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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts 
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I love to sleep in the car! Really...
I love to watch inspirational videos and baby laughing videos on Youtube for hours on end... (I know, explains a lot...  )
A few more I'll share later... 
What are your eccentricities? Come on, those stuff that makes other people tell you you're weird. But you couldn't care less... 
Be proud of strangeness here! 
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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I love professional wrestling.
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 13:26, mastermindreader wrote: 
Would not have guessed that about you, Bob...
Everyone else? I know you wanna share...
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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Wouldn't even know where to start. Thanks to my OCD I don't like to touch public doorknobs, the television or radio volume must be set to an even number or I have a fullblown panic attack, and lots of other things. Imagine if Howard Hughes didn't have all that money and that's pretty much where I'm sitting right now
I recently wrote of some benefits of OCD, one of which is that when I really get a problem in my head my mind doesn't stop working on it until every detail is perfect.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Andrew Zuber Inner circle Los Angeles, CA 3017 Posts
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I always touch the outside side of an airplane, to the right of the door, when I'm boarding. A bit silly since I'm a pilot but it's a thing I have to do before I can get on (and I only do it on airliners, but I've never had that issue when it's a plane I'm personally flying.)
"I'm sorry - if you were right, I would agree with you." -Robin Williams, Awakenings
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts
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I've got my OCD quite well "managed" myself; I still try to avoid directly touching public doors, etc, and remain hyper aware of any part of me that does touch them, or similar.
I'm a huge comic book geek, among other things. There's the obvious; I'm a philosophical anarchist, and border line pacifist. I've been in judo since I was 3; it's a family sport. We actually lived in Japan for a while when I was 8, for my father to train.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 13:58, Andrew Zuber wrote: I do the same thing! And I have no idea why. I've just always thought it was a good idea for some reason. |
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PaulPacific Special user Yes, I used my toes to type all of my 907 Posts
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I walk around barefoot almost everywhere!
Blessings on thee, little man,
barefoot boy with cheeks of tan... Outward sunshine; inward joy, Blessings on thee, barefoot boy! :-D |
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
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I talk to myself a lot when I'm alone, and in a very wide variety of characters and voices.
~michael baker
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Bob1Dog Inner circle Wife: It's me or this houseful of 1159 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 13:58, Andrew Zuber wrote: That's amazing! I do the same thing! Have been doing it since the late seventies! Only instead of touching it, I gently knock with my right index and forefingers to the right of the entrance as boarding the plane. It's kinda like an OCD thing for sure. Speaking of airplanes, I always look at my watch at the beginning of the takeoff roll to the instant of liftoff, counting the seconds. If it goes beyond forty seconds, I get nervous.
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums. |
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3691 Posts
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When we say "eccentric," what exactly are we talking about?
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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts
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I always factorize (or at least attempt to factorize) numbers I see. I often consider what words I see spell backwards. (Not when I'm really reading something... or heaven forbid, writing something. But if I see a street sign or a short sentence, almost always.)
I almost always wear sweatpants and t-shirts when I can. I used to work at kind of big, stuffy law firms. I reigned my desire to wear sweatpants and t-shirts in while I worked there. But now I work for a small firm. Occasionally I go back to the large firms for social functions or seminars. I almost always wear sweatpants and a t-shirt. I wore sweatpants and t-shirts exclusively (... not almost exclusively; I mean EXCLUSIVELY) from about 5th grade up through my second year of graduate school. I didn't cut my hair for approximately that amount of time. I typically only sleep 2-3 hours at a time, but 2-3 times a day. Every so often I'll stay up for 24 or 48 hours, after which I'll sleep for 14-18 hours straight. I also reflexively mimic sounds I hear around me. Cars honking, ring tones, door chimes, etc. Not always, but it's a pretty strong reflex. Despite all this, my wife is shockingly normal. Like... dead center normal. She even met me when I was a long hair, sweatpants wearing, vagrant mathematician. In many social circles, carrying around a deck of cards is considered an eccentricity. Does that fly here? 
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Bob1Dog Inner circle Wife: It's me or this houseful of 1159 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 14:26, mastermindreader wrote: Yikes! Three of us!
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums. |
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Andrew Zuber Inner circle Los Angeles, CA 3017 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 14:48, Bob1Dog wrote: I was going to say maybe it's some kind of Seattle thing between Bob Cassidy and I but you're a New Yorker, aren't you? So now I don't know WHAT to think.
"I'm sorry - if you were right, I would agree with you." -Robin Williams, Awakenings
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Bob1Dog Inner circle Wife: It's me or this houseful of 1159 Posts
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Native New Yorker but living in Delaware now. But definitely east coast, yes. As to what to think? I think I said it pretty well above. YIKES!
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums. |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 13:50, critter wrote: I know what you're going through bro, I suffer from OCD too... And my attention to detail couldn't overlook your statement, critter... "I recently wrote of some benefits of OCD, one of which is that when I really get a problem in my head my mind doesn't stop working on it until every detail is perfect." Until every detail of the problem is perfect? I'm sure you mean every detail of the solution is perfect, right? Forgive me. Blame it on the OCD.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 14:48, Pop Haydn wrote: Whatever about you that you think is eccentric.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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Kind of both. I have to have the most efficient course set and think of possible variations that could come up in the problem to have contingencies for in alternate solutions.
Now, this doesn't mean I'm always a perfectionist, just when something is stressing me in any way.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Andrew Zuber Inner circle Los Angeles, CA 3017 Posts
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On 2013-08-15 15:08, Bob1Dog wrote: Well people can mock us if they choose but I can count the number of plane crashes I've been in on using zero fingers
"I'm sorry - if you were right, I would agree with you." -Robin Williams, Awakenings
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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I don't know why they never let me bring my own parachute
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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