A diagnosis

I have this weird habit of really quickly turning the caps lock on and off multiple times at random times while im on the computer.

I also used to have to do things a certain number of times, everything. Once it was 4, then it was 5, and then 7.

And sometimes I have this thing where if there is a clock or timer or something, I will HAVE to continue looking at it until the last number was a 7 (i.e. 2:37), then I would blink and look away.

I am weird.

could be OCD. could be that you're wierd. could be that you're bored.
i think we all have habits like these, i just can't think of any of mine right now.

I can't stand hearing people go to the bathroom.
I also can't stand knowing that people are hearing me go to the bathroom.

I turn on a tap.

I also have a tendancy to always arrange change on a table into some sort of pattern.

Hmm. I always have the toilet seat down.

And I never carry around small change. ever. Just quarters.

And anytime I'm nervous, and have to talk, I have to touch the side of my pant leg, on the hem. I just sorta tug at it. I didn't notice this for about 2 months, and I still do it.. have been for like a year and a half now.

And I also kill midgets every full moon.

I always hit the lock on my car numerous times. It's the only thing I'm OC about... *shrug* I guess I get it from my family. We're all fucking OC & clinically depressed. Only thing that seperates me is I'm the only one that refuses to take medication for that shit. Fuck medication. I'll deal with this shit on my own. Because I'm a man. Watch the fuck out.

Here at school, I feel really uncomfortable unless I take a crap in "my" stall. For a long time, I couldn't fall asleep unless I said goodnight to the Space Needle. I can't eat with 3-pronged forks, only 4-pronged ones. It's difficult for me to eat a meal in my room with out a movie playing, whether I'm actually watching it or not. I can't leave my room unless I have paper and pen, even if I'm only going to the bathroom.

If I'm drinking from a pint glass in a pub, I always turn it so that there aren't any logos facing me. And my fingers are nearly always moving.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Valchrist [/i]
[B]I can't stand hearing people go to the bathroom.
I also can't stand knowing that people are hearing me go to the bathroom.

I turn on a tap.

I also have a tendancy to always arrange change on a table into some sort of pattern. [/B][/QUOTE]

dude! same!
it's so weird. it's so uncomfy in the school bathroom because of all the people coming in and going out.

i have a hard time killing bugs.

I LIEK TO LOOK AT LEGS WHEN THE PERSON IS WERAING SHORTS ONLY MAN THOGUH

i can't STAND to sleep with anyone else in the same room, let alone the same bed. except my boyfriend. he can stay.

I also recently found out that the number 7 represents god (hence the 7 and 1/2 floor in Being John Malkovich; half a step above God...but that's a whole 'nother story).

And my obsession with 7...weird...

I have to check this forum at least 10 times a day. I even count how many times I do it. I REALLY enjoy going into my pantry(sp) and look around. Not that I'm hungry, I'm just browsing.

And I don't touch anything in the pantry when I'm browsing. I just stand still and look around.

haha. We're all fucked up. My favourite number is 7 too.

When I'm in the shower, I have to write the name of the guy I like on the shower glass, while I have shampoo/conditioner in my hair. It's some weird luck thing. I used to write their name three times on the bathroom window too, but I stopped that. Fucking weirdo.

I used to have a thing with my cuddly toys too. If I took one to cuddle in bed, I had to kiss all the others, as it'd be favouritism otherwise,and they'd cry.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by SnowWhite [/i]
[B]I used to have a thing with my cuddly toys too. If I took one to cuddle in bed, I had to kiss all the others, as it'd be favouritism otherwise,and they'd cry. [/B][/QUOTE]

Haha, me too! I did that when I was little. I felt they would be angry at me otherwise. I did something similar with bugs. And I still do it. If I killed one bug, ALL their friends and family would eat me. I think that's another reason why I'm dreadfully scared of bugs.
My favorite number is 18. Well, it is for today.

I can't look away from Xchuck's new avatar. I want to but I can't.

I'm heading over to the what makes you cry thread with this...

Awww. I'm sorry. I keep staring at it too.

I can't answer the phone half way through a ring
I don't like hearing people going to the toilet
I have to tap something in time with music and I'm usually either tapping my feet or nails
Theres probably more,

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by MrPaggy [/i]
[B]I can't answer the phone half way through a ring
I don't like hearing people going to the toilet
I have to tap something in time with music and I'm usually either tapping my feet or nails
Theres probably more, [/B][/QUOTE]

I have all those, but the toilet one, and I also can never leave the car if a song isn't done playing on the radio. Twice in one day, have I sat in the car till the song was over.

Hm.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Eponymous [/i]
[B]I have all those, but the toilet one, and I also can never leave the car if a song isn't done playing on the radio. Twice in one day, have I sat in the car till the song was over.

Hm. [/B][/QUOTE]

That's normal. Most people can't change/leave songs in the middle because of the sudden change of envirometal sound.

I don't know about that, but I just do it cause it's a nice point of resolution to end on. And... I don't know anyone else who does it, though I'm sure it's fairly popular. Then again, so are the toilet ones listed above...

I always think someone is watching over me. Not anyone in these religions, just some guy.

This is why I do shit and sense that someone is watching. I can't explain myself, but hopefully you guys know what I mean.

I feel like that all the time. I also think people are saying my name. Course, my name is Mike, so people are probebly saying it, but aren't talking to me.

That's funny Eponymous because I can't stop changing the station on the radio in the car most of the time, it's as if I have ADD or something but only while driving, it's like a nervous twitch or something.

Other weird things I do: Twirling pens endlessly, my teachers always think I'm rasing my hand since I hold my arm out when I do it.
When I was younger I'd flick my toes all the time, I couldn't stop. Eventually I stopped.
If I'm at home in the middle of the day I can't eat a meal it's always small things throughout the day until supper then I stop.
I touch my neck when I'm waiting to talk if two people are in the middle of a conversation.
When I was younger I'd have a dependency on the word "like", I couldn't make a sentence without it.
Since I've gotten to college where no one gives a damn about grafitti I started writing on desks. Now I write on anything, bathroom stalls, in books, loose pieces of paper that I drop around school. That could even be extended to internet posting boards I guess. It's weird. Anonymous writing is the modern confessional and it's really addictive. I always find myself writing Chuck Palahniuk quotes on the desks in the study section of the library. I have a friend that collects pieces of found paper with writing on them, I wonder if he's found any of my stuff.

I'm sure there are other far stranger things I do but I can't think of them right now.

My nervous twitch is cracking my knuckles, neck, back, and yes, toes even. I mean, I crack all those regularly and randomly, but its when I crack every knuckle on every finger that I know I'm in a really nervous state.

im a big knuckle cracker too. if i hear someone else near me cracking away i am compelled to do it too.
i crack my ankles and wrists and toes too.
i also pick my nose a lot...and am not really ashamed of it...
i pick my nose less than my roommate, who will do it wherever the hell she wants. class, work, she doesn't care.
i only do it openly in front of people who i am comfortable enough to tell to fuck off if they give me shit about it.

I crack my jaw. It feels very funny. I also "crack" the earwax in my ears by wiggling them(my ears).

xchuck, is there anything you don't do?

My girlfriend cracks all her bits alot. She does her back heaps, but that helps ease the pain she hgets in it, but i stopped her cracking her knuckles by hitting them whenever she did it, because i was worried she'd get fucked up hands.
When i'm nervous, usually waiting for an injection, my legs start yo bounce uncontrollably, and if i force them to stop, i feel horrible. it also works to relieve boredom.
i often have to finish something on a certain side or after an even number, like if i chew my left cheek, i have to chew my right afterwards, or if i am walking down the path i have to make sure my feet both land evenly on each square of pavement.

i have a friend who always sees the number 1. If he looks at the clock, many a time it's been 11:11 or1:11. Though, that may be that he only realises the clcock when it is on that. he may look at it many times. who knows.

I don't do a lot of stuff.
1.Kill people
2.Shoot guns
3.Hit people(not often)
4.Do drugs
5.Drink alchohol
6.Over eat
7.Read porno magazines
8.Watch MTV
9.Watch "teen" movies
10.Watch baseball
11.Watch football
12.Watch sports
13.Go to church
14.drive
15.....
I can't think of anything else.

P.S. I wasn't being sarcastic at all.

15. Smoke?

YEAH! Thanks!
15.Smoke
16....

16. Take Any Crap From Anyone!

Hey, I could use that too.
16.Take any crap from anyone
17....

LOL we have to stop! I don't want the beatdown for hijacking this thread.

Tho, not being able TO stop actually works for this thread.

17, 17 17, aughhhh what can I add......

"i have a hard time killing bugs."

Me and a friend killed fucking like 50 of these weird ass bugs that were all over the parking lot. Some fucking crazy alien crickets or something, good lord they were strange. Had these big claws ands hit, looked almost like crawfish...

And yeah I do the pantry thing, too. Not just the pantry, but the fridge, too. I always just kinda wander around my kitchen, forget why I'm there then go back to my room or something, haha.

And yeah, lots of knuckle cracking too.

When I feel like I'm getting the flu I get a large pepporoni and onion pizza, ginger ale, cigarettes and magazines and hunker down in my bed with all this stuff within arms reach. I stay put eating pizza if I get hungry, reading magazines, smoking, drinking gingerale until the pizza is gone. Then I'm well. This process takes about two days.

I also have to watch all three Godfathers movies if I see part of one.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mirkah [/i]
[B]I also have to watch all three Godfathers movies if I see part of one. [/B][/QUOTE]

Hahaha. That reminds me of the episode of South Park where Cartman says that when someone starts singing "Come Sail Away" by Styx, he HAS to finish the song. So Kyle keeps tormenting him by starting off the first line of the song and Cartman sings it at like 4x the speed of the sound its hilarious.

Anyway.

lol, I really related to that episode. I wish it were that easy for me. Those movies are long and the third one sucks and I just have to watch it!

My apartment is filled with bugs

ANTS, ROACHES, MOTHS, MOSQUITOS, SPIDERS (like 15 types)

and sometimes

LIZARDS, RATS, MICE, SQUIRRELS,

etc.

you must declare JIHAD!11 agianst the rodent filth sir.

I seperate M&Ms into colours and eat the colours I like least first. Red I leave until last.
I chew on push pins. But only black ones.
I pull the tab off of pop cans, then brake the tabs in half and chew on those.
I bend bottle caps in half.
I listen to music every day just as Im putting my boots on to leave. Thats only 30 seconds of music and then I get pissed when I cant finish the song.
I poke holes in the top of water bottles with my chewing pin.
I take the stickers that hold together the wrappings of Quizzno's subs and stick them on the windshield of my friend's car.
I have to name my friend's cars. The Quizzno's car is an '81 Zephyr named Doris. Another friend has an old Jetta which I've named Helga VonBurlow.
Thats just me. My friends are worse.

I chew my nails. All the time. I started when I got teeth, stopped when I was about 15, and started again on Sept. 11th. Since then I just gave up and didn't try to fight it, because if I don't bite my nails I chew on pens and they explode or I eat too much.

My mother, who used to be a social worker, once told me that I had the worst oral fixation she'd ever seen, and that I'd "make a good smoker or a drug addict."

Thanks mom. YOU'RE PAYING FOR MY FUCKING THERAPY IN TEN YEARS.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by jane s. [/i]
[B]Since then I just gave up and didn't try to fight it, because if I don't bite my nails I chew on pens and they explode or I eat too much.[/B][/QUOTE]

The first time, and the second time I read that, I thought you said "chew on my penis".

You had me really scared there for a moment. But yes. Pens would be bad too.

Wow.

I have no idea what to say to that at all.

Sorry I scared you like that.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rip_Purr [/i]
[B] i often have to finish something on a certain side or after an even number, like if i chew my left cheek, i have to chew my right afterwards, or if i am walking down the path i have to make sure my feet both land evenly on each square of pavement. [/B][/QUOTE]

i used to have the same friggin habit. it was torture. somehow i managed to get rid of it.

GET RID OF IT!

Why get rid of it? I attribute the fact that I have the same number of cavities on each side of my mouth to the same kind of chewing habit. I think if I had an uneven number of cavities I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mirkah [/i]
[B]I also have to watch all three Godfathers movies if I see part of one. [/B][/QUOTE]

I have a similar quirk. If I see The Godfather I or II on t.v. or a friend is watching it on DVD, I have to finish watching the whole movie, no matter what I have going on. With part III I don't have that problem though.