I will walk in circles picking up random items and putting them back in gas station for up to an hour at times. While do so I look and see what other people buy, admire their outfits, the way they interact with the cashier. It’s my favorite place to people watch and get out of the house because I get to leave with wonderful snacks. Sometimes when I’m checking out I’ll buy a single shooter of booze to really mess with em 😭
Toothbrushing. Staring at yourself in the mirror while you mercilessly scrub the inside of your mouth with a brush and some minty goop you extruded from a tube.
I knock on wood four times with my left, four times with my right hand & repeat three times whenever I have an intrusive thought that I’m scared will come true.
I don’t wear my glasses out. Sometimes people who know me, wave and say hi from a distance and I don’t see them so I don’t acknowledge them. They probably think I’m some stuck up psychopath. I’m not, I just prefer a blurry world. When I wear my glasses, everything looks dirty and grimey and too sharp.
Terrible adhd, so I used to go to the gym and do hard Cardio without music or headphones, just staring ahead and trying to count to 100 in my head without losing track.
I gotta get back to that because I was starting to be able to clear my mind, but it made me look psycho.
When I’m running inner dialogue if I’m deep in though I start speaking what my brain is thinking unintentionally. I’ve ran into people in my hallway at my apartments while doing it and upon realizing what I’m doing I pretend I’m singing to myself because that somehow makes it better….
When they look at something, their eyes snap immediately to the subject, then after a brief pause, their head slowly rotates until their eyes are centered.
I’ve had the long time habit of watching the national evening news. I really need to stop doing that for a couple years cause all it does is piss me off.
A crack my knuckles against my cheek instead of using my other hand if I’m doing something with my other hand… sometimes it makes me look a little cuckoo
Sometimes my friends and family notice that I start laughing for no reason. When they ask why, I just say, “I don’t know, it just feels funny.” Nothing actually happens, but somehow it makes sense in my head. I can’t really explain it
Don’t like getting into elevators with people at my apartment nor do I like people seeing which way I exit / which room I am going to when I get off the elevator. I fake checking my package box while I wait for my own elevator or if I couldn’t avoid it and am getting off the elevator with people there, I “fake” the way I’m going, wait for the door to close, then I head the actual way I’m going.
I think out loud around other people. and if I’m imagining scenarios in my head I’ll narrate parts of the conversation out loud to hear how it sounds. I do it when I’m pissed off too. I bet people think I’m crazy. im aware that I’m doing it. I don’t see things or hear things. its just something I stopped caring about how it makes me look
This is hyper specific but I have a close immediate family member that has very very serious charges against him and I’ve been googling different aspects of the case like mandatory sentencing and minimums and what classifies this as a felony one vs this.
If you look at my Google history it probably doesn’t look great to an outsider
I have an imaginary conversation in my head and imagining my reply i mouth what I would say, but no sound comes out. It’ll be accompanied by facial expressions/shrugs etc too.
24/7 usually being emotionless. But when feeling some emotions then smiling or even giggling. Just I myself don’t understand it. If I’m happy or anxious or mad or feeling awkward or anything else I just start smiling uncontrollable. Seriously I don’t trying force myself to do this.
I literally have arguments with myself and sometimes forget that I’m out in public. Too many times parents have guided their child away from me, while saying wtf under their breath. So, yeah…
One of my worst habits is staying completely calm and collected in chaotic situations. People often think I’m either too detached or hiding something, but I’m just really good at keeping my emotions in check!
Talking while walking. It’s a gauge to tell how hard I’m pushing myself over because of my heart condition and if I’m stumbling over my words I need to slow down and focus on my walking technique.
In my junior year of high school I used to bring a glass of juice to school with me every morning and finish drinking it in my 1st hour art class. She did nto mind us having non-water because it was art and she was cool. But i eventully was seen by the vice principle and they asked why I brought a GLASS cup to school and i was like to drink my juice…? they said It had to be a closable container and/or not glass for safety.
idk i look back and probably think i looked a little strange at least.
Holding full conversions with my cats where I’m voicing them with baby voices and having at times heated arguments. Next level is probably making them have full conversations with each other that I’m not even a part of.
Well, not me, but I knew someone who collected dead bugs. Not like individual specimens to mount, but like hundreds and hundreds of dead bugs in jars grouped by species. In her locker. At work.
I am 100% confident she is not a psychopath, in fact she’s one of the sweetest people I’ve known. And it didn’t seem that weird once you go to know her, but at first…
I was talking to coworkers about how I feel dead pets should just be thrown away and not buried. They asked me if I felt the same way about people. They did not like my answer 👀
I talk to myself in stores & people stop & stare. Lately, I’ve been trying to do it like a ventriloquist and not move my lips.
This is the one that concerns me. Like when I’m cooking or packing my husband’s lunch, I have this constant running dialog in my head. I will tell myself over & over & over what exactly I put in his lunch or what I put in a recipe or what my meal plan actually was. I do have A.D.H.D. and take medicines for that, but I guess this is an OCD thing.
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Setting 30 alarms and still waking up late
Stopping for the view while on a walk.
Anyone who doesn’t follow the script will get the “are you crazy”-stare
extreme, fantastical sarcastic jokes and comments
Staring at nothing in public and accidentally making intense eye contact with strangers
Laughing when I’m completely alone and remembering a 5-year-old joke
I tolerate spiders and find them interesting to watch.
Walking around the house without blinking for way too long
Carrying 12 grocery bags at once just to avoid a second trip.
Eating cereal with no milk. Like a dry, crunchy lunatic
I will walk in circles picking up random items and putting them back in gas station for up to an hour at times. While do so I look and see what other people buy, admire their outfits, the way they interact with the cashier. It’s my favorite place to people watch and get out of the house because I get to leave with wonderful snacks. Sometimes when I’m checking out I’ll buy a single shooter of booze to really mess with em 😭
Taking pictures of mushrooms while I’m in the Forrest. Trust, everybody thinks I’m a weirdo.
Eating the chocolate off the edges of the twix then the top caramel and then the biscuit.
putting ice on top of food to cool it down. I do it sometimes when I eat by myself
Watching horror movies to relax before bed
Drinking tea out of a pint glass
Talking to myself
talking to myself in my car
Being a little too good at anything these days.
Toothbrushing. Staring at yourself in the mirror while you mercilessly scrub the inside of your mouth with a brush and some minty goop you extruded from a tube.
Saying ‘oops’ when I make literally no mistake at all
Randomly making noises when I’m bored !!
I knock on wood four times with my left, four times with my right hand & repeat three times whenever I have an intrusive thought that I’m scared will come true.
talking to myself constantly. like at home alone, at work under my breath, in the car lmao. I’m sure I look crazy but I just like to think out loud
I don’t wear my glasses out. Sometimes people who know me, wave and say hi from a distance and I don’t see them so I don’t acknowledge them. They probably think I’m some stuck up psychopath. I’m not, I just prefer a blurry world. When I wear my glasses, everything looks dirty and grimey and too sharp.
Talking to wild animals in public
Walking super fast behind someone so it feels like I’m chasing them
Eating the crust with a little bit of the insides of a pop tart. Then I give the middle away.
I love popcorn but I don’t like oily fingers from touching it. I use a keyboard all day and don’t want to mess it up.
So I just pick up a piece with my tongue.
Neat, tidy, simple – and apparently really weird. I don’t do it in front of other people after my kids called me a lizard.
I eat Kit-Kat bars without breaking them apart.
My friends say it’s psychopathic. I think it’s efficient.
Thinking out loud from time to time
My black as a night with no moon sense of humor.
Terrible adhd, so I used to go to the gym and do hard Cardio without music or headphones, just staring ahead and trying to count to 100 in my head without losing track.
I gotta get back to that because I was starting to be able to clear my mind, but it made me look psycho.
Choosing to not be in any relationship or have any sex as a woman in her 30’s who has experienced too many shitty men to ever want that again.
When I’m running inner dialogue if I’m deep in though I start speaking what my brain is thinking unintentionally. I’ve ran into people in my hallway at my apartments while doing it and upon realizing what I’m doing I pretend I’m singing to myself because that somehow makes it better….
Smelling exhaust
When they look at something, their eyes snap immediately to the subject, then after a brief pause, their head slowly rotates until their eyes are centered.
Picking your infants nose
As a woman, speaking bluntly during a business meeting especially if contradicting an older man.
I’m autistic, so sometimes I will stare in this way that may come off a bit, ehh you know, insane, psychopatic, maniacal, just the usual.
Being the quiet person in a chatty workplace
Double bagging your wiener in condoms
I’ve had the long time habit of watching the national evening news. I really need to stop doing that for a couple years cause all it does is piss me off.
Apparently talking to yourself is bad
I organize the seasonings in my cabinet by height and usage..mostly height, though. So it’s tall to short from left to right on every shelf.
Turn around, smile and wave at a stranger
Talking to my cat.
I like dry toast
Sitting on the plane without headphones or watching a movie or anything. Just sitting.
Cutting sandwiches vertically instead of diagonally. I swear it changes the entire vibe of the meal.
Taking advice from Charles Manson… no wait!? Nevermind
A crack my knuckles against my cheek instead of using my other hand if I’m doing something with my other hand… sometimes it makes me look a little cuckoo
Driving my 1974 black Econoline right after dark in quiet residential streets.
Driving with your dome light on
My couch-cushion sex-fort.
Sometimes my friends and family notice that I start laughing for no reason. When they ask why, I just say, “I don’t know, it just feels funny.” Nothing actually happens, but somehow it makes sense in my head. I can’t really explain it
Peeling grapes with my teeth before I eat them
My friend was setting up his apartment and invited us to see what we thought about it. Most of it was fine except his bedroom.
In his bedroom, he put his bed exactly in the middle of the room. In a way that we could walk around it freely.
Everyone agreed this was psychotic as shit and made it look like he films porn.
I eat around the edges of burgers, eat both ends of hotdogs first, and just my weird eating habits.
Watching food videos while eating
Following people home and watch them walk into their home. I just want to make sure they’re safe
Don’t like getting into elevators with people at my apartment nor do I like people seeing which way I exit / which room I am going to when I get off the elevator. I fake checking my package box while I wait for my own elevator or if I couldn’t avoid it and am getting off the elevator with people there, I “fake” the way I’m going, wait for the door to close, then I head the actual way I’m going.
Ripping my socks off as soon as my shoes are off, I can’t bear them
Black coffee. I’ve seen a study that says they’re linked but I’m not sure how much I believe it.
biting my nails…
I don’t eat my nails nor do i bite toenails!
I HAVE HEALTH!
I think out loud around other people. and if I’m imagining scenarios in my head I’ll narrate parts of the conversation out loud to hear how it sounds. I do it when I’m pissed off too. I bet people think I’m crazy. im aware that I’m doing it. I don’t see things or hear things. its just something I stopped caring about how it makes me look
Accidentally holding a smile for way too long
Putting ketchup on my eggs…
Not caring
talking to myself,
Picking apart the second half of a subway sandwich and eating each topping one by one then the bread
In the subway, where there is no signal, gasping or giggling to my ebook on my phone
(I get weird looks from aunt’s)
It’s fun to do that with peanut butter cups
This is hyper specific but I have a close immediate family member that has very very serious charges against him and I’ve been googling different aspects of the case like mandatory sentencing and minimums and what classifies this as a felony one vs this.
If you look at my Google history it probably doesn’t look great to an outsider
I have an imaginary conversation in my head and imagining my reply i mouth what I would say, but no sound comes out. It’ll be accompanied by facial expressions/shrugs etc too.
Talking on the phone with your ear buds concealed .
I take my macro counting seriously and have gotten some odd looks while at restaurants. Good thing is I’m down 18lbs so it’s working
Talking to myself as if I’m in a YouTube video
Remembering something in the past and crying over it.
Looking at my dogs when they’re doing something and I start crying because I love them so much and because their time here’s short.
24/7 usually being emotionless. But when feeling some emotions then smiling or even giggling. Just I myself don’t understand it. If I’m happy or anxious or mad or feeling awkward or anything else I just start smiling uncontrollable. Seriously I don’t trying force myself to do this.
Take a big bite mark out of both kit kats at once rather than snap them apart and eat one at a time.
People watching.
Talking to myself. I do it all the time
I literally have arguments with myself and sometimes forget that I’m out in public. Too many times parents have guided their child away from me, while saying wtf under their breath. So, yeah…
eating string cheese sticks whole without peeling them into strings
One of my worst habits is staying completely calm and collected in chaotic situations. People often think I’m either too detached or hiding something, but I’m just really good at keeping my emotions in check!
Yelling about my day when I am in the car alone. Helps me vent/unwind.
Talking while walking. It’s a gauge to tell how hard I’m pushing myself over because of my heart condition and if I’m stumbling over my words I need to slow down and focus on my walking technique.
I still think farts are funny at 42. I’ve laughed so hard I’ve been in tears.
My flatmate when opening the hallway closet will leave it slightly ajar.
Every. Single. Time.
Knife sharpening
Walking without swinging my arms.
I prefer the cookie part of Oreos over the cream. I love the oreo thins.
Sniffing my hands a lot…I have ocd and I’m medicated, but I’m sure I look creepy
rocking back and forth cause it’s soothing
I eat almost all my food with a fork, i also prefer bowls over plates, i also dont like ketchup, i do however love mustard.
Doing nazi salutes in front of large crowds.
Eating pizza with a fork
talking to myself and constantly peeling the skin off my fingers
Not mine but someone not eating the center of a Cinnabon.
Biting straight into a kitkat. People hate me for it
always saying the opposite of what i feel in the worst possible situation
Doing air math. I use my hands to help me calculate math problems by pretending to draw on an imaginary whiteboard.
In my junior year of high school I used to bring a glass of juice to school with me every morning and finish drinking it in my 1st hour art class. She did nto mind us having non-water because it was art and she was cool. But i eventully was seen by the vice principle and they asked why I brought a GLASS cup to school and i was like to drink my juice…? they said It had to be a closable container and/or not glass for safety.
idk i look back and probably think i looked a little strange at least.
Murdering other human beings
Sock-shoe-sock-shoe
Biting into string cheese
Saying “excuse me” and “thank you” to inanimate objects.
Eating the stem and leaves on strawberries
being on public transit and not using my phone
Holding full conversions with my cats where I’m voicing them with baby voices and having at times heated arguments. Next level is probably making them have full conversations with each other that I’m not even a part of.
I don’t mind wet socks.
Cheese banana and chocolate sprinkles toasted.
Going for a run for fun
I rinse or wipe off all containers that may have gotten dust on them…soda cans, milk jugs, glass jars or bottles of anything
Well, not me, but I knew someone who collected dead bugs. Not like individual specimens to mount, but like hundreds and hundreds of dead bugs in jars grouped by species. In her locker. At work.
I am 100% confident she is not a psychopath, in fact she’s one of the sweetest people I’ve known. And it didn’t seem that weird once you go to know her, but at first…
Eating cereal with orange juice instead of milk 🙂↕️
I was talking to coworkers about how I feel dead pets should just be thrown away and not buried. They asked me if I felt the same way about people. They did not like my answer 👀
I don’t peel my string cheese
I pace a lot.
Taking my trash out at 2 am
Manually blinking incase someone is counting my blinks
I talk to myself in stores & people stop & stare. Lately, I’ve been trying to do it like a ventriloquist and not move my lips.
This is the one that concerns me. Like when I’m cooking or packing my husband’s lunch, I have this constant running dialog in my head. I will tell myself over & over & over what exactly I put in his lunch or what I put in a recipe or what my meal plan actually was. I do have A.D.H.D. and take medicines for that, but I guess this is an OCD thing.
Talking to people who aren’t there
Not drying off very well after the shower, then immediately throwing clothes on.
Stank backwards in an elevator.
Constantly apologizing when I didn’t do anything wrong. Once, I apologized when someone stepped on my foot!
Biting the KitKat bar instead af breaking it.