I don't want to be strange - someone help me? (5 Reasons Why I Think I'm Strange)

Member Name: melcat25

Product:	5 Reasons Why I Think I'm Strange
Date:	26/01/09 (144 review reads)
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Advantages: I can't really think of any! But I think we are all a little stange sometimes...

Disadvantages: Makes me feel odd and I don't like that.

I'm not so sure I'd like to go as far as saying that I am strange. That seems, well, rather a strange thing to do. Can't we all be a little bit weird when we want to be? Don't we all have odd quirks and habits, that others find annoying and just don't understand? My boyfriend, for example, cannot just eat his Smarties straight from the tube. He has to tip them all out, sort them by colour and then eat them in order, starting with the colours that there are the most of, until there are the same amount of all colours. Then he must eat one at a time, so that all the colours go down in numbers together. He gets really angry if you eat the wrong ones - that is strange!

Reason Number One
I like to play Halo 3 online. That sounds pretty normal doesn't it? (believe me, these do get stranger) Yet if I tell any girl that I know, that I like to do this, they just think I'm weird. Halo 3 is a game for boys. It's the annoying game that they play all night, chatting to their friends through those silly little headsets (why not just phone them up?), ignoring you all night and then complaining they are tired the next day. I know this is annoying, I too have come home many a day to find my boyfriend has not done any of the jobs that I left him, and then later to find out that he has spent all day on the Xbox, playing some game or other. So, I made the decision, if you can't beat them, join them! Yes, it is hard at first, but with perseverance you can get a lot better at this game. It is such a satisfying feeling when you first get a 'double kill' or a 'triple kill'. I can remember my glee when at last I could memorise the maps, and know exactly where to find the best weapons! What joys! Please don't scoff girls! I'm not fat, or lazy, or that unattractive - but this is a stress buster that beats the gym every time! It does, however, take up copious amounts of my time and this is the reason I have laid my shotgun to rest, for now at least...


Reason Number Two
I like to have Heinz Tomato Ketchup with my roast dinners! I believe (and I am hoping) that there are others among you now, who are smiling with glee, because you do exactly the same thing. I have met others who do, we are not alone!
This is a family tradition, my Nan did it, my Mum does it, my Auntie does it, my cousins do it. I don't know when it started, I can't remember. I have always done it, to the point where I only realised it was strange when I began to eat roast dinners outside of the family home! My boyfriend thinks it is embarrassing and his family (to my disgust) get the ketchup out for me at nearly every meal now, despite the fact that I only eat it with roast dinners and chips - it is like I am some kind of freak. Salad with tomato ketchup? That is weird!
Try to think of it like this, a roast potato really isn't a million miles away from a chip now is it? So is it really that strange?

Reason Number Three
I believe myself to have an ever so slightly, mild version of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). I guess this is where the whole thing starts to get a little bit serious. It is only little things, but little things that could drive me mad if I let them and didn't have the sense to realise that it is just me being strange.
For example; the blind pulls have to hang perfectly, I don't like to be able to see the ribbons from my clothes when I drape them over things, items in the cupboards have to face the right way (sometimes), I have to sleep with my phone beside my bed, the car radio volume must be set on an even number. These are all small things, and I don't have a serious problem, but gosh it is irritating sometimes - for me!

Reason Number Four
I pick my split ends and pull my hair out. This is another slightly serious, strange, but not funny strange, habit I have. It began when I was about eleven and whilst it isn't as bad as it has been, I still do it.
Let me explain. I don't sit and pull large chunks of hair from my scalp. I am not partially bald with tufts of dodgy matted hair sprouting from my scalp. In fact, I have very long, thick, dark brown hair, which always looks very shiny and healthy and which I am often complemented on. I think this may well be one of the reasons that I have never stopped the pulling! It is just something I do when I am bored or a little frustrated. I study the ends of my hairs, pick at the split ones, try and split them further (I know, this isn't good, but I've given up on not having them). Sometimes I just feel my head for thicker, or curly hairs and pull, them out, individually. Gosh, that does sound weird, doesn't it? Oh dear...
This is actually a genuine condition and I have come across other very normal people who do similar, like sucking their hair (can't manage that one) and pulling it through fingernails until it goes all curly like gift wrap ribbon. It is pretty harmless, I rarely do it in public, it hasn't affected the appearance of my hair (unless you count a few extra split ends, to which I say, a hairdresser once told me that you either have hairs that splits, or that doesn't, nothing will really change it - mine is the splitting kind, I might make it worse, but I would still have split ends regardless and also, they aren't noticeable on my main unless you look closely) the only slight problem is sometimes there is a little more hair around then there should be, but not much.

Reason Number Five
Dooyoo addiction!
Yes - you are probably guilty of this one too! Aren't we all? Like many I began this as a way to save some pennies for a little treat for me (the 'real' pennies have to pay the bills and get rid of the overdraft). It was not long before I became addicted, reviewing this and that, making friends, leaving comments, rating reviews! Wow, it has nearly taken over. Facebook? 'Facebook who' I ask you? It may not sound that strange, but I don't know anyone in the 'real' world who spends their evenings reading and rating, do you? I also now find it impossible to turn off the laptop without one quick look, to turn it on for some other reason and just have one quick look. 'I'm now going to bed...but I better check dooyoo first.' Give me my life back!!!

Summary: At least my boyfriend still loves me.