Monday, April 13, 2009
Character Counter
I count all the characters in words. For example, the word "Incredible" has 11 characters. This is because the "i" counts as two. It doesn't sit well with me when words have an odd amount of characters so I try to make it even. In this case, I would capitalize every letter making it 10 characters. This makes me feel better...
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I have one similar to that, but a little different. When I see a word, a lot of the time I count the number of keystrokes it would take to type it. When I count, I include all the keystrokes it would take (including using Shift to capitalize, spaces, etc.)
ReplyDeleteFor example, Incredible (with a capital I) takes 11 keystrokes.
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3. If I skip a page in a magazine, it'll haunt me until I reach the end, and I have to go back and read that page completely.
When I enter a room, I immediately see whether the room has good "people flow" or not. I always notice how many entraces/exits there are, how people can walk through the room, and how things are arranged.
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When I brush my tongue, I'll give myself the the gag reflex three times to ensure proper cleansing, unless I feel something about to come up. Then I stop. Unless it's too late.
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I used to brush off my hair every time i went under a tree because I was afraid of having spiders or wormy things from trees getting on my head
On volume things that either include 13 or anything relating to 666 I used to never put it on those.
I don't like my foods mixing together, and I tend to eat one type of food at a time. Exceptions are made for symmetrical divisions. This is going away with time
When I am walking i notice that each foot makes a different sound when i step and i try and switch the sounds so that one foot will sound like the other
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ReplyDeleteWhen I'm upset or nervous about something I always end up cleaning... If anything is out of place I'll correct it, or I'll also try to remove a all of my objects out of sight. Maybe it's a distraction, or a way to correct something?
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