Idiosyncrasies

I once went out with a girl who couldn't (literally couldn't) drink a cup of tea unless it still had a teaspoon sticking out of it. It endeared her to me even more! It really is the little things, huh?

Haha, my mother does that! :) But yes, I love it when people have little quirks like that and I think I probably have plenty of them myself.

Idiosyncrasies?

spoons in tea?

excessive confusion?

Idiosyncrasies! Little individual traits that define you! The way you do something differently to other people – a characteristic, really, but specific and peculiar. (For want of a better word.)

haha I have them, but I never know that I do until people point them out to me :)

I have a special order for eating my fruit flavoured gummies ... it's quite complex ...

I only eat stuff in even numbers, like I'll eat 8 mms but not 9. And I have to have a straw to drink soda out of a can….

Really?  I like to eat in round numbers.  I like to do pretty much everything in round numbers ...

As for my gummies ... Never before shown to the world ... is my SECRET METHOD!

1.  Sort said gummies by colour and shape, if possible.    

2.  EAT ALL DOUBLES in reverse rainbow order.

3.  Organize the remaining gummies into a type of graph ... For example, all the colours in different columns; all the shapes in different rows. 

4.  Eat all of them, one shape at a time, in reverse rainbow order.  Example, EAT ALL THE PTYRADACTALS.  THE PURPLE ONES DIE FIRST.

5.  Finally, you will be left with one shape in every colour.  Eat them in reverse rainbow order, beginning with purple, and ending with red.

I realize this may be more OCD than an idiosyncrasy, but it's what I do.

“Idiosyncrasy,” along with “iambic,” happens to be one of my favorite words, so I had to best this. =)

Some of mine…I insist on spelling “cancelled” with two L’s even though I’m American; I have a very specific order with my bed pillows (firm on the right so I can prop it up near my table lamp, squishy on the left); I always run up stairs on my tiptoes; I always loop my lowercase Ys and Gs while writing…oh, I have way too many. =/

Oh, and Finrod, we call those ATMs Stateside.

ATMs! Thanks, iyp. I was too idle to check that.

I never write a letter 'r' the way it's taught in handwriting. 

round numbers?

uumm I make math/number patterns when im in places like the grocery, or target, or just driving on the highway. Oh i remeber one that a lot of people hate about me, the only change I use is quarters if i get pennie or nickles or dimes I leave it on a counter or throw it in a pond or I leave a penny heads up so a little kid can find it and have good luck

dumdbrunette, i'm exactly the same with numbers.

 If i'm changing the volume of something I always make it an even number. Odd numbers, as their name suggests are just...odd.

Exactly richardAM, odd numbers are indeed odd. Its not like I throw it in a garbage, I just know that I wont use it so I leave it somewhere where someone like tht millionaire in your story can pick it up ( I prefer it to be kid because I always remember picking up change when I was a kid and thinking I was rich, funny now that I dislike it greatly) o btw I've heard that saying before, about the worth of a nickle in the great depression but now adays a nickle doesnt get you anywhere, I mean 20 of them together barely gets you anywhere

Man, if I had a nickel for everytime i've heard that millionaire story… oh wait, I have, and each time I threw the nickel away…

Good point most idosyncrasies are just cute acts of OCD

No; OCD – which cannot in any way be described as cute – can be crippling, whereas an idiosyncrasy is no more than a trait or habit.

  Very true, Finrod.  I saw a television special on OCD once ... and I realize TV is no place to get your information from, but the girl they were profiling once got stuck on her driveway, unable to get to the front door.  All because she was mortified of stepping on a crack, in her cobbled driveway.  That's when she realized she had OCD, when she had to wait until her mother came home until she could get inside.

And yes, crippling.

True, OCD has been obsorbed by mainstream culture and watered down to describe a persons meticulous nature or anal behaviour, but can't habits or rituals be considered a mild form of compulsion?

Yes, I suppose.  But there is a difference between being mildly compulsive (as in liking things neat / harmless rituals)  and having to pull over your car every time you go a single kilometre over the speed limit and say a prayer before you can continue ... which makes you late for work.

Good point though, about OCD being watered down ...

Right. My compulsions (or habits) are very mild, they rarely stop me from living my life, although I have to live alone because god forbid if anybody moves my shit around... bad news. I'm just a very neat guy and if things in my life get out of order then it does have an effect on my mental state, and then other parts of my life suffer, my mind gets clouded and I find it difficult to concentrate or have clear thoughts.

Feel like I should be lying on a couch for this... you guys will just send me a bill right...??

I have this strange fasination with odd numbers.

Probably a few other quirks that I'm not aware of.

True, ODC is watered down. But I always thought that OCD had different degrees and some idiosyncrasies were just at the bottom of the OCD chain. Like the routine that kittilyn has to go through to eat gummies or that gbman and finrod have to have their money in a certain order

Idiosyncrasies are a watered down form of OCD, but they are not crippling, it's just the way some people do things. I knew a girl who had to have her pens on her desk arranged vertically, evenly spaced; and her tape dispenser and stapler horizontally at the front of her desk, all neat and tidy. I thought it would be fun to switch things around, bad idea, she became very agitated with my antics, so much so, that she had to put everything back the way it was before she was able to function again. At the time I never knew what OCD was, but that's what it was. It was still funny to me, I never did it again because I feared being stabbed with one of those pens.

Sounds like my desk…

Sounds like my bathroom … everything has a place.  Soap, toothpaste,  etc.

Hey, there are idiosyncrasies that have nothing to do with OCD or putting things in a specific order. Idiosyncrasies are just quirks, really.

Like my attraction to Ric Ocasek. That’s certainly idiosyncratic, but not obsessive-compulsive in the slightest.

Thanks for getting us back on topic, iyp!

I dont have a specific place for anything but I know where everything is

Then would you please tell me where my Massive Attack CD went to

Ok I'll re-phrase my statement, I know where most things are in my house, and since I dont own a Massive Attack cd youur on your own

I like eating sharp cheese with dark chocolate. Yes, at the same time.

What can I say? It only enhances the flavor.

I had a g/f that would absolutely hate the sound and feeling of silverware touching her teeth, or anyones teeth for that matter. It would drive her nuts and send shivers up her spine. So of course, being me,  I pushed it as far as I could… wonder why we never lasted… Hmmm…

O god I hate it when people bite down on their spoons and I can hear the metal against their teeth  eeeewwww

Wow.. i just read through all these comments and i must admit you are some wierd people lol.. if i had any of these wierd traits im sure i would never notice it like you guys do. BUT i have noticed i always pick the drink thats advertised right next to the meal at drive thrus. because its easy to decide...

Perhaps your idiosyncrasy is how you misspell “weird.” =P

haha nice one iyp, but ya I agree Geoff most of my idio..... have been pointed out to me by friends/family they are the ones who find them odd :)

I don't think anyone is really aware of their own ideo… idi… whatevers, untill they're pointed out.

Everybody has idiosyncrasies, if everybody did everything the same, nobody would have idiosyncrasies. They aren't bad things, just different ways of doing things.

I would have phrased that differently…

Better… ?