Things you do that people don't understand

[China Rider]

What do I do that people (my friends & associates) don't understand?
One that comes to mind is that I enjoy being alone, doing things alone

Same here, although the only thing I prefer to do alone is eating and music listening. I definitely would rather do something alone vs being with not so good company , I don't see a point of attempting to get someone/s you really don't like that much to tag along just for the sake of not doing it alone.... Sometimes I go to concerts, golfing or fishing alone and people think it's weird. I think people who are afraid to do things alone are weird:D

 

[n3ophy7e]

One that comes to mind is that I enjoy being alone, doing things alone, going to the beach, movies or whatever going for a bike ride or walk in the bush. I love being lone, as much as I'm a people person and a really good intuitive communicator I prefer to be alone and I really do enjoy it.

Me too actually mate, which is quite surprising because for so many years I was obsessed with going out and socialising as much as I possibly could (normal for late-teens/young adult years). But now I have really learned to appreciate my own company

I might have to give that coin toss decision making idea a go.

Man, my boyfriend SWEARS on the coin-tossing method of decision making!! He always has. It NEVER fails to deliver.

 

[PLUR2000]

I have GAD & Panic disorder as well as AD/HD.

I take 1 klonipin, 2x 10mg Dextro-Amphetamine, and 2x 10mg Norco when I wake up... most ppl just ask what i took and laugh. then I do it three more times a day. (I tell them to talk to their doctor)... it does get me some odd looks. but i don't have many painic attacks and I am paying attention at work as well as not in back pain. (What do they think should happen?)

Oh, and even with all that I am still phobic of cake (band and food) and agorophobic... but small compaired to being the "cat lady" guy version!

 

[cletus]

I have to work in blocks. What I mean is, that I can't start something & follow the route like everyone else does. For example, create the paperwork, print it, sign it, photocopy it, file it & repeat. I have to create it all, print it all, sign it all, photocopy it all & file it all in blocks. It just makes sense to me. Why chase your tail all morning, when you can just blitz it & go do something else.

When I was in the workshops & it was my turn to sweep the floor, I had to start down one side & sweep everything up to the same imaginary line, then down the next wall etc etc, until it all met in a neat square in the centre. People laughed at me, but they damn well knew it had been me who did it because it was done properly all the time. When anyone gave a hand I used to chase them because they would fuck up the system. LOL :D

 

[Tdaddy]

I have the opposite problem. People don't understand why I don't smile very often. They usually ask "what's wrong?".

Nothing's wrong! This is how I normally look!

lol...thats exactly how i am. i hardly ever smile. if i do im with some good friends and shittin around. i hardly ever talk unless its to my gf or my best friend. i hardly ever talk to someoone i dont know. it really gets me in trouble alot. people dont think im friendly or something....i really am a nice guy. but i just dont like to talk that much. just the way i am. im getting better tho. i dont like not to talk and come off as unfriendly it just happens. i was made fun of alot when i was in middle school. it really fucked with my mind and still effects me. people just dont know what they are doing to people...

most of the time, not always...id rather be alone, or just with my gf. i hate going to parties. i hate bein around people i dont know. i just enjoy being a loner i guess. it doesnt bother me a bit to be alone. my parents FREAK out about this. everytime someones over at our house they flip when i dont want to sit down and be with everyone....what good is that gonna do me? i just get pissed off at my parents, and i dont say a word. LOL.

 

[Venrak]

I have to work in blocks. What I mean is, that I can't start something & follow the route like everyone else does. For example, create the paperwork, print it, sign it, photocopy it, file it & repeat. I have to create it all, print it all, sign it all, photocopy it all & file it all in blocks. It just makes sense to me. Why chase your tail all morning, when you can just blitz it & go do something else.

When I was in the workshops & it was my turn to sweep the floor, I had to start down one side & sweep everything up to the same imaginary line, then down the next wall etc etc, until it all met in a neat square in the centre. People laughed at me, but they damn well knew it had been me who did it because it was done properly all the time. When anyone gave a hand I used to chase them because they would fuck up the system. LOL :D

Hahaha, wow, you remind me of myself. Which is scary, because I usually try to hide from myself, lol...

I too have to "work in blocks" as you do...I agree, it just makes sense. We may have some anxiety issues, the two of us, heh.

When I'm washing the dishes, taking a shower, or anything involving even slightly pruny, wringled fingertips I cannot fucking stand them touching each other. Or wooden spoons that are wet, anytime. Fucking sends shivers up my spine and makes me wince as fingers on a chalkboard would to others.

I pee in the bathroom sink sometimes when I'm too lazy to walk two feet and turn around to pee in the toilet...

It goes to the same place! and I wash it down, so I really don't see the problem.

Oh, and I have a penis to facilitate things.

 

[undead]

when drinking from a cup, glass, or can, i ALWAYS drink from a straw. bottles on the other hand, i drink straight from the bottle.

i hate talking on the phone when people are near by. i get anxious when someone tells me to call someone else, i'll hand them my phone and tell them to call, if need be.

 

[kultron]

I like to drink my tea right away so sometimes I pour it into the saucer to sip it.

 

[PVMD]

Unless, of course, you're talking about the parables of Jesus. In which case, one or two sentences of standard prose would have made his fairly trivial points much more clear. But, it is a common practice of con artists to speak in a confusing way, so that they come across as "deep".

Yeah... Worries me how well that works.

 

[PVMD]

Binge Artist and PVMD, I think often times a narrative story is the best way to get a point across if you want to reach a wide audience, because it invites the listener to personally relate to what's being said, and is easier to remember, because it makes use of semantic memory. I can say this with confidence coming from a family full of teachers. Consider yourself lucky if you're good at remembering and digesting important learnings in dry matter-of-fact prose alone.

It's similar with poetry. Poetry in all languages traditionally has meter, alliteration, and rhyme because that made it easier for illiterate people to memorize large amounts of it.

I totally agree, however; (and now I will convey my point with a little story)

"-Give a man fish and he eats for a day, teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
-You wanna learn how to fish!?"

 

[LoveAlways]

Bluelight. I think for some reason a lot of people tend to associate "internet message boards" with pedofiles . I'm still trying to figure out a way to describe it to people without having them look at me like I just said I'm into sniffing dead bodies...

Also when I go to McDonalds I like to order a double cheeseburger (with everything), fries and a hot fudge sunday. I prepare the sunday with nuts and mix it so it turns into shake consistency, place the fries inside my burger and pour the sunday over my burger. Yes I was stoned when I came up with this creation, but you know what? fuck you its tasty!


p.s. I don't understand any of the rest of you!!

 

[Belisarius]

Nine times out of ten, I do things the hard way. Even when I'm told it's the hard way.

A little aside for illustration: perhaps some of you remember an old Darkwing Duck episode in which he goes back to the time of the dinosaurs, only to find out that they died out because they were unbelievably stupid: their cars use stone tires on inflatable roads, they raise entire buildings above and below street level rather than build elevators, and so on. Though I've been called intelligent, I do have a similar regrettable tendency to miss (and often, ignore) the obvious.

Just a stubborn bastard, I guess.

re Neo: Ditto for hating monkeys. They're people without the bullshit that makes people bearable...

 

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

I guess that's another thing people don't understand about me. I really dislike monkeys, and especially chimpanzees!

Ditto for hating monkeys. They're people without the bullshit that makes people bearable...

I've come to associate images depicting monkeys, apes, and chimps, especially ones where they're posed doing human-like activities, with militant atheism, especially among academic, scholarly crowds. That's pretty much ruined monkeys for me.

 

[rant*N*rave]

Nobody understands that I like to argue for fun (argue as in debate). Even if I get really heated about it and sound like I'm angry, I'm not. My dad is the same way - we get all crazy debating politics, and 5 minutes later we're laughing about something. Really my whole family is like that. I just love learning everything I can and I love challenging my idea and other people's. Some people like to train their muscles, I like to train my brain. It's a fun challenge to try to defend a statement or opinion and take it as far as possible.


People also don't understand why I don't want to go out very much lately. It's because I live in a college town filled with shitty dive bars full of raging douchebags. It's a small city with nothing really going for it, but everyone likes to pretend it's fucking Chicago - we have a considerable population of people from the east coast who think they're all better than us, and even more posers from farm towns around here that like to pretend they're rich kids from the coast. And there's not one single dance club anywhere within 20 minutes of campus!!! Why would I want to go pay 6 bucks for a small rail mixer in a hot, crowded, dirty bar when I can drink at home with my friends and have movies and food and all that right there? And be able to jump on my boyfriend... :D

 

[axl blaze]

one thing that I do that my friends have lately taken to arms against me is when I am chewing gum and I feel like saving the piece of gum while I do something else with my mouth, I will set it on a napkin or something as equally clean. fast forward two minutes later and I will put the piece of gum back in my mouth. I guess this isn't the most appetizing thing in the world, but is it really that bad?

 

[law12345]

be myself but even I don't understand that sometimes...
also, majorly, i'm too fun-loving and one-worlded which people think of as me being an ass or an idiot oblivious to the customs of the world.

 

[Rogue Robot]

be myself but even I don't understand that sometimes...

Same here. Not many people get *me*, and while I've tried to make it easier for people, I feel like I lose a lot of myself and my general quirkiness in doing so.

 

[Changed]

-eat the cheapest, healthiest food I can find (people get offended or angry when they realize what my diet is... I have no idea why).

-I don't work (people can't grasp the fact that I find work the same as slavery... I think everybody else is crazy)

-being a Buddhist from New York

-not wanting to have a career, kids, family, etc...

-psychedelic drugs

 

[HoneyRoastedPeanut]

-I don't work (people can't grasp the fact that I find work the same as slavery... I think everybody else is crazy)

They are, that's what wage slavery does to ya. No joke...

As far as myself:

I break out in meditation in the middle of a party.

I like anchovies with my french fries and ketchup.

I drink the dressing out of the bottom of a salad bowl.

I believe all life is conscious, and language-based consciousness is overrated.

 

[cerealbowl]

People really don't grasp a lot of things I do like shunning Facebook/Twitter/Cellphones and all of the bullshit associated with this thing we now call society. It actually disturbs me sometimes to see how integrated these things are with society... people find me weird for having such "pretentious" taste in music, but as a musician and an artist it's just extremely apparent to me when something is created for impure purposes and is just kind of a bland, flat, emotionless construct.