Quirks, fetishes, phobias and compulsiveness. Please tell?

Question

I was told the other day that i have a bit of compulsive disorder in me because i get the right hump if someone opens a crisp packet the wrong way. Also when making a sandwich i have to have the top of the slice and the bottom of the slice at opposite ends.
Aren't we all a bit looney?

Answer 1

If I'm sitting at a table in the pub: the beer mat has to be straight and the right way up, if there's a picture on the pint glass it has to face me, my tobacco, rizlas and lighter are all sat in a straight line on my right lol! :) I like straight lines!

Answer 2

Yes we are. As Yogananda says, the art of becoming friends (and partners) is to discover someone whose particular craziness you can get along OK with.

Disorder, surely not! On the contrary, a bit too much order:-)

Compulsive? Doesn't sound like it to me. More like a perfectionist, perhaps? Or maybe just an artist with a sense of classical form design?

Then again, do I detect a trace of anxiety underneath your GSOH? Are you going to let other people's minds run loops around you? Can another person define you to yourself?

Answer 3

Yes, we're all weird to a certain degree! Noticing other people's strangeness somehow makes me feel better about my own little quirky things that I have to do!