Used to have the same obsession with balancing things out that other people here had:
- When walking through a room, down a hall, over a bridge and so on, I had to touch both sides. So I would zigzag through the place to touch the walls.
- I used to blink with each eye separately, because I wanted to check if colours were different for each eye. So I would first blink with the right eye, check colours, then repeat with the left. A guy once started winking at me when I did this.
- Similarly used to check my hearing by cupping my ears all the time. The girls behind me in class found it hilarious.
- Crack my joints a lot. Used to concentrate mainly on fingers (and developed a great routine for cracking them all very rapidly), now it's mostly my neck. So I do lots of weird movements with my head.
- Often pretend to have dialogues with people. I think I do it to check what my reaction will be to various developments in the dialogue, and adjust my responses accordingly.
- I like to think that there's a crisis somewhere, like a hostage situation, a robbery, a fire and so on, and I'm the only one to actually do something about it. So I pretend to burst out of the terrified crowd, run towards the terrorists and floor them with kicks to the head. Or run into the burning building, find whoever's inside and drag them out, collapsing once I'm outside. Saving the day. There's always a girl I like in the crowd, so I guess all this is just to impress her.
- When walking on stairs, I always had to make sure that I stepped on it 14 times. So if the stairs had 15 steps, I would hop over one. If it had 7, I would step twice on every step. This could get horribly complicated at times.
- Used to have a weird way of going through doorways. It involved lots of stepping.
Luckily, I've grown out of the balance-obsessions. And the 14 steps-thing. Whoo-boy am I glad I don't do those things anymore.
