Strange Habits/Idiosyncrasies

[A1a23]

I used to have that problem when I was younger. Kinda grew out of it though luckily. I would blink every half second.

 

[damnromulans]

That's a real condition?!

I've been picking my nose in public a lot lately but I think that's seasonal and not actually a tic.

 

[unknown]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I used to have that problem when I was younger. Kinda grew out of it though luckily. I would blink every half second.

It's not like that. I'll be fine for hours, but then I'll have a thirty minute work out where I am forced by some incredibly dastardly demonic spirit to blink as hard as I can in several-blink bursts. Like I just saw goatse for the first time and am shutting my eyes as hard as possible in hopes of unseeing it. Or maybe like I'm having a competition with myself, trying to blink harder with each successive one. I swear, my eyes actually hurt.

EDIT: I only do it in privacy though, thankfully for me and my already-pathetic social appearance.

 

[Srontgorrth]

Damn that sounds like its reaching Obessive Compulsive Disorder levels

 

[Cythraul]

It's not like that. I'll be fine for hours, but then I'll have a thirty minute work out where I am forced by some incredibly dastardly demonic spirit to blink as hard as I can in several-blink bursts.

I do the same exact thing. It's been happening to me for about 4 years now. I have no idea why. My eye doctor speculated that it might be because the air in Phoenix irritates my eyes.

 

[Onder]

I had a friend in high school who didn't blink very often, but extremely forcefully. But that's quite normal isn't it?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I just remembered my most common/ingrained habit; when indoors, walking opposed to another person and in close proximity, I jump slightly out of nervousness and then grab the nearest wall to claim that side as "mine". Usually I don't even notice doing it, but when people pull it from my subconscious I realize how awkward it is. Every time I try to break the habit I forget once the sudden panic of oh-no-a-person-is-approaching-me-avoid-it-at-all-costs hits me. It's worst when I get jumpy around black people because I'm afraid that one day they'll accuse me of being racist/blackophobic when in reality I always slink around with my tail between my legs.

 

[damnromulans]

My god you sound like a hikkikomori. Can't you aversion-therapy yourself out of being so nervous by forcing yourself out into the world? Watch "Densha Otoko," the hikkikomori guy in that one left his room on a mission to help Densha and realized he liked being out and about.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

No matter how much of a failure of normalcy I may be, I will never stoop to watching Japanese cartoons. If I do that I may as well join 12chan and get arrested by the FBI, by proxy of that Hansen guy.

 

[damnromulans]

It's a live-action TV show that enjoyed mainstream success with normal Japanese people despite being largely about 2chan.

 

[unknown]

No matter how much of a failure of normalcy I may be, I will never stoop to watching Japanese cartoons. If I do that I may as well join 12chan and get arrested by the FBI, by proxy of that Hansen guy.

that's almost sig worthy

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

I masturbate every day.

 

[Onder]

I masturbate every day.

That's a good, healthy thing. Continue.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

 

[Dak]

I masturbate every day.

Why masturbate when you can get the real thing?

 

[damnromulans]

Please. Nothing is more real than masturbation.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

@ Dakryn: I'm married with kids. Everyone knows that marriage and children kills the sex life. Of course, I still twist one out even on days when I do get some ass.

 

[Chimaera]

For some reason, I regularly look at my watch without actually checking the time.

 

[Valerie]

I really like watching interviews, just for the way people interact with each other. A good interview makes me feel warm and fuzzy, regardless of who the two people are or what they're talking about.