Three curious quirks!

1. I have specific strategies for eating lots of different chocolate bars and biscuits.

2. I have found nearly every cartoon/film I remembered tiny snippets of from my childhood but didn't know the name of, or maybe saw just one scene/heard one song from. They all drove me bonkers until I found them and watched them in full. Two left to find.

3. I spell things by picturing the word in front of me and reading out the letters.

Firstly what is an evening pudding?

secondly I can relate to locking external doors. This is something I have a big issue with. Might be OCD it takes me ages to get out of the house sometimes. Checking doors are locked and windows, things turned off etc sometimes multiple times….

When I defrost my evening pudding in the microwave, I use the 30 second button, then I'll open the door and close it again, then do another 30 seconds. I do this every night, even though I know it takes one minute to defrost.

I'm pretty good at remembering things, but when I lock my front door I immediately forgot if I've locked it, so I go back after two seconds and jiggle the handle to reassure myself.

Speaking of locking, my house keys and wallet always go in my right side pocket, my phone and possibly car keys go in the left pocket. Anything else is wrong! 

That is really very funny indeed, because I do the exact (and I really do mean exact!) same! I always must tend to my left foot first, and I cannot have my back to a door no matter as to where the door itself may be! That also goes for sleeping, I find it really very hard to sleep with my back to the door - it would cause me feel to be very uncomfortable indeed if I were to do so! However, in terms of talking with cats, isn't that considered to be normal (or rather standard!) behavior - because it is often observed in human/cat interaction?

Ahhh makes sense thanks for the explanation 

It's mainly the thickness. Summer hankies are lighter than winter ones. Cold ones are very absorbant. Too much info! 

Good to hear about handkerchiefs, not many people seem to use them these days...how are you assigning them to different seasons, are they different thicknesses, materials?

Thanks Joseph appreciate the reply, very much have the same re point 3 always had this issue since being small, I also get the urge to fix other people's stuff as well but try to resist....

Great thread!

My three:

1. I've got several small collections of books, Tube maps, tote bags, maps, folders, pencils, packs of playing cards.

2. Same meal schedule every week

3. Everything in my room, my workspace, my living room, has to be straightened, in certain positions, otherwise I get really uncomfortable and anxious. (Yes I do move things to wipe, hoover, clean, but then I move them right back to the same positions afterwards).

Geat thread. My three:

1) My collection of hankies, that has been mentally divided into three categories - summer, winter and to be used when I have a cold.

2) There is a soup spoon in our drawer that can ONLY be used for eating soup. Eating anything else with it just feels wrong.

3) When I clean my glasses, which is frequently, I use the same number of circles on both lenses.

I can't have my knees touching either. I have to have a bit of duvet in-between.

1. I bite/chew everything I can, pillows,duvet,blanket, the strings on my hoodie or the hood itself, T-shirt collar etc

2. I can’t have my knees touch each other especially in bed 

3. When I’m having a rough time I’ll drive 2 hours to go see my favourite bridge and drive over it a few times and then drive back home 

Berrybunny said:

I open doors in the house and when I'm in town with tissues and kitchen roll.

Hope you're okay, and I did wonder if you picked up Haribo packets with tissues & kitchen towels too !  

I'm still cutting labels out of clothes and if a zipper is touching my skin I have to put duct tape over the top as it really irritates me. 

1. Past few years I've been trying foods that since I was a kid I thought I didn't like. Maybe my tastes have changed or I was just picky, but seems I do like a lot of them. I still won't eat them in front of my parents though so that I don't get questions about it. They're really supportive, I just don't want the attention.
2. I get annoyed by tardiness both in others and myself, but also get a lot of anxiety about being the first/only person there and how it might look me being sat alone. So I often arrive at the exact time I've said I'll be somewhere.
3. When I was a kid the tags had to be cut off my clothes. I manage with them now, but if I start getting stressed or anxious, they start irritating me. I'll also start pacing back and forth going absolutley nowhere, and it's just occurred to me that a lot of people used to comment about how I would stand in a room rather than sit. Possibly a middleground between pacing and sitting.

1. I have been told, by others, that I neigh like a horse; from time to time.

2. I send WhatsApp/Messenger messages to my cleaner; impersonating those in our lives she talked to me about.

3. Whenever I scratch somewhere, I have to scratch the mirror-opposite position; with my other hand.

I like touching things and running my hand along things, sometimes even sharp looking things...not always the best idea though. I like moss in paricular, trees are also good, together with grass...

1. I open doors in the house and when I'm in town with tissues and kitchen roll.
2. When I get really excited I uncontrollably squeal
3. I always wear odd socks.

1. Always eat roast dinners in the same order. Meat then potatoes then veg.

2. If I'm walking along a road with a hedge I have a weird need to run my hand along it as I walk.

3. If I'm in a room the door has to be shut. Not sure why but it really bothers me if it isn't.

1. I used to be able to suck air into my mouth through a tiny hole in my bony palate, it made a whistling noise, it presumably connected to my nasal cavity. I stopped being able to do it about 15 years ago.

2. I sing songs, but replace the words with nonsense words of my own, but keep the rhymes. An example, to the tune of 'Dirty Old Town', "I flinged my snerge by quiggly hrall" etc.

3. I always have to flick the kettle off after it starts to boil, but before it automatically clicks off.