Oh! That reminds me! I can whistle through my teeth without pursing my lips - not quite as loudly, but still definitely audible. My friend used to call it "ventriloquist whistling".
I have monovision, which is like lazy eye, except without my bad eye being lazy. My right eye has fairly perfect vision (or did, before my vision in general started slipping) and my left eye is significantly short-sighted. So while my right eye is DEFINITELY the dominant eye most of the time, I can switch focus manually and see everything super blurry :V Or, more usefully, I can read books and such right up against my face without giving myself a headache. My ideal focal length is about six inches, but I can go down to two just fine. In theory, I may never need reading glasses! The only real downside is that 3D movies and magic due puzzles don't work for me, but I like being able to smoosh books against my face instead.
Eating when I'm around just one other person makes me very uncomfortable. If the other person isn't eating it's downright awful. It's probably related to the fact that other people's eating sounds are sensory hell plus general social anxiety stuff, but yeah. Groups are fine (unless I'm the only person in the group who's eating, then it's just as bad), but there's just this Thing about having one other person around.
Sorry if this is something you've heard before, but do you breathe from your diaphragm? When you breathe that way your stomach should expand as you breathe in.
No, not instinctively. I do it on purpose for speech/drama exercises (or just breathing exercises), but it's mentally difficult to coordinate, like trying to recite a complicated rhyme in your head or something.
Weird quirk for me: I hate bedsheets. Like, not the fitted ones that cover the mattress, but the flat ones. They bug me because I don't see the point (they feel worse than my proper blankets and make no difference to my temperature regulation) and they always end up balled up at the end of my bed anyway because I move a lot in my sleep.
I was so startled when I found out Finns don't use flat sheets - they put covers on their duvets, and just change the covers when the bottom sheet gets changed. And then I was very happy because no more getting tangled in the fucking top sheet.
Even when I'm too warm for a blanket I still need to be mostly covered to be able to sleep. so i end up with the duvet next to me and the flat sheet covering me. Pros of basement apartments: no more terrible too-hot humid nights where I cant stand to even have my legs touching because ARGH TOO HOT i would probably not be able to sleep with someone in the same bed as me unless its one of those huge king size ones like at hotels. i have actually shared one of those, and it was fine because there was like an entire small persons worth of space between us.
Yeah, I also dislike flat bedsheets - I generally use them only in the hot Texas summer, if it gets too hot for my lovely plush blanket. Otherwise I just cocoon myself in the blanket.
Plush blankets for the win. I'm just sad it's hard to wash them without making them less soft and fluffy.
Probably because of the extra processing time necessary, but I find chat-speak abbreviations to read as if the writer is pausing between each word, especially sequences of single letters. "And you know what" reads faster to me than "n u kno wat" does.
related to the breathing things; sometimes I have periods where I just.... forget to breathe. Like I'll stop doing it reflexively and then I have to do it consciously and it makes me feel light-headed and short of breath randomly, my right elbow will start to just ache horribly unless I put like, a sleeve or something over it so it's not cold I cannot stand touching paper with damp hands, it's WRONG. Some papers in general I just can't stand the feel of nor can I stand the feel of rubbing styrofoam together (like, not the sound, but--I don't know, the feel of it transfers through to your hands and it's just NO NO NO) my incisors are about half the size of normal incisors. This is because my mom just flat out didn't have any, but dad had regular sized ones, so I guess my body decided to split the difference. Because of ~cosmetics~ mom ended up signing me up to get fake buildups. So now I have half-ceramic incisors. and I'm like 90% sure I have palatal myoclonus which basically means I get random seizures in the soft palate in the back of my throat. Literally the only thing this does is make it so my throat makes clicky noises sometimes.
ayyyy fellow weird allergy allergic how? what happens if you eat them? i'm allergic to pringles, and also the french fries in a specific ski resort in idaho as far as we can tell it's like, a very specific type of oil they use or something, idk but they make me break out in a rash if i eat too many which sucks because i love pringles, they're so gooooooood
It can go from simple wheezing (in pineapple mint juice, for example) to a full blown asthma attack (though that's only happened twice, when i accidentally chewed some mints), and i get a burning sensation that's similar to pepper or putting alcohol on scrapped skin. my nose clogs in the presence of pine and eucalyptus, but that's just as long as i'm near the thing. Aspirin gives me rashes ):
I've said this elsewhere but I have a small degree of control over my emotional and physical sensation. For example, I have spent the last few weeks meditating on the sensation of opening and closing a third eye. Despite this, I have very little sense of my own natural emotions and reactions, but a pretty strong empathic sense. If I'm pissed I might not know it except from observing my own resulting actions, but it's far easier to get caught up in someone else's emotions. This reminds me of an old joke with friends: "You should kill the Comma." "No! It has a wife and family. :("
I growl when I'm upset, frustrated, threatened, etc. It's not just a little back-of-the-throat growl, either, its like a full-blown deep rumble. I think I learned it because I spent most of my free time as a kid hanging out alone in the woods with my dogs, and dogs are significantly easier to understand than humans, so I tried to get people to understant what I was feeling by translating it into dog. My social skills weren't the best as a kid ahaha Another weird thing I do is dump the water out of a cup before I fill it with water. Like, go to the cabinet, get a cup, go to the sink and fill it up, then dump it out before actually filling it to drink. Every time.
I can do that too. I can also rotate my neck back and forth while holding my head still, and stick my shoulder blades out while keeping my arms still.
