re: Idiosyncrasies You Do

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my alarms to prime numbers (the exception being 33, my lucky number)

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I set alarms to anything except a time ending in a 5 or 0. Its weird, i know.

I feel ya', brother. I'm the same way with volume levels on my TV and car stereo. I like even numbers, but I'll also accept numbers that end in 0 or 5. My wife or children will sometimes set the TV's volume to some random number like 11 or 17, or God forbid, 13. It makes me physically uncomfortable.

I'm a big Metallica fan from way back, and when I need to gather myself in stressful situations, my mind will involuntarily say, "Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett, Newsted," as some sort of calming mantra.

Here’s one I do that I haven’t seen yet. I’m at a red light and first in line…happens a lot since I drive too fast. As the traffic is crossing in front of me I flex my quad on my right leg between the gaps in the cars. When there’s a space I hold it until the next car enters the void. The more lanes the more variety. Don’t know why, assume it’s to prevent boredom.

Also do it while driving down the interstate in time with traffic going the other way, but not as frequently as at a stop. Never told anyone about this or knew what to call it.

I do some of the other things mentioned, too. 4 pats when leaving…wallet, keys, phone, sunglasses. Money facing the same way. Air typing out words frequently. When I was a child my parents had a bad divorce and I developed tics that I was largely unaware of. Things like snapping a finger a lot, or doing a quick head shake/flip. Saw a therapist and it went away. All of this before 10 or 11 years old. Guess I still have some of that nervous energy?

Hell, I think id nothing else, my OP has served to help all of us weirdos to see that we are not alone.

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I “trace and count” lines on things mentally. For instance, I look at a box and I mentally trace out the sides (there are 12 lines in a cube) and count as I go. I do this with all sorts of geometric shapes that I see. Looking at a suit jacket on a guy on tv and I “trace count” the lines of the suit: starting at the lapels and collar, the seams across the shoulders, down the sleeves, etc.

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That sounds draining. How do you function in society freak ??

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That sounds draining. How do you function in society freak ??

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The struggle is real. Yet, I persist. The Dude abides.....