Something You Do or Have Done that Folks Tell You isn't Normal

[Midnight_Fantasy]

I have a phobia about public toilet doors (I have OCD), and I have read the dictionary from cover to cover though I can't remember half of it.

I used to torture Barbie when I was little.

I drink lots of coke during school and then I am hyper and tell my teachers that the walls are dancing & we must dance with them..

[PersephoneX]

I used to torture Barbie too. And i used to stick her hair on Ken's head and make him wear her clothing. I had a disturbed childhood.

I also have a thing about public loo's and door handles and rails...

I wash my hands every 15 mins...

[Midnight_Fantasy]

I used to make Ken dress in drag...with pink fluffy feather boas, I also did it to my Harry Potter doll.

[Zenit]

When I'm sleepy or comfortable or both, I purr(sp?) like a cat. I also tend to mew like a greeting...

And I tell the same story many,many times to the same person with just a few minutes inbetween. I forget fast...

Hm, I talk to myself, I refer to myself as we...the regular deviations.

[Underwater Ophelia]

When I'm out walking or something alone, sometimes I narrate what I'm doing.

[Firestorm]

I have a tolerance for caffeine normally reserved for swedish WoW nerds.

[kimaru]

I have a tendancy to think of my feelings as colors...When someone asks me how I am I often reply with a color, and the person who asked gets very confused. I do many of the already mentioned things, like talking to yourself, acting out stories in your head, pacing, talking to animals, sometimes sleeping in your closet. I also have an fear of the human heart because of a horror movie I saw when I was 5 where everybodys hearts kept exploding...I can't think of anything else.

[Lynn377]

Originally Posted by HumanePain

My wife tells me I will not be allowed to touch our grandchild when wearing one of my gas masks. She is afraid I will traumatize the infant. And I even bought a child's gas mask so we could wear them together. ::mopes::

Heeeheehee...you would be surprised at what children are NOT afraid of. You could start by letting the little one see them just out and about then, let them touch it and play around with it. Kind of to get the babe used to it. I bet a baby gas mask would be adorable. I'm terribly gullible, do you really have one? If so, I would love to see a pic of it next to a regular one, just for reference.

[HumanePain]

Originally Posted by Lynn377

Heeeheehee...you would be surprised at what children are NOT afraid of. You could start by letting the little one see them just out and about then, let them touch it and play around with it. Kind of to get the babe used to it. I bet a baby gas mask would be adorable. I'm terribly gullible, do you really have one? If so, I would love to see a pic of it next to a regular one, just for reference.

I am serious. I posted them in a goggles thread around here somewhere...
Ah! Here they are:

http://home.comcast.net/~bob.zox/Hamlet-gasmask.jpg

The Israeli one I am wearing is actually designed for children (It was only $14, the adult one is $49), and the Russian one I am holding is adult sized.

Next payday I am buying the adult sized Israeli mask, then I will take a picture of the child and adult side by side so you can see the difference.

And I LOVE your suggestion to let the baby play with it first! Capital idea!
I will take a picture of him nibbling on it and post. That is still a few months down the line as he isn't due until early April.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[Lynn377]

You're welcome, can't wait for the baby pics!

[Shyantra]

-I like to eat frozen vegetables rather than unfrozen.

-I talk to myself in the 2nd and 3rd person alot. And when talking to someone else, I refer to myself in those too.

-I laughed (during elementry and middle school) when I saw someone get hurt, even though I knew it was suppose to be a something of a serious manner. (And on occasion, I do it nowadays, though I have no idea why).

-When my parents made me see a physchiatrist, for the said above, I pretended he was my lost brother back from the war (I got another two years added on to it for that play acting).

-I love taking walks at night, I will occasionally walk down the highway from my house to the cemetary, humming a song from the movie Jack the Ripper.

-I go to classes in the evening, work during the night, and STILL get up at 5 in the morning.

Thats all I can think of.

[Miss_Hazie_Lane]

Oh, and I have no sense of heat, which I found out when learning to wax, I tested a patch on my arm, thought it felt fine, and my teacher tested it, and said something along the lines of "OH MY GOD THIS IS BOILING HOT!"

[Shyantra]

And if I am drunk (which is hard to do), I sober up within two hours of taking an asprin.

[Cyntrox]

Originally Posted by Miss_Hazie_Lane

Oh, and I have no sense of heat, which I found out when learning to wax, I tested a patch on my arm, thought it felt fine, and my teacher tested it, and said something along the lines of "OH MY GOD THIS IS BOILING HOT!"

I am extremely resistant to cold - you can see me walking outside in a tee shirt in -10°C... And I think that's about the same as 14 °F

[Godslayer Jillian]

Sometimes when I'm walking, I stop and look behind me to see the things behind be because I already saw everything before me.

[Delicate_Torture]

I have a box of sharp things. I collect my scabs in a jar and am up to my second jar now. Peas are not allowed to touch anything else. I am scared of cutlery that has black plastic handles. I sleep with a pacifier. I can't cook.

When things are quiet I remember funny thngs that have been said... this in itself isn't really strange, but people who are around me don't seem to like it when I start giggling to myself for what they see is no reason. This happens at work often, because I'm a nurse and work night duty so it is often fairly quiet. The amusing thing about it is that a lot of my co-workers know that I have a mental illness (which is extremely well controlled with medication and therapy and I have not had a major problem for about 6 years now,) and it doesn't go down too well when they ask what I'm laughing about and I answer "It's ok... the voices are being loud today is all."

Well, I find it funny.

What good is being mentally ill if you can't use it to play a gag on someone?

[Mirazatha]

-I talk to myself. Out loud, in public places. This only gets me weird looks when i start using "we", which is in general about 5 minutes into my conversation.

-I eat any sort of pastry with a knife.

- I dont make small talk, and often tell people to stop bothering me about things i dont care about, such as what their co-workers girlfriend did three weeks ago at a party...

- As both an infant and a child i only slept about 7 houres a day. This has recently become 6, and i am not sleep deprived.

- I tend to stop conversations in the middle because i get bored.

- If someone answers a question i will use any loophole at all to get out of answering the question they want answered, and in return, when someone trys to do that to me i will modify my question for +15 minutes until i get what i want.

Thats all i can think of right now...

[kimaru]

Oh I forgot to add that I never eat cereal in a bowl. I put the cereal in a ziploc and drink the milk form a mug. No spoon required.

[Underwater Ophelia]

When I was a baby, I'd sleep with my eyes open. My mother would always panic because she thought I was dead.

[Sable_Rose]

My childhood seems so normal compared to some of you guys. I played with dolls the normal way:
Barbie: "I'm going to by clothes for the fashion show!"

Here are some of my quirks:
1)I like going outside when it's dark or it's raining.
2)I like to sniff book pages and also bend them because I like the sound.
3)I day dream about being in hopeless situations: (i.e. My boyfriend is the mob bosses son, and I'm caught up in their trouble. Getting kidnapped, or followed. ect..)
4)I tear apart my bagle piece by piece and put cream cheese on it just before eating it.
5)If I just wash my hands and I tough something right after(like a "dirty" part of the faucet I need to wash them again or it bugs me forever.)
6)I listen to my music VERY VERY quietly.

I'm sure I have a lot more, but I can't think of any this second.

[sekhmet]

- I talk to my plastic breyer horsies! I've got over 200 in my room and goodnight to them all.

- When I was 12 I liked to sleep in the bath tub.

- Whenever I would get sick as a kid I would go to the arcade, spit on my hands and touch all of the games.

- I can't stand cotton socks.

[Crying_Crimson_Tears]

I can not sleep without socks on. Even in the summer, I need socks on my feet to sleep.

I sometimes call my boyfriend Pumpernickel.

[IsolatedReptile]

I've often been told that I talk in odd ways, using weird expressions that aren't necessarilly confusing but just odd. Underwater Ophelia told me that I often talk as though I were reading poetry.

[Shyantra]

-I can't go to sleep unless I am facing something solid.

-I absolutely love swimming during a full moon.

Originally Posted by Crying Crimson Tears

I can not sleep without socks on. Even in the summer, I need socks on my feet to sleep.

I am actually quite opposite. I can't sleep with socks on.

[Underwater Ophelia]

Yeah, I hate sleeping with socks on unless I'm on the verge of freezing to death.