Strange things You Do

[HiLz]

What kind of things do you do that other people consider strange and even annoying???

For example,

Whenever I drink out of a cup I always drink the entire contents with a teaspoon.
- At home I use the same teaspoon all the time for a number of things. It's the smallest of them all.
- When I can't find my teaspoon I freak out and accuse my mum of taking it then she gets really annoyed at me & tells me to stop being ridiculous and use another teaspoon instead.
- I eat everything out of small bowls or side plates & if they are unavailable it makes me uneasy.
- My main cereals I eat are Weetabix, Shredded Wheat and All Bran all with boiled water, no milk or anything else....
- If and when I have bread I have it plain, no butter or anything else. Once in a while I'll put butter or cream cheese or peanut butter. If I make a sandwich it consists of plain bread with lettuce or plain bread with sliced tomato or both
- I drink black tea no milk no sugar.......My mum and friends say I am strange for doing these things & they keep accusing me of lying about actually enjoying my cereal/bread/tea this way, but I do enjoy it.
- I was my fruits with dish washing soap or antibacterial hand gel before I eat them to make sure they are clean enough.
- I have to blow into a cup/glass/bowl/pot before I use it. I believe I am blowing out dust/bacteria/germs.
- I put a lot of effort and care into ordering everything in the kitchen cupboards/fridge to make all the labels face forward. I put items in colour, size and alphabetical order & make sure there is a gap between everything so it doesn't touch. (I even do this in other people's houses, friends/family) When my mum so much as moves one thing & doesn't put it back exactly as it was I go ballistic at her.....
- If I'm opening a packet of crisps the letters must be right side up never upsidedown. I've been this way since I was a young girl....This one cousin of mine used to just open his crisps any which way and that used to make me so mad at him...When I accidentally opened my crisps upside down I would give them away, because to me I felt like my life was now upside down and to prevent it I had to give them away.
-Ok this is hard to explain, If I turn around one way e.g. twice I have to turn around the opposite way twice to unwind myself coz I feel all tied up like there's a rope around me. If I enter into a place one way I have to come out the very same way & if I can't do it it for wahetever reason it bothers me for the rest of the day. Whenever I come back to that place I always remember that the last time I didn't manage to come out how I should have so I make up for it.
-I have to have my volume on TV, Radio, iPod etc on an even number. Odd numbers have always made me nervous.

.......None of this is remotely strange to me, it's all completely normal. (except the ordering kitchen items one)I actually think the way my mum and friends eat is highly abnormal so why do they feel the need to tell me I'm wrong, weird, strange etc.

[annaliese]

- At home I use the same teaspoon all the time for a number of things. It's the smallest of them all.
- When I can't find my teaspoon I freak out and accuse my mum of taking it then she gets really annoyed at me & tells me to stop being ridiculous and use another teaspoon instead.
- I eat everything out of small bowls or side plates & if they are unavailable it makes me uneasy.
- My main cereals I eat are Weetabix, Shredded Wheat and All Bran all with boiled water, no milk or anything else....

I DO THESE AS WELL! I'm a total bran cereal freak! People think I'm odd that I don't have milk on my cereal but I don't think it affects the taste so much, I microwave it to oblivion anyway, I have a weird concoction I have of it too. I'm really funny about cleanliness and people not touching my things as well, as even if they're the cleanest person ever, because they're not me, they infect it.

I'm in a rush but before I eat I have to touch my food 20 times with a teaspoon and run up and down the stairs three times, touch all the door handles upstairs a number of times and run up the stairs again for luck.

But to write down all the things I do would be just as exhausting as actually doing them, we'd be here all day, I'm so ashamed.

[stories]

I can relate to doing strange things.

I do not put milk (of any kind) in my cereal. I just never liked it.
I have to eat with the smallest utensils available to me, as well as on the smallest plates/bowls I can.
I religiously have to keep my water bottle on me and filled at all times.
I have to make sure my plates/bowls are clean. If I make food and a plate gets crumbs on it, I transfer my food to a clean plate, or excessively wipe off the excess food.

These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head right now.

[Painfulbeauty14]

Yes I can relate to the spoon obsession! I use a small baby spoon and have to use it and nothing else!

[annaliese]

Baby spoon appreciation society! <3

[KoH.]

not really that strange but here goes...

-if someones giving me something and i want it i'll say no, if they ask again i'll accept, but most of the time i'm too scared to say yes and say no anyway
-before i go out drinking, i prepare a small salad as if i was a mum for my inner kid for her (me) to munch on when she comes home. fork wrapped in kitchen roll in the fridge and everything.
-i double-do most things or more. like rinsing stuff.. cleaning..
-i can't have things like tins facing forward, need to be at a slight angle but still facing at the front if that makes sense.
-things like dvds and cds are turned in the cases 90 degrees clockwise. i started doing this to know if my brother has been going through my things. i don't have disks anymore but i still do it when given the chance.
-side plate is as big as a plate as i'll go. and baby teaspoon
-need to have matching fork and knife otherwise i panic a bit and get confused
-need to have something to drink with every meal. 2 glasses of water or tea/coffee. this started because i had major ulcer issues and really needed to rinse my mouth with every bite otherwise it was too painful. now i cured them, i still do it otherwise i feel i'm getting too dehydrated
-need to clean and bleach out the whole house before i feel like it's mine. at least twice of course
-can't watch a film the whole way through without a break and pausing it to do something else and come back later. think this is thanks to buffering, or my short attention span.
-i'm choosey with the volume control
-i feel a need to buy people food even though i'm broke.
-i need to 'meow' at least once a day. and i do about 3 kinds of meows. i need to go through all the meows to fit the occasion, even if i'm on my own and there is no occasion (because that's an occasion too)
-i need to leave the house everyday. and take walks around the house if i've been in my bedroom too long
-need to dragggg most letters and it looks so dumbbbb

could go on but these are just things that make me me.

[annaliese]

Everything in my kitchen has to be facing east.

It's like Mecca for anorexics.

[f-g]

If i eat something with my hands, after every bite I have to put what ever it is down (bread, fruit, cookie etc) and wipe my hands together several times and wipe the corners of my mouth with a tissue. My mother hates it she shouts at me when she sees me do it...


The funny thing is i got these habits from HER!

[kittycat]

I always drink my tea, coffee , capuchino with a tablespoon , so I feel more like eating.

I chew my food like if i have a slice of bread I break it with finges and chew every little piece about 25 times.

Count me in for the smallest bowls, plates as well. (I tend to eat from black or dark blue plates. Don;t know somehow I believe they wont make me hungr.

I used to do sit ups, jumping jacks, while watching a movie.
I used to put my laptop while im on y treadmill so I can walk n it and surf around at the same time.
When I wash dishes I start with plates, then cups, and table tools are always the last ones.

[HiLz]

When I wash dishes I start with plates, then cups, and table tools are always the last ones.

I start with teaspoons, tablespoons, forks and knives (because you say pass me the Fork & Knife not the knife & fork so fork comes before knife...hmm ridiculous) small plates, big plates, small cups, big cups, small then big lunch boxes, small then big pots then other things like colanders come last. Sometimes I miss out a spoon coz it was hidden behind or under something else & I struggle with thoughts of starting all over again coz I feel like I've failed & I feel so stupid for missing it out. I get mad and just carry on washing in the current order and wash the spoon last......I get so mad when my mum or someone else just comes by and throws something into the sink or on the side of the sink. I have an order that I do things so if you just come and disrupt my order I blow my top. My mum has finally learnt that she always has to ask me where to place something when I'm doing dishes.