Today's question is more than a question. I'd go as far enough to say that it's a teeny-tiny cry for help. Help with making me feel that maybe I'm not THAT crazy. That maybe there are actually people out there that are strange like me. See, me and Count Dracula have a problem. Now I don't go as far as laughing after each number, but I do indeed have a counting problem. In fact, it's so bad that in high school I used to know how many desks were in each of my classrooms! I mainly catch myself counting when I am bored. If my brain isn't doing anything it decides that the ceiling tiles are in dire need of being counted. Seriously, what the heck? Why does OCD make you do pointless things? Why can't my obsession be something cool or helpful? Maybe I'm being too pessimistic. I guess I could always be an accountant with my incredible counting talents or maybe I could be the girl that always wins the 'How many jelly beans are in the jar' contest. I guess it's all how you look at it, right?
Come on guys, make me feel better. What's the funny little OCD habit(s) you have?
14 comments:
i am also a counter. but more with numbers i see. ie: 4:22, four divided by two is two. why cant i just look at the time?
I also am a counter, so you are not alone. I count the organ pipes in church even though I counted them last week. I also do math in my head when I'm struggling to fall asleep. Like adding up how many hours josh worked x what he gets paid, things like that. I heard that you move your middle toe when you are counting:) I'm a little ocd about how my towels are folded.
I am a tracer. I trace letters or numbers or anything I see. It can be an annoying habbit! It was unsually bad in school while taking a test because instead of concentrating on answering the question, I was tracing all the letters of the question instead. Maybe that is why I had a 4.0... because I understood what the quesiton was asking me! =) LOL
i'm like rebecca (earlier comment) i turn numbers into math equations---that's why i didn't answer your favorite number question because i didn't want to sound like a weirdo explaining why i like 15 and how 3*5=15 and i like 3 and 5.......blah, blah,blah...i used to also make words out of all the letters on liscence plates and then i have to go through every vowel combination there is with that word! i think everyone has some weird quirk which makes none of us really that weird at all!
this is an interesting one... hayden squeezes his pointer finger and thumb together on his right hand whenever we drive by grass and then when there is a street, he squeezes those fingers together on his left hand. and, it only counts for the grass/streets on the right side of the car!
i was actually really surprised that i can't think of anything. i NEVER count!! probably cuz i hate meth, i mean math. well i hate meth too. i hear its really hard on your house.
anyway...i do do something that i have heard refered to as "magical thinking"
where if i have a scary thought about something bad happening I have to breath a certain way as i am telling myself it won't really happen or else i feel anxious that i just cursed myself into it happening.
none of that made me sound psycho did it.
Let see if I can compete. I have 2and maybe more but I will leave it at 2. The first one is I am OCD about my lawn. I love a nice lawn and my wife always gets fired up becasue I am out mowing so long. The reason being is that I mow it twice. I love a tight mow and crisp lines. Ahhh, gives me the chills just thinking about it. Secondly, I am anal/OCD about the wall plates that go over electrical outlets like your lights or plugs at your house. I have to go throgh the whole house and make sure the the screws are all facing the same way. They all have to be North and South or I go nuts. Laugh now but its up the value of your house when it is time to sale. Thanks for the good laughs Hayley.
Brandon :)
if you want to watch greg go nuts...turn the little dial of his watch even one click past the 12 o'clock mark!
Guilty as charged! The dial on my watch must be at 12 o'clock straight up. Ellery thinks it's funny to sercretly move it...I don't really see the humor. Another OCD of mine is in softball, I can't step into the batters box without first scraping all the footprints out with my cleats. Kinda wierd but I like it to be "spic n span"!
You are too funny! I have some weird ocd things too you are totally not alone on this!
I have been singing "going to the chapel and we're gonna get married" since I was like 14. I don't know if it is really just that catchy or because my mom was such an extreme oldies fan or what. But I sing that song anytime there isn't anything else in my head. It's as quiet as I can make my brain. It sucks! I feel your pain.
OK, don't anybody EVER give me crap again about not walking barefoot on the lawn. I am the only NORMAL one here. But Snort I do like 15 as well. It has always been because it totals 6.
I know its Wednesday but Im still answering this question.. . I am pretty OCD/anal about my clothes being folded all the same. All the shirts and g's have to be folded and stacked in perfect piles. The towels all have to be folded the exact same way or I cant sleep at night. One time my husband was being really nice and decided to fold the laundry because I was being a beast that day. When he went to sleep.. I got out of bed and refolded them all. Im not psycho. I promise.
I am always correcting people's grammar. I sound like josie grosie on Never Been Kissed. I hate it when people say things like... "anyways". It is "anyway"! I am such a dork!
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