Current Events > Weird (but not gross) habits you have?

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*I always tap my shoes upside down before putting them on. I lived in a barn with wasps and spiders in it for three years. After flopping into bed onto a yellow jacket twice, and after having a dead wasp tumble out of my shoe once, I developed a lot of superstitious tics.

*I keep the tab on beer/soda cans up at a 90 angle so it rests against my philtrum while I drink, because I've gotten too much at once and burped/hurrked too many times.

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I wipe in a counter clockwise circular motion

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Every time I go to make stovetop ramen, I take a nibble out of the uncooked noodle brick.

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If I pass by a light switch I press on it quite hard, not sure why

Sometimes if I have a lot of energy I will pump my arms like a hydraulic three times


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When no one's looking, I pour hot sauce on the palm of my hand and eat it plain.


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I do the shoes thing too, but I'm not sure where I picked it up from. It's just something I've always done.

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When I was a kid, I thought I was fat, so I constantly contracted my abs to appear less fat. Now I just do it by habit.

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I eat the pizza crust first.
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If entering a doorway I prefer to turn right -- this is in relation to certain Zen practices.

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EnvoyOfTheLight posted...

When I was a kid, I thought I was fat, so I constantly contracted my abs to appear less fat. Now I just do it by habit.

Damn dude me too.
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R1masher posted...

I wipe in a counter clockwise circular motion

Wax on...?

Heartomaton posted...

Every time I go to make stovetop ramen, I take a nibble out of the uncooked noodle brick.

Aw. They do have a pretty fun texture. I like stale cheese puffs, which is definitely not as good as raw ramen.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

If I pass by a light switch I press on it quite hard, not sure why

Sometimes if I have a lot of energy I will pump my arms like a hydraulic three times

Neat! I don't do the light switch thing, but I will reflexively switch them off if no one is around.

Kitt posted...

When no one's looking, I pour hot sauce on the palm of my hand and eat it plain.

Intense~ Any specific sauce you like best, or just anything?

EnvoyOfTheLight posted...

When I was a kid, I thought I was fat, so I constantly contracted my abs to appear less fat. Now I just do it by habit.

Oh, word. Yeah, I do some of that, too. Poor kid.

DeadBankerDream posted...

I eat the pizza crust first.

Get the bready part out of the way! Yeah.

shironinja posted...

If entering a doorway I prefer to turn right -- this is in relation to certain Zen practices.

Care to elaborate? I read somewhere once about how the US has their grocery stores laid out opposite of other countries (more people turning one way than the other), but never bothered tying it to philosophy.

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Intense~ Any specific sauce you like best, or just anything?

Anything as long as it's hot. I love hot sauce and spicy food.

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Whenever I eat something, I try to keep things as even as possible on both sides of my mouth as a chew. And Im not just talking about having half on the left side, half on the right. I mean if Im having something like M&Ms, I need to make sure I grab two of the same color as I eat them. Cant have a green one on the left side of my mouth and one red on the right. That would be crazy.

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I shake my shoes out, too. When I was a really little kid, I went to put a boot on and there was a humongous spider in it. It didnt bit me, but when I shook it out, it was big enough to scare me into never putting my foot into something again without checking it.

My thing is actually really weird, though. I try to avoid certain numbers. Like if Im eating peanuts and realize that I shook six out in my hand, I will get another to make it seven. If I press a button 13 times, I may want to press it again to make it not be 13. I try to avoid the numbers six and thirteen because I dislike them, and I gravitate towards 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, and 12.

The Popo posted...
Whenever I eat something, I try to keep things as even as possible on both sides of my mouth as a chew. And Im not just talking about having half on the left side, half on the right. I mean if Im having something like M&Ms, I need to make sure I grab two of the same color as I eat them. Cant have a green one on the left side of my mouth and one red on the right. That would be crazy.

I do something similar, except it's by chews. I'll chew something 6 times on one side of my mouth, then I'll switch sides and chew it 6 more times.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Damn dude me too.

bruh

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I do a similar tap thing but to towels. I've seen spiders behind both my bath and hand towel, so now I always check.

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I don't know if this is weird to everyone here, but nobody in my real life ever does this. I turn the door knob before I close it so it doesn't make a lot of noise. Other people just shut it without doing that and it makes a loud noise.

Oh, and I also shower and take a bath in total darkness.

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I put my dollar bills in lowest to high denominations and arrange them by ascending serial numbers. I enjoy doing it too. >_>

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I'll be watching a movie/show, hear some random line or singular word and I HAVE to write it out on my thumbnail using my index finger.

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EnvoyOfTheLight posted...

When I was a kid, I thought I was fat, so I constantly contracted my abs to appear less fat. Now I just do it by habit.

ugh I do that too

i think its why I can never fully relax my body

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When I was a kid I would run from say, an auto closing door (elevator etc) to the next door I had to get open (exit, front door) before the automatic one closed.

If I didn't do it... I... lost?

Lost what? IDK. Just some sort of competition with myself. Little successes.

The Popo posted...

I mean if Im having something like M&Ms, I need to make sure I grab two of the same color as I eat them.

When I was a very very young kid I would empty the entire Skittle pack and separate all the colors into groups and count them.

And then when I ate them I only did it 1 color at a time. Mixing is not allowed.

Now I mix often because its more interesting to have flavor combos.
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• Before I get in bed, I always clean my fingernails to perfection. So, say I took a shower 3 hours before getting in bed, when I know Im about to pass out, I go clean under my nails for about 5-10 mins. Theres usually no need to, but its therapeutic I guess.
• I rearrange my room in some way every month.

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I eat Skittles one color at a time.

First is all the green
Then Yellow
Orange
Purple
And red is last because it's my favorite.

Also if I'm driving on a secluded straight stretch of road at night with no street lights around and no other cars I'll switch my headlights off for a few seconds and drive in darkness.

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VanananaHeyHey posted...

Care to elaborate? I read somewhere once about how the US has their grocery stores laid out opposite of other countries (more people turning one way than the other), but never bothered tying it to philosophy.

I can only show you a path.

Perhaps try it for a week... when you have to turn to enter a door / gateway turn to the right. This will encourage you to step with your left foot first into the entryway.

When exiting if you are mindful use your right foot first to leave.




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when I eat cheez its, I like to crush them against the top of my mouth with my tongue first before I start chewing. I don't know why.

If I eat candy like gummies or skittles or MnMs, even when they all taste the same, I like to eat them based on quantity of each color/type until the numbers are even. I also do this with food, always trying to keep portion ratios of different things even (not necessarily equal, but even) and eventually I will have 1 bite left of each thing. For this reason, I don't like eating in courses... and while I watch competitive eating and restaurant challenge videos, I would never try it myself, because the idea of stuff like eating individual parts of a sandwich separately or a burger with like 7 patties but only 1 thing of lettuce and 1 tomato slice just makes my brain hurt. Also, I eat pizza in a weird way. I like to take a bite or 2 from the point of the slice and then a bite of the crust, so I have a bit of both in my mouth. Once what is left of the slice is square-ish, I fold it so every bite has sauce, cheese, toppings and crust.

Sometimes I'll just rinse dishes off instead of fully washing them if they aren't that dirty and I save and reuse plastic cutlery because I've lost most of my silverware and I don't feel like buying more >_>

I keep my phone on silent at all times, never listen to music on it, only use browsers on it when I have no other choice and when I used an alarm, I only had it on vibrate, no additional sound.

Sometimes I will listen to the Soviet national anthem on a loop for a while just because I like the way it sounds, typically when I'm bored of any other music I typically listen to.

If I have insomnia and have been awake for a few days, in order to try and help myself get to sleep, I will just think weird thoughts over and over based on random words that pop into my head, and they end up being something between talktotransformer and Will Farrell's trash talking in Get Hard. I started doing this one time when I had been up for 3 days straight and was like loopy/giddy and took some melatonin shit and started literally seeing random assortments of words in my head scrolling like a Star Wars opening story sequence, and that helped me get to sleep that night.

When I lucid dream, I often have arguments with people in my dream about whether or not I am dreaming. They will claim that I'm not and I will find a way to prove that I am, and when I do, they shut the fuck up lol.

When picking characters in video games, I have odd and oddly specific preferences. In an mmo I used to play, I only made male characters (it was that chibi anime style aesthetic, which I wasn't really a fan of but the game was fun. I preferred badass looking male characters over cute female characters), but in skyrim, I've only made female characters (I like to make them look badass and hot). However, Diablo 3, my characters are split down the middle by gender (they can't be customized, just each class has a male and female version. My first seasonal characters were the opposite gender of my original characters. I did this to hear all of the voice acting).

Also in Skyrim, I horde a lot of the stuff I find and I have an extremely specific way of organizing everything for storage in my house. I found this makes it easier to keep track of everything. I also don't store salt piles or garlic. I just keep them on me in case I can cook sometime with them, since cooking pots can be found in all kinds of places and meat can too, and most raw meat can be cooked with salt to upgrade it and make the restoration properties better, even though I usually just store it all at home (my adopted kid will never go hungry lol).

I like to have TV volume only on even numbers. This is annoying at times because pressing the volume up button usually registers twice per push but not always so this often gets me stuck on odd numbers, so i will sometimes have to turn it down by 1. Like... 15 and 17 are not acceptable so I will go up to 17 and then down to 16.

Most people who play poker have lucky hands that they always play or play more often than other random hands that are not conventionally strong hands. For me, the lucky hand that I always play is A9, and any hand with a 9 I'm more likely to play than other random hands.

I like to write on stuff with a sharpie in public places if no one is around to see me. Typically, it's either my signature, an anti-trump message, or a penis drawing. In a bathroom in the building I used to work in, there was a stall with a urinal in it and someone drew a stick figure above the urinal looking down and saying "nice dick!" so I wrote "thanks! you too!" underneath it. My boss later said that he found pictures of it on instagram when he looked up the name of the building. Maintenance attempted to wash it off but they couldn't get it all, so it was still there, just faded.

I like to post just "penis" a lot, either as a bump or a response or just for the sake of doing so. This started thanks to @Choco who had been doing that in topics for a competition based game we were both in, and I ended up co-hosting the next "season" of that game. Choco would send challenge submissions and votes with the PM title "penis" which encouraged me to keep posting it >_>. One time I was really high and I made a spam post that had penis several dozen times. Players thought it was some sort of clue for a hidden advantage item and several PM'd me attempting to interpret it and hoping to get an item. The next day, I had to make an announcement that no such item was active or in play at the time and that my penis spam post was a result of me being high and wanting to troll the players. Later, when there was 1 team left (think of the merge of Survivor), like the Survivor merge, I let the players name the new team, via everyone submitting an idea and then voting for which name they liked most (with vote recruiting and stuffing allowed). The only rule was that it not be a censor bypass. Choco submitted MySockContainsMyCock and that submission won overwhelmingly, and so that became the official name of the merged tribe.

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Everything I do is gross so I'll have to abstain

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I used to avoid stepping on the gaps on the sidewalk.

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Chewing water bottle caps after I'm done drinking a bottle of water. I think that's bad for my teeth but I can't help it for some reason.

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When no one is around, I like to cup my hand around my butthole and fart. I then smell my hand

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Machete posted...

when I eat cheez its, I like to crush them against the top of my mouth with my tongue first before I start chewing. I don't know why.

If I eat candy like gummies or skittles or MnMs, even when they all taste the same, I like to eat them based on quantity of each color/type until the numbers are even. I also do this with food, always trying to keep portion ratios of different things even (not necessarily equal, but even) and eventually I will have 1 bite left of each thing. For this reason, I don't like eating in courses... and while I watch competitive eating and restaurant challenge videos, I would never try it myself, because the idea of stuff like eating individual parts of a sandwich separately or a burger with like 7 patties but only 1 thing of lettuce and 1 tomato slice just makes my brain hurt. Also, I eat pizza in a weird way. I like to take a bite or 2 from the point of the slice and then a bite of the crust, so I have a bit of both in my mouth. Once what is left of the slice is square-ish, I fold it so every bite has sauce, cheese, toppings and crust.

Sometimes I'll just rinse dishes off instead of fully washing them if they aren't that dirty and I save and reuse plastic cutlery because I've lost most of my silverware and I don't feel like buying more >_>

I keep my phone on silent at all times, never listen to music on it, only use browsers on it when I have no other choice and when I used an alarm, I only had it on vibrate, no additional sound.

Sometimes I will listen to the Soviet national anthem on a loop for a while just because I like the way it sounds, typically when I'm bored of any other music I typically listen to.

If I have insomnia and have been awake for a few days, in order to try and help myself get to sleep, I will just think weird thoughts over and over based on random words that pop into my head, and they end up being something between talktotransformer and Will Farrell's trash talking in Get Hard. I started doing this one time when I had been up for 3 days straight and was like loopy/giddy and took some melatonin shit and started literally seeing random assortments of words in my head scrolling like a Star Wars opening story sequence, and that helped me get to sleep that night.

When I lucid dream, I often have arguments with people in my dream about whether or not I am dreaming. They will claim that I'm not and I will find a way to prove that I am, and when I do, they shut the fuck up lol.

When picking characters in video games, I have odd and oddly specific preferences. In an mmo I used to play, I only made male characters (it was that chibi anime style aesthetic, which I wasn't really a fan of but the game was fun. I preferred badass looking male characters over cute female characters), but in skyrim, I've only made female characters (I like to make them look badass and hot). However, Diablo 3, my characters are split down the middle by gender (they can't be customized, just each class has a male and female version. My first seasonal characters were the opposite gender of my original characters. I did this to hear all of the voice acting).

Also in Skyrim, I horde a lot of the stuff I find and I have an extremely specific way of organizing everything for storage in my house. I found this makes it easier to keep track of everything. I also don't store salt piles or garlic. I just keep them on me in case I can cook sometime with them, since cooking pots can be found in all kinds of places and meat can too, and most raw meat can be cooked with salt to upgrade it and make the restoration properties better, even though I usually just store it all at home (my adopted kid will never go hungry lol).

I like to have TV volume only on even numbers. This is annoying at times because pressing the volume up button usually registers twice per push but not always so this often gets me stuck on odd numbers, so i will sometimes have to turn it down by 1. Like... 15 and 17 are not acceptable so I will go up to 17 and then down to 16.

Most people who play poker have lucky hands that they always play or play more often than other random hands that are not conventionally strong hands. For me, the lucky hand that I always play is A9, and any hand with a 9 I'm more likely to play than other random hands.

I like to write on stuff with a sharpie in public places if no one is around to see me. Typically, it's either my signature, an anti-trump message, or a penis drawing. In a bathroom in the building I used to work in, there was a stall with a urinal in it and someone drew a stick figure above the urinal looking down and saying "nice dick!" so I wrote "thanks! you too!" underneath it. My boss later said that he found pictures of it on instagram when he looked up the name of the building. Maintenance attempted to wash it off but they couldn't get it all, so it was still there, just faded.

I like to post just "penis" a lot, either as a bump or a response or just for the sake of doing so. This started thanks to @Choco who had been doing that in topics for a competition based game we were both in, and I ended up co-hosting the next "season" of that game. Choco would send challenge submissions and votes with the PM title "penis" which encouraged me to keep posting it >_>. One time I was really high and I made a spam post that had penis several dozen times. Players thought it was some sort of clue for a hidden advantage item and several PM'd me attempting to interpret it and hoping to get an item. The next day, I had to make an announcement that no such item was active or in play at the time and that my penis spam post was a result of me being high and wanting to troll the players. Later, when there was 1 team left (think of the merge of Survivor), like the Survivor merge, I let the players name the new team, via everyone submitting an idea and then voting for which name they liked most (with vote recruiting and stuffing allowed). The only rule was that it not be a censor bypass. Choco submitted MySockContainsMyCock and that submission won overwhelmingly, and so that became the official name of the merged tribe.

penis

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Bad_Mojo posted...

I don't know if this is weird to everyone here, but nobody in my real life ever does this. I turn the door knob before I close it so it doesn't make a lot of noise. Other people just shut it without doing that and it makes a loud noise.

Oh, and I also shower and take a bath in total darkness.

I'm this guy on the door thing. I hate slamming anything. I close doors by turning the handle, I close cabinets and the fridge gentle. I hold up the door handle on the car and give it a nudge with my shoulder to close it.

I think it stems from my dad being an aggressive and angry asshole who yelled and slammed doors all the time.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

I'm this guy on the door thing. I hate slamming anything. I close doors by turning the handle, I close cabinets and the fridge gentle. I hold up the door handle on the car and give it a nudge with my shoulder to close it.

Same with me.

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I'm right handed. I do everything with my right hand except for drive. I drive with my left hand on the steering wheel only. My right hand never touches the steering wheel unless I need to stop suddenly, or make a sharp turn.

Something I picked up from working at Tim Hortons(very briefly, I only lasted 3 days, I was 16 and the manager was an asshole and I called her out for being an asshole and got fired for it), If I'm brewing a cup of coffee I'll pour cream and sugar into my mug before it starts to perk so the coffee stays hot, but has that sweet taste.

When I'm cooking scrambled eggs, I like to add a bit of either sour cream or evaporated milk to the mixture so when it cooks it comes out really soft and tasty.

I tend to add .... to my sentences. I also tend to get extremely pissed off at people who don't pay attention in video games so 90 percent of the time I don't voice my concerns for fear they will hate me.

Notti posted...

When I was a kid I would run from say, an auto closing door (elevator etc) to the next door I had to get open (exit, front door) before the automatic one closed.

The Popo posted...

Whenever I eat something, I try to keep things as even as possible on both sides of my mouth as a chew.

that makes sense. Weird asymmetries in the jaw and neck are totally cascades for other pains. It's probably almost certainly a decent habit to have.

Also affection and props to everyone who does the color/symmetry thing. I just don't feel like bothering to quote them all right now.
Light_Dragon posted...

Chewing water bottle caps after I'm done drinking a bottle of water. I think that's bad for my teeth but I can't help it for some reason.

I have never had a styrofoam cup that I didn't chew through.

Machete posted...

You have a rich and buttery life. I don't have commentary on that, but also very little judgment to pass. Keep it up.
Ving_Rhames posted...

I rearrange my room in some way every month.

Do you repeat patterns or always try to mix it up novelly?

Bad_Mojo posted...

I turn the door knob before I close it so it doesn't make a lot of noise.

Oh, and I also shower and take a bath in total darkness.

That's really considerate. I like that and do it most of the time, but not with as much automaticness as a true habit.

I've taken showers in the dark and I really like it, but I rarely do it. I think my next shower will be dark.

__Fiale__ posted...

I'll be watching a movie/show, hear some random line or singular word and I HAVE to write it out on my thumbnail using my index finger.

Do you have small handwriting? :o

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I wash my hands in a certain motion and right hand first then left hand.

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I must finish all of one type of food on my plate before moving on to the next.

Ex: I will not touch chicken if there's still plenty of fries.


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PalmerSensei posted...

I must finish all of one type of food on my plate before moving on to the next.

Ex: I will not touch chicken if there's still plenty of fries.

Do you allow your foods to touch? Or is that also off the table?

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Sometimes after I finish showering, I will lay the towel on the floor and just sit there and do nothing for 30ish minutes to an hour. I have dim lighting + the sound of the fan, so its very calming to me

And like others already said, I sometimes shower in the complete dark. If not, then its very dim lighting. I hate the bright lights in bathrooms tbh

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Harpie posted...

Sometimes after I finish showering, I will lay the towel on the floor and just sit there and do nothing for 30ish minutes to an hour. I have dim lighting + the sound of the fan, so its very calming to me

And like others already said, I sometimes shower in the complete dark. If not, then its very dim lighting. I hate the bright lights in bathrooms tbh

How big is that bathroom bro?

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VanananaHeyHey posted...

Do you allow your foods to touch? Or is that also off the table?

I like to keep foods separated, but I don't mind if they touch.

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InhumaneRaider posted...

How big is that bathroom bro?

Idk, normal apartment bathroom sized

Why

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I eat the leaves of loose leaf green tea after brewing.

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I obsessively crack my joints. My neck, back, knees, thighs/hips (these are the best), wrists, anything. If its a joint in the human body, I have to crack it.

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Hmm. I crunch up Doritos into dust before I eat it.

I also refuse to drink anything cold. Cool, sure. Cold, fuck no.

I can eat ice cream though .

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I also shake my shoes out, but more for pebbles or other small things that would bother me.

I like to imitate people, like copying the way they speak or their physical mannerisms. Rhythmic stuff especially though, like matching my footsteps or breathing to theirs.

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AlisLandale posted...

thighs/hips (these are the best)

HOW do you do this?!?!?! I have troubled hips from...well, just goddamn everything. I have a foam roller and lacrosse balls, but nothing ever releases. My left hip socket pops when I do leg lifts or high marching steps, but in a painful, not loosening way.

RetsuZaiZen posted...

Hmm. I crunch up Doritos into dust before I eat it.

Huh. Neat. Just Doritos, or other flavR-blasted snacks too? Do you use a spoon to eat it, or what?

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

I like to imitate people, like copying the way they speak or their physical mannerisms. Rhythmic stuff especially though, like matching my footsteps or breathing to theirs.

Do you do echolalia? I would silently mouth the last few words a person said all throughout childhood. Phonology/phonetics ended up being my pet concentration in grad school.

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I just eat way too much at one time.

VanananaHeyHey posted...

Do you do echolalia? I would silently mouth the last few words a person said all throughout childhood. Phonology/phonetics ended up being my pet concentration in grad school.

Not really. I might repeat the last little bit quietly to myself if I need to remember it. Same for when someone tells me their name. I don't think that's too uncommon though.

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I pick my nose when home alone

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