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I do it because my right hand is getting sore from clicking but at home I still want to play games.
It might help to get a longer mouse so you hand can rest comfortably on it. The soreness probably is not the clicking but the moving-while-tense. I bring my own to work to prevent this.
I'm surprised that anyone is answering anything. If something would seem very normal to me, as in, I think this is something everyone does, I wouldn't know of it would seem odd to anyone else. By virtue of it seeming very normal to me.
Something being normal is rooted on it being the norm, as in, something typical. If you think something is odd, you can't feel like it's normal just for you, that's not what the norm means. Maybe it seems natural to you? Sure, but not normal.
Sorry for my reading my pedantic rant. In my case, these kind of rationalizations of the language using its roots seem pretty natural and fun but I know most people look at me weird for over analysing stuff.
I have full on conversations with myself. To the point where I simulate talking with two people. I don't have any multiple personalities or any mental illness (as far as I know), I just use it as a way to think about what I need to think about.
You might be trying to find bugs in your own thinking system, rubber ducking it all the time lol
You're not talking to yourself, you're crafting a socratic dialogue outloud.
Like I dunno if there is any particular evidence that Plato like, talked to himself aloud in developing his plays... but a substantial amount of the foundation of 'Western' canon is pretty much Plato making up conversations that probably are not verbatim accurate, but work to dramatize and illustrate some kind of tension between characters with different worldviews
I can talk myself out of buying anything, and often do. Even when I actually need it.
Ever since I was a kid I’ve been a people watcher. I can sit and just watch people and observe behaviors. I’ve been out with friends and nudge them to watch out right before fights break out. They tell me it’s creepy. I say not really, those people stand out to me.
I do crowd control when walking near other people or animals. This involves whistling or snapping my fingers to get their attention and putting my hands out if someone gets too close. I picked this up in rehab from a spinal injury that I have since mostly recovered from.
Stopping midsentence and expecting other people to know what I was about to say.
Impulsively replacing a word with something that could be considered adjacent; "My teammates" could become "my animals".
Pretty sure I got this habit from my mum, who is ESL and later developed aphasia after having a stroke young. It kinda bled out into how me and my sisters communicated and I carried it into adulthood, although I only do this around people I feel super comfortable with.
It usually takes a very particular kind of moment for others to even notice but I don't lie ever and I'm completely unable to give short inaccurate answers that borderline on lying.
I've basically trained the people around me to not ask if they don't want to hear the truth or conversely that I'm the one to ask when everyone else is just handing out comforting lies.
i talk while watching movies/tv shows. i genuinely do not find it enjoyable to just watch stuff.
I can't watch movies with anyone else because I enjoy my 85-95% accuracy saying what is going to happen next.
I match my shirt color to what I'm going to train in the gym.
As an example, let's say that's today is leg day: then I will use a gray shirt. Yesterday was chest day, so it was a red shirt.
I bought a few packs of the same shirts just so I could make this matching game. I'm not sure if someone elss at the gym realized that I do this but I'm fairly certain they would find it odd.
I can't leave the house without a shower even if it's just a quick 5 minute trip to the gas station. The only exception I'm willing to make for this is if someone else is in some sort of harms way from nature or whatever.
Wake up late to the thing? I just won't be doing the thing I guess or everyone will have to wait. That said, I'm good about not being in that situation and plan myself well for the sake of others as I recognize it's a weird thing about me, not them.
I open bananas from the blossom end instead of the stem end because it's easier
Most modern apple varieties have soft enough cores to eat, so I eat them (not the seeds though)
I eat kiwi skin because I enjoy the fuzzy texture (I don't even have a rationalization even I think it's weird)
basically I make everyone uncomfortable when I eat fruit lol
I eat watermelon seeds. Watermelon not hard enough to need to bite down hard and it's too time consuming to spit out every seeds. They do not collect anywhere in the GI track.
I've never heard someone call it the "blossom end", I've always known it to be called the Bananus (banana anus). I think monkeys typically open it on the same end rather than from the stem.
The kiwi skin on is actually very fibrous, I know someone that was constipated during pregnancy and the only thing that would clear them out was kiwis with skin on!
henceforth I'm using bananus lmao
I've been told that my pacing is weird. It seems pretty normal to want to move to think. It happens a lot when I'm on phone calls especially, but I'll pace while making decisions too
I used to move my mouse at a certain rate to do the Google captchas at a slower pace than I physically could. Not sure why I did it, but it seemed like a reasonable strategy.
I know where almost all of my physical possessions are down to the cubic decimeter.
After moving to a new place or staying somewhere regular ( like gfs place) I'll have opened every cupboard and every drawer and looked in every nook and cranny, and tested every light switch.
It's weird to hear people say 'I never noticed that lightswitch before' after they have lived there for months. Don't people explore anymore?
