a lot of this is stuff I never actually told anyone for no better reason than that it never came up.

[valentinew]

When I chew gum or food I chew two times on the right side of my mouth for every once I chew on the left

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me too!

[_chameleon]

This is the same reason why I slept with all my stuffed animals every night when I was a kid- I didn't want to make anyone feel left out.

[grinmaxwell]

I generally think anyone would go crazy if left out of touch with all human contact for long enough. Human contact is like a tether line to the communal reality outside of your head, and gives you the chance to check if everyone else thinks like you do and conform if you're the odd one out.
And suddenly that makes me wonder if it's because humans are social beings and thus just go crazy without human contact, or if we simply define insanity as anyone who's view of the universe is sufficiently different from the consensus or agreed norm. That makes insanity seem somehow more . . . valid? It's certainly more relativistic (though I suppose you could argue that there is a right point of view, which I don't think corresponds to the societal norm, which would make it less relativistic).
Do you ever wonder if those quirks are something precious, and if you don't share them all with someone they'll all just be lost, someday, either when you stop doing them and forget or when you die? I don't worry worry about it, but it does concern me