<p>One of my friend's colleges asks for an essay about a personal idiosyncrasy. It got me thinking - I guess we all have little quirks that we don't really even think about. What are YOUR little quirks? What idiosyncrasy would YOU write about?</p>
<p>I’m pretty much always humming or singing, even though I don’t like music all that much. I used to get in trouble for it in elementary school. One time some little kid asked me if I took humming lessons. :p</p>
<p>I’m always doing some sort of choreography while in my seat as time goes by and I crack my knuckles and play with my fingers a lot.</p>
<p>I have a lot of weird quirks. My sister (who is the most popular girl in her freshman year class) thinks I am the biggest weirdo. But we are also super tight. :P</p>
<p>I have synesthesia, I write sonnets when I can’t sleep, I make stories out of pictures to pass the time…I don’t know, I’m weird. And clusters of holes make me gag, but I don’t know why.</p>
<p>I play the drums, so I’m always tapping my hands or feet to some odd random beat. I didn’t even notice until someone told me to stop one time after it apparently got too annoying.</p>
<p>I tend to hum a lot, and I say my thoughts out loud sometimes without noticing. I also write philosophical essays best when I’m sleep-deprived, and I sometimes think of random things and cringe. </p>
<p>I’m a strange person.</p>
<p>The texture of some paper really messes with me. It sends chills down my spine and I have to lick my fingers and scratch it to stop the feeling. Don’t ask… :P</p>
<p>I’m scared of most invertebrates.</p>
<p>I have a habit of using unusual or out-of-place big words when I speak. I’ll be talking about my latest mall trip or a celebrity I think is hot, and all of a sudden, “amalgam” or “physiognomy” will come up.</p>
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<p>I cannot eat or drink out of some cups, plates, etc. Some just look dirty or nasty to me even when they are clean.</p>
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<p>I get the same thing! I’ve never met anyone else who’s like this except my mom. </p>
<p>I also organize my food. it’s a bit strange. if I’m having, say, mashed potatoes, chicken, and peas, I’ll try to proportion everything so I get the right amount of each in each bite. I didn’t really notice I was doing it until I get older</p>
<p>EDIT: I just looked up the holes thing. turns out its called trypophobia (don’t look it up if you think you have it, a bunch of pics come up), not <em>officially</em> recognized, but IMO, it should be</p>
<p>OH MY GOD. DO NOT LOOK UP THE PHOTOS. I have trypophobia now. !!!</p>
<p>I get words stuck in my head when I don’t know what they mean, and I can’t stop thinking about them and trying to guess what they mean.
The latest one is “insouciance.” It bothers me and I’ll have to go Google it now.</p>
<p>I can’t rub carpet for long with my palm before it starts to feel uncomfortable.</p>
<p>OH NO! I looked up Trypophobia and I cant sleep! Somebody help me!!</p>
<p>^I know, that was just creepy. I don’t have an issue with holes but…those were just weird holes.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m pretty sure anyone would get freaked out by the images of trypophobia on the Internet. xD</p>
<p>I’m not sure I would call mine trypophobia though, because I’m not afraid of them. I just feel really sick when I see them…they bother me, like a huge flesh wound or something. I can’t make macaroni anymore because when I microwaved it the noodles were sticking straight up when I took them out of the microwave. I have no idea why, but it bothered me so much I couldn’t sleep or eat for a while.</p>
<p>Up until 5th grade I had this fear that everyone in the world could read my mind but weren’t telling me. I used to ask my teachers what I was thinking and if they didn’t know, I’d assume they were lying. I sometimes still get it when I’m thinking bad thoughts but then I remember that it is just in my head…or is it? ;o</p>
<p>I sing whenever I swim or cycle, people must think I’m crazy when they see me.</p>
<p>I would also like to add a warning against googling trypophobia. It’s just gross clusters of holes, but it will make most people feels sick. Particularly the ones on google images which are in skin.</p>
<p>okay, so maybe no one should look up trypophobia then xD it’s strange though, there have been a lot of times when I’ve gotten freaked out by it, but everyone else around me was perfectly fine. like one time when my mom bought these crunchy fishsticks. I just want to cry and scream and run. it’s really different from normal fear where I feel more paralyzed</p>
<p>I never knew that being creeped out by holes was a thing, I thought I was just weird. Whenever I see a bunch of holes I have to scratch my arms. Also, I associate colors with different thoughts, so I guess I kind of think in colors.</p>