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Do you have any unusual personality traits that you'd like to share? Do you have any unusual habits that you got into? Did you fall out of a habit you are suppose to follow? I think mostly everyone should have their fair share of these.

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Ever since I was young I actually stopped eating fruits and vegetables; I never willingly ate any fruits or vegetables for years essentially. Just a few years recently I've only just occasionally had a bit of fruits and vegetables here and their but never on a daily basis. I've never willingly ate an orange before for example although I might like to try one soon but I don't know.

I just can't get back into the habit of it.

This post has been edited by Mikanada: 13 November 2011 - 10:39 PM

I have not eaten a fair amount of vegetables myself. The only one I will eat if you tell me to is lettuce, because lettuce drowned in any dressing is fucking amazing.

Fruits are awesome. You need to try more. You can find me nomnoming on Pomegranates, Oranges, Plums, Grapefruit, Grapes, Raspberries, Strawberries, and Yellow Lemons :3

I guess an unusual property would include my hyper-reclusive attitude, extreme shyness, and overall antisocial mindset. I make a great friend, but good luck getting me to start talking

I've never eaten a fruit, and I rarely eat vegetables.

I'm extremely anti-social. I can't even get into a normal conversation without looking like a fool, I'm only comfortable when I write. It's just when I talk to people my mind goes blank, my tongue suddenly becomes ten time ticker and heavier and I don't know what to say, I'm stuck.

I always shut the door to my room, no matter what. This is a habit I unwillingly acquired when my house was invaded by stinkbugs.

During the second year of my BA course, I started drinking copious amounts of energy drinks so that I could work on my paper during the day and then work a night shift in the evening; so much so that I began to suffer from caffeine withdrawal within a day of not getting another shot. It's fucking embarassing to think about it now, and thankfully the phase only lasted about three months, but it was scary at the time.

During at least one point in my life, I drank Red Bull instead of water for a month.

It's near impossible for me to say no when somone asks for my help and I have the power to help

Look how crazy we all are! We all have weird quirks and habits just like everyone else! We're so craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzyyyyyyy!

Shada, on 08 October 2011 - 01:32 PM, said:

Same here. Blasted Asperger's Syndrome...

Luigifan, on 08 October 2011 - 02:32 PM, said:

I'm honestly probably quite insane. But I've never seen anyone about it. I just control everything about myself and act normal. My "quirks" are hidden.

@Kaxbe: You're unique, just like everyone else!

To be fair, though, what makes us different in this case is the habits in question.

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Anyway, for me... Well, I'm kinda OCD, for starters. I literally just laid out all ten outfits I'm going to wear for the next school week.

I drink milk as my beverage of choice (which may or may not be unusual, but most people seem to think so).

I recoil when people touch me, as though they had hit me. Literally only three cases where I'd be okay with it.

There's probably more buuuut I can't think of it.

I feel normal reading this.

I can read most people without any difficulty, and if need be, I can make them do what I want by reasoning. You'd be surprised how many people change the way they think by saying "You're wrong because potato".

I keep wondering if I was massively beaten as a child and I just don't remember it, because I recoil if I feel even the slightest potential of Souppy hitting me. He has never hit me before, though! Like never EVER. It feels like I act like I suffered a lot of physical abuse and it's very confusing, because I honestly haven't (Like maybe my dad beating me up when I was five once and my mom occasionally slapping me in the face for doing poorly at school or yelling at her). But like he'll move his arm and I'll recoil violently. It's bizarre.

I eat methodically. Like I have to eat one thing.. then the next.. then the next.. then the next. So if I get steak with rice and mashed potatoes, i'll eat the potatoes first.. then the rice... then the steak. So there will be times I'll eat at a restaurant and there will be a bit of vegetables left behind, and they'll remain in their exact pristine position, but everything else is eaten.

Oh and I eat like a slow freak as well, Maverik can vouch for that. I recall he made me dinner when I visited him and it took me more than an hour to consume it. I'm very slow and savoury.

I love cracking my neck and then worrying that I will one day snap it and die because I love cracking it so much.

If there's a bit of silence and I'm left to my thoughts, I will cringe because my mind will just jolt me into a bad memory/thought/past action, and I'll whimper or whine or twitch. This causes Souppy to HAVE to play music/television/something to keep my mind from torturing myself. And this is why I have trouble sleeping and basically have to just fall asleep on my own accord, I can't really "go to bed" because the silence will cause me to think about all sorts of awful things. I used to be able to use bed time as my way to think about plots, but I just can't do that anymore. The bad thoughts have really taken over.

Oh and I can't iron by myself. Like even if I played a television show, if someone isn't there with me, I will freak out. It was because in 2007, I had a huge breakdown when Souppy and his mother left me alone to iron and went off to see The Police. 2007 was my "mortality" year, where I was paranoid about dying, about Souppy dying, about tragedies happening. So when he left I was hit really hard with the concept of the universe ending and our world being finite and thinking about the earth eventually succumbing into nothing, and I just burst into tears and couldn't iron and cried immensely and basically just curled up on the bed and cried to sleep.

So now when I am ironing, if I'm alone, I will think back to that again, so I can't iron without there being another person around. This makes ironing a pain in the ass, ha.

.. oh man these unusual habits just make me seem like a jittery broken freak WHOOPS

oh and i touch my face like tomoyo from cardcaptor sakura



yes

like this

like not even pushing my hair away, just my hand to my face. Her hand-to-face gestures, I do those.

i am so uguu

Body Language - Follow The People Signs i also do the first thing ALL THE FREAKEN TIME but apparently that's a pacifier HAHAHA

I can't get a pack of gum in my possession without chewing the whole thing in a matter of a few hours. It's really bad. Also, I have this nasty habit of biting my nails and, after the nails are bitten to a point where I can't shorten them anymore, literally biting the flesh around my nails off my fingers.

The fruit thing reminded me that I don't eat apples. It's kind of a sensory thing, I just don't like the texture of apples, though I will happily drink apple juice and even eat apple pie. There are a lot of other fruits I don't eat either. I do eat bananas though. I have probably eaten more bananas than all other fruits combined. I have a banana at lunch every weekday.

I would eat more oranges, except I don't like the way eating oranges is frequently messy. I like to keep my hands clean. Along the same lines, if I get my fingers or hands messy for any reason, I'll stop to wipe them off before moving on to something else.

When I was younger, there were a lot of vegetables I wouldn't touch either. Like beets or squash or broccoli or cauliflowers. I am more open to eating certain vegetables now. One reason for this is that your tastes change as you grow up. This is the reason why older people often find they can't tolerate sugary junk as much as they could when they were younger.

I eat meals rather slowly, except that I don't consider this to be a problem. I'm just enjoying my food at leisure rather than just gobbling it down.

Like some others here, I'm shy and kind of asocial. I don't really deal with people that well, especially in large groups. I can greet people, but after that I can never think of anything to say. Sometimes when I'm in a situation with a lot of people, I find I have to escape the madding crowd from time to time and wander around someplace quiet. I like quiet, and so I'm alone a lot. I'm used to it, I just don't want to be alone forever. So I'm working to overcome that and be a bit more social.

I scratch the same spot on my chest all the time (just below my heart). it left a strange mark there after years of scratching.

cracking any joint I can as much as I can and feeling relay tens and stiff if I don't.

I sometimes when I finish a conversation I carry it on in my head playing both people myself.

and that's all I can think of at the moment.

I've fallen out of the habit of drinking milk years ago. I only drink chocolate milk now.

When forced into an uncomfortable discussion over something really stupid I did (The first thing that comes to mind is when I got really freaked out at a birthday party for my girlfriend's friend, so I went out to my car and put a lot of vodka in my soda, and her other friends got really angry with me), I'll chew on my finger.

I crack my joints all the time, especially my neck, hand knuckles and foot knuckles. They'll sometimes crack so hard that I can feel the shockwave through my nerves.

I have a few odd speech patterns (at least their odd to most americans). I'll end sentences with "yeh?" as a sort of prompt for agreement (similar to how the sentence particle "ne" in japanese means something like "right?"). I'll use odd contractions in odd places sometimes, like "I've no time for this." I'll say things like "I'll not..." instead of "I won't..."

I'll freak out if I'm leaning on a table or something and it shifts.

I don't like flatware laying on a bare table. All my money must face in the same direction, and my coins too, and they must be in order from largest to smallest (size, not value).

There were a few others, but I've already forgotten what they are.

ReyOzymandias, on 08 October 2011 - 10:46 PM, said:

I love doing that as well, when I happen to use English.

That's one of the few things I've liked about English, the variety of contractions and using them in different ways that usual. From the languages I've studied, contractions aren't nearly as common, and they usually haven't any way to overlap like that.

I also like to crack my neck and other joints as well regularly. Last time I heard, doctors couldn't make their mind if that was bad or not (some even say it actually prevents diseases, go figure).

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I tend to say 'and stuff' and 'or something' pretty often. "Hey, wanna go play games and stuff later?".

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When I space out while browsing the internet, I catch myself scrolling the page up and down repeatedly.

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I wash my hands every time I feel they are dirty. That is not so bad by itself, but what makes it weird is how my brain decides when its dirty and when its not.
Licked my finger: Not dirty.
Washed my hands on the kitchen sink: Dirty.
Washed my hands on the bathroom: Not dirty.
Dishes washed on the kitchen sink: Not dirty.
Sand on my hands: Not dirty.
Ate chicken using my hands: Not dirty while eating, dirty afterwards.

Im so crazy with these things, also I get quite obsessive when I cannot wash my hands, I lift them half way up and avoid touching anything, because in the case I do happen to touch something, it becomes a dirty object that I cannot touch without washing my hands afterwards.

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I tend to overanalyze things.

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I go apeshit whenever I get served Cheese Soup. Yet, I love cheese.

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I guess that's all I can name from the top of my head right now.

@Taeshi: By the way, it seems to me that suggestion works very effectively on you. Next time you get intimate with SuitCase and stuff (or pretty much you're doing anything that makes you feel happy), try putting on some background music. Then, when you start feeling down or something, start playing that music and it should bring you up, making you recall your happy moments. I haven't done it with that intention but I've noticed that individual songs do sway my emotions a bit, because I have them associated with something. Try it, maybe it works. ^^

I'm painfully aware of when a conversation is starting to grind to a halt and have a habit of saying so. That and talking in cliches. I honestly don't think I can start a conversation with someone without asking how their day was or how the weather's been, even early in the morning.

Also, my neck and wrists crack all the time.

(P.S. I've had a little habit/game that I play on car journeys since I was about five. If there's music playing, I'll try and tap my feet along with it and see if any of the cars match up. This is usually accompanied by imagining that someone - Sonic the Hedgehog, someone from school, an angel once or twice, anyone - is running alongside and performing wicked stunts on the cars and barricades on the motorway.)

I'm really sorry Taeshi, it sounds like you've had to deal with some horrible stuff.

When I was younger, I couldn't fall asleep easily for some similar reasons. Bad thoughts would enter my mind and keep me awake and scared.

What I found was that listening to the news channel on my radio softly always made me feel better. Even though it was just the sound of people talking I didn't feel alone.

Elliot, on 09 October 2011 - 08:03 PM, said:

OMG I had forgotten about that one! I also do the music/cars thing and the Sonic running alongside. For me it's always Sonic.

I used to do that too... and it was always sonic

These 3 above. Always.

Not Sonic, but I always did that. Still do. It's why I don't drive, I pay too much attention to the thing running

I have a bad habit of scratching my head/eyebrows when I'm nervous. I used to do it so much my scalp would bleed. At one point when my girlfriend was living in Chile she lost internet/phone connection during a fight because she was hit by that 9.8 earthquake. By the time I heard from her again 2 days later, I had scratched my right eyebrow off.

I always blow over my bottled drinks before taking a sip, to hear what sound it makes, no exceptions. I don't even think about it at this point, I'll pick up a jug at some craft store and blow into it and wonder why my friends think it's weird.

On the topic of sounds, I make weird noises. A lot of weird noises. Screeches, growls, gurgles, yelps, hums, clicks, whirrs, you name it. I just do it, sometimes I'll be drawing some animal or creature and make the noise I imagine it would make, without realizing it. I think it helps the creative process. Or maybe I'm retarded.

The worst one has to be, bar none, my 'Concentrate Face', as my friends put it. Apparently when I'm focused I make the duckface.

I get caught up with the thing running alongside the car thing too, but it's usually something generic like a bike or skateboard or something.

Also, I like talking in an accent with people I don't know, especially at work, makes people bitch just a little less.

Ha, yeah. You guys are pretty unique and unusual, just like me.

You see, I too don't eat too well. I don't eat yuck vegetables and fruits. Except salad when its has some salad dressing. Just plain salad. Covered in ranch. Maybe some bacon and cheese. My mom keeps buying the fat free ranch though, she doesn't understand me because I'm weird. I might eat fruit maybe ifs was chocolate covered, but it gets kind of gross when you lick all the chocolate off.

I'm pretty different in the fact that I'm asocial too... It's pretty weird that I'm on a forum for an online comic that relies on social relationships when I am not good at such silly things. I just am not good at the social words with people you know. Ha-ha, cool brother? You know this...

I rely on the internet to talk to people which is really unique. In fact, I sometimes get really freaky-outy when someone touches me, I get all scared like no way. People make fun of my problems and say I am sounding dumb, but they sound dumb really after all!! No one understands, I have to sometimes organize somethings so I am pretty OCD and for real I can't focus and say weird things sometimes which no one finds fun, like the moose-guy on Camp Lazlo. Remember that with for him? Nice.

I am pretty smart though. I know everything about people, I cant tell what they are thinking and stuff. It's really weird. Like last lunchtime, I say a boy looking at the food and I knew he was going to go for this one kind of food and he did. I read people so well. I am unique like this, and also because I chew on my fingers. I also get nervous and chew my fingers, when no one else seems nervous. I don't know what to say so I crack my joints and I chew my fingers. I am really weird.

Sometimes I think about things like a lot. I don't think anyone else thinks about things like me. It's like I am the only me. I also like video games and think about video games a lot.

This is why I am weird... You are probably feeling so normal reading this...

I feel like we're being trolled...

Also, Ozy, the accent thing is so fun. You gotta be careful though, sometimes I get so into it I forget I'm doing it. I had an Irish accent with a group of friends for so long it lasted 3 days, which was especially fun when I had to stop at the police station.

You people are a bunch of weirdos

I dont know how to quote but re you talking about me Borbon and skmojo??????????????

Press reply button.
and I also thought you were mocking everyone.

He was.

I tend to chew on my fingernails.

@CATSRKOOL You sound like the average child on the Internet. Also the quote buttons are at the lower right corner of the comments.

My joints pop if I haven't moved them in a while. I also tend to pop my knuckles
oh. I also make sounds it's kinda funny

Sometimes I like to talk to myself while driving.

Bourbon, on 10 October 2011 - 09:49 AM, said:

I already have a pretty odd accent for where I live. I grew up in an amish community in Lancaster County PA, and now I live closer to Philadelphia, and no one is familiar with the accent. I get away with that with coworkers. When I'm working alone and talking to customers, I've successfully made a german think I'm german.

CATSRKOOL, on 10 October 2011 - 03:33 PM, said:

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why are you guys feeding into it

just keep talking about you're unbalanced beings in society

They have a lot of pent up things to talk about that they mistakenly think make them special and/or interesting.

SOMETIMES MY TESTES ITCH AND I SCRATCH THEM LOOK AT HOW QUIRKY AND UNUSUAL I AM GUYS

Is it an unusual trait to not have a single mannerism? ^_^

Teaches you right for covering them in Chilli powder, Jerk.

I tend to have to force myself to socialize, and when I am being sociable it is really easy. Except after a bit of time when I suddenly don't care to talk with people and start being very asocial.
I used to talk a lot, until I became a little self-concious of talking too much. So I started to not talk much at all, except now I feel like I talk too little. This means I plan on attempting to talk more now.
For some reason I get really annoyed/angry when my friends are drunk and acting stupid towards me, I really don't know why.
I tend to over analyze way too much, sometimes thinking over a conversation in about 3-4 different ways. Then when it happens none of the over thought conversations occur.
I think I mentioned it already, but I am prone to bouts of anti-social behavior for no reason at all. I just won't like people for a bit.
I think that is about it for weird behavior, though it seems more like someone being wishy-washy to me.
... I didn't expect to have that much to write.

I chew my tongue when I get nervous or worried. It is very soothing for some reason.

For some reason I have recently developed a habit of blowing on my hands.

That's not weird I've seen quite a few people who do that Mike.

Mikanada, on 10 November 2011 - 08:19 AM, said:

I don't think wrapping your lips around a dick that happens to be between your hands counts as blowing on your hands.

When I read this thread, I think of this meme:



and then I start to hate you all a bit more.