Name your quirks

[Tiff]

i CANNOT stand different foods touching each other. like if my beans touch my rice, then i can't eat it.

i'm constantly wringing and twisting my fingers. and cracking my knuckles. i don't even notice it. people will ask me "don't your fingers hurt from always twisting them?" and i'm like"... no? *twisttwist*"

no dull pencils. EVER. starting in kindergarten i would freak if it wasn't completly sharp. thank god for mechanical pencils =D

>_> all three of those are me.

[Neon Heart]

If my hands get partially wet, then I have to wash them so they are completely wet. Sometimes I go through this process more than five times in one day.

When I press a button, I have to press it twice. Once for the finger tip, again for the whole pad of the finger.

[Senshi_of_Vision]

here are some more from my quirky habits

I cannot stand having a bunch of opened stuff like different boxes of cereal opened at once. Two boxes are fine but anymore and I get annoyed.

Certain smells such as raw chicken cooked pork and glue make me nauseaus and so does the sound of people gagging. And ugh dont get me started on seeing people actually spit.


I cant stand noise when I sleep save breathing I didnt mind listening to my ex snore or breath loud and I dont mind hearing my son but tv or other noise will keep me up. I used to listen to a wind machine as well but that stopped working to.

[DreamEmpress]

I'm guilty of the "can't sleep without a cover of some kind" thing. In the summer I just counter act the heat by leaving my fan on.

M&Ms and Jelly Bellies must be organized in groups by color or flavor. (oh lets face it, candy in general should be eaten that way)

I pick apart my food. my boyfriend finds it wierd, but amusing. I'll pull off a piece and eat it instead of just eating the whole way through. It's just easier to eat that way. In small pieces instead of a big thing.

Along with that, I tend to eat the toppings on my pizza and then the crust. I can't help it that the toppings are tastier. *pout*

Whenever I'm away from home, I'm always way neater. I'll fold clothes or blankets, do dishes, etc.

I have to have my manga is order. It can't be out of order because that just drives me up the wall. I can't sit down and read it if I don't have my series in the same place and in the right order.

[Senshi_of_Vision]

another quirk ive noticed about myself that has reared itself now that im trying to collect comics, anime , dolls and manga again is my obsession on things in the right order. Like my sailormoon dolls, I had a chance to get a neptune doll but because I couldnt find deluxe uranus I couldnt bring myself to buy her, if I dont have both together it just doesnt seem right..Im nuts I know but it was like that with the dolls I have I had to get Tuxedo Kamen when I got Sailormoon and now im trying to get the inners in pairs, though my ex messed that up, he got me Saturn with Mercury though im not complaining I love my hotaru doll just itching to get chibi moon and sailor mars now. lol ugh ive got issues

[the*blue*girl]

Something else I've noticed is that when I'm stting down and nervous I sit on my hands. I dunno, maybe it's a subconcious way of stopping myself from cracking my knuckles or something

[Lightweight]

Something else from me:

- Whenever I save a game, I have to double-save, even when I am absolutely sure I got audio/visual confirmation of the save. I just can't have my hour or so of effort to be thrown out the window like that. (this is making FF 3 extra hard to get through... no saving mid-dungeon.)

[Mercurius Twin]

Something else from me:

- Whenever I save a game, I have to double-save, even when I am absolutely sure I got audio/visual confirmation of the save. I just can't have my hour or so of effort to be thrown out the window like that. (this is making FF 3 extra hard to get through... no saving mid-dungeon.)

I tend to do that too, but for a different reason. When I'm saving so I can go and do some non-video game thing, it'll be saving, and I'll be thinking of what it is I'm going to go do, and I'll have forgotten whether I saved at all in the few seconds it takes. I've probably triple- or even quadruple-saved some times because I'll keep forgetting, and it's better to be safe than do three hours of stuff again. Which is why I like auto-save games. A shame that doesn't work with RPGs, though...

I do the "can't sleep without a blanket or sheet to cover" thing too.

Also, when I was little, whenever I was walking on the sidewalk, I always had to take the same number of steps in each little square; I still do that sometimes.

[Queen Of Hearts]

- If I am eating or in the bathroom I have to read SOMTHING. I jsut impossible for me not to do it. When I wat my dinner I usally read random things on here XD;

-If I'm doing somthing like playing DDR the room has to be sparking clean. HAS to be.

-I have to sit in MY seat at the dinner table. I refuse to sit anywhere else.

- I'm another double saver. I also do it when I favorite things on I.E or youtube

- Can't sleep with the windows open or covers off or lights on. I CAN sleep with a T.V on.

- Can't sleep on the floor

- When I have cash on me I'll count it a bunch of times untill I am satifsifed I know how much I have XD;

- When roller skateing using my snaker skates (NOT those crappy heelies) I purposely skit over the cracks. I'm fearfull of getting a wheel stuck in it again.

- No dully pencils :O

- I can't stand a single fld or wrinkle in my papers. I go insane if there is one.

[the*blue*girl]

Also, when I was little, whenever I was walking on the sidewalk, I always had to take the same number of steps in each little square; I still do that sometimes.

^___^ me too.

- No dully pencils :O

Yup, same here. I used to freak out in call when I was little if my pencil wasn't deathly sharp. Now I only use mechanical pencils.

[Slrjoecool]

I see I haven't posted in this one yet, so here we go.

- Whenever I eat, I have to put my right arm across the front of me on the table. (I'm left handed, so I eat with that one.)

- Usually when I pick up a glass to drink out of it, my pinky will stay extended while the rest of them are closed around the glass. I have no idea why I do this...

- If I'm walking alone, and there's an edge to a sidewalk or whatnot, I'll walk right along the edge and try to keep my balance.

- My fingernails must not have dirt or junk under them. As soon as I see I do, I'll grab the nearest thing to clean it out. (Paperclips, pen caps, etc.)

- My books and DVDs must be in order of the series. I don't to like alphabetical or whatnot, but if I own a series, it must be in order from 1 to x.

That's all I can think of now, but I'm sure there are more.

[Senshi_of_Vision]

- When I have cash on me I'll count it a bunch of times untill I am satifsifed I know how much I have XD;

I always tripple check my money too and I have a bad habit of making sure the bills all face the same way. I think my old job bundling money is the culprit cause now if I have a bunch of bills they all have to face the same way in my wallet and normally thats face front.

I didnt notice this quirk till my mom pointed out today I wont use a spoon bigger then a teaspoon for anything eating wise. She tried to give me a table spoon to use for my italian ice (I wish I had a popcicle stick instead but meh) and I took it back to get the smaller spoon, its the same for cereal and ice cream I hate big spoons and im not to keen on large forks to. I use a salad one for just about everything which drives some of my relatives nuts.

Id be so out of place at a fancy dinner.

[Tiff]

- Whenever I eat, I have to put my right arm across the front of me on the table. (I'm left handed, so I eat with that one.)

>_>; what's weird is that we both do this, only I do it with my left arm, since I'm right-handed.

[Starscream]

I'm sure I have more than this, but here's what I can think of at the moment:

- Books: Oh dear Lord, I HATE when books get any kind of creases on them. Internal page-bends are alright, as in when impromptu-bookmarking, but I will cry when I see the cover or, worse yet, the spine bent and creased ; ; God forbid there is a tear somewhere in the book, or that it's been highlighted ; ;

- I do prefer a sense of neatness and order, even if I'm sometimes too lazy to deal with it :/ More specifically, I like our little towel rack to be very organized; each towel is folded lengthwise once, then widthwise once, then folded in thirds to make a nice small bundle. Hand-towels and washcloths go on the next shelf, then cloth napkins, table mats, and table cloths on the last shelf.

- Reflecting the above, the place where I obsess the MOST about orderliness is a computer. The desktop has to have NO icons on it, since I prefer the simple aesthetic of a nice background image that's not too busy; a personal documents folder should be properly categorized, with the only unaccounted for files being system-related ones. Lately, all files should be lower-cased, and spaces replaced with underscores, except in the case of music files, which require special attention: the filename should be Title or Artist - Title, using spaces and not underscores; the ID3 tag should have at minimum Artist, Title, Album, and Genre, with bonus points if there are Years and Track Number attached.

- I prefer even numbers or, better yet, numbers divisible by 3. I can usually tell when a number is like that, so I can almost instantly recognize when something like my cellphone number does not comply :/

[Queen Of Hearts]

one I forgot to add! cant belive i forgot ir

- when I driunk soda I have to swish it around in my mouth to get th taste. I HAVE too.

[SeiUsa]

I like pulling weeds, and I like to because I like seeing how deep the root is, and watching the dirt shift when I pull the weed. The dirt is all dry on top and damp on the bottom. =P

[Yasha Kodachi]

--I return!!one-

Am I the only one who's inherited quirks from their parents? I act a lot like my mom, and we both:
-walk into objects, especially those that are in plain view (I can avoid stepping on something that's barely within my field of vision, but ran straight into a doorway the other day).
-hate it when cabinet doors and drawers are left open, and some doors.
-choke on our own spit, often (and resulting in embarrassing coughing fits)
-trail off in the middle of a sentence, only to finish it alfter a period of silence. Mom can start saying something, stop, and finish it several minutes later as if the pause never happened.

Then I have my own set:
-My hands must be doing something, or they become uncomfortable.
-My bedroom floor, and pretty much my entire house's floors, is dirty. It really bothers me, but I don't do anything about it. This is bad, because I can't stand to have things like crumbs on my feet, or even worse, on my socks. God forbid I look at my feet later and find something sticky on the bottom, like tar.
-Like my hands, something has to be going on in my mind, or I'll blank out. But then my face reacts to the things in my head, usually causing me to grin for no apparent reason, and I'm paranoid that I also gesture or otherwise act strangely, but can't remember doing it.

Worst of all, though: pacing+ dog toy. For at least two years, I've been pacing around my house and in my room. Then my hand thing kicked in, and I ended up picking up my dog's rope bone and throwing it up repeatedly in the air to catch. I still do it. The rope bone is in my room. It's referred to as 'Aleta's rope bone'. Right now, I have a squeaky ball on the computer desk in front of me. Soon, I'll probably pick it up to play catch as I pace around the living room for a few minutes, then sit back down at the compy. God.

[Senshi_of_Vision]

I figured along with quirks id put some of my nutty phobias to I have a big fear of inclined places, I cand go up them but going back down scares me for some reason. Id never be able to go to San Fransico because of this id be the crazy woman holding onto a streetpost staring down the slope.

Clowns and puppets as I said in another thread, I dont like pictures of them wont let them hang on my walls. I dont get it dolls and stuffed animals are fine but I wont have any puppets in any room of mine and clowns are banned from my house. The clown thing I know why when I was 4 at Ringling Bros a clown tried to pull me out into the center stage I guess he was being friendly but as a shy person I was petrified and it stuck.

Lizards, and I didnt not have that fear till I lived in florida where the little suckers will crawl around your house like they own them. I came home from work one night and one of the little buggers was on my pillow on my bed. *cringes and shudders*

I think I said it in this thread to cannot sleep with the closet or window open petrified that spirits will come in if I do that. Raised by very superstitious people did that to me.

And I cannot cross a busy street, it doesnt matter if the crosswalk is full of other people. If there are cars on the road I dont go near it. And parking lots I look funny cause I make a mad dash to get to safe ground, though with the way some elderly drivers are down south sometimes there is no safe grounds lol.

Thats all I can think of for now but im sure ive got other phobias that havent bugged me now that ive moved to a quieter town.

[Passions55]

--the time on the microwave clock has to be visible. For some reason if I'm in the kitchen I look at the little digital clock on the microwave to know what time it is. And If I see that there is a 2 second or 5 second sign where the time is supposed to be because some one took their food out before the time finished and the didn't clear it, that drives me up a wall!

--If I have a sandwich or a sub and its cut in half I always eat the smaller half of the sandwich/sub first and save the bigger half for last to enjoy. And if the portions look a very close to even I will lay them next to each other and examine each portion to determine which one is indeed the smallest and the biggest, and I want eat it till I find out because i always have to save to biggest portion for last to enjoy.

I can't leave the house unless I have used to bathroom at least two or three times. Even if I've gone like five minutes ago and I'm heading out the door I'll make one more quick bathroom trip. this stems from when I was little and my mother made my older sister and I use the bathroom several times before leaving the house. Because my mother would become livid if we had to pee while she was running errands and even worse if we had to use a public bathroom.

I have to check and make sure that all the doors are locked and all the windows are tightly shut before leaving the house or going to bed for the night.

When I'm eating food I absolutely can not have my food touching each other. i hate that. If I have rice and vegetables along with meat on my plate my vegetables and rice can't be touching. This is not the case if I am eating food that is ment to be mixed together. Like noodles and meatballs or something. But other than tat I'm very particular.

If I am eating soup and I have a small chunk of bread to go along with my soup i almost always flatten it by pounding it with my fist or the palm of my hand before I use it to scoop up the excess of my soup. And it has to be completely flat too before I use it. No puffy sections. Don't ask my why I do this but I just really enjoy flattening my bread before eating it. Its very satisfying.

In my house we have a long couch with pillows on it that have two dirrent patterns on it. And it is set up on the couch so that there is one pillow with one pattern and then another pillow with the other pattern. So that it goes dots, stripes, dots, stripes or vice verca. And it has to be that way. I can't have two or more pillows with the same pattern scheme next to each other. I just can't.

When I am eating gummy bears or gummy worms I always have to start off by biting off the heads first. Then I pretend that the gummy bear or worm is running around (or slithering around) with out its head and then blindly runs into my mouth where I eat it. Yeah...I'm in my earlier twenties but I still play stupid little games with my gummy candy.

There is much more with me but that's all I can think of right now.

[Senshi_of_Vision]

Another quirk I realise I have a strange way of being able to fix and repair things as long as i do not think about the task im doing. If I sit and try to think it out before putting things together or fixing something I get easily frustrated and cannot complete the job. But if I set out to fix or repair something and just do it without a plan or forethought it gets done and quickly to. Ive been able to repair things like desktop pcs, plumbing, electric wiring, and putting together furniture and even fixing an old grandfather clock and transistor radio just doing it. My friend says its a weird form of savantism but I dunno.