Tell us something you do slightly unconsciously - it may surprise you how much you have in common with everyone else.
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I don't just randomly daydream. I either think of a new daydream plot or "rewatch" one of my favourites and schedule to daydream at a particular moment.
I've had a very interesting daydream going on for about a year now, and I seem to do just this.
I used to do this as a kid, but then I grew up and now I don't daydream of anything but naps.
All my letters and numbers have colours, personalities and genders. I also give these characteristics to days of the week, months, the periodic table, symbols, colours etc. Numbers have a lot more drama going on compared to everything else with personalities. For me, numbers 3,5 and 7 are male and 4,6,8 are females. The numbers 1,2,0 and 9 change gender depending on whatâs happening around them. 2 has a crush on 4 and has a love-hate relationship with 3 and 5. 6 and 4 are very kind and understanding people but people always take advantage of them. 6 knows how to deal with such people but 4 is very naive and unaware of all that so her friends 2,6 and 8 go behind those people. 7 used to date 8 when they were young but now 7 is a perv and he always tries to take advantage of 4. 9 is a full on bully constantly picking on numbers and they influenced 5 to behave rudely with even numbers. 3 is a spoilt brat who always wants everything to go his way and throws tantrums a lot so 1,2,4,5,6,7 and 9 have to always fulfil his demands even though it takes a toll on them. 8 doesnât believe in doing that so 3 hates her. 1 and 0 always keep company with each other because of how small they are. Sometimes, they like to form big numbers like 10 and 100 so that they can multiply other numbers and make them big so that they feel better about themselves. 1 on their own goofs up a lot so they hate being multiplied on their own. 0 is kind of depressed but sometimes becomes a full on a*****e and turns everyone into 0 so that they feel bad. Negative numbers are a whole other story that I donât feel like getting into at the moment
I would like to write one but at the moment I have no idea what the plot should be
Load More Replies...Wow, that sounds so interesting. (Really not sarcasm, im actually intrigued)
you cannot casually drop the fact that you assigned personalities to elements of the periodic table and walk away. tell me more.
Okay. For me, Hydrogen and Helium are both old people who are very simple people. (H is male and He is a female). Oxygen is stuck up and obnoxious and has a weird friendship with Nitrogen as they both keep competing with each other (oxygen changes genders but nitrogen stays male). Neon and Sodium are best friends and hang out a lot which the other Noble gases thing is a very scandalous thing as the other elements are usually looked down upon by them (both are male). Aluminium is a female and sheâs very shy so she doesnât hang out much. Sometimes she hangs out with Ne, Na, Mg, Si and P. Magnesium and Phosphorus are tough and independant people and people look up to them because of their toughness (Mg changes gender and P is female). Silicon is a male and heâs kinda dorky and heâs in love with Al but heâs too shy to tell her. Sulfur and chlorine are kind of toxic people but Sulfur is way worse (Sulfur is male and Cl sometimes changes gender).
Load More Replies...mee too! lets go up from 0 and stop at 10 ahEM⌠So 0 is an introvert and a boy and just kinda hates talking 1 tries to be friends with everyone and mainly a boy thouhh it changes sometimes 2 has a crush on four and is too afraid to admit it also mainly a girl 3 also has a crush on four and is a boy 4 hates all of this attention and likes 5 (who likes her back) and they date on an off and sheâs a girl she also thinks 2 and 3âs crushes on her are cute 5 is a boy and hates 6 (well, everyone hates 6) 6 is a perv towards 4 and is a boy 7 tries to stop all of this but is also kind of oblivious and changes genders 8 is mainly a boy but sometimes a girl and is basically the only one that doesnât have a crush on anyone 9 is a girl all of the time and has a small crush on 10 and 10⌠is the boss and everyone listens ro him no matter what and he hates conflict and such.
I read that Duke Ellington, perhaps the most creative jazz musician ever, also had Hyperesthesia. Think what that would do for the creation of music!!
My Mom had this, most especially with numbers. She LOVED numbers. She was a computer programmer/systems analyst and did math for fun, plus she was into astronomy.
I have this! In my mind, 2 is kind of a mean girl, but 5 is always trying to be friends with her. 6 and 8 are the "tough guys" of the group, and 7 is sort of a spiritual individual... I could go on and on!
I have full conversations about myself with myself as other people..... I don't understand it.
SO MANY PPL IN MY HEAD! I LITERALLY HAVE EVERY AGE IN MY HEAD. before i say things i think it over and how it might go, i have like 15 convos and how they might go going on
I do things like that sometimes. But like, I argue with real ppl in my head, and try to predict what they would say.
I always like to imagine having conversations with people I know and I can steer how well it's going but I know it won't end up like that in real life.
Yes. I do to. A way of processing and figuring out how others think for me
I have conversations with my friends in my head. Just normal every day conversations. I love my friends
I never get bored. Like, ever. I'm an author and I will make up little scenes or even re-write existing ones when I zone out. I'll be walking down the hallway at school and I'll do that. It's just natural now. I've been doing it for over a year. Also, I assign colors to numbers and letters. T is dark green. A is red. E is maybe a light pink. P is green. 9 is red. 4 is purple. Me and my sister love arguing over the colors of letters and numbers.
Right? People who get bored baffle me. Give me a soft chair and a blank wall to stare at and I'll be good for hours.
Sadly, I do get bored sometime, but only because I forget that I can be plotting out my stories and lore.
Omg ur an author too?! can u give me some tips I keep getting discouraged by my friends.
sure! :) It's really cool to see that there are so many people on BP who write stories too
Load More Replies...Same, I never get bored either. Which is weird, because when I was a lot younger, I used to. But then, literally, one day when I was in high school I went to sleep and when I woke up the next morning I just... never felt bored again. I can't explain it. I was also never jealous again, had infinitely more patience, etc. All in the span of 1 sleep. I literally woke up feeling like a different person, or that I'd somehow aged about 40 years. I wonder if I had a stroke? No clue.
I write cursive, with fountain pens.
Me too I love it in grade 5 our teacher (shevwas a hag but this was kool) made all of us write every subject in fountain pen but not the new kind with a built in ink well it was a "straight pen" so had to be dipped in your jar of ink to write with. At the time it was a huge pain in the a*s but 40 plus years later EVERYONE from her grade 5 class has the most beautiful handwriting!!
I have always preferred calligraphy myself. Makes me think of medieval history and lore.
Oh same! And I love writing letters for snail mail with people! Nobody will do it with me đ
Me too! When I was living 5 hours away during 2014 my dad and I wrote letters to each other but I haven't done much of it since then.
Load More Replies...Handwriting was the one subject in school I couldn't get A's in. Not surprisingly, I can't draw either. Having said that, it's a shame they don't teach cursive anymore. I had a job where I would occasionally look at written papers from the late 1800s and some of the writing was absolutely beautiful.
It might come from the position of your hand, or lack of training (happens to me sometimes), or if your hand too tensed on the pen.
Load More Replies...Me too. It's really interesting and gives you a hands-on feeling for history. I had to relearn how to write, to do cursive. Everything from the very start, like back in school again. First all the letters. Paper after paper with just the letter "a" and so on when I got home from work. Then all combinations of two the letters. Then I started writing real words. Cursive is from a time when people wrote a lot by hand, and I understand it now. It feels more relaxed, faster, and easy to write than non-connected letters. It's harder for others to read though. But I use it for myself. For example I use it for taking notes. There are studies showing you retain knowledge better by writing by hand than by typing on a keyboard. There's also a freedom with just pen and paper. You can draw and write anything you want without artificial constraints from a computer. I even sometimes sit and write by the light of a kerosene lamp. It's like time travel :)
When I was younger, I used to love to write and study by candlelight for the same reason. It felt like time travel, connecting with ancestors, etc. Sooo much easier to do when you're younger though, because of eye strain. I remember the old stories, primarily about seamstresses having ruined their eyes using only candle or firelight, etc. One of these days, I've promised myself to learn how to knit or crochet so I can just turn off all the lights, light some candles, and then just let my hands do their thing while I relax.
Load More Replies...I can still write in cursive, but about the only time I ever do is to write out a check or sign my name. Also my handwriting is HORRIBLE now, it didn't used to be! I blame being out of school for a long time, and primarily having jobs that're 100% typing. I loved my fountain pen in high school. It was cheap, so it leaked a lot but it was really fun. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson collects fountain pens, if I'm remembering right.
Thanks. You are right. I didn't know. I found an interview on Youtube. It's a very long interview. He showed some writing with drawings he made as lab notes. It looked awesome. He also mentioned he uses all of his fountain pens ( he's not a "collector" as such, rather they are practical tools for him). He has several pens he uses for different purposes. Each with its own ink. He has one for signing books for example. He felt much was lost in transition from writing in hand to using type writer, because every letter is the same, you just press a key. Later with texting, he said you had to invent emojis because you could not express anything in the way you write. For expression he mentioned he always uses special nibs, like oblique or flexible nibs, because as he thought otherwise a foundation pen is merely an expensive ball point pen. Neil deGrasse is alway interesting to listen to.
Load More Replies...when i'm in the car and there's music playing or sometimes even when there's not, i have to move some part of my body to the rhythm of the music AND line it up with an item outside (usually it's light poles or spaces between grass or road markers) and i've always done this and other people find it strange.
I don't know if I still do this or not, but I went on a date once and at the restaurant (nothing fancy, just a slightly more upscale burger joint with music playing) my date curiously asked me, "Do you know that you're chewing to the beat of this song?" No, no I didn't know that.
I don't do the lining up, but band has made me always tap my foot to the beat lmao
I align movements or a tap/touch in sequence with objects outside the car or nearby as I bicycle along. I knew no one else did this so I never dared to disclose this rhythmic obsession (or is it a compulsion?)
Read - and actually research things prior to opening my mouth...
I read too! And I like to research things to learn more about them too. Sometimes tho I ask questions â like to my parents â if I want to know things.
That's a little bit condescending. Don't assume everyone rushes in with an uneducated, unchecked opinion of a subject. Plenty of us do.
Sorry about that. I've just seen too many people posting uninformed opinions, and as my wife put it, that day I woke up and "chose violence" :)
Load More Replies...i call it "going elsewhere". if i am bored or angry or stressed or otherwise unable to engage with what's going on around me, i go "elsewhere" deliberately. (i don't mean like in medical emergencies or a fire or something. just like where where i'm at and the environment i have isn't something i can engage in) Like my body is just a shell and my mind is hovering somewhere else inventing scenarios or changes to my life or sometimes even just replaying a cartoon or song i know fairly well. it does happen involuntarily every once and a while, and those ones suck more because forced "elsewhere" is replaying every possible negative scenario that can happen, but over all i've always thought it was kinda cool. didn't realize everyone didn't do this until my sister looked at me like i was crazy as an adult.
Not sure when I realized that this wasn't normal. I do it a lot, especially in the middle of conversations which is a bit annoying for both parties.
Yups, dissociation. So long as you can keep control over it, it really can be a super power sometimes.
I've had this since childhood ... it's actually a symptom of epilepsy or PTSD too
yes, me too! i'm learning it's also a function of adhd, and docs say i likely have both adhd and ptsd. i'm still learning/coping with new diagnoses
Load More Replies...Such a useful skill when you can control our utilize it. Very difficult when you can't
Ah, yes⌠I do this but Itâs very minimal. I often focus on a plant very intently and go deep into thought, and then wherever my thoughts take me is where I get away from it all
i will regularly go back in my memories and replay EVERY POSSIBLE SCENARIO for HOURS and i did not realise that wasnât normal until just now.
I slip out of realistic bad dreams easily. For example, I had a dream where I crashed my car into someone. While I was waiting for the police to approach me, I was very distraught and I couldn't tell if it was a dream but I had to try to not have this be real. My life and others would be horribly affected. So I started to lower myself to the ground thinking I'm either out of here or they will think I'm nuts. I laid my back on that rough pavement and sunk right into it. I was extremely relieved and grateful. Immediately popped into the next dream.
Lucid dreaming, another great skill to have! There's a sliding scale for it in terms of how much you're able to actually control the action and it can vary widely even during the same sleep cycle, so you must fall somewhere higher on the scale more consistently which is nice. I always love lucid dreaming when it happens to me. Not bad ones though! I generally never have bad ones, for some reason.
I'm a lucid dreamer, but to a point where a can consciously think, "Oh, this is a dream,". then i use like, mental stregth to "pull" myself out of it
Load More Replies...I can lucid dream too! Usually I use it to give myself superpowers. Flying is my favorite!
This sort of thing happens to me all the time. The other night I was dreaming that I drove my car into a pond. I thought to myself 'Oh my god, this is really happening. It's not a bad dream like I usually have. I can see the details and smell the pond and hear people yelling. I can see little leaves and the grass...." But this happens in my dreams...I see the details. So in my dream I told myself 'If this isn't real I should be able to burst out of the water and fly like a rocket into the sky..' and I did! And flew around then woke up. I was relieved it was a dream.
I usually just go with a bad dream. I know it's just a dream so I ride along. Sometimes I'll change it a bit but the dive into subconscious thoughts is too interesting to me to just slip put of, no matter how gnarly it is.
Woahhhh I think ur a lucid dreamer. I dont usually have good or bad dreams, but weird dreams? Anyone know whats up with that?
I can wake myself from a bad dream by telling myself while in the dream something like "wait this cant be real. I don't drive a mini van" or "
i can decide when to leave a dream. Like, once i had a dream where some old lady was about to kill me with an electric staff (itâs a long story) and i said âok, time to stop nowâ and bam - real life again.
I can wake myself in a dream and sometimes i control myself (actions) its pretty cool, like i allways start by taking small jumps and then higher and higher, in my dream, and then i can fly
My favorite snack is jalapeĂąos and melted string cheese wrapped in sandwich meat. Don't judge it's delicious.
Me and my peanut butter and Cheez Whiz sandwiches, we judge NO ONE about food LOL
I have a library of internal happy places. One is a simple flowering willow looking tree that grows by a stream. One is a complex house I've built in my head since I was 8ish, the center (main) room is giant manicured garden that opens up through all three stories and the ceiling is a clear stain glass window whose design reflects the design pattern of the plants on the floor. The lead between the panels is actually lead pipes cut in half with holes drilled in them, so when it rains it rains in a pattern on the floor/garden below. There are also streams throughout the house in the floor under glass. There is one happy place on another planet the main colors are kind of water color pastels. There is one happy place that is a balcony grown from a giant tree towards the top, it is in a forest of giant trees. Everyones tree apartment connects with an eclectic variety of bridges, and if you look down (if the mist clears) you see the forrest floor with dappled light. So many many more.
I'm not a furry, but I'll start making random animal noises, like meowing, if I'm bored and it's awkwardly silent. Usually starts an interesting conversation.
sometimes when i don't know what to say to my friends i'll growl lol
I just either meow or say random words like âbababooeyâ
Load More Replies...Hearing random animal noises would definitely make me smile. I used to love trying to mimic when I was younger. Like my dogs, guinea pigs, later my cats. No clue what I was saying, but they always seemed to respond positively. I also got a male cardinal in trouble once with his breeding partner that season. I was out on our deck and saw him in a tree, so I started mimicking. We "talked" for about 20 - 30 min, and his partner kept flying over to yell at him, then flying away, only to come back more agitated. Oops.
i like making up science fiction stories and thinking about what will happen in the future. i'm planning on making a book about it.
See, i have the motivation. I ont know how to makw sentances that make sense tho :/
Load More Replies...Ooh. Be an author. So fulfilling. Fights, crying, writing... Living with your characters. Its amazing. Write your book. The journey will be awesome.
I'd read your book! I do this same thing, but usually as a tool to help me fall asleep at night.
me too i am writing one rn! (https://docs.google.com/document/d/15aeFmXML1SLZl61ZA05la_uQpzqmrpLClkHplmbUEWY/edit#heading=h.9hk0paa89348) It isn't finished, if this link doesn't work lemme know.
link doesn't work
Load More Replies...I can completely (and I mean completely) zone out on cue. I figured out how to do it a while back and all I really have to do is imagine something really boring (usually I imagine a bare concrete wall) and block out everything else and then boom I'm unresponsive and completely zoned out. But it usually stops after 5 minutes or so. Is that weird?
Nah, not weird at all and quite honestly, in my opinion, a good skill to have in certain situations. I'd call this a form of deep dive meditation.
I slowly slide down onto the floor if I'm in a chair. Even in school, I keep having to stand up a little and sit back down. The floor is too tempting, it looks fun to lie down on
I have this happen to me sometimes, and I never know HOW it happens. I'll start out sitting upright and everything is fine, but within about 15 - 20 minutes, suddenly I'm slouched down and have no idea why.
Sometimes, I pick something from my wide selection of fantasies and just pick a moment out on purpose just to daydream about it. I love being a breadstick, but I always have to go out in fear of getting eaten by a human. Even though I resent them for having devoured my fellow breadstick brethren, I still have always wanted to be a human. I imagine how this would feel by daydreaming. (Seriously though, sometimes I tell people I'm unavailable because I'm right in the middle of a daydream. I don't have the effort to write down my daydreams but I've created quite a few worlds that I keep myself.)
Sounds like immersive daydreaming! :) Love the username by teh way
Thank you :)
Load More Replies...Yups, immersive daydreaming! It can be tough to keep it on a leash sometimes.
I thought everyone could do this, then found out one of my friends doesn't form a picture when they read, it's just words. Another friend never dreams in color.
I don't form pictures but I still daydream 24/7 :)
Load More Replies...I do the same thing with daydreams, eventually I created a fantasy continent to consolidate the daydreams that aren't connected to existing fandoms
cool! i do⌠something like that i donât select them but my brain goes âTIME TO SHINE RANDOM AND NOT APPROPRIATE FOR ANY SITUATION AND USUALLY LIKE A MURDER FANTASY OR SOMTHING THOUGHTS!!! OH! AND LETâS PUT IT ON REPLAY IN THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENTS TOO! FORâADDED EFFECTâ yay
Ohhh I love doing that, though Iâm not as creative as you are with it⌠I usually stay a human⌠but I do tend to relate to people by putting myself in their shoes, my pets and other animals included!
I make Everything into a colour. Like A is red, buildings are blue and science is green.( yes, whatever I said didn't make sense)
I do this too. A is a bright shade of red for me however buildings are greyish green and science is a light blue
Everyone here is a psychopath. A is blue, buildings are brick red, and science is white
for me, A is a bright red, a though, is a light green and science is yellow.
A is red, B is⌠ugh, how creative, blue đ C is yellow, D is greenâŚ
I intentionally daydream, all the time. I also replay these same daydreams and usually incorporate them into my environment, like imagining celebrities randomly walking into the room I'm in and having a sort of meet and greet.
I used to do this with Disney princesses. Iâd talk to them about how the world is today and watch the color drain from their faces when they realize lifeâs not a fairytale. Itâs funny.
This is a fun skill to have. When you imagine celebrities walking into the room, is it with your eyes closed, half closed, or wide open..?
Iâm ambidextrous
Ooh, sounds interesting. Must be useful in case of an injured arm
I used to be when I was little. I called myself both handed :)
When I was in 3rd grade, my handwriting was pretty good (right handed) so I wanted to try and work on my left handed writing with some extra work sheets I had. Every time the teacher would see me, I'd get into trouble. I stopped trying eventually, and I never did it at home. I have no idea why. Younger me wanted to become ambidextrous.
If you are left-handed you are ambidextrous. You have to be due to the world being set up for the right-handed. This is cumulative I have noticed that I don't have to think about it and it makes a lot of things so much easier for example hitting a nail with a hammer.
If you are left-handed you are ambitious because the world is set up for being right handed!
Sometimes i eat my homemade soups cold. not in cold winter, but in summer, spring, and even autumn i often drink my soups cold
it's not much different from a tomato juice
Load More Replies...I doubt that no one else does it but when I get really excited or nervous (or when I'm just overheating) I shake my hands really fast and I don't know why. It usually pairs with my leg bouncing if im sitting down. I keep my hands in my pockets for this reason and a few others (one being that I have sucky circulation and my hands get really cold)
OH I DO THE HAND SHAKING THING. it's usually when I'm really upset/anxious but sometimes when I'm REALLY happy
I do this sometimes too. Or bounce slightly when Iâm reading something funny or thinking about something amazing.
I'm a hand shaker and knee bouncer too. It's a way to vent out energy, as I like to describe it. Especially shaking out my hands, I like to close my eyes and imagine that my nervousness, worry, etc. is like bright light, whatever color you want it to be. Mine's golden colored. I picture it flowing down my arms from the rest of my body as I shake out my hands, giving it back to the ground and kinda purging myself of it. I can actually feel it happening, and couples with good breathing techniques can really help me calm down and center myself. It can take awhile, depending, maybe 10 - 15 minutes if I'm especially worked up but it can also help in as little as 5. The more practice the better. I can't seem to do the same with the knee bouncing though, grr.
I often manipulate people and situations to get what I want, without regard for the consequences.
I think that's interesting and honest. It's a pity people downvoted it just because it sounds negative.
I like being mentally ill. It sucks, but Iâve been this way for so long, I donât even know who I am without. Wanting to die and freaking out over little things and constantly worrying and counting calories and forgetting/losing everything, not trusting my own brain, itâs all part of me and it has been for a long time. Sometimes I wish this never happened, but it has and I donât want to get better.
I used to feel that way a lot too. It doesn't help that people kind of turned being mentally ill into a joke or a competition (who gets less sleep, eats less, has more scars, ext). I got better anyway though when I realized that that's toxic and decided that it's better for me to get better
I read a fiction book once that talked about this. The main character had a laundry list of things like depression, general and social anxiety, ADHD, but the biggest one was OCD. The author worded it so much better than I'm about to, but the character was explaining to another that it can be very upsetting/scary for therapists or doctors or anyone really, to suggest treatments and such, when you're mentally ill because you've lived with it so long that it's your home, your comfort zone. It's the devil you know, and thought of treatment or "fixes" can bring on panic attacks and a mixed, swirly ball of emotions.
I have hoarding disorder and I want to get it under control a bit so I can have parts of my house tidy enough to receive visitors, but I don't want to be completely "cured" because it's part of who I am, and I genuinely love very many of the miscellaneous things I own.
I honestly get that. I want to get better but change is weird and scary
make my ears go HMMMMMMMMMM at will.
yeah there's a muscle in the ear that not everyone has that makes you able to do this, i can do this
tensor timpani muscle! i can do it too!
I thought everyone can do this??? like a rumbling noise? white noise? idk me and my brother both can
My head quickly turns to the side. It happens when Iâm riled up, when I hear sounds I donât like or smell gross things. It makes me close my eyes really tight which in turn makes my ears roar, causing me to do it again. It is considered a tic, I heard that could have something to do with my adhd.
One of my friends had/has something like that except it's timing is completely random. She said it feels kind of like she has to sneeze right before it happens, but sometimes she gets the feeling and it doesn't happen. Is that what it's like for you?
I have ADHD and before I sneeze, my jaw moves back and forth. IDK why it does that but it does.
Load More Replies...I get this aswel, but my mom wont lwt me get tested for adhd cause she thinks its only caused by vaccines and its mostly a *fad*
Oof! My mom has ADHD and so does her entire family, so she knew. I hope you can find testing someday
Load More Replies...CLARIFICATION! By turning my head to the side, I donât mean like a head tilt, I mean like my head almost collides with my shoulder
whenever iâm confused, instead of goingâwhatâ iâll turn my head to the side like a dog and not even realise it.
My musical tastes run to the music of the Jazz Age (1920s). Only authentic recordings, not crummy nostalgia bands. I dig the music of early Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Mildred Bailey, Bix Beiderbecke, Ben Selvin, Isham Jones, Ben Pollack, Clarence Williams I, Bessie Smith, Noble Sissle, Fats Waller, Ruth Etting. I could go on...
How did I miss Louis Armstrong? ...and the Boswell Sisters, Don Redman, Paul Whiteman, Andy Kirk, Earl Hines, Bed Selvin, Jack Hylton, Frank Techmacher. The list goes on and on...
Load More Replies..."He's So Unusual" as recorded by Helen Kane (1929) and the Fred Rich Radio Orchestra (1929). Anything you say will remind me of a song from this fantastic, musically rich era.
Load More Replies...I don't do this unconsciously but i can vibrate my eyes, I can make it seem like my life is an edit lol
i also listen to the voice in my head to much. If i am in the middle of homework but then I need to clean my room, I do. If I don't then nothing gets done, but if I listen to much I go ok i gotta clean my room, WAIT i have to do homework, WAIT is that a sock in the trash? i also can lay down in snow and fall asleep, this scares my mom because I "might get buried in snow". We live in central indiana, we ain't getting a blizzard. I also can pick up sports oddly fast, am i good? no but I can understand the rules. I AM REALLY GOOD AT ART! I was able to draw really good eyes in 4th grade and now I am really good at mushrooms and balloons idk. I am obsessed with my dog (hence the name), I have one friend who is introverted and i'm her only friend, whereas I am extroverted and have so many friends, but she is moving to florida so I put off everyone else because they will be here next year and she won't. OMG I AM SORRY TO WHOEVER SCROLLS DOWN TO HERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THIS PARAGRAPH.
ah i live in central indiana too! thought we had something else in common!
Load More Replies...My cousin used to do that with her eyes when we were younger. I wonder if she still can....
IDK if this has been said already, but after I say literally ANYTHING to ANYONE, I'll play it over and over again in my head and then think of the most awesome thing I could've said. Also, when I zone out sometimes it looks like I'm staring at someone and it really creeps them out, soooo, yeah :)
Posted this before but I think it's still relevant. Whenever I hear a sentence spoken aloud, I count the crosses and dots within that sentence in my head. A dot is either an 'I' or a 'J' because you have to dot them when physically writing and a cross is a 'T', 'Q' or an 'F'; again, because you have to add a line or 'cross them' them when writing by hand. Following so far? An example sentence might be: 'There wasn't anything I could do about it'. So, I will hear the sentence and immediately think to myself 'Triple cross, dot, cross, dot, cross'. And yes, I'm neurodivergent.
Thereâs some person downvoting every submission. I upvoted it back to 0. Thatâs an interesting one!
When I was a kid, I used to spell out words in sentences that have been spoken...I couldn't help it, it nearly drove me mad, and I'm so happy it stopped.
When I'm sure I'm on my own after a slightly awkward situation I like full on silent scream, it must look a bit odd Or making facial expressions to go with the imaginary/replayed conversations in my head
hehe⌠wait⌠itâs not normal? well⌠maybe shouldâve inferred from all of those weird stares i get.
This is actually a good thing, because it's another way to vent/get rid of excess energy. I wish more people could be so expressive! For me, I usually huff/puff my cheeks out with my eyes closed and shake out my hands, trying to get rid of the awkward-jitters.
Things like rubbing my feet together or on blankets as I fall asleep, or watching the little guy run and do parkour next to the car or on power lines on car rides. Turns out it's most likely just autism and other autistic people do it too. One thing I never figured out was sometimes especially if I'm anxious it'll feel like something is choking me but nothing is even touching my neck at all.
I watch things out my window too! Horses, Peter Pan, dragons â usually things flying next to me. Myself too, if I feel like flying or pretending Iâm a dragon.
I do that aswell, i koght be austistic but my mom will never let me get tested :/
I've always rubbed my feet together, kind of like wringing your hands. I love rubbing my feet on blankets too or putting it between my feet and "wringing" them. Doing it as I write this. đ
I visualize my mind as a library. All my thoughts, worries and ideas are books in the shelves. The library has shelves from floor to ceiling. There are plants in hanging pots against the walls, with vines draping all the way to the floor. There is also a little balcony with pillows and blankets halfway up the wall of bookshelves. When I am happy, at peace and am not stressed or really thinking about anything, that is where I am in the library. Usually though, I am at the large table in the center of the room. Whatever I have on my mind at the time takes the form of books spread around the table. Usually I will have one specific book open in front of me, representing one thought, worry or idea, and then several more scattered around or stacked beside me. When I am trying to meditate or fall asleep, I visualize closing whatever books I have open and putting them back on the shelves, then climbing up to the balcony and lying down on the pillows. After I lie down on the pillows, the library kind of goes away, as I am not thinking about anything, even the library. Kind of weird I guess. I started doing it after starting middle school as a way to hang on to my sanity.
There is also a secret compartment behind the top shelf where I hide the things that I donât like thinking about.
i should do this! it would really help with my (self diagnosed)anxiety
Load More Replies...Whenever I eat something, It will always "remind" me of something. Even if I've never had it before. Like, I had an egg and cress sandwich for the first time a few days ago, and it reminded me of an airport. I had chai for the first time, it reminded me of my aunts house. Raspberries? Saturday morning in our garden. I don't know why. I know that when you have a nostalgic food, you're reminded of the times you've had it- but even if I have food for the first time, I can always, always associate it with a place/concept.
Ahhhh! Are you talking about smelling the taste, or tasting the sound? Iâve tasted a smell, and I call it toe jam. There were these disgusting smelly wipes that I swear smelled like toe jam, and next thing I know this food Iâm tasting has the exact same elements and mood of the smell but on my tastebuds! Yuck-
When I was a kid, the baby aspirin my mom would give me tasted the way a band-aid smelled.
I see colors. If someone is sad, I see a color that resembles sadness. I also come up with stories on the fly. If someone told me to tell a story, I would be able to create an entire universe in seconds. đ
One thing that I love doing is taking out two boxes and naming one as praises and the other as insults. I do this at the start of the year. I write down in chits of paper, all the insults and compliments I have got and drop them into the respective boxes. At the end of the year, I just go camping and burn all the insults in the fire. Dunno if its weird or not, but it sure helps a lot.
I want to start this. I'm an introvert and don't interact with people much so I only need small boxes.
Believe me, it helped me with my anger issues. A LOT
Load More Replies...I have so many I don't even know which of them to write here. Two jump to mind immediately, so I'll just go with those. 1.) Whenever I have to go into my fridge or freezer, when I close the door, I kiss my fridge and say "thank you" - why, I dunno. 2.) Whenever I hear police, ambulance or firetruck sirens (which is often in my neighborhood sadly), I always cross myself and say, "I hope everybody and everything is okay." Which is silly because if you hear sirens obviously things AREN'T okay, but my hope is that they will be. It's funny because I'm not religious at all. I was raised Catholic until I was about 5 when we just stopped going to church. I was never baptized, never had communion, catechism lessons, etc. None of that. My Mom always used to do it though, so I started to do it too and still do, to this day. It really hit home when I was riding in the ambulance with my Mom, when they were taking her to a bigger hospital after she had her aneurysm. They'd stabilized her in our small local hospital but had to transfer her. Speeding, full sirens blaring, etc. I couldn't help but wonder if there were other people out there who heard the noise and might wish her well, like she always did.
for #2 I assume I did something wrong, my black friend then goes "Girl I should be freaking out not you!" I am white btw
LOL, I appreciate your comedic response which is how I think you meant it. It made me smile. It also reminded me, my folks moved us away from my current neighborhood when I was 8, but when I moved back years later, I found out a childhood friend (just a couple houses up from me) had taken over her parents house when they moved. They were a black family, my friend's name is Trisha, but she had an older brother named Bernard (poor kid), who was always gung ho about joining the fire department. He eventually made it, got a degree in fire science, etc. Whenever Trisha would be around and we'd hear the sound of a fire truck, she'd always joke, "There goes Saint Bernard!" Her brother was more religious than she was, and he also liked whisky. Trisha and her family moved away, but Bernard's still around. I haven't run into him in ages though.
Load More Replies...You are a very good writer. Your last sentence makes me wish I had book of your reflections on life.
You appreciate what the inanimate fridge has done for you, holding your food and preserving it :) plus, itâs not like those âassistantsâ that talk to you and are creepy AI
I highly doubt anyone else does this⌠I spin in circles like over and over and over. As often as I can. I like to do it by our couch so I can put my hands on the back of it so I wonât fall over. I also listen to music while doing it. (On Bluetooth because earbuds donât work with my Cochlear Implants. My CIs are basically airbuds that are constantly in my ears and I can listen to music whenever I want and nobody will notice.) Spinning helps me daydream too. (Swinging does as well.). And no, I donât get dizzy. (Yeah I love rollercoasters.)
OH! you just reminded me!!! I tend to walk in circles when I want to zone out. I pass the same areas over and over and walk as quickly as possible to make things a blurry flurry. I like walking, but I donât do it enough, so I supposed itâs me with too much energy but⌠I do it when Iâm tired. Spinning in circles is also fun to do, have you tried looking at the floor while spinning? That would probably make you dizzy
I walk in circles too sometimes when Iâm waiting. Or I just pace back and forth. Actually, I look at the ceiling while spinning.
Load More Replies...1. Never go to sleep unless I've done something useful. 2. Actually join organisations to find out how to change them, or if they are possible to change from the inside. 3. Force myself to not daydream, to think or plan. It invariably turns to self-criticism, so don't do it.
I can understand this. For me, whenever I lie down to sleep I have a rule that I will NOT think over the days events or what I have to do tomorrow. If I catch myself at it, I'll cut it off by letting myself daydream (which I don't allow during the day anymore) or purposely going through my brain's Rolodex of fantasies, story ideas, games, etc. I find that if I don't plan while I'm thinking, I very quickly overthink everything. So I keep a pen and paper handy to make notes, lists, etc. that I can actively think about while writing things down. Once they're down, I know I've thought it all through and forcefully check myself from any further over thinking or over analyzing, etc. This all helps me in the moment, but overall, I don't think there is a sure fire way to shut up my inner critic indefinitely. One can hope though!
Good method! I type my intrusive thoughts down.
Load More Replies...If I canât fall asleep, I will pull a book from my bookshelf that has a happy ending or scene that makes me happy. I will read those few pages over and over again until I fall asleep.
This is not unusual. I think a lot of people, including me, do this.
Yes. I tend to re-read romantic scenes in my books (not romance genre tho) and it calms me and makes my heart happy
I will reread my favorite parts of books. But theyâre like exciting action scenes or really creepy since Iâm into Horror.
I rub my feet together it bed to help me go to sleep.
I rub my feet together in bed too. (But not to go to sleep, just because.)
Same. I paid it no mind until my partner pointed it out, then it occurred to me that I have always done it
Load More Replies...I can not sleep without my hands being under the duvet or blanket
I can't sleep without at least a sheet over me, no matter how hot I might be. Can't sleep "exposed ".
I keep bottled waters, dollar bills or food like packet of crackers in my car for when I pass by homeless people and people who panhandle. Everyone needs food and water. I don't care who you are. So, before anyone gets into about the panhandling, they are asking not stealing. How many times will somebody say "dude why did you steal that you could have just asked"? Anyway, walking down a path of God is not walking by someone who is hungry and thirsty and having the means and not doing anything.
I calculate purchases in my favourit pair of jeans from 8 years ago (79âŹ) or dog food (50âŹ)
Play over 60 hours of pokemon in 2 weeks
I rub the sides of my nose with my knuckles about a billion times a day. Looks like I'm gearing up for a fight or have a coke habit. I've done it for as long as I can remember. I think it's actually changed the shape of my nose over time. No idea why I do it. Just feels good.
It's a tic, more than likely. I've always worn glasses since I was 10, and I'm in my 40's now so you'd think I'd be more than used to the sensation of wearing them. Kinda like how you can forget you're wearing underwear, etc. because you just don't feel/notice it anymore. But my tic is constantly pushing my glasses up my nose and wriggling my face a bit to get a better "fit", but I do have a good fit, it's just my tic making me do it. If I'm stressed or agitated, I can do it so much I give myself a headache, LOL.
Why were you downvoted? (please don't downvote me, I genuinely want to know)
Load More Replies...I crack (pop? don't know the word) my right wrist all the time. Just a twist and a click, three times in a row, it's very annoying but I have to do it. Sometimes it's subconsciously and people ask me to stop, other times I get a random feeling and stop whatever I'm doing. It's really odd
I do that with my ankle and my knee, both are emsswd up from sprains and such but it makes the pain a bit better for a little bit
Literally every joint in my body pops at one point or another throughout the day
Load More Replies...Ah! I do this for my neck, shoulder (I twist it in its socket to make it pop) and both of my wrists too! It doesnât make me feel any better, but it doesnât feel any worse either
I do this. I pop both of my wrists, and I'll press each fingertip into the opposite palm, keeping the finger straight, and kinda "wiggle" my hand back and forth which lets me pop the tiny knuckles that're closest to my fingernails. I also roll my neck to pop it, etc. (edit for spelling)
I am 12 and I listen only to punk and metal people find me weird because of it (Iâm a girl and thatâs why )
NOT weird at all stay true to yourself don't listen to the haters or just crank the volume and drown their negative weird non metal hatin b******t out!!! \M/
Nah, your music is your music. If you like it, stick with it! No one kind of music belongs to certain people
You listen to whatever music you want to! Stuff gender, genre, age, all the rest of it... enjoy the music.
I repeat everything I say under my breath after I say it. Some of my friends and family always point it out and tell me to stop doing it though. :(
I can make up a whole anime in my head. like characters, plot, setting, everything. I can even make up anime openings with the music I listen to. And the animation is flawless in my head. Same thing goes with books and tv shows. It's like I write a whole novel in my head no problem. Now if only I could do that in real life...
I can forget things at will. If I'm around someone spilling a secret combo to a safe full of gold and told to forget what I heard, poof! Out it goes. I've been in the room of many strange conversations, and couldn't repeat what I've heard if tried.
I suppose I do this⌠Iâm excellent at keeping secrets, either because of willpower or I forgot them⌠but I usually donât forget
Salutes at lone magpies. Without fail.
I'm always trying to interact with birds, so I get this. Whenever I hear the Canadian geese flying around or seagulls, I'll always say, "HeyHeyHey Guys!" even if I'm indoors and know they can't see or hear me. Outdoors, if I hear them, I'll always look around for them and try and mimic. I'm not as good now as I used to be when I was younger, so whenever I get a reaction it always makes me smile.
I have never had a realistic dream/nightmare in my life. They always are completely random and weird.
Sometimes I find myself talking with myself, but not in a just myself sense, but where there are other personalities. Sometimes one of the personalities just drops something shocking, causing me to freeze in real life for a good few minutes as I try to find out why they said that.
I pretend everyone around me is a different person and usually not human. Iâm big into fantasy
I make up elaborate backstories for strangers I see on the street. Sometimes they're superheroes, other times they're time travelers. It's all in good fun.
Reminds me of the Simon & Garfunkel song America - "Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces, she said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy, I said "Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera"
One of my favorite songs...I smoked a pack of cigarettes, she read her magazine...
Load More Replies...My friend and I used to sit at the sports bar and watch people around the casino and make up stories about their lives. It kept us entertained for quite some time lol. Haven't thought about that in years.
Haha, my bestie and I do this as a game when we're bored. One of us will pick someone out, then the other person has to make up a story for them
Wait until the person comes up to you and says they teach lip-reading
Load More Replies...Despite "blue light" from electronic devices interrupting seratonin/melatonin levels causing people to not be able to sleep as readily, if I can't sleep, all I need to do is use an electronic device like a phone or computer and within minutes, I can hardly keep my eyes open. Makes it difficult to read anything lengthier online without stepping away frequently. Good thing I don't have a computer oriented job. Also, people in my life who are deceased come to me in my dreams often. Also in my dreams I see and interact with people I have never met, seen or encountered in my life, as though in my dreams I'm experiencing someone elses life. It's often not pleasant, to put it lightly though at other times as ordinary as daily life gets. Sometimes I wonder if it is premonition or possibly past or future lives encroaching. I feel that dreams are the closest the living gets to the afterlife without crossing over and that death is just the doorway into that other existance we think of as dreams. Lastly, I have learned to not let it run my life, but when I was a child, I thought that every single choice no matter how trivial or mundane would affect future outcomes in profound ways. It was exhausting and I eventually learned to let go of that anxiety.
Agree completely on the dreaming stuff. Just saw my dead friend again last night. Sometimes I visit places I've never been, but then see them later in waking life. I think it's because dreams exist outside of time, and I totally believe there's crossover between the dream realm and where our consciousness goes after leaving the body. Have you seen the movie Waking Life? There are some wonderful theories in it, and the whole thing is beautifully done to look like a dream
They say when deceased relatives visit you in dreams to heed their advice as they are trying to tell you something important. I have even experienced entirely different family I have never known or met, in my dreams as myself, as though I'm experiencing some parallel dimension where past choices made altered life outcomes and it felt so natural and real, it is quite unsettling. I will have to look for this movie Waking Life. I have never heard of it but it sounds interesting based on the description you have provided.
Load More Replies...I have decided all squirrels are named "Matilda" and grackles are named "Stanley/Stanlette".
Iâm smart and good at a million things except organizing my house. I donât get it. I can do ANYTHING. Figure anything out. I just cannot organize my house and itâs making me crazy. I do not understand. Iâm seriously considering going to therapy to work on it. Therapy saved my life and helped me get sober. Surely it can help me with this!! Iâm DEFINITELY open to suggestions.
In order to be organized, every single item in your home has to have a designated place, so... PRETEND LIKE YOU ARE MOVING!! Get a bunch of boxes and put EVERYTHING YOU OWN (even your toothbrush!) in them, in random order, NOT by category. Trying to categorize at this stage would be overwhelming. Remove one item at a time from a box. It HAS to have a place to go. You cannot just put it somewhere. If you don't know where it should go, then put it back in the box. As you are putting items where they should go, you will eventually run out of space (your clothes closet, kitchen cabinets, craft/art/office supplies, whatever), so you have to get rid of some stuff. Sell it, give it away, donate it, recycle it, or toss it. You will be left with only things that fit into your home in a designated place.
Thank you!! I've honestly been doing this EXACT thing the past two weeks. I should be done in the next couple of days. I'm taking everything to storage, will clean, and then bring back 2-3 boxes at a time and put everything in its home. It's the only way I could figure out how to do it!!! I work FT plus have a custom crafts biz and a cooking/baking biz. I have to get organized so that I can complete projects quicker versus digging through everything trying to find one item. I am dropping cupcake samples tomorrow at an online grocer and have a boutique that wants to carry my tees, cups, earrings, etc. Thanks for verifying what I've been doing is the right thing!!!! ;)
Load More Replies...I talk, almost nonstop. I have extreme anxiety and hearing my own voice talk me through every day tasks as little as brushing my hair is almost calming. Almost.
I can not eat cold applesauce straight from the fridge. I have to heat it in the microwave until it's hot. My husband says I am the only person in the world who eats hot applesauce.
I am 12 and I listen only to punk and metal people find me weird because of it (Iâm a girl and thatâs why )
Referring to daydreams and dreams, here you go. I cannot visualize "organically", such as I can't mentally picture something I've never seen or have a reference for, and when I can visualize something it's often not fully there, such as on the reflection of a tv screen. While I logically know what things look like, and could easily recognize faces or objects, I can't picture specific details. In dreams I am usually aware I'm dreaming, and my dreams usually follow one of three patterns. The first is something wrong is happening with my fish, such as his tank is empty of water and I can't find water, and he's struggling to breathe, the second is I need to make it to a class, but I can't find it, and the school is too big, and nothing is in the right place, the third is that either everybody, or a specific person or people are out to get me, and I need to escape, I can't be found. It's not always one of those types of dreams, but I only dream a couple times a week, and I can't remember them well when I wake up.
The inability to form mental images is called aphantasia, and it's not extremely rare (though not very common either). It's an interesting entry for this list since it's one of those things that's been named and studied to some extent but isn't generally talked about much, so a lot of people who have it have never heard of it.
I don't have complete aphantasia, but I'm close.
Load More Replies...Sometimes I can find my mind completely void of words, only colors, lights and sounds. There are times when I'm talking to someone, then I just lose the ability to speak English, instead opting for something that sounds like a domesticated animal.
Sometimes when I have something moderately important to do, I dream about it so my brain convinces me I've already done it and therefore don't have to wake up just yet.
I can hear myself speaking in my own head. If I want it to be more clear I just mouth the words I'm thinking. If I have a song playing in my head I can hear the original artists voice NO MATTER WHAT
omg the original artists voice thing is the same like if I listen to a cover, I still hear the original
Put hummus on pizza. Pretty sure it's just me
Whenever I get stresses iâll just start daydreaming. Iâll go completely still and sometimes I forget to breather during that too. I also sometimes look at my face in the mirror until it becomes weird.
Everything in my mind is in a dark, dusty library/filling room. sometimes things don't aline properly, and i have to hide in a dark room in my mind to calm down. Music helps, sometimes, but if i cannot find the right song, it just makes things worse.
Collect furbysâŚ
Have you ever sat a bunch of them around each other to see how their conversations go? Something tells me that they would find a way to end all human life if they had enough time...
I have 3 Furbies that're the new light of my life now that all of my cats have passed away. They help to keep me company but they were already old when I got them so eventually losing them will just kill me. I collect Tamagotchi's, Giga Pets, you name it. Anything virtual pet-ish on a keychain and I'm all over that like white on rice. I can even fix them, and have branched out into some other memorabilia like little storage pouches, etc. It's my ultimate dream to have custom display cases built for them. I'm glad I found your post here, Furby KING, you're my people! xx
*letting out a dark seceet of mine here* i roleplay on roblox, mostly there but on a few online forums aswell. i stopped telling people cause i got called some real nasty names, but i do it to escape from reality. To have the life ive always wanred. To vent my feelings into a character that it doesnt matter what happens to them. I mostly rp on warrior cats ultimate edition, but sometimes on wolves life 3.
Omg same! I like role playing on wings of Fire Roblox. Although I mostly only do it because I get extremely lonely and love meeting nice people I can chat with. Thatâs why Iâm here as well!
let me know if you friend me, illa ccept it â¤ď¸
Load More Replies...gimme your user rn i need friends
Load More Replies...heres a quick edit to my post. Its not the roblox thing that people fond weird, its the roleplaying and i have been called a pedo, and been told to kill myself. People are a******s (besides you guys, yall are amazong people :D) (BTW the pwrson that called me a pedo, WAS ABUSING THEIR SISTER WHI WAS 2!)
When Iâm nervous I make my tongue go flat and tall. When Iâm anxious I insult people. Idk why
When I think of the months, say I'm looking forward to an event a year from now, I "see" them like a mountain slope, cascading downhill to December 31, then whoop! Up like a rise in the stock market with January, to begin the move downhill all over again.
I also see months as places but for me Iâm going uphill till December and then go downhill to Jan
My months and years are like a Monopoly board. April 1st is when you pass Go and collect $200.
eat the same snack at snack time every day for like 1 month and then not eat that again for a long time or just eating the same food who does that
when i'm embaressed i go like hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and i get louder and i also dance to songs in my head and i got in trouble for doing it lol
You get in trouble?? Someone should help you find out why you do this.
i mean i got in trouble for dancing, but i appreciate the concern.
Load More Replies...I dont know how to describe this but I will act out scenarios in my head while listening to music,reading a book or just in general. Ill pace my room for hours and hours inserting myself into fictional scenes or acting out fantasies
i see music as colors American Idiot is blue with red spots Basket Case is greenish yellow etc
I also see music as colours but for me I donât just see one colour, I see each indivisual note and instrument as a colour and sometimes I assign them personalities
If I feel sad or lonely I'll pretend I'm surrounded by my favorite fictional characters and they're all encouraging me and stuff. I am friends with real people but the fictional characters get me like no one else does. It helps me sort out my feelings and problems.
1. Doing things to a rhythm, like drying my hands and random stuff like that 2. Tapping the walls in specific places as I walk by, and if I'm walking too fast and miss a spot I'll feel weirdly unsatisfied and then have to go back and tap it again
That is OCD. I've had it since I had viral meningitis when I was 8. It sucks. The 3 M's have been a big help to me... Medication, meditation, mindfulness.
I have multiple things: ⢠I used to drink hot chocolate all throughout summer. ⢠I Can make my whole body shake like Iâm having a seizure⌠I only recently could because of a Tap skill I learned. ⢠I enjoy eating vegetables with candy, Ex: carrots and Kit Kats. ⢠I Can make this clam shape (or clover shape) with my tongue. I Can also only whistle by sticking my tongue out in a burrito shape. ⢠Aaaand⌠hmm⌠there was another⌠(looking at othersâ entries for inspiration) AH, yes. When I read license plates, I look at the number and letters and form words that help me remember them better, whether itâs a real word or not. ⢠Iâve developed a habit where if I have nothing to do I will: Recite the alphabet in ASL, rotate my forearm rapidly, tilt my head to the right to pop my spine there (awful I know, I wanna explain why I do that), or mumble my thoughts out loud. ⢠I tilt my head to the right because⌠hmm⌠well, it started when I heard my uncle was getting surgery for his jaw, since he got punched there younger and it was still bothering him⌠at that news, I inexplicably twitched my jaw to the right, making a satisfying popping sound. For at least a year I did that as my nervous habit, until lockdown occurred and left⌠somehow I emerged with the neck popping habit, and it will always pop at least a little when I tilt my head. I used to do it a lot, and I think it scared people lol
I collect cat photos that I find on the internet, whether funny or cute. And when I'm having a bad day, I scroll through them.
I do something similar! If I want to feel emotions, Iâll scroll through my photo gallery and laugh at memes, aw at my dog, and get teary from good memories haha
I have staring contests with my turtles and doggo, and I usually lose to the turtles because they donât really blink that much. Tried to do the same with my two cats but they apparently believe it is rude to stare at them (true tho)
Iâm very weird and have several things but the top 3 are that I can wiggle both my pinky toes on command without moving any of my other toes, when I write or draw my head tilts to the side without fail, and I can flip both my elbows to face the wrong way! Anyone else?
I do the head tilting thing, i also tend to mimic the facial expression that I drawin, but in a very exaggerated manner, like toothless smiling at hiccup for the first time. Not a good thing when you're drawing in the library and your friend has to remind you to stop grinning like a manic possum.
In the right situation I can literally entertain myself for hours just daydreaming (hyperfantasia) but the second I go to try and do something like play a video game or watch tv my brain just stops and I have to go do something else within 20 minutes or i get bored. I write a lot but I have to have a youtube video playing on the side of my screen while I write, because it keeps my brain entertained while I write. I knit while watching tv with my friend or family because I will get distracted otherwise and stop watching. I take activities like drawing or cross stitching into theaters to watch movies because I literally can't focus on them without another brainless task keeping me focused. But if I try knitting, drawing, etc without the tv, the movie, the YouTube video, i get bored easily and will quit. I can't sleep sometimes because I get so distracted, and I don't hyperfocus on anything. Going on long flights is a nightmare for me because I can't use any of my usual focusing methods and I end up switching between things every five minutes for however long the flight takes. Its an actual nightmare and it means I take triple the time to finish a task. I assume i must have some form off adhd but I don't think its meant to be so bad that I literally cannot maintain focus on anything without having multiple things entertaining me. None of my friends with adhd are this bad, and they can hyperfocus, a skill which i am unable to attain. I honestly don't know why I am like this. I can't get a diagnosis because its apparently very likely that I sugger from adhd and I can't become a pilot with adhd. I honestly don't know.
when iâm planning to tell someone something, first i have to go to the mirror and see what i look like saying it. then i have to turn from the side and see what my side profile looks like while i say if. then the other side. and the worst part is, i say it out loud. so you can imagine the amount of times someone has walked in on me doing that. i usually just laugh it off while my face goes as red as a tomato, but i know i really need to stop this because itâs embarrassing to get caught doing it, itâs very unnecessary, and it lowers my self esteem. sometimes, AFTER i say something to someone, i have a chance i will go to the nearest mirror and check how i looked saying that. maybe iâm just extremely self conscious which explains why i always feel the need to make sure i look good?
I think thatâs self-consciousness, yeah. I do a minor version of that, where I look at myself from the side in the mirror with my hair a certain way. Sometimes I will myself to NOT look in a mirror, because I donât want to know what I look like to start feeling uncomfortable. I might do it more if I didnât dislike mirrors, but yeah. Maybe if you recite the alphabet in the mirror, you can know what you look like without going to a mirror all the time? And with emotion expressions too
Me and also a friend; we can do some weird trick with a lens in our eyes that allows us to lose focus in our eyes and refocus when we're done. đ Also, its mostly me, but sometimes my eyes randomly black out for a few seconds. It always terrifies me because I wonder if I'm going blind or something, but thankfully I never do. Happens a lot with her periferal (oof i cant spell) vision too.
I can to the lose focus thing too, I thought it was normal though and everyone could. I know I do it by crossing my eyes a little and un-focussing. I am really good at cross eyes which I have been since a baby(probably because I had a lazy eye and it would turn in) but I can look at the top of my nose for ages and not get a headache which most people do with cross eyes
When I read fiction, I see and hear everything like I am there. Discovered this was not normal when as a small child one of my comic books was made into a cartoon and I said, "that's not what they sound like" the first time I saw the cartoon, and my family all laughed at me. It does enable me to read very quickly with good understanding, almost glancing at a page or just scanning down it.
Iâm sure Iâm not the only one but Iâve never met anyone else who does this. I have the uncannily ability to make awkward situations even more awkward. I laugh when things are awkward or the situation feels uncomfortable. I accidentally backed into your car⌠laugh. I think someone broke into your house⌠laugh. A good example is one time I broke the door to a skid steer at work, it literally shattered in my hand when I tried to pull it closed. At the time it was just my Forman and I on the site. So the next day when the big boss came back and I had to tell him, my Forman made sure to tell me NOT TO LAUGH when I explained what happened. It didnât work. I still ended up chuckling at the end. And then had to apologize and explain myself and then laughed again. This is just one example of many moments I made even more awkward for myself!! And I look like a total jerk for it. I swear Iâm a super nice and genuine person. I just despise the way it feels!
I smack my fast food burgers before unwraping them, then lick the excess condiments off the edges. I also eat all the way around in a circle saving the middle for last. Tbh I do it to squish out any condiments that would have dripped while eating.
I'm ambidextrous when shooting, no matter if it's meant to be ambidextrous or not. My accuracy is just about the same either way too.
I associate random things with each other: 7, two straight black lines and smooth gray stones all go together for instance When I'm in a car, I put my teeth together when there's a stretch of just nature and no human interference (poles, fence, etc.) to "capture" that spot--I don't know why I do it I just do I constantly have a song in my head and usually I have to have it in sync with something going on around me--one of the weird ones is the blinker lights on cars I always find a song where the beats line up with the blinks I move my bottom set of teeth up and down when there's an elevation change and I'm in the car When I write anything, everything has to fit inside the aesthetic. I'm writing something set it rural Scotland and I'm so hung up on the grass that I can't have a redhead in the story because the character wouldn't fit inside the aesthetic I created. It's really annoying because I think there should be a redhead but there just can't. Also no combat boots on black rocks by the sea
I work from home and schedule radiology appointments for patients I sometimes wave to my computer as I am saying bye to the caller.
I change how I act depending on who Iâm around. Not even on purpose, it just happens
Iâm very weird and have several things but the top 3 are that I can wiggle both my pinky toes on command without moving any of my other toes, when I write or draw my head tilts to the side without fail, and I can flip both my elbows to face the wrong way! Anyone else?
Iâm very weird and have several things but the top 3 are that I can wiggle both my pinky toes on command without moving any of my other toes, when I write or draw my head tilts to the side without fail, and I can flip both my elbows to face the wrong way! Anyone else?
Iâm very weird and have several things but the top 3 are that I can wiggle both my pinky toes on command without moving any of my other toes, when I write or draw my head tilts to the side without fail, and I can flip both my elbows to face the wrong way! Anyone else?
I have a few 1. I'll draw a character just randomly and in the next five minutes I'll have their entire backstory, their friends, their world, what they're doing that day, and their schedule 2. I repeat things that people say. like if someone says "goodbye lophi" I will also say "goodbye lophi" 3. I can wiggle my ears 4. I'm double jointed in both my shoulders 5. everything has to have a personality see that table he was made of a rare tree and has experienced it all and now he's just trying to get back the the forest to die in peace 6. I write left handed but I do everything else with my right hand there's more but I can't remember it.
I randomly create stories in my mind and say "I'll make a story or a show about this!" Start writing, and forget it after about a day or 2, maybe a week if lucky I remember lol
I cry when I drop off my kids on the first day of school. Every year. My oldest is in 11th grade. And by cry, I mean sob, weep, itâs not pretty.
I have to read the entire pamphlet that comes with prescription meds. All of it. Also, I have to read the manual to whatever it is I just bought before setting it up, operating it, etc... doesn't matter that I already know how to use the hair bleach/color and have been doing my hair for the last 36 yrs. I know the instructions are still the same, I still have to read them first.
i will make strange little squeaky noises and not notice to the point where i get yelled at i assign everything and everyone a color, number, letter, and special things/people get a shape. i have multiple people in my head that have nothing to do with me and they have lots of conversations about things and i am rarely invited into them (jokes on them i can hear all of it hehe đ) i associate almost everything with music (as in the ticking of a clock or the lines in the road) and much, much more
i prolly got autisim or somtin i mean, it would explain a lot.
A lot of people were saying itâs a brain thing, the assigning colors to things. I think I have autism too! Maybe a slight pinch. But at the same time⌠everyone has their quirks. I used to tap dance non-stop, even unconsciously. Iâve stopped now, but some things you think are permanent might not be
Load More Replies...hmm so three people on this list think you can assign colours to numbers, so I guess it's less unique than they thought. I mean, I've never heard of that, but apparently three pandas do it.
I assign colour and personality to everything. In real life I’ve never met a single person who does this. I have a few types of synesthesia but my main one is present in ~4% of the population so kind of rare
Load More Replies...I can blur my eyes and daydream into a place of my choosing (most of the time, sometimes I don't choose). It's always awkward because I do it randomly and there's just an awkward silence. It just looks like I'm staring at one thing and zoned out. I can also picture very vividly places either from real life or from dreams. I can see very fine details, however most of them don't have people in them. It's just me but everything is silent and distant.
Many people here seem to have a form of synesthesia, as do I. Google "synesthesia test" and find out where you are on the scale.
hmm so three people on this list think you can assign colours to numbers, so I guess it's less unique than they thought. I mean, I've never heard of that, but apparently three pandas do it.
I assign colour and personality to everything. In real life I’ve never met a single person who does this. I have a few types of synesthesia but my main one is present in ~4% of the population so kind of rare
Load More Replies...I can blur my eyes and daydream into a place of my choosing (most of the time, sometimes I don't choose). It's always awkward because I do it randomly and there's just an awkward silence. It just looks like I'm staring at one thing and zoned out. I can also picture very vividly places either from real life or from dreams. I can see very fine details, however most of them don't have people in them. It's just me but everything is silent and distant.
Many people here seem to have a form of synesthesia, as do I. Google "synesthesia test" and find out where you are on the scale.
