What Is Your Idiosyncrasy/ Or Plural

[Howie]

I don't have any. I probably have a lot that my family and friends are too nice to point out. One I know I have and my wife rags on me about is. When i take a shower I have this issue with being wet--AT ALL> I first wipe off the excess water with my wash cloth and then I use two towels to dry off with. I don't think it is that weird. If we get into any sexual fetishes or ANAL retentiveness....Let's keep it clean. I won't go there. That is between me and my wife.

[AnthonyA]

I do the same thing. I wrap one towell around my waist then use the other the dry my hair down to my stomach, then my legs etc until I am completely dry. I used to bite my nails A LOT, but I'm almost over that. Instead I pick at my cuticles and the skin around my nails. It's gotten pretty bad. I don't know what to do about it. At least my fingers are rough and I don't get paper cuts that often.

[Howie]

I do the same thing. I wrap one towell around my waist then use the other the dry my hair down to my stomach, then my legs etc until I am completely dry. I used to bite my nails A LOT, but I'm almost over that. Instead I pick at my cuticles and the skin around my nails. It's gotten pretty bad. I don't know what to do about it. At least my fingers are rough and I don't get paper cuts that often. [/b] Well at least I am not alone. Do you think the nail thing is a nervous habit?

[AnthonyA]

It's not so much nail biting as it is picking the skin off the tips of my fingers. It's worst around thumbs and lately people have been noticing. My doctor has said it is just a nervous habbit. I asked a psychiotrist once who said it was an OCD and that the medication required to stop me would cause side effects outwaying the benefits (I wouldn't want to go on medication anyway). I'm not always nervous when I do it though, at least I don't think so. The psychiotrist also said I do it because I am extreme perfectionist or something like that and that I'm only likely to stop if something extreme happens to which he gave the example of if I had a fiance and she refused to marry me unless I stopped. Anyway, I would love to stop, but it is not impacting any major part of my life right now.

[badassbob]

I used to suffer from OCD a while back, sometimes I still do. I used to need all my stuff on my desk at school parallel to one of the sides of the table. I'd spend five minutes lining everything up so that no one stationary item was any angle other than 90 degrees from one of the sides of the desk (and it really pissed me off sometimes when the table I was sat at had rounded corners because it meant that I couldn't push my folders and work right into the corner of the desk). Often the positioning of random items would annoy me too, like I would suddenly decide that I didn't like the way my jacket was hung at the end of my bed and I would have to get up and reposition it. I once got out of bed and went up the garden to my dads toolshed at about 3 in the morning just to check that I had put his tools back in the right place and position on the bench. Another thing which I still often do is make sure I do certain things in even numbers (like closing a door or coughing) and also I have to make some things symmetrical. For example if I scratch my right arm, I have to scratch my left arm. If I rub my right eye I have to do the same to my left. I relly annoy myself sometimes but I think it's got a lot better in the last 3 or 4 years.

[AnthonyA]

I kind of do that too, but to a much less degree and only once in a while. Like once every week I have to make sure everything in my locker is nicely put away. My shoes hung up on opposite hooks, my jacket on the middle hook and each book in order from tallest to smallest. But I don't do it that often. But with my fingers I almost always HAVE to do it, if I see a little piece of skin can be picked off or if I feel a piece brush up against another finger, I can't avoid picking at it.

[FreshBrains]

I'm a huge grammar nazi. Online especially. I'm not as bad as my dad, (He literally corrects you mid-sentence) but I'm sure it's annoying.

[Demerzel]

i bite the skin off my fingers and lips i bite my toenails i practice bending my body to extremes ("if you want something done well, do it yourself") i am a real pervert. i make jokes that make people go EWW lots that i see as perfectly acceptable.

[AnthonyA]

i bite the skin off my fingers and lips i bite my toenails i practice bending my body to extremes ("if you want something done well, do it yourself") i am a real pervert. i make jokes that make people go EWW lots that i see as perfectly acceptable. [/b] Yea, I bite the skin on the inside of my cheeks and my lips. As for my toes, I pick the bottom part of my big two and other toes when they get rough. I even took a razor like for shaving to it to get the excess skin off my big two a few times. I do that with my thumb as well once in a while. I dont know why. It's really weird and almost never painful. Some times I go too far and start to bleed, but not often. Anyway, I will end my whining there.

[Kaniaz]

If I bite one side of my tounge I have to bite it on the other. I insist on making the pattern "equalise" and tallying how many times I've done something on one side of my face that I've done to the other. As for anything else, not really.

[TweaK]

I'm a huge grammar nazi. Online especially. I'm not as bad as my dad, (He literally corrects you mid-sentence) but I'm sure it's annoying. [/b] Hah. I'm not a HUGE grammar nazi (for my English tends to not be really perfect, especially in real life >__>) - But I tend to really mind punctuation. Capital letters, proper placing of commas and especially adding full stops at the end of sentences. I hate it when people don't use capital letters or "typ liek dis". I srsly rly do. If I bite one side of my tounge I have to bite it on the other. I insist on making the pattern "equalise" and tallying how many times I've done something on one side of my face that I've done to the other. As for anything else, not really. [/b] OCD. DEFINIATELYKRLTKALLY.!

[Kaniaz]

And when I'm walking I always step on the brick and not on the cracks, and try to step an equal amount of times on the two shades of brick. OCD. DEFINIATELYKRLTKALLY.![/b] Who really cares?

[Wolfie]

I sit strangely on chairs. I'll always do the lotus or sit sideways or tuck at least one leg under me. Also, in any given opportunity I'll lie down for no apparent reason. It's fun.

[Demerzel]

oh I dont really know if sitting odd counts, does it? I always sit with a leg up - and rest my chin on it. I always get told to "PUT YOUR DAMN LEG DOWN, BOY"

[badassbob]

Also, in any given opportunity I'll lie down for no apparent reason. It's fun. [/b] Actually I do this a lot too. I'll just be sat watching tv and I'll suddenly get up and decide to lie down on the floor.

[Amethyst Star]

When I was young, especially in 3rd grade, I would count my steps to make sure they were even before I sat down or went through a doorway or something like that. It became really annoying after a while and sometimes I would count without being aware of it, finally realizing what number I was on when I was about to sit down or something. It took me a while to get rid of that one. Same with not stepping on cracks in the sidewalk. There was no reason for it; I just didn't step on the cracks. Now I don't know if I have anything I'm super finicky about.

[Kaniaz]

When I was young, especially in 3rd grade, I would count my steps to make sure they were even before I sat down or went through a doorway or something like that. It became really annoying after a while and sometimes I would count without being aware of it, finally realizing what number I was on when I was about to sit down or something. It took me a while to get rid of that one. Same with not stepping on cracks in the sidewalk. There was no reason for it; I just didn't step on the cracks.[/b] Yes. Yes I am not insane.

[TweaK]

And when I'm walking I always step on the brick and not on the cracks [...] [/b] Omg I have the exact same. XD

[Pastro]

Yeah the cracks thing has always gotten to me as well, I have a nightime and morning routine that involves me moving or touching things with both hands so that I will be equal ex. I will open a drawer and close it with one hand adn then do the same thing with the other, I also had a crazy one where I had to match up the outline of my nose with light sources. If I don't follow one of my urges I get an annoying feeling, sometimes in my arms that goes away when I become even again, hope that makes sense.

[badassbob]

One weird thing that I used to do was spell out any words that came into my head - including punctuation. For example; I would be on the way to school thinking about what my teacher was going to say about my being late and forgetting my homework. I would think of something like, "your attitude towards your schoolwork has been appauling recently" Then I would be thinking, "y.o.u.r.s.p.a.c.e.a.t.t.i.t.u.d.e.s.p.a.c.e.t.o.w .a.r.d.s.s.p.a.c.e.y.o.u.r.s.p.a.c.e.w.o.r.k.s.p.a .c.e.h.a.s.b.e.e... Luckily I grew out of this habbit after a year or two.

[Identity X]

I don't have many idiosyncrasies at all. I always like to cover my right hand with my sleeve. Because of my disability, my right hand emerges from the wrist at quite an unusual angle, so it's most likely subconciously an aesthetic thing. A friend at Uni has a lot of tics, usually involving moving his head or eyes, but I've gotten use to them by now and none of them are at all invasive of anyone's space or too noticeable.

[xcrissxcrossx]

I bite my nails (even toenails) I crack any crackable thing on my body (I crack my finers in 3 different places, I crack my wrists, my fingernails, my neck, my back, and sometimes i occasionally crack wierd things like my ankles) I havent been diagnosed but i think i may have a mild turet syndrom. It is very hard for me to sleep with blankets on. I always kick them off. I dont know why.