I have full on conversations with myself. To the point where I simulate talking with two people. I don't have any multiple personalities or any mental illness (as far as I know), I just use it as a way to think about what I need to think about.

I can talk myself out of buying anything, and often do. Even when I actually need it.

i talk while watching movies/tv shows. i genuinely do not find it enjoyable to just watch stuff.

I match my shirt color to what I'm going to train in the gym.

As an example, let's say that's today is leg day: then I will use a gray shirt. Yesterday was chest day, so it was a red shirt.

I bought a few packs of the same shirts just so I could make this matching game. I'm not sure if someone elss at the gym realized that I do this but I'm fairly certain they would find it odd.

I've been told that my pacing is weird. It seems pretty normal to want to move to think. It happens a lot when I'm on phone calls especially, but I'll pace while making decisions too

Stopping midsentence and expecting other people to know what I was about to say.

Impulsively replacing a word with something that could be considered adjacent; "My teammates" could become "my animals".

Pretty sure I got this habit from my mum, who is ESL and later developed aphasia after having a stroke young. It kinda bled out into how me and my sisters communicated and I carried it into adulthood, although I only do this around people I feel super comfortable with.

I used to move my mouse at a certain rate to do the Google captchas at a slower pace than I physically could. Not sure why I did it, but it seemed like a reasonable strategy.

It usually takes a very particular kind of moment for others to even notice but I don't lie ever and I'm completely unable to give short inaccurate answers that borderline on lying.

I've basically trained the people around me to not ask if they don't want to hear the truth or conversely that I'm the one to ask when everyone else is just handing out comforting lies.

I wear the same clothes every day, as in the same style and color of shirt, pants, hoodie etc.. My wardrobe basically looks like that Simpsons gag where Homer's wardrobe is just 20 identical white shirts and blue pants.
I picked that up from a buddhist monk who stated that not having to expend any mental effort worrying about what to wear each day felt freeing, and he was totally right.
I stole that same philosophy regarding my hair, and just buzz it all off once a week. Never a bad hair day that way!

Exclude meat from my diet

Not every time.

But most nights when I get into bed, I get into bed facing the outside, roll to face the middle, roll to face the outside, then settle in to try and sleep.

It settles the blankets in a way I like, and its sorta a ritual now

I do crowd control when walking near other people or animals. This involves whistling or snapping my fingers to get their attention and putting my hands out if someone gets too close. I picked this up in rehab from a spinal injury that I have since mostly recovered from.

I'm actually trying my best not to buy from countries I see as vile and inhumane, and businesses owned by people who support vile political ideologies. Spend a good amount of time checking for the brand and country of origin while in the shop.

If I'm knocking on a door I silently count how many times I knock. I prefer to knock 5 times but it's not a solid rule lol. Friends have accused me of "cop knocking" so at their houses I knock the mario bros riff

I can't leave the house without a shower even if it's just a quick 5 minute trip to the gas station. The only exception I'm willing to make for this is if someone else is in some sort of harms way from nature or whatever.

Wake up late to the thing? I just won't be doing the thing I guess or everyone will have to wait. That said, I'm good about not being in that situation and plan myself well for the sake of others as I recognize it's a weird thing about me, not them.

I would tell you but I don't want to appear odd to you weirdos.

I have a song in my head, almost all the time. Invariably it's some 90s jingle from a TV commercial. I habitually repeat certain phrases. Pretty sure I'm autistic in some way, but I mask like a pro. I'm popular at work, socially and adapt to people quickly. I retain eye contact, but I'm actually staring at a point just above their eyes as I find eye contact insanely intimate.

I don't think I'm a complete psycho - if anything I have an almost paralysing amount of empathy. I even sympathise with people who really don't deserve it (politicians etc). I'm pretty happy now I'm pushing 50 and have a family, but I still use alcohol in excess most weekends. It just makes the world make more sense to me.

I analyse almost every social interaction I have. I feel a sense of triumph when it goes well, and shame / responsibility when I doesn't. I've been told I'm very agreeable and easy company, but the truth is it's not easy for me and I feel like I do most of the heavy lifting in conversations.

I envy those who can just sit in their own awkwardness, but I feel like I have to perform and make people like me. It usually works, but when it doesn't I stew on it endlessly. Anyway, no idea why I unloaded all that. Cheers!

I know where almost all of my physical possessions are down to the cubic decimeter.

After moving to a new place or staying somewhere regular ( like gfs place) I'll have opened every cupboard and every drawer and looked in every nook and cranny, and tested every light switch.

It's weird to hear people say 'I never noticed that lightswitch before' after they have lived there for months. Don't people explore anymore?

I recognize people by the way the walk/move, not by their face.

Ever since I was a kid I’ve been a people watcher. I can sit and just watch people and observe behaviors. I’ve been out with friends and nudge them to watch out right before fights break out. They tell me it’s creepy. I say not really, those people stand out to me.

Oh...

Germophobia...

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But the more "weird" thing would be:

I use biometrics on phone so the password wont get revealed in public, but I always make sure to disable biometrics before I sleep (or if I would get separated from my phone for any reason, like taking an exam for something, or going through security screening)... sometimes even reboot it if I don't have any apps that I need to stay opened in the background and don't mind the inconvienience...

And if somehow the biometrics don't work, and I have to enter it in public, I make sure to look around for any cameras pointed at me, and try to cover the screen so no cameras can capture the password...

(Do people who use biometrics disable it before sleep, or is that just a "me" thing?)

Also every time I enter a lockscreen password on a phone, I make sure to wipe off the screen and any potential residual fingerprints.

For computers, I just run my fingers through the entire keyboard after entering the password so theres equal amounts of residual fingerprints over the entire keyboard

This is so you can't try to use some fingerprinting shenanigans to find what keys I pressed and basically recontruct my password...

(I probably look very paranoid lol)

I don't look at which way I'm putting the toilet paper roll on, and I don't care.

If I’m in the mood for dessert, I normally just have one bite of something sweet and that’s enough. I’ve had pints of ice cream last in the freezer for several months because after one spoon, I’m good. At work, they think I don’t eat any sweets at all. I’ve been told it’s my serial killer trait.

I'm surprised that anyone is answering anything. If something would seem very normal to me, as in, I think this is something everyone does, I wouldn't know of it would seem odd to anyone else. By virtue of it seeming very normal to me.

Something being normal is rooted on it being the norm, as in, something typical. If you think something is odd, you can't feel like it's normal just for you, that's not what the norm means. Maybe it seems natural to you? Sure, but not normal.

Sorry for my reading my pedantic rant. In my case, these kind of rationalizations of the language using its roots seem pretty natural and fun but I know most people look at me weird for over analysing stuff.

Before I fall asleep, I self soothe by playing with the hair on my head in a very specific way.

I trim my toenails at a slight curve with rounded edges across them. It helps to avoid hangnails and looks nice, so this is why I use my teeth.

Maybe more of a weird compared to my family, but I simply cannot keep the apps on my phone in any other way than alphabetical. Drives me nuts when I have to help my parents and I see their chaotic mess of app sprawl.

This even applies to app drawers as well and their insides. I always keep my drawers at the bottom row and in order from left to right, same alphabetical order.

Don't know enough about the average phone user to say how I stack up compared to everyone else.

I like to work on a single screen. Two monitors, tried them and didn't like that, lots of work to keep stuff on the right one, and I still focus on a single screen and ignore the second.

I'm also perfectly fine with a laptop touchpad and never wanted to replace that with a mouse.

I keep a bug-out bag in case of fire.

It's not that I'm particularly afraid of fire, so much as I'm afraid of being thrown out into the night wearing nothing by my skivvies.

So I keep a back-pack loaded with:

• A change of clothes

• photocopies of all my identification

• Spare car keys

• Spare credit/debit card

Every person I've shared this with says "Hey..it makes sense...but it's still a little weird."