I’d love to hear about your quirky habits.
One of mine is that when I’m out in nature I tend to collect cool looking rocks, sticks, cones etc. My window sills have become a geology exhibit (and I have zero clue about what I’m collecting, I just go by “ooh shiny”) and more often than not I’ll have small rocks in my pockets, bags, backpacks etc etc
I do a force swipe type gesture when walking through automatic doors, like I’m some kind of Jedi. Every. Time.
Ha, that’s great 😄 This is exactly the sort of stuff I was looking for; things that make me think “humans are adorable”
You are not alone.
I sing a lot around the house, but not just regular songs. I sing about what I’m doing or sing about my cats/wife, using the rhythm and notes from famous songs but with my own improvised lines, rather than the official lyrics
I absolutely sing to my dogs, songs with the lyrics changed towards their interests (general themes include sniffing, wagging, peeing on things, etc). I should do a compilation album.
Now That’s What I Call Singing to Cats Volume 2 with hits like
- Just a (kitty) Friend
- I Want my Baby Cat Ribs
- Kitty Got Back
- Don’t Stop Be-meowing
- Qw Wish You a Kitty Christmas
And more! Coming December 2023!
We’ll be rich.
I used to sing random shit to the tune of La Cucaracha all the damn time, which drove my wife mad to the point that I ended up putting it in my wedding vows that I promised to stop doing it.
Now I sing random shit to the tune of Spanish Flea.
This is me all day long and constantly. I learned that when I’m not singing I’m likely in a bad mood or upset.
My wife has learned it’s a sign I’m grumpy about something when I go a long period without singing
Another one for the “humans are adorable” archives!
I also do this, although much less when I’m not feeling well
Sometimes when I’m not feeling well I’ll sing to bring my spirits back up
Saaaame. I’ve made up so many lyrics for my cats and about my spouse’s butt, lol.
I do this all the time. I get great satisfaction from making up rhyming lyrics that work for random situations. My kids think I’m a little crazy, but they secretly like it (I think).
I talk to my cat. All day long. Or I tell him “I’m here!” when he’s looking for me. What’s weird about that, you ask? He’s deaf. Has been all his life.
I love to backpack and got surprised by how useful having stuff with me was. Now I wear a daypack every day and keep random odd things in it. I have a rain coat, a thin pullover, my medication, a first aid kit, a cpr shield, a water bottle, my workout plan and workout book to record them in, and even a tiny multitool (gerber dime). I sometimes refer to it as my “murse” as a joke (man purse), but I just find having that stuff with me to be incredibly useful.
Ha yeah, I go everywhere with my daypack with a similar-ish content (at least if I’m not all dressed up.) It definitely is handy
Do men not usually do this? Where were you leaving your medication before? Did you never bring a water bottle with you?
I’m a woman and one of my biggest stressors is my bag, it hurts my back to carry and I still forget tons of stuff that I need. I don’t have a car so I don’t have anywhere convenient to leave things when I’m out or at work.
I usually only carried my water bottle. I’d plan most medication to be taken at the end or beginning of the day. My wife recently converted to a Michael Kors backpack purse after years of having an over the shoulder bag and loves it. She says her back is much better with a balanced load instead of just one side.
I have a small shoulder bag but feel the same. In UK weather having a thin rolled up coat is indispensible, a water bottle, wet wipes, headphones, mobile battery, lozenges, basic medication, bottle opener etc. Comes in handy. Men have pockets sure but there’s only so much you can stuff in there.
The only problem is when it gets cold enough that I might need a pullover but might not. A bigger bag might be useful.
I carry a bag too, I love it so much
I have a load of them, including yours (collecting random bits of nature). I will also eat the same foods for breakfast and lunch, sometimes for years on end. Probably the strangest one is that my adult son and I often speak to each other in LOLCats. LIke, “can I have” turns into “I can has” every time and so on.
My girlfriend and I are autistic and we get absolutely stuck on some meals for long periods of time. We also just cycle through various catch phrases and noises we’ll repeat until they get replaced by new ones
We also just cycle through various catch phrases and noises we’ll repeat until they get replaced by new ones
I love those little “secret autist languages” that develop when you’re around each other for long enough! My friend and I used to have alternate names for everything, like “catus” for “cat”, or “hello penis” for “jalapenos”.
The noises I make at our cats are something else lmao
Yup, lots of random noisemaking around here. We cannot talk about any sort of beans without both of us chirping “BEEENZ!” in a high-pitched voice. You’d never guess we are neurospicy, oh no.
Weird noise gang! I make what my friends refer to as “notification sounds” or “alarm sounds”, funny little noises when something unexpected happens
I will also eat the same foods for breakfast and lunch, sometimes for years on end.
You wouldn’t happen to be neurodivergent, would you? Food hyperfixation is super common in folks with ADHD and/or autism; eg. I’ve been eating salads for a couple of months straight 😅 There’s variation between them but usually the base is boiled whole grain barley, different greens (but almost always including spinach), bell pepper, cucumber, scallion, maybe some sprouts, some vinaigrette, and then this absolutely lovely mirin-marinated tofu you can get from stores here
Yep, I’m autistic with a side helping of ADHD. I know that not varying my diet is bad for my health, so my dinners are extremely varied and usually plant-based, but I need my comforting sameness at breakfast and lunch.
I should definitely have more variety in what I eat, but I figure that as long as I’m eating I’m doing OK (I’ve got some health issues that have really messed with my appetite so that bar isn’t as low as it may sound.) I’m still mainly eating pretty healthily and with lots of veggies, so it’s not like I’m just eating french fries, right? 😅
I have to work really hard to plan variety into my diet as well. It’s just so easy to eat the same meal forever.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) my wife will never eat the same type of meal two days in row so that really puts a damper on my boringness.
Do you know of any papers about this or is it mostly anecdotal?
My partner and I have been eating the same thing for dinner for probably at least 70% of the last two years (marinated chicken breast in curry sauce). I’ve never liked the daily grind of cooking because I always have too many other things I want to do with my time! I do enjoy the act of cooking something complex but that has to be a special occasion for the time investment to be worth it, haha.
Good question. I haven’t actually looked into it so personally it’s anecdotal, but I do know several people with ADHD and/or autism who experience this, and I’ve got both of those and I definitely fixate.
Based on a quick Google Scholar search, there does seem to be some research into this but I’m not finding a lot. There’s eg. this editorial in Nutrients from 2021 about nutrition and ASD, and it does seem to support the claim that at least folks on the autism spectrum do have “eating disturbances”:
However, in addition to the core symptoms, ASD may have strong associations with other disorders and/or be associated with a plethora of behaviors and symptoms, such as those related to food selectivity and the consequent inadequate dietary intake [5].
Although some types of eating disturbances, such as food refusal, are also frequent in the general pediatric population, their prevalence appears to be significantly higher in ASD children, with rates ranging from 51% to 89%
I’m not sure if this is eccentric but I have a junk journal and I try collecting little bits of day to day life like receipts, tags, paper, fruit stickers, fortune cookie fortunes, and more. Most of them carry little memories and I just like having them in one notebook
Ever since that one post that some might remember, I cheer myself up by going “nyyyyowwwn” like a race car when I pass corners (walking) if I’m having a bad day.
… I may have to start doing this but with spaceship sounds (ie basically the same sound but IN SPACE)
But there’s no sound in space!
I drive barefoot. I always take off my shoes when I drive.
My parents told me that it was illegal to drive barefoot and I believed them until well after I got my license! Young me would have been waiting for the police to pull you over.
My office is where I do VR, but I need a place to nap, recline. So I put up eye bolts and use a hammock 🤷♂️
The basset hound loves the hammock and has to come up whenever I set it up.
Image description: a basset hound resting on his back in a hammock.
OP are you trying to tell us you’re a magpie?
I… I don’t know. How would I tell if I’m a magpie? Maybe I’ve been one all the time and never realized? Based on past experience I’m definitely flightless though, so there’s that
Using the manual tiling window manager notion for+20 years: notionwm.net I tried many other and was never happy with any of them…
