Your Quirks

What is the odd little trait that you have?

For me, I've recently been making sure I always look exactly like I did the day before. It began intentionally, as a joke, but I think it's growing to just being something that happens. What I do is have enough jeans to wear every day, a sweater that stays clean, one pair of shoes to wear, and any random shirt. Every day I'm changed and cleaned, but I wear another identical pair of jeans and shoes, and throw on a shirt and my sweater. The sweater's purpose is to cover up the shirt. Also, my hair is trimmed short, so it never changes. All of this adds up to me constantly looking exactly the same every day. Somehow I find it liberating...dunno why...Oh, also, the excuse I give people when it's brought up in conversation:

"Well, everyone always sees me looking exactly the same. So then they come to rely on this image to identify me. Well, whenever I snap and decide to kill someone, all I will have to do is change my clothes, and they'll not be able to recognize me, and I'll get away scot-free!"

Oh, and for something that I didn't purposely start. When just doing something, I unintentionally just let my mouth drop open. I'll be sitting there, playing a game, watching a movie, or working on the computer, and I catch my jaw to be dropped slightly.

Alright, now for something odd you do.

Hmmm....I always find time to crack my fingers and neck which irritates alot of people around me....I can do other stuff...very weird stuff....for example I can put my 2 legs behind my head....

Oh yeah the thing with the jaw slightly dropped when concentrating...I experience that too.

taking a break! omigosh!
*coughs*
biggest quirk in me would be my (lack) of memory. I forget things insanely fast. For example, today is my sister's birthday and she had to remind me for the 5th time a couple of minutes ago when I demanded where she gets the chocolate from .
oh .. and things like this happen daily:



all in one word? scatterbrain :/

1. I chew my nails constantly.
2. I sometimes vibrate my eyes to annoy people.
3. I dyed my hair bright blue one time for the hell of it, but found that I really liked it, and so now when my roots start coming through I just dye it again. I can't really remember what my hair used to look like!
4. Like anime, I forget things easily.
5. I whistle whenever possible.
6. I'm really fussy with my food.
7. I find cemetarys very interesting. I'm not a goth or anything, I just love cemetarys for some reason.
8. I won't sleep in a bed that someone else has previously slept in without the bedclothes being washed.

I've got too many quirks to count. I think all I am is one big pile of quirks. I'll try to list the first ones that come to mind.

• I can't stop moving. At all. I am always either twiddling with my fingers, making my leg bounce, bobbing my head, etc. In art, the entire class took turns posing for the rest of the class to draw, and I was flinching up and down my right arm from staying still for 3 minutes.
  
• A little OCD left over from my younger days forces me to check the light switches and water faucets in my bathroom before I go to sleep every night, sometimes multiple times. It isn't a big deal or annoying anymore. But I used to loose sleep over it I was so annoyed.
  
• I almost always unintentionally mouth along to the words of songs when I'm alone. That, or I bop my head, usually ending up in a headache with songs with heavy beats.
  
• I walk down stairs in a very odd manner. I skip down them more than walk down them. I've been doing more walking than skipping now, because I'm afraid that if I skip down stairs in public places, I will get some strange looks.
  
• I have a habit of spacing out when I'm thinking about something, and looking "through" people, which can creep them out. My friends are used to it now, but I used to always get a "Hello? Rachel? Hello?" until I snap out of it.
  
• I have very sensitive ears, and some people chew gum in a way that makes me want to set them on fire. No one else can hear the chewing noise, though, so I'm usually the only one complaining, with everyone else going, "What noise are you talking about?" I also am very sensitive to other mouth sounds, creaks, knocks, and static/electric noises.

I'm horrible at remembering what I'm meant to be doing in that week. Often a friend might call and ask if I'm doing anything on whatever day, and everytime I'm like "errr, gimme a bit to check my calendar and think for a sec".

I also have a habit of crossing my arms and resting them near my belly, the result is that I look like I'm either freezing cold or my stomach is in pain or something. People always seem to comment on it, and there's no real reason for it other than its the way I often sit thats comfortable for me :S

biggest quirk in me would be my (lack) of memory. I forget things insanely fast. For example, today is my sister's birthday and she had to remind me for the 5th time a couple of minutes ago when I demanded where she gets the chocolate from .oh .. and things like this happen daily:

lol I know someone like that, she forgets some things but then might remember the most obscure things which anyone else would probably forget. I'm no better really, what with my reliance on the all mighty calendar

Hmmm....I always find time to crack my fingers and neck which irritates alot of people around me....

Yeah that really annoys me too. One of my friends does it a lot, and I don't know HOW the heck he does it but lord does it get to me. Like finger nails on chalk board *shudders*

Oh, and for something that I didn't purposely start. When just doing something, I unintentionally just let my mouth drop open. I'll be sitting there, playing a game, watching a movie, or working on the computer, and I catch my jaw to be dropped slightly.

ROFL, you aren't going to beleive it but as I read that I noticed I was doing the exact same! Add another one to the list I guess

Would excessive, meaningless worry count as a quirk? Probably not, but whatever. When I walk, it either looks like I'm actually thinking about it and trying too hard or it looks like I'm a hunchback of sorts. Yeah, rather sad that more often than not, I won't walk properly but I don't know. I also have this fixation with various hand gestures and facial expressions(some relate to paranoia and others to not being able to focus in one thing for too long). And I sweat too often(linked to some anxiety, maybe).

Well, I do have an unchecked case of OCD, partially just because I'm freaky and partially inherited from my father. No, it was not heriditary, but when you constantly have to check the stove, the faucets, hide the pills, go crazy over the iron, the curling iron and a bunch of other crap you go nuts.

Anyway. I can't have any drawers open or cupboards not all the way closed. When teachers don't erase the blackboard all the way and leave little black dots and smudge marks I feel like I'm going insane. If the bed isn't perfectly made I feel like it's a worthless piece of scum and I go crazy. I'm worried I'm going to get some disease from someone so I can't eat after them, or drink after them or touch public bathroom doors or use other people's hairbrushes, make-up, lotion... erm, and other crap like that.

Originally Posted by Hana

Well, I do have an unchecked case of OCD, partially just because I'm freaky and partially inherited from my father. No, it was not heriditary, but when you constantly have to check the stove, the faucets, hide the pills, go crazy over the iron, the curling iron and a bunch of other crap you go nuts.

Anyway. I can't have any drawers open or cupboards not all the way closed. When teachers don't erase the blackboard all the way and leave little black dots and smudge marks I feel like I'm going insane. If the bed isn't perfectly made I feel like it's a worthless piece of scum and I go crazy. I'm worried I'm going to get some disease from someone so I can't eat after them, or drink after them or touch public bathroom doors or use other people's hairbrushes, make-up, lotion... erm, and other crap like that.

I'm not sure if its the same thing or if it's just from my mother doing it so often (I swear she OCD at times, I really do), but I do have this weird thing about everything being placed either symettrically or with a certain pattern in mind. If I put things down on a table they all have to be square to the table and to one another, it irritates me at times if I see anything on a table where one of the corners of the object point towards one of the sides of the table rather than one of the corners of it. It's bizarre.

If I'm putting up cards or anything and I have different sizes, I always put them up so that if I have a big card on one end I have to have a card as close to that size on the other end, so its all as symettrical as possible. :S

Originally Posted by Hana

Anyway. I can't have any drawers open or cupboards not all the way closed. When teachers don't erase the blackboard all the way and leave little black dots and smudge marks I feel like I'm going insane. If the bed isn't perfectly made I feel like it's a worthless piece of scum and I go crazy. I'm worried I'm going to get some disease from someone so I can't eat after them, or drink after them or touch public bathroom doors or use other people's hairbrushes, make-up, lotion... erm, and other crap like that.

Same thing for me. <_< And there's the fact I'm always moving, kinda like Miniblin.

I have this odd facination with Wookiees, and Klingons...I'm also learning Klingon. I have a liking for dark story-lines in either books, movies, or storys that I write , and yet I am nothing like that. And I constantly worry about my gaming habits...

Well I think I AM a quirk, many find me annoying or useless. Everything I do is odd, even the way I walk isn't even human like. So I might as well change my name from Quark to Quirk.

I'm also a bit of a sci-fi geek, I also tend to stare into space a lot and I day dream constantly.

I'm a kind of odd person. I have the ability to have more than one dream in the same night. But for some reason, I never have more than three dreams in one night. Another thing is, I have an ESP. Don't know what that is? ESP is having strange abilities like telling the future and stuff. Well I can sort of see the future. I can sense when bad things are going to happen. And I can smell my thoughts. If I think of Burger King, I can smell Burger King. If I think of milk, I can smell milk. This only seems to apply to food, though. And I have a form of Autism called Asthburgers Syndrome. It's a genetic disorder.

Originally Posted by kelly

I have the ability to have more than one dream in the same night.

Actually, every single person on earth has more than one dream every single night. It is just a matter of remembering the dreams you have.

Anyway, If I save a video game, I'll save it again. Just in case the first one didn't register or whatever. Or sometimes I save and I'm like, "Did I just save?" and then I'll save again.

Same thing with garage doors. I close the garage door, and then I go up the street and I'm like "Is it closed?" so I go around past it again to check.

I can't sleep in a well made bed, it has to be screwed up and messy for me to get comfortable. I also thrash around in my dreams.

I lucid dream a hell of a lot (lucid dreams are dreams in which you know it is a dream and you can manipulate your dream world). I heard from a lucid dream site that you only Lucid dream once every Five to seven years (see my custom title though), although I have one at least every month. I can't recall the amount of times I have turned into a dog and ran, then turned into a bird and flew, and then turned into Goku and attacked Tokyo, not kidding. That kinda stuff happens in my mind. One time I was Goku, and my friend was Vegeta, and my other friend was nappa, and I'm like "SSj Guys!" and then I turn Super sayain two, since Super Sayain three has no eyebrows, and Super sayain four looks stupid. At which the point I'm like "Dream Tokyo.... Quake!" then I go all Kamehameha on their asses....

Sorry, off track.

I also Daydream a lot. Mainly about anime I see. In the middle of lectures at school I'll be thinkin' about numerous different things... >.>
I also daydream on purpose for entertainment. Kinda like my own personal TV show.

That's 'bout it...

I tend to lose everything. Like chapstick. It's unbelieveable how many chapsticks I go through in one month. I've been really good about it lately, though. I always carry things around with me, thinking that if it's my hand... I won't lose it. But... I'll stop and set it down in some odd place and it'll take me like 20 minutes to realize where I left it.

I also sleep with alot of pillows and blankets. I guess I just liked being in the womb because ever since I was born, I'd sleep in the fetal position and smother myself in blankets. I was also extremely afraid of the dark... and I thought what I couldn't see, couldn 't hurt me, so I'd sleep with blankets covering just my eyes. I still do it now, but it's mainly to block out light.

Erm...I'm a very animated person. I can't sit still in one place very often and I always make weird noises/faces. I'm spazztastic.

Hmm, i have quite a few =/

I always want to smell nice and fresh, especially in front of people i like, or infront of friends. I spray myself with way too much Lynx deoderant, and since i get used to the smell, i can't really smell it on me so i just spray more. Once i went through 5 Lynx cans in 1 month. *shakes head* So very silly i know.

I can't sleep in a well made bed either, it's just impossible. On my bed half of it is covered with my stuff(DS, ipod, Zelda shirt, 2 stuffed toys that i REALLY like =P ect ect...) and so i'm squished up with only half my bed to sleep on, but i find it pretty comfortable, my dog even sleeps at the end of my bed

Talking about sleep, i can't get to sleep until probaly 2am at the earliest. I don't feel tired until atleast 1am or a bit before, then i keep squirming around until i finally fall asleep.

When i have a crush on someone i become fully obsessed with them. Last year i had a major crush on..... a girl and it led to stalking and getting on a harrassment level, and the teachers had to tell my mum, yada yada yada...meh, i'm just a freek.

Another thing, when i become obsessed with someone i start collecting things, like last year, i actually got an empty chip packet(no it wasnt in the bin) that was the girl's that i liked, and i even got her picture from MSN and actually printed it out and kept a copy in my pillow slip and i actually took another copy to school(who knows why...i am just VERY weird) and then yeh i got in trouble ..zzZZZZzz..I even made 2 extra accounts on MSN and 'borrowed' about 10 accounts from my friends, just to talk to the poor girl. That's how obsessed i can get, MAJOR quirk!

Well...cause i'm NOT a guy(haha that would be a surprise to some people..) and i like girls(yeh whoop-de-doo) i try to look like a guy as much as i can. I act like a guy too, every single teacher i had last year thought i was a guy when they first saw me, bah.

I guess another quirk is i have become insanely obsessed with the internet. I go on here atleast 6 hours a day. Once i was even on for 12 hours in a row, practically without a break even. =/

Ok this one is quite embarrassing, but i'm addicted to..pleasure >_<.(maybe it's just a teen thing..but ACK major sex drives..for the same sex -_-)

Heh, i'll stop there right now! Ta-da! My neverending list of quirks...ya i'm teh weirdo.

EDIT: Oh yeh, i forgot this one, i often fantasize, way too often -_-

And this one also, I pretty much always have to be clean, well not my room or anything, but my hands have always gotta be clean...don't know why *sigh*