Do you have a quirk?

[cat_mioux]

I think I'm dyslexic with numbers. No matter how hard I tried, as a child and an adult, to learn my multiplication tables I just don't seem to retain the numbers. I also can't remember how to do division and %. I can do them if I have step by step instructions but as soon I've completed the maths I forget how I did it.

I am good with words though and won a scholarship at school for English/Art.

What's your quirk?

[**meep**]

I have absolutely no sense of direction but I would't consider that as a quirk ??

I have a 'thing' about food expiry dates though.  Everything in the fridge has to be labelled, eg if I remove the eggs from the carton, I also remove the date sticker and place in  the fridge.  Weird?

[tasfleur]

I am "quirky"  when I'm sewing about seams and getting them absolutely straight and matching/even/meeting in clothes and in quilts.  Can't stand them being uneven, makes them look 'battered and sloppy' .... :8}

Even in really expensive boutique clothing, I've seen that and it makes me cringe.

[soul_art]

I never drink all of a cup of coffee or tea, have to leave a bit in the bottom.....because you just never know what could be down there :8}:^O .  Can drink all of something that's in a glass just not in a cup.

don't know if that's a quirk or I'm just a weirdo LOL

[catsnknots]

Dyscalculia or Number dyslexic 

that is me completely.. 

At work we use lots of numbers.. at times I can't get one to work right on the computer and when I ask for help why it is often pointed out to me that i have picked up 7856 instead of 7865

I cannot see it for myself... when it is pointed out they all laugh at me... 😐

I then make fun of their quirk... and we are all even.... B-)

I fit into all the other stuff on the list as well... 

I am always half an hour early or I end up being one hour late... I work in 24 hr time and even after a year I still have trouble... lots of stuff like that. 

[cat_mioux]

I was going to title the thread "do you have an affliction" but decided it wasn't really descriptive of what I wanted to ask.

The examples you have given me, I would describe as a "quirk" for want of a better word.

I also never ever drink a full cup of coffee. My daughter bought me a small coffee cup thinking my cups were too large but I still have to leave some at the bottom. I have no idea why.

I also smell the milk before I pour. Even if I've just opened it. 😐

[monstersinthedungeon]

I can't hang my feet over the edge of the bed ('cos the creature that lives under the bed might bite them ?:|)

My doodles are always double-ended arrows, have always been so ever since I can remember. Actually that's probably not a quirk, but just lack of imagination :^O

I don't eat the crusts on my sandwiches. And I'm not four.

My hubby is appalling with numbers - One year after moving he still couldn't remember our telephone number. His excuse was "I never phone my own number" - I told him most people don't phone their own number, but manage to remember it!

[cat_mioux]

Dyscalculia or Number dyslexic 

that is me completely.. 

At work we use lots of numbers.. at times I can't get one to work right on the computer and when I ask for help why it is often pointed out to me that i have picked up 7856 instead of 7865

That's me too! If I have to remember a number sequence I "see" the pattern of the numbers. As in squiggles and lines. That is the only way I can "see" a sequence of numbers.

But I'm really good at those IQ questions that has patterns in numbers 3,5,6,8,12 .....

Go figure.

[purple_haize]

I have to smell the milk every time before I use it.

If I am going to an appt. I always have to be there 15 minutes before.

My OH is colour blind, he is really bad.

[cat_mioux]

My hubby is appalling with numbers - One year after moving he still couldn't remember our telephone number. His excuse was "I never phone my own number" - I told him most people don't phone their own number, but manage to remember it!

Uh oh. That's also my stock standard excuse when someone asks me for my phone number :8}

Busted :_|

I've heard of a few people that can't hang their feet over the bed! Must be watching all those monsters under the bed horror movies. I can't sleep with my wardrobe door open. Same reason. And I'm not four either.

:^O