What kind of weirdo are you???

[bob the r0bot]

I actually do a variation of that that's just teeth. I rub my front teeth together for hat, chop down for snares, and click my canines together for kicks. I will occasionally click my tongue for accents and rim shots though.
I need to contact mic that shit.

[darthbatman]

I too do teeth drums and have since I were a wee lad.

I also probably do other weird shit too because people have called me weird since i was young,
but I also have charisma enough for people to not specifically call me on particular behaviors.
I excel at making people uncomfortable and turning it into a joke so everybody's having fun.

[UglyCasanova]

Umm, I sometimes catch myself growling at things ever since someone pointed that out to me ten odd years ago.

I love this. I'm picturing you, in the morning, eating cereal in a dead quiet room when suddenly you gaze over at the cereal box and let go a majestic roar.

[fishtankdork]

I'm fucking weird I love fish tanks. Wayyyyyy too much money into that. It used to be ok cause I bred fish and sold coral frags so I made side cash, but I stoped doing that and just have four tanks. The salt water reef tanks take thousands sometimes. Annndddd music. I haven't played a show or been in a band in more than a year. Yet I still buy gear like crazy. More than a thousand a month in shit. I even have recording gear and I'm just not doing anything but buying more shit and playing in my bedroom alssssooooo my best relationship has been an on off current thing with a model. Every three months we try to move in. Freak out and move out 3 months later. Currently we are on again and 900 miles away and it seems perfect. Fucked right? I read a book a day. I collect action figures. Sounds crazy but I have some toys worth more than guitars. I have way too many hobbies that cost serious money. I can keep going on if you like. I wear tie dye bandanas everyday?

[goroth]

That's a good collection of stuff Fishtank.

I can't plan anything. In fact, I hate planning stuff.

Except pedals.

I have spreadsheets devoted to future purchases, future sound combinations etc. And I have scale drawings of my pedalboard on my computer, including future purchases, so that I know how to rewire my board when I have to do that. My next board (I hate tearing down a board and rebuilding it, so I wait until I have a critical mass of changes to implement) underwent over 20 different digital iterations until I am now happy with it, so when the next purchase comes in I'll redo it.

[alexa.]

I don't like talking about myself cuz I don't want to create any mental images of a fixed-me, since I'm always changing.

I like to try stuff on my own. Like figuring out what crows 'say' with different noises. Atm they just run away if I try to talk to mimic their sounds.
Teeth/mouth drums here as a kid, kinda stopped. I used to play right hand bass lines when driving in public transportation and listening to my mp3.
My mouth is full of olive oil atm, cuz oil-pulling is an old Ayurvedic practice of keeping your gums and teeth healthy. I like to hug people. I can feel other people's feelings/intentions quite strongly at times, to the point I get confused to the source of them and think I'm the one feeling that way.

[Eivind August]

I used to have to do things four times or at least an even number of times, but I've more or less gotten over it. Not like I was super obsessed by it, it just felt natural. I also used to be pretty into keeping things in order, like having books stacked in order of size and such. Got over that too, so I kinda doubt it was serious OCD or anything like that.

Never spoke like ordinary people (at least in Norwegian), more like a mix of college text book and dudespeak. Apparently it's pretty obvious that I fake it in a lot of social settings, being overly ironic and stuff. I'm pretty cynical and calculating, but also pretty emotional and (I at least believe) I care a lot about people. Also, I'm pretty humble and can be a bit self loathing, but underneath that I'm very sure of myself (sometimes too much).

Also, it felt sort of uncomfortable typing all this out, but what the hey.

[untilshewokeme]

I never hold shift when I need to make a capital letter on the keyboard. I always turn caps lock on and off.

[UglyCasanova]

I never hold shift when I need to make a capital letter on the keyboard. I always turn caps lock on and off.

You monster.

[UglyCasanova]

Here's what I've got off the top of my head:

Still:
- I have three dogs, but I never talk to them unless other people are around and I feel like I have to. They get very confused and happy when that happens.
- I read poetry aloud to myself, with great passion.
- I count things all the time. Stairs, windows, pebbles, people, cars, letters in words, etc.
- I don't move my face at all unless I'm in a conversation or I'm aware that people are watching me. People I know who have seen me on the street always think I'm angry.
- I hate feeling full/bloated. Gives me panick attacks. Makes family dinners a bitch. I snack all the time instead.
- I have an irrational fear of fear caused by OCD. If I get into one of those kind of loops, I can be fucked for weeks on end.
- I'm always conscious of my heartbeat. I check my pulse all the time.
- I read my own posts 4-5 times to check spelling/phrasing (even here, where I'm using my second language).

I used to:
- Check to see if doors/windows were locked and if the stove was turned off. All multiple times, causing me to turn half way to school/work and getting out of bed several times every night.
- Keep nothing in my pockets but rather in a backpack because I felt an imbalance if not.
- Wash my hands for hours in hot water (fear of disease/bacteria).
- Restart my gaming console whenever I did badly.
- Do weird stuff like tap a wall five times because I thought that something bad would happen if I didn't. Classic OCD right there.

Actually, most of my weirdness comes from OCD.

[Jwar]

Yes! See this is the shit I was talking about! hahahaha! We all have it! All of us! Humans I mean. We're all weird, crazy, people. I love reading what other people do because it makes me realize "shit I think I do that too" LOL! Plus it makes me feel less alone in this scary world of people that try to act "normal".

[Uncle Grandfather]

I've been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder and am bi-polar. I'll get anxious and paranoid so I cannot go into details of my weird ways. Being this weird is no fun...

[UglyCasanova]

Being this weird is no fun...

Agreed.

"Fortunate savages! Oh, that I might enjoy the peace which always goes with you [...] sitting tranquilly beneath your oaks, let the days go by without counting them. [...] If ever your souls were touched by the melancholy which comes with excess of delight, it was but a transistory sadness, and your gaze, raised to heaven, gently sought that unknown something which takes pity on the poor savage."

I really like that paragraph. René by Chateaubriand. Fucking normal people.

[echoraven]

I never hold shift when I need to make a capital letter on the keyboard. I always turn caps lock on and off.

You win.

-I HATE shaking people's hands. Every time I do, all I can think about is washing my hands. I hate the thought of shaking hands with someone that may not wash their hands after going to the bathroom, that's like touching their junk.

-I'm sorta claustrophobic. Whenever I go anywhere I check out the exits. I have no problems on airplanes though...

-I cannot dial in a tone I like completely on a MFX, but if I hook up analog pedals up to my tonelab (or Valvetronix amps) I get tones I'm pleased with.

-I suck at guitar. Not in the "false humility" kind of way but tongue on sweaty donkey balls kind of way and yet I have an obsession with guitar pedals. I have about 17 dirt pedals alone.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I've been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder and am bi-polar. I'll get anxious and paranoid so I cannot go into details of my weird ways. Being this weird is no fun...

I was diagnosed with the exact same things when I was 16 (my S-A D manifested as multiple voices in my head), when I was 23 I took waaaayyyyyy too much LSD and went into a weird trip / coma at a festival. I remember that in my head I walked into a room and found every bit of my personality labeled on bricks in a huge pile, and I went through and threw out or broke the bricks of things I didn't like about myself and built a wall with the bricks of the parts of me I did like. I stumbled out of my tent 14 hours later a completely different person and have had no more issues in the last ten years....

But anyways... Things that make me weird:

- I'm brutally open about myself when asked, and often don't know when to not talk about certain things (see above haha)
- My eye movements and what I look at (or don't look at) weirds people out
- I have strict self imposed times for daily rituals (such as using the restroom, showering, eating) and if the cycle gets broken I freak out inside
- when I collect things I can't stop upgrading or thinking about upgrading until I get something that my brain tells me "you can't get any better than this" which for somethings is extremely expensive...
- I'm extremely socially awkward... unless I'm the center of attention or on stage playing an instrument... it's like I have to either be all in or all out....