Idk, I like knowing weird random things about people, so share them with me! The one I have that always surprises people is I have a really tough time drinking carbonated drinks. Something about the fizzyness is extremely painful for me, it feels like a thousand needles on my tongue, something like when a limb goes numb, but sharper.
SAME everyone makes fun of me for it, but it's just not worth it to even try to drink fizzy drinks (except for that one time i had cream soda because i wanted to try it, but even that i don't ever want to do again)
i can't stand the sound of ripping stickers off of cardboard, or ripping thin cardboard! it hurts me behind my eyes and along my jaw :(
i feel like this is relatively common, but w/e: I can hear the electrical buzz/keening of TVs. usually it's not too bad because it's drowned out by pretty much any other noise, but if that's all I can hear it drives me bonkers. can't leave a TV on, gotta turn it off. (i can also hear the soft white-noise you hear through headphones when they're plugged in but you're not playing anything, but that's white noise, not ... keening... so it doesn't bother me as much) also, eating more than ~1 egg at a time gives me a weird headache. same with breakfast sausage.
IT'S NOT JUST ME For me it's only the older TVs, you know, the... I'm blanking on the word. Hard screen. You know. The old kind. The screen is hard. augh there is a word for this. Anyway yeah it's awful and no one ever believes me
same w/r/t the electrical noises! I have also been known to hear the blinky switch light on my surge protector, and--perhaps most bizarrely--the notification LED on my smartphone (Galaxy S3).
i don't really like overly sweet things, with one exception - i love blue stuff. blue slushies, blue snowcones, blue sports drinks, blue candy (except mint flavors), if it's dyed blue i'm probably going to want it. i don't know why. i don't really even like the color blue and it's not like blue sweets are universally all the same flavor. also i really hate foam nail files. i can handle the metal ones, but using the foam ones makes my skin crawl.
@Deresto same with the nail file thing! I cannot stand the way my dad says "ice cream", or when people say "treat" as a noun (it's pronounced a bit differently from when it's a verb, I swear). Both are just awful, it's something about how different sounds are stressed for the "ice cream" thing, and I'm not sure what it is about noun-"treat". There's probably other examples of words that are like that for me, but those are the two that I'm remembering right now.
I don't think this counts, but I can put both feet behind my head at the same time, and I am very not flexible doing anything else.
@Imoyram that totally counts. I did not know you could do that and it's kinda creeping me out... @IndigoRiffRaff YES OMG. CRT TVs are the worst for this - they don't just keen, they also buzz. LEDs/LCDs/plasmas are usually quieter, but also higher-pitched ... means they're a little harder to hear, but man. ow. @emcapi yes I get this too! it is a little rarer though XD
When I am tired I pet my hair. I play with my hair a lot in general, but the sign of me being tired is the head petting.
@IndigoRiffRaff same, there's just something about "treat" D: other words too, but i cannot remember them right now. relevant: many things make me smack myself in the face. one of them is trying to remember things! also: excitement, frustration, trying to focus, a sudden burst of energy, etc. usually excitement!!! and i am very excitable. it's not like... painful smacking. just scrunchy-faced flat-handed 'what-do-i-do-with-this-Feeling' smacks. this would be really embarrassing if i ever did it in public, but FORTUNATELY this happens almost exclusively in the privacy of my apartment, where only steve can see and judge me. and who's he gonna tell
Yeah. It seems to be a habit I gained because my mother used to pet my head when it was nap time. Other dumb thing, I tend to sit cross legged in chairs a lot. Like yeah I could sit normally I could be in half lotus. I am picking the half lotus. I'll also often pass up sitting on benches and sit on the floor instead.
i can't sit in chairs normally for very long. if it's an armchair, i am probably draping my legs over the arm or sitting with my knees pulled up. i change position a lot!! i have really shitty knees (childhood injury + osgood-schlatter disease + untreated major ACL injury) so they get uncomfortable in any one position really quickly. buses and planes are a NIGHTMARE for me if i have to sit next to someone, because if i can't sit diagonally then i'm gonna be in pain within 10 minutes. also my knees usually hit the seat in front of me because REALLY LONG FEMURS /complain complain complain (but my main point was: sitting in chairs normally is for chumps)
I never sit in chairs normally Being a passenger in a car I take the seat with less leg room and bring my knees up and rest them on the seat in front, feet either dangling or on my seat, and then I do whatever using my knees as kindof an upright desk. that is probably super bad for me if we crashed, but the second I get even remotely anxious I lock up sitting normally so *shrug* (and I get anxious over car things not to be anxious about, so) @Kaylotta >:D
@applechime I do it on buses too! And since I get the seat to myself (cause everyone else sits with talkative friends) (on fieldtrips, I dont take the bus to school) I put my bag next to me and I can do whatever I want, for like, a whole 1/2 hour!
When I am doing something dexterously intricate I reflexively bite my lip. I say reflexively because it is physically hard for me not to do this, and I have found that it actually significantly harms my ability to concentrate on a task if I force myself to not have my lip bitten. Actually, I don't know, maybe this is a thing for other people as well, I've never asked. Other things: I despise the taste of mango. On one of my ears, the band of curved cartilage that runs along the top of the ear is smooth; on the other, however, it feels fragmented, like it is cracked into several small pieces. I don't know why this is. The sounds of a rough broom sweeping concrete, fingernairs rubbing over a finely striated surface (like those "image changer" texture things where different angles have different images) or the rubbing of waterproof coat fabric causes me almost physical pain. I have mild tinnitus and visual snow, which I think is indicative of some sort of neurological white noise which I am starting to suspect might also affect my concentration sometimes. When you feel my skin, I have two strange indented "valleys" running down my forehead, which spontaneously developed when I was around 14. When I was a kid, I slept on my back, then later my side. Now I sleep on my front, meaning that I am essentially half way through executing a 40-year long barrel roll in my sleeping time. I can't stand the taste or texture of plain "roast" meat, but will eat it endlessly if it is spiced. ...and yeah a lot more stuff tbh. Although a lot of those were more weird things about me/my body rather than weird things I do so :P
