Esmenet wrote:

Does associating everything -- everything -- with Utena count as a mental quirk? If so, I'm well on my way . . .

It's more than a quirk, it's an obsession~


I won't go out the house without kissing, patting or saying goodbye to my cat. Does this count as a quirk?

When I feel ignored or embarrassed a little bit, I yawn.

When I'm nervous, I tend to flip my hair to the right. When I'm watching TV or concentrating on something like playing my trombone or piano or writing, I rock back and forth. When somebody says something that I generally agree with, I say "Riiiiight?". This happens a lot. Anytime I hear the song Snakes On A Plane (Bring It), I get really excited because that's the ringtone for the chick I'm talking to, and I always associate the song with her. When I get mad I have a tendancy to run my hands through my hair a lot. Any time I go out, like to the movies or out to eat, I dress as much like a guy as I can to see the peoples' shock when they hear me speak and realize that I'm a girl. Yeeeeeeeaaaaah. The list can go on.

When I'm thinking very hard about something, my lips purse. I don't realize it until I come back to myself, and then it kind of embarrasses me.

And, I do that speech thing, as well. My vocabulary and manner of speaking will often change if I read the same thing for an extended period of time. This is one of the reasons I love reading Anne Rice novels. After I've finished one, my vocabulary is always much more flowery and poetic.

I correct people's pronuncation. Pisses them off, but I can't help myself. Also I always put everything away where it goes, even if I'm going to be using it an hour later.

I play with cartilage earring when I'm nervous or expectant of something, I crack my knuckles/ neck incessantly, I walk purposely slightly bowlegged when I'm feeling conceited or feeling especially sexy, I use accents when talking to strangers just to see if they'll be able to tell if the accent is natural or not, I speak proper English when I'm talking to anyone when I'm angry, I clean my ears after I take a shower, and when I'm speaking animatedly, I speak with my eyebrows, not my hands. I also correct people's spelling and their pronunciation.

Esmenet wrote:

Physically, I have a tendency to go up and down stairs on my toes.

I do the same thing when I go up steep hills.

When I finish a carton of milk, I feel the need to fold it up in a certain way until its flat.

When I am expected to speak a lot of rehearsed lines like I was when I used to do charity goor-knocking, I find myself talking more and more in a peudo-Scotish accent as its the only way U can continue without my voice getting tired.

I eat pizza like a catapillar eats a leaf.

Oh about milk....I can't eat cereal WITH milk, only dry.

A lot of my quirks have already been mentioned here. But I've got some more up my sleeve!

I write words with my hips sometimes. I don't really pay attention to specifically when.

I will lift up one side of my body when I'm driving in the car to "avoid" roads, street signs, or telephone poles.

I absorb other people's quirks, such as scrunching up my face when I say certain things, calling out "brawp" on occasion...

I also sing constantly. I'll sing the things written on signs that I pass, I'll sing songs about my dog, I'll sing to people, I'll just sing songs, I'll just sing sounds. I especially like to sing with a well-placed gargle/rolled "R" here and there; it makes me sound like a raccoon version of Billie Holiday!

I tap and drum on things, of course.

I meow just like a cat.

I use lots of weird voices. Go figure, hmmn?

And I call everyone "dear." My parents, my friends, people I hate, teachers... Everyone.

Sleeping:  I sleep with the covers over my head with my feet sticking out.  Mother tells me I sleep exactly like her father.

Nervous:  I scratch my neck, tap my foot incessently, rock back and forth, etc. I also find myself counting things for no reason at all.

In choral or symphony rehearsals, I yawn for no reason whatsoever.  It pisses my friends off and usually results in me being thwapped over the head.  I do the same thing when mother drags me to church or have to go anywhere I'd rather not go to.  I'm hardly subtle about it, eithr.

Annoyed: Tendency to mutter to myself.  Drives my mother insane.  Had a school mate ask my friend if I had a mental disorder...yeah.

Laughing: I don't laugh.  I cackle.  Supposedly like Mandark (sp?).  I'm also prone to hand clapping, thigh slapping, desk slamming, head hanging, side rolling, finger pointing (if someone is a victim of fate), and the works.  I am a very evil person.

I think that's all I'd be willing to share at this point.

KillerxXxQueen wrote:

I also hate when the Republican Party allows Sarah Palin to speak to the press. It gives me hives.

You might want to notify your doctor about that.

I also laugh at things others don't find funny AT ALL. Like in the Omen when the nanny hangs herself at that huge party. Frickin hilarious! Also, American Psycho. It's basically my favorite movie right now. I can laugh at anything and everything in it.

Lord, yes.  That's wy I'm not popular at stupid girl gatherings when everyone wants to watch a horror movie as I am prone to laughing my ass of every two minutes when watching a horror movie.  Remember The Haunting?  When the guy gets decapitated: f*cking hilarious.  My friend and I almost cracked up at the end of The Notebook (not a horror movie, obviously, but similar principle), as well, when the old people die.  Great comedic timing.

Last edited by spoon-san (06-13-2009 05:51:47 AM)

Syora wrote:

From Dexter's Lab?

That's the one.

The DKC2 thing was cute.  I kinda move like that, sometimes, when playing a game.  In a pickle, movement grows more jerky and thus more noticeable.