I never realized I had so many little quirks until I read this.
I am seriously a slob, but I know where everything is, and if someone cleans my room, I get mad because they move things. I must know where every little pen, etc... is.
I have to have my shoes of equal tightness when tied.
I wash my hands after I touch coins because I hate the smell of metal money.
I have to set four alarms, there are two on my alarm clock, one is buzzer, the other radio, and the are set ten minutes apart with the snooze set to five minutes, and five minutes after that the TV is set to go on, then finally the cell phone. I check over and over, and I am so afraid of being late, I wake up three hours before my class, and leave an hour before and wait outside in the hall for an hour so I am not late. It's so annoying, but if I don't do it I get nervous because I think I'd be late and miss it.
I have to peel the cheese off of my pizza and eat it with just sauce.
I used to do this thing when I was little that if I would touch something with my right foot, I would have to go back and step on it with my other foot. So if I stepped on a crack, I'd have to have equal crack touchage on each foot. Also I'd make bets with myself, and say "If I don't jump over these two cracks then I won't get an A on my test."
The room must be dark when I go to sleep, and I have to have something (my baby blankie
) covering my eyes and nose, but not my mouth when I sleep.
I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT drink out of plastic cups, they must be glass because I can "taste" what has previously been in the glasses if they are plastic. They smell or something. The exception if if it's like a new disposible cup like at a bar, but I still don't like it. I can't drink like McDonald's pop out of straw either because it goes through the plastic, and "distorts the taste" for me.
I used to have this thing that if I would think about something bad, then I would have to knock on wood three times and with both hands for it not to happen.
I must check and count my money before I buy something even if I know I have enough.
I use the odometer on my car to tell when I need gas.
Have to check and make my headlights are off.
When I take tests, I go over and over, and do all of the problems again and again.
I always check and double check what time stuff is, even if I know when it is.
Nitpicky about grammar.
I have to drive 5 miles under the posted speed limit at all times.
I have this weird thing that I do that when I am thinking about someone (ex: my hot professor) and I walk by him, I have to repeat the words of this certain Barenaked Ladies song over and over in my head so I won't think about it in case something would happen, and I would be thinking about it, and for some reason I accidentally blurt it out and he would know and be able to tell that I think he's fine. Like he can read my thoughts or something, but I have this weird thing where I think I'd accidentally blurt stuff out that I'm thinking. It's not like I have Tourettes or anything, and I've never done anything like that, but it's just weird. It's like I think people know that I am thinking about them...
I am absolutely meticulous about setting the VCR, when I program it, I have to set it for ten minutes before the show starts, and ten minutes after the time ends. All my clocks, and my watches are 5-10 mintues ahead so I'm not late too. But I check the VCR programing like 10 times to see if its right, and then I feel so nervous if I'm not home, and it's recording because I'm paranoid it isn't working, but I've never messed up, when I lived at home, I used to set all three VCR's in case one or two failed, so I'd have backup... I'm addicted to ER, so I can never miss it.
By the way, I don't really have OCD or anything, just my little quirks.
Not really crazy or anything, and these things never happen all at once, so it's not like they consume my life, even though this post is REALLY LONG!
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