't stand for them to feel even a little bit sweaty.

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Wow. 28 pairs/week?

:beer:

[LeftyMom]

3. Well, I don't really think of it that way

Since I usually do a load of whites every day or two, they don't stay dirty long.

I have a shitload of socks though.

[JuniperLea]

5. I'm with you!

I don't change them that often if I don't take my shoes off, but if I take shoes and socks off in the house, even if for a few short minutes, I need a clean pair of socks in order to put shoes back on. AND if it's a hot sunny day or I ran around barefoot in the house for any length of time, I need to wash my feet AND put on clean socks.

[Deja Q]

4. What ISN'T weird about me?

:7

[Neoma]

6. I'm a sarcasmaholic.

I just can't help it.

[HEyHEY]

7. I don't know, it's never been nailed down

[StaggerLee]

8. I over-rinse

Doing dishes and when I shower.

I also open up bananas upside down. (or so I've been told) Not from the part that attached to the bunch but the other end. First time I tried opening it the "right" way I broke the whole banana in half...fruit and skin.

:(

[Jazz2006]

18. No, no...

Opening bananas from the bottom is the RIGHT way. Not only does it stop you from bruising or splitting the banana, but you have the top part to use as a proper handle :)

[mrbassman03]

87. Hmmm... I may have to try that.

I have been a top-opener all my life, it'd be a nice little change.

[Liberalynn]

9. From a test I took in fourth grade,

it was determined that I was already reading at the college level. Yet I was a bottom feeder at Math.

These lopsided test results between these two subjects continued in High School, prompting my Gudiance Counselor to tell me I was "weird" because he'd never dealt with any one with that big of a gap between their abilities.

My algebra teacher, bless him, made me feel better. He told me I was not "weird" I just had a Math learning disability, and he actually helped me use my reading ability to help me get better grades in Math, at least while he was around to remind me of how, every once in awhile. Now I am 44 and back to sucking at Math. I can remember words easily but my brain seems to suck numbers into a black hole, and I can't even keep track of what numbers I am supposed to be working with. Thank heaven for calculators.

Also even though I got great grades in anything language oriented I still seem to make simple mistakes like writing or typing there when I mean their, or your when I mean you're. I know the difference, and I hate when I make that kind of simple mistake, but I still do it.

So I guess that makes me weird.

[Roon]

11. I dropped out of high school and got my GED

because of my math disability. I couldn't take it anymore, I needed out of school!

[Liberalynn]

12. I don't blame you!

I didn't find a lot of teachers who were sympathetic about mine. I was just lucky I had Mr. Hopkins who was sympathetic and helped me. The other math teachers either used to accuse me of being lazy or stupid, or would just end up shaking their heads in frustration.

[Roon]

23. Yep! eom

[KitchenWitch]

10. LOL

My tv volume has end in either 5 or 0...OCD much?

[Mutley]

13. I put my right shoe on first every time.

:D

[Haole Girl]

14. I can't stand it when people cross over the lines when they drive

especially if they are near me on the road. It drives me crazy!

[flvegan]

15. I'm a vegan and I can bench 405 for reps.

Kinda weird, considering most folks thing vegans are weak and pathetic. I can also do standing calf raises with the entire stack of weight, plus 125 lbs worth of plates stacked on top, and my dumbell shrugs max out with the 120's (dumbells) because that's as high as my gym equips.

Also, I don't have a myspace.com page. I just don't. Isn't that weird?

[LeftyMom]

35. That's not wierd, that's hot.

:9

[Jack_Dawson]

36. You are NOT a vegan

But you DO take Ambien and have middle-of-the-night episodes where you're eating poultry and steaks. Ain't no way a leaf-eater benches 405. :shrug:

[flvegan]

79. Interesting

I have no poultry nor steak in my house. Do I drive to the Crystal or Taco Bell to get these items?

Besides, that's really nothing. I get the most glances when I do dumbell flyes (flat bench) with 90s, negatives, no less.

[zanne]

16. I sweat when it's over 65 degrees...

My natural temperature is not 98.6, but 97.1. I sleep in an unheated room, year round.

[Progressive4Life]

17. Same here. Can't take anything over 65-70

Yet my feet are always freezing for some reason.

[zanne]

55. Yup. Cold feet here, too.

One of the many doctors I've been to about this problem recommended that I move North. I live in New Hampshire, for chrissake! How much further North would I have to go? (By the way, I've looked high and low for websites dealing with this problem, and I've found zilch. How about you?)

[Deja Q]

21. I'm the same... almost.

72 or above, get out the buckets.

And my normal body temp is 97.2.

Cool, huh? :rofl:

[Ariana Celeste]

19. I absolutely cannot

have a clean organized bedroom. It drives me crazy. I'm cool with organized chaos, and that's the system I keep. I always know what pile something is in and that's good enough for me.
I also horde food. Like crackers and chips (especially saltines) in my desk. Dunno why, but it drives my SO crazy.

[Cannikin]

20. Lots of things.....but I've got lots of meds to help!

[Roon]

22. I am on four meds for that

How about you?

[Cannikin]

25. 4 meds. 10 pills a day.

[Random_Australian]

24. I can't see faces.

After a few metres, all faces are blank. My vision is fine - I can pick out distant spires with ease - but my processing of faces is extremely limited.

[valerief]

33. That's so fascinating. Like in that Hat book.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales

*edited to add title of book*

[Random_Australian]

42. Sounds interesting..... hmmmmm.... I may have heard of that.

The rest of me is more than intact, at least. If I remember, the guy had had a stroke of some kind..... Y/N?

[Spider Jerusalem]

53. Prospagnosia...

not uncommon in people with Asperger's Syndrome or other autistic spectrum disorders (I have Asperger's, but I'm not prospagnosic).

[AlienGirl]

86. Hey, another prosopagnosiac!

I've been wondering if you're on the autistic spectrum, couldn't remember if you are or not.

Tucker

[DanCa]

26. Weird is what you are and nobody else is

Me I have a compulsive need to practice my harmonica day after day. And I am contstantly cleanning and tunning my harp.

[jane_pippin]

27. I've never eaten seafood, ever, and I have no desire to.

I'm not really sure why, but something about it both freaks and grosses me out. :shrug:

Speaking of food, it's finally time for me to get some dinner. Yay.

[Jack_Dawson]

37. What about sushi?

OK probably not - but it was worth askin'...

[jane_pippin]

59. Nope...

The boyfriend loves it though so every once in a while he brings some home and tries to get me to eat it. Maybe one of these days I'll give it a try, but I'm in no rush.

[Jack_Dawson]

74. You'll love it

And I hated fish too.

[Skittles]

41. I like fish, but NO other seafood

not shrimp or crabs or crawfish, anything else

[jane_pippin]

58. Nope, nothin.

My mom tried to get me to eat shrimp once when I was a kid at Easter. I think, if I remember correctly, I almost did it but backed out at the last moment. I'm just not a fan.

Edit: Sorry, I misread your post a little--just woke up, you see. Anyway, yeah, the shrimp and its friends just look too freaky to eat, I think.

[Skittles]

77. I ESPECIALLY hate shrimp

gawd, they look like little fetuses

[meisje]

28. I think words like "Packet" or "baggie" are funny

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. I have to check the alarm clock in three sets of three every night

with an extra check at the end, or I swear to you it won't go off in the morning. MrG, I drive him nuts. ;)

[StaggerLee]

31. That's funny

I just realized I do the same thing. Usually only sets of two but occasionally a three.

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. See? I think we are Normal. They, on the other hand, need to be

watched. :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. My mother checks everything in sets of threes.

Turns lights on and off 3 times before going out.

Takes pills in and out of her mouth three times before taking them.

Opens and closes cabinets three times (to check).

It goes on.

My mom's pretty nuts...and she has OCD, but mostly just nuts.

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. Are you saying I'm nuts??

:rofl: I only do the alarm clock. I am able to get through the rest of the day without checking on things. Except for making sure the doors are locked, but I only check those once. Amazingly, they stay locked. ;) :hi:

[valerief]

30. Wet trash on the sidewalk and curb freaks me out.

It's as gross to me as bugs. Maybe grosser. Ee-yecch!

[Southsideirish]

34. I'm such an animal lover that I stop and save worms in the middle of the

sidewalk. Even when I'm running - I will stop and lift one off to the side so they don't get squished. I know there not "animals" but I mean any sentient beings.

Last night I saw a beautiful cat in my condo complex and I could hardly sleep all night worrying about it...was it lost, did someone move and leave it behind, how could I adopt it when my husband has a terrible allergy to cats, etc. I only slept a few hours.

[NMMNG]

39. How very Jain of you

Although some Jains would take it a step further and wear a face mask to avoid breathing in any airborne organisms, and might avoid running at all to avoid stepping on unseen beings. Their respect for other beings is so profound some particularly devout Jains may avoid eating and drinking out of fear of killing organisms they might ingest.









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[unsavedtrash]

38. toilet paper roll has to be over not under. n/t

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

48. You need to get busy

[riona]

51. Wow

Every woman's dream bathroom

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

56. Or nightmare

if there is NO t.p. around.

Didn't I read somewhere about three weeks back, that someone got the shtt(no pun)beating out of him for not replacing the roll?

[TimeChaser]

40. You really want to know?

Me at an anime convention in January

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. Well...?

Make your point. :shrug:

[laheina]

84. That is a cute picture!

Nothing weird about it. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. I have the thing with volume levels, too

Gotta be an even number and preferably a multiple of 10. I don't have much use for odd numbers in general, except for 283, 327, 409 and 427. Oh, and the uniform number 7. :thumbsup:

Also, if I'm drinking a glass of milk and someone refills it before it's empty, I won't drink that. Gotta be a fresh glass if I'm gonna drink more. :shrug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

47. Every damn thing.

[johnnie]

49. Nothing

I think everybody else is weird though.

[jpgray]

68. You and me both

What a bunch of fucking weirdos we're surrounded by. :shrug: Let's form a non-weirdo club, and then beat them over the head with it.

[johnnie]

69. A non-weird club ehh?

Man, that would be weird.

[xchrom]

50. i'll ask my shrink -- then i'll poll my therapy group.

[riona]

52. hmm...

This is one disturbed group. Okay, I'll add mine - curiously interested in Lowe's and Home Depot's light bulb aisle.:shrug:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

57. there's an idea there somewhere

:p

:P :P

[Redstone]

54. I don't wear short-sleeved shirts. But I always roll up the sleeves of

the long-sleeve shirts. Unless I'm wearing a jacket.

So now you know.

Redstone

[NewJeffCT]

60. I constantly crack my knuckles & neck

I've been doing it so long that I barely notice it anymore.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

62. I crack my toes!

You made me realize something weird when I was trying to THINK. My main quirks are personality things or I was told, "Weird things that you couldn't post anyway." :evilgrin:

[symbolman]

61. When I was younger I could go to events and parties

and listen to and follow EVERY conversation in the room. No matter where I went in the room, if anyone was in earshot of me I knew what the little clatch was talking about, the ones next to them, behind them, the ones on the porch I could hear through the window..

I would walk up to folks and continue a conversation that anyone was having, going back to the start of it, knowing all the info that had been conveyed in the whole room by just about everyone.

I still sort of have powers of observation and body language that went along with it and can tell what kind of work someone does or if they've ever been in an accident, been to the dentist lately, got cataracts fixed, had a fight with their cat, etc..

It's very strange, sometimes I can't go to events or concerts because I sort of "feel" too much of what everyone is going through, lots of little impressions that I can't shake or ignore.

It's getting better now as I age, at 53 I can't heard half of what everyone is saying, and I'm more comfortable in a room full of people since I'm getting dumber or whatever, but it was a really weird thing for most of my life.

I think it was partially because I didn't get glasses which I needed until I was 6 or 7, and so I developed listening prowess, then when I got the glasses I was so pumped that I watched everything going on around me.

Like some other's I've heard of I've got "spider sense" too.. you know, when you KNOW something is going to happen and your body automatically does exactly what you needed to do without thinking.

Standing in a crowd one day in Seattle, waiting to cross the street (sometimes I feel like I'm swimming through molasses or a yard full of cows in a crowd, chewing their cuds, oblivious, while my "survivor" mode runs in the background), and all of a sudden I realised that a cab two blocks away had lost it's breaks, and that a bus was coming from the other way - they were going to impact and slam everyone in the crowd I was in the middle of.

So I slithered through the crowd like a snake, ran about a half a block, and looked back in time to watch the cab knock the bus into all those people as they stepped into the street.

I have no idea how I know stuff like this, the brain just goes a million miles an hour gathering odd tidbits about my surroundings, knowing that they mean, making a picture reality and hundreds of potentialities, then choosing about 30 of them to boil down.

I guess I am wierd, but I also make great ribs and fine coffee, and like one of the other posters above I can't do math at all, same "disappear into a black hole" with numbers, failed Algebra three times in High School because to me, Letters weren't NUMBERS :)

Funny thread, great to see so many fun things that make us all different and interesting.. enough to be loved and that's what counts.

My wife fell in love with me because we were at an event, and tho I was looking the other way, a cane dropped between seats, I caught it with my foot and flipped it back up to land on the back of their chair where they could reach it, and if she hadn't told me I did it, I wouldn't have known, like I said I was looking the other way :)

Yep, I'm plenty wierd, glad I have company..

[Jack_Dawson]

75. Dude - THAT'S weird

Can you hear dead people too? Seriously that's a crazy power you have. Very cool - either that or very irritating and loud...

[1gobluedem]

63. I can't stand doodling

I laminate everything that has to be shared among staff so no one can doodle on it.

I print everything I write (except my signature) because I can't make my script even enough to satisfy me.

If I have to change something I've written on my desk blotter, I white it out and write over it.

[Jack_Dawson]

64. Doodling Rules!

What's your problem, man?

:beer:

[1gobluedem]

65. I'm a weirdo

You asked didn't you? :)

[Jack_Dawson]

66. I did indeed

It's all good. Hi I'm JD and I'm an OCD.

:pals:

[1gobluedem]

67. I'm MM...

...and I'm a neat freak. Comes from years of sharing a room with untidy older sister then untidy roommates. Drove me in the opposite direction.....

[eyesroll]

70. I can read significantly faster than anyone I know.

It comes in handy.

[skygazer]

71. Things have to be organized geometrically

For instance, the pill bottles on my kitchen counter run from largest to smallest. My SO messes them up so I'm constantly straightening them.

Square items on a tile counter top have to be perfectly positioned in the middle of the tile.

Boxes are stacked by size and shape to make perfect geometric units.

[noonwitch]

72. I have something in common with Steve Carell's movie character

Except I'm 41.

[Jack_Dawson]

73. No kidding?

Well hey at least you're disease-free. :toast:

[SOteric]

76. I have an extra vertebra.

[Left Is Write]

78. I can't sleep with the closet door or bathroom door open.

[Ariana Celeste]

80. Neither can I

I even get scared. x(

[Nikia]

81. I never set my alarm for a normal time

My alarm goes off at 5:34 a.m. I have never set my alarm at the top or bottom of the hour since 4th grade when I decided that such a practice was stupid.
I have a lot of other weird things about me but I don't want to scare anyone away.

[Jack_Dawson]

82. "When I decided such a practice was stupid"

LOL - you are killing me.

I would ask you why/how you came to that conclusion, but I have a feeling not even you know.

JD

[Nikia]

89. There is a logic to it: I was rebelling against the tyranny of the clock

If you notice, most television networks start their programs at the top or bottom of the hour, 6:00 or 6:30 for example. Most fitness centers schedule their classes at these times. Many colleges schedule classes that way. Most clubs schedule meetings for those times. Most workplaces begin work at those times as well. It might make sense to schedule that way because it is easier for people to remember and easier for organization.
In addition to observing thise practice in society, I had members of my family who extended this practice into their personal life. My mother always set her alarm clock at the top or bottom of the hour, no matter what time she started work or how long it took to get there (She has a few different jobs over my childhood and we lived in a few different houses). That meant if her drive was a little longer, she's be rushing. If it was a shorter drive, she'd have extra time.
As children, we were held to certain bedtimes: first 7:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 8:30 p.m., and then 9:00 p.m. We got in trouble if we were not in bed by that time. If we wanted to go to bed at 7:50 though when our bedtime was 8:00 p.m. our mother gave us a hard time about going to bed early.
She, no doubt, got her time control issues from her parents who always awoke and went to bed at the top or bottom of the hour even when they were retired and always ate meals at the top or bottom of the hour.
When I first set my alarm clock for myself, I followed my mothers practices, setting it for the time that she had set it for me, at the top of the hour. Then one day the stupidity of it all occurred to me and I set it a few minutes off. As my schedule changed, I set it for a time that made sense for how long I needed to get ready and time to get there, but I made it a point to never set it for :00 or :30 even if this was really probably the best time. Maybe setting my clock a few minutes off in this circumstance is actually stupid, but you have to understand what I am rebelling against.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

90. My alarm goes off at 5:56 am.

Welcome to the club! :toast:

[LSK]

83. i hate the taste of all alcohol

Cant stand the stuff.

[Jack_Dawson]

88. Are you thin?

Just wondering.

[LSK]

91. no

Slightly overweight.

[Jazz2006]

85. I have a double...

...ureter.

I'm not sure that qualifies as "weird" but it's been a great deal of fun joking about it with the beau....

Kind of like, two, two - two mints in one.

:)

{edit: it seems to be a genetic thing.... my father had a double ureter and my daughter does as well. But it's something that seems to be discovered only incidentally when you're in the midst of something else... so yeah, maybe it qualifies as "weird" after all ;) }