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All of us do things that are annoying to others and to ourselves. Share some of your quirkiest, misunderstood things that you do, if you like. The more annoying the better!
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#1
I'm in a war with myself. A little voice in my head is always calling me a ungrateful, attention seeking, show off. And the other little voice, me, is always trying to solve my problems but that other voice is just like: "you are so dumb and annoying, why do you even bother....you should just stop being an attention seeker and actually be grateful that you aren't homeless." It hurts so bad and it annoys the crap out of me.
Final score:
22points
Steve Barnett 5 years ago
I've got the same. The main one is what I call 'shouty head', it's at the top of the pecking order and is the one not necessarily saying bad things, or good things, but it won't shut the f**k up. underneath that is the 'Prosecutor and Defence' voices. The Prosecutor always puts me down, however the Defence voice argues against it. FYI, the Prosecutor is in the left side of my head and the Defence is on the right. I don't know if that means anything.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ (Submission author) 5 years ago
I know exactly what you mean. :)
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J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
Ok, so my idea for you is to name that voice... let's call it Brad. Picture brad, lets say he wears a polo shirt and golfs a lot with his dad's money. Then when you catch yourself talking badly to you,.... go ahead and out-loud say, "shut up brad!". It works, i'm telling you!
Silvaqua 5 years ago
You are not alone! Remember that you have a choice in which voice you listen to. If you feel like you don't have a choice, seek counseling.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ (Submission author) 5 years ago
Thank youuuu!! This means so much to meeeee!!!
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¯_(ツ)_/¯ (Submission author) 5 years ago
Don't worry! I do go to therapy...but im not a very open person sometimes and I have trust issues so she doesn't really know much about my issue... i'm working on it though!!
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Darlene Michuk 5 years ago
SAME, SAME Must be a thing. Or maybe i just lost my touch. Have ben saying that too often, recently.
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#2
I tend to over apologize for the smallest things, even if it's something that wasn't my fault to begin with. I think it's partially because I have Asperger's syndrome and partially because my father sometimes becomes extremely upset over small things and I don't want to upset him.
Final score:
21points
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
I have a friend who's like that but not because of Asperger's. Always apologising for everything and she's not even Canadian! :D
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
I do this too, I regularly get told that I apologise and say thank you too much. My therapist said it is like I am apologising for just existing and also I am a people pleaser. I apologise if someone bumps into me or if someone leaves a trolley in the middle of the aisle and the person has to move it etc. I even apologise if I accidentally knock an inanimate object against something. Weird I know.
Tree 5 years ago
Good to know I'm not the only one who apologizes to inanimate objects
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Little Flame 5 years ago
I do the same thing, and part of it is my dad to. But I don’t have Aspergers.
Cecilia Cheung 5 years ago
Same here, and it's my mom for me. She has borderline personality disorder, so everything I say/do is wrong. Apologizing just carried over from her to everyone else
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glowworm2 (Submission author) 5 years ago
Don't be. I've been working on this behavior for years, but I just can't break this one habit. My father is a good person, it was just difficult for him to react to me appropriately when I'd suddenly start freaking out due to panic and anxiety. When I was little and we still didn't know my possible diagnosis, my father wouldn't talk to me for several days when I "misbehaved." It was extremely painful.
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#3
I like to narrate my life? I dunno, at random times in the middle of a lesson I'll mutter "Noelle (my name) rubs her knee from where she hit it on the absurdly small desks just a minute ago" and everyone will give me a weird look. I do it all the time. Have no idea why. It annoys everyone around me.
Final score:
18points
Hope Bagel 5 years ago
I DO THAT TOO :D i don’t find it annoying though, i love just seeing the looks on people’s faces
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
yup. I do this too. My kids are now older so don't spend their ever waking hours attached to me anymore, so I don't have people to talk to much... so- I talk to myself! To the point a teenager will walk by and ask who's here... nobody just Momma having a good conversation. lol normal is boring.
#4
I bang tables and my legs as if they were a drumset without anyone agreeing to it. I know it annoys some people, but I've never actually heard someone say it personally. I don't know, I just like music.
Final score:
15points
Darlene Michuk 5 years ago
Just saying, why not take up a real musical instrument. More than likely annoys people 'cause they do not know what the eff is going on. Maybe ask them. I do. Plus, I apologize to the neighbors that could possibly have heard me. just so they do know i care. Even if i sneeze i say excuse me to myself. Lonely? No doubt.
the oreo 5 years ago
I feel you! I have an addiction to tapping everything like its a piano. I feel kinda bad but my beat is pretty good lol
Ποιητικό Αίτιο 5 years ago
Hey! I love music and tapping too! Maybe listen to a lot of it when you're home alone so you can tap away and the need goes off, so that you don't have to do it in front of others? xD And then I hope you find an instrument or dance you really like :D
#5
I'm ALWAYS humming or singing, anything from disney songs to christmas in march.
Final score:
14points
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
yup! My co-workers call me, PANDORA bc I'm literally always singing something.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
This annoys my daughter, we will be in the middle of a conversation and she will say something that makes a song pop in my head and I will start singing. I love singing but have a terrible singing voice.
Emily Duffin (Submission author) 5 years ago
Oh my gosh I literally do the same thing. I hear a phrase, and I know a song that has that phrase, and I have to sing it!
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Darlene Michuk 5 years ago
one of the comforts of life, for which i am very grateful. Every morning and every evening.
Katie Lutesinger 5 years ago
I sing while I'm at work and had no idea anyone else knew about it until the woman from the office next door casually asked if I'd thought about joining a local choir. At least she thought my singing was good.
#6
Well, I have tourette's, so you can imagine how many annoying things I do. But I'll only share 2 of them to spare you from reading all that. Number one: I'm not sure if this is annoying or just weird to my family, but they definitely comment on it from time to time. Sometimes, when my ears are really cold, I'd rub my ears with my nails (not the tip, the part you scratch with, but with the backs of the nails, the parts you'd use nail polish on). I guess I just like the feeling of my cold, smooth ear on my nails. Most of the time, I just do it for a few seconds, and then I'm just bored of it. But other times, I do it excessively. I'd do it for minutes at a time, and I keep switching which hand touches which ear. I honestly have no idea why I do it, lol. Number two: Sometimes I get really finicky, as I like to call it, because I do a ton of my tourette's habits at once. I don't have severe tourette's, so I don't twitch or do anything big like that. Just smaller things, like "laughing" or cracking my knuckles. The reason I put "laughing" in quotation marks is because it's not really laughing per se, but rather letting out air in a way that you would do laughing. I just go "Hhh." or grunt a little or something like that because it's like an uncontrollable urge that my throat has occasionally. If you have tourette's, you understand. I also have mild OCD, so that really helps when I'm finicky. I'd accidentally kick something, and end up kicking it multiple times with both feet to make sure both of my legs get their sudden energy out. It's probably annoying for both me and everyone around me.
Final score:
13points
manon M 5 years ago
without having Tourette, the trick of the nails on the cold ears, I do, I think that comforts me (I have been deaf since childhood). otherwise I had a kind of click with the tongue which apparently is painful to others. I don't no longer realize it. I think that if we know what we are capable of, the most important things is done, we are aware of our fails !! 😝
#7
i crack my knuckles relentlessly
Final score:
10points
averageperson 5 years ago
I've heard that you can get arthritis easier when you're old if you crack your knuckles when you're young. I'm not here to judge tho, I do it too and I need to stop.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Actually that is a myth, there is no evidence that it causes arthritis. the popping sound is just gas bubbles in the joint fluid popping/collapsing.
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I can't drink a lot of liquid since I have the bladder that is the size of a literal pea, but I still drink lots of water anyways, which sadly results in me going to the toilet every 15 minutes and not only me, but my friends find it annoying too. They never miss a chance to tease me about it.
Final score:
10points
Silvaqua 5 years ago
My husband is notorious for disrupting 1 hour meetings with two potty breaks!
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
Has he had his prostate checked? This is not normal for the male of the species.
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J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
Oh yes! I also have a tiny bladder, and I drink about 64oz at work a day. This results in me peeing A LOT on company time- So much that I don't take my 15 minute am/pm breaks to make up for it. I practice hot yoga tho and the drinking water in essential... so, my breaks are in the potty! ha-ha
#9
Besides existing?
Final score:
10points
#10
Before leaving the house, I check thoroughly all the items that I'm carrying: I think it relates to my Aspergers, because when I'm out and about I'm always checking to see if I've dropped something. Yes, it’s tiresome.
Final score:
9points
#11
I eat fruity pebbles dry, and one at a time.
Final score:
9points
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I just googled and they look like corn flakes and fruit loops had a baby lol.
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i draw all the time when i'm supposed to be doing my schoolwork and sometimes it will really annoy my mom but i don't draw like big fancy art but i do draw names,planets,ext.
Final score:
9points
Piri Wendriner 5 years ago
When I was a child, I draw faces EVERYWHERE, all of my booklets, school books' margins were full with miniature face doodling. I stopped to do this in my 20-s. My mother told me she did the same when she was a child, so I think it was genetic.
GirlFriday 5 years ago (edited)
GO FOR IT. I am a graphic designer and I am like this. I turned my love of doodling, colors, coloring, lettering, and all of that into a very successful career. I want to encourage you to read, too. When you have a good vocabulary and a love of drawing (DRAW ANYTHING - EVEN IF IT JUST SQUIGGLES), your career potential is unlimited. Keep making the world a beautiful place.
Katie Lutesinger 5 years ago
Hey, I did the exact same thing in school when I wasn't reading novels, and now I'm a published author. Turns out that "D" in Maths didn't matter at all. :D
#13
This annoys my family a lot, I can never moderate my voice level. For example when I’m talking to someone who is like a couple of inches away from me I for some reason I have to yell and when I’m told to lower my voice I for some reason have a hard time to lower my voice and most likely my voice doesn’t lower. Another annoying thing about me is that I always apologize for every little mistake even if the mistake is not even that important, like when I burnt bacon in an air fryer.
Final score:
9points
i-be-viben 5 years ago
I'm loud too.my family will be right infront of me and i be like "CAN I HAVE A POPSICLE?"
GirlFriday 5 years ago
I am loud too. Annoys the hell out of my family. I don't realize I am doing it and I can't seem to stop.
#14
Leave the light switch on after using the Washroom. Its been 30 years and it still annoys my parents be it their house or mine.
Final score:
8points
blugeagua 5 years ago
That is very annoying. If you're not using the room anymore, turn it off!
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
My mother-in-law insists that her bathroom light be left on CONSTANTLY and threatens your life if you accidentally turn it off. Never have gotten an explanation. Just a bad habit to break.
#15
I bite my nails and play with my hair when I'm nervous. I don't like doing it but I just can't stop
Final score:
8points
averageperson 5 years ago
I still bite my nails (not when I'm nervous, just always, for no reason) and I used to play with my hair. In fact, when I was really little, I SUCKED on my hair too. My mom kept it really short so it wouldn't be able to reach my mouth...
#16
After I laugh, I close my mouth and go "hmm." I don't mean to. It drives my husband bonkers.
Final score:
8points
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
All those things I do that drive my husband bonkers I like to remind him are the exact things he will miss one day when I am gone (dead). Tends to make him reconsider how annoying it really is lol
idkwhatsmyname 5 years ago
For some reason i amaging you are laughing out loud and all of a sudden u close your mouth and say hmm
#17
I crack just about every joint/bone in my body, randomly, and it is soooo loud!
Final score:
8points
#18
Sometimes if i’m talking to someone, and we just run out of things to say, i’ll start whispering to myself “scarlet, say something wtf why can’t you talk” it annoys everyone around me. also, if i’m having a bad day, or just super anxious i will legit just get up and walk away from whatever i’m doing (i did this in virtual math class once) and just pace back and forth and tell myself “Scarlet calm down stop being useless you need to stop” most of the time i don’t even remember why i suddenly hate myself so much after doing this, but if i do it in a small space, my pacing gets faster because there’s not much room to pace, and then i start panicking. this doesn’t happen around people often, but it annoys me, because it just makes my anxiety and self-loathing worse. sorry for ranting, i didn’t mean to make this so long.
Final score:
8points
#19
I'm not able to eat spicy food so when my friends and I go out we have to spend more money because we can't share plates
Final score:
7points
#20
I have a few annoying habits that I can think of, I am sure there are more but here we go. I have a habit of leg bouncing, when I am sitting down whether it is in the car, at the table or on the couch etc. Most of the time I am not aware I am doing it until someone says the car is vibrating or the table is shaking etc. I am a serial apologist and constantly ask “are you sure”, which I get told off for lol. Apparently there is such thing as TOO polite. I also annoy myself and hubby when we are trying to sleep coz I suffer from Willis-ekbom disease AKA Restless leg syndrome, I can’t control the leg movements. I have been suffering with it since I was 15 and for the past 2 years it has gotten exceptionally worse, my restless legs now act up on car rides, bus trips, watching tv and it has even started to effect my hands. It is extremely frustrating and annoying, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Final score:
7points
Foxxy (The Original) (Submission author) 5 years ago (edited)
I don’t like weighted blankets, my daughter has one which I tried and I don’t like the pressure. Thank you for the suggestion though.
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test parkinson or other disease ? 🤔 it worries me that it has been increasing in intensity since 2 years
Foxxy (The Original) (Submission author) 5 years ago
Unfortunately RLS does get worse as you get older and stress can make it worse too and I suffer with chronic stress. But thank you for your concern, that is very kind 😊
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I always go to my art room and when I do it, the music on the radio is always super loud
Final score:
6points
#22
when my sister is inside my room i leave the door open
Final score:
6points
the oreo 5 years ago
if only it were that easy lol. I get visited 6-10 times a day. sad times
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#23
i keep on talking about the same thing for months even a year of the same thing,but i cant help but not change the subject,and its also annoying when im talking to friends cuz i never stop.
Final score:
6points
#24
i have this thing where i am too restless when im sitting down and constantly change my sitting position... in class i end up hitting my friends chair with my legs atleast 10 times a day because of it and in addition to all that i tap my feet on the floor and my fingers really fast on the desk when im bored and i dont realize it... its prolly reallt annoying to alot of people because i end up shaking the desk too when we are studying...
Final score:
6points
Kate Gebhardt 5 years ago (edited)
Look into "sensory seeking", things like sitting on a wobble cushion or wrapping an elastic exercise band around the chair legs to push your feet on can really help
#25
I'll yell when im playing video games. Like if i'm in a tense situation ill begin yelling and screaming.
Final score:
6points
#26
I eat crackers, chips, and all kinds of other foods while sitting on my bed. No matter how careful I am there's usually at least a few crumbs in the sheets afterwards. I live alone so there's no one to complain, but it annoys me that I'm so messy. I like eating at the computer too much to stop though, so until I get a desk or couch to sit at I'll have to deal with it.
Final score:
6points
#27
I repeat sounds that I hear, such as doorbells, phone notifications etc.
Final score:
6points
#28
I am graphic designer and a pen clicker. I will click a pen or open and snap shut a marker and not even realize I am doing it. When I was working the office (we are work from home now), my coworkers would just show up in my doorway staring at me because I had been clicking or snapping and didn't even realize it. Luckily my dog doesn't mind.
Final score:
6points
#29
I'm way too quiet.
Final score:
5points
Tay 5 years ago
It isn't though... I do something similar, following behind people slightly to the left when walking with them, people find it very annoying, like I don't want to be there.
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#30
I beatbox in the weirdest places. Sometimes its quiet, other times not so much. I can use it to annoy my friends on purpose, and other times annoy them, but not on purpose
Final score:
5points
Zoe's Mom 5 years ago
I'm a procrastinator; I'm getting better at not being one. It has helped to put up a schedule of things that need to be done daily and it's working so far. Only been 1 week but I sleep allot better knowing I've accomplished at least 1 thing if not 5 in a day. Oh, and I stopped watching Netflix until I'm done with my to do list.
That Guy (Submission author) 5 years ago
Sure, but how does that relate to the post. Am i missing something?
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Screaming YASSSS while leaping across the room, I think it´s fun, mommy and daddy think it´s annoying.
Final score:
5points
#32
I always make unnecessary sounds when I bump in to people at soccer and almost any other time to!
Final score:
5points
#33
I'm always losing things. I know my son gets sick of hearing me say "It was just here a minute ago."
Final score:
5points
#34
I start stimming when I am alone or with other people. I am on the Autism spectrum, and it's hard to keep my tics under control.
Final score:
5points
#35
I snap my fingers when I listen to music I like. Not even to the beat just repeatedly snap my fingers.
Final score:
4points
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Haha, that's my signature dance move. I call it: Snapping Around. It's where I randomly snap around (fitting name, huh?), like I move hands around in random places all the while snapping. Not even to the beat, just rapidly snapping like a crazy person. :3
#36
I'm a drummer, so I tap on everything: the table, chair, couch, chest, head, doorways, computer, controller. Most of the time my wife can ignore it, but sometimes she'll (as polite as possible) tell me that I need to put the drums away.
Final score:
4points
#37
I bounce my right leg up and down, sometimes it happens out of stress sometimes I’m not even aware it’s happening.
Final score:
4points
Steve Barnett 5 years ago
Just a thought, but it might be Restless legs syndrome? https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/restless-legs-syndrome/
#38
I day sorry even if I don't need to. For example when I through the ball in soft ball and it misses the glove I yell "Sorry" from across the field. People tell me not to because it's just a game and I did no harm but I fell like I need to still.
Final score:
4points
#39
Sometimes when I forget where I am going in a room or another place then I will go where I think I'm supposed to go and then I realize that I'm going some where else to i turn around. I will kind of be spinning there for a while
Final score:
4points
zims 5 years ago
Going through doorways resets your brain. A trick I learned: think of what you need to do or get, make the sign language sign for the first letter of the task or item, and hold the sign in your hand until you've done it. (I.e. I need a glass of water, make the W sign, go to the kitchen. Why I am here? Check hand: it starts with a W. Oh yeah, water.)
#40
Always always always lose the fight with imposter syndrome. Put myself down and tell people I'm not as good as they think I am, or self sabotage a project I'm working on subconsciously so that I feel justified in telling people I suck at it. And I hate it!
Final score:
4points
Piri Wendriner 5 years ago
Self-sabotage. I always felt I have two personalities, one who is clever, talented, hard-working, makes plans for the future, dreams about successful, happy life and carrier - and the other one who stops doing these things at the last minute before I can reach those successes.
#41
I have multiple things, but what I'm terrible about is interrupting people. I have ADHD and just get excited or think someone is done talking (but they're not done). Worse, when I interrupt, it's usually to tell a similar story that the other person has just reminded me of. It's my attempt to relate to people, but is really just annoying.
Final score:
4points
#42
Oh, here's another one. Sometimes when I talk to people I switch out of the blue into a "story telling" mode. For example I am talking to my friend about a movie. All of a sudden I start talking as if I am repeating the conversation to someone else. Like "and then I told her...." while speaking to the same person. It's embarrassing 😳
Final score:
4points
#43
I always get these random jerks in my arms and legs, I have no clue what they are but its just annoying and I wish it would stop.
Final score:
3points
#44
I have an obsession with cracking my knuckles, which drives the rest of my family crazy.
Final score:
3points
#45
umm... i an 14 and dont have a phone so i have to borrow peoples. i am always stealing my friends to check my insta and stuff
Final score:
3points
#46
I say I am a noodle a lot. Yeah that's probably it but still.
Final score:
3points
#48
Whenever I'm nervous about something, I start obsessively cleaning everything I see...once I cried at my mother because the table was "such a mess" and it made me so upset.
Final score:
3points
#49
When I can't remember something, I just sit there, staring off into the distance, bouncing up and down and snapping my fingers and saying "umm ummm umm umm....." and I have no idea why.
Final score:
2points
#50
When i get on my knees like kinda in a squat my legs start to shake and also i have coversations with my self about my day i dn´t find it annoying but i think others do.
Final score:
1point
#51
When ever I’m asked Somthing from a parent or anyone I self consciously play with my hair it drives my sister mom and friends BONKERS 𝚒𝚍𝚔 𝚠𝚑𝚢!?! 𝙻𝚘𝚕
Final score:
1point
#52
I tend to fill in /complete people's sentences or thoughts. Some don't mind or even find it great that we're on the same wavelength, but some do. Once someone even told me that they find it creepy because they feel like I am reading their mind. But hey, that's me 🤷♀️
Final score:
1point
#53
when you are trying to pour a cup of water but the water just goes down the side of the glass😭
Final score:
-2points
What do you think ?
Kip Otter 5 years ago
For me I compulsively chew and suck on things that aren't really supposed to be chewed or sucked on. Like I'll just be sitting there and without even thinking I realize I'm sucking on my necklace or I'll be doing something and then I'm chewing the corner of my phone case. Usually I chew or suck on whatever is readily available, this includes but is not limited to: Necklaces, phone cases, sleeves, collar of shirts, stuffed animal (usually just the ears), etc. I don't know why I do this but it really annoys some people
meowgie catster 5 years ago
I often unfocus my eyes when im listening to someone talk, but i dont even notice until they point it out, and its not like im daydreaming, im listening to what they say but ill just be sitting there staring off into space
Theory Buchannon 5 years ago
well i has Split Personality Disorder and i always talk to myself and then I also remember literally everything...i remember what the hospital looked like when i was born....i remember my 3rd birthday....i can't stop remembering things
Kip Otter 5 years ago
For me I compulsively chew and suck on things that aren't really supposed to be chewed or sucked on. Like I'll just be sitting there and without even thinking I realize I'm sucking on my necklace or I'll be doing something and then I'm chewing the corner of my phone case. Usually I chew or suck on whatever is readily available, this includes but is not limited to: Necklaces, phone cases, sleeves, collar of shirts, stuffed animal (usually just the ears), etc. I don't know why I do this but it really annoys some people
meowgie catster 5 years ago
I often unfocus my eyes when im listening to someone talk, but i dont even notice until they point it out, and its not like im daydreaming, im listening to what they say but ill just be sitting there staring off into space
Theory Buchannon 5 years ago
well i has Split Personality Disorder and i always talk to myself and then I also remember literally everything...i remember what the hospital looked like when i was born....i remember my 3rd birthday....i can't stop remembering things
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