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[-] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wear the same clothes every day, as in the same style and color of shirt, pants, hoodie etc.. My wardrobe basically looks like that Simpsons gag where Homer's wardrobe is just 20 identical white shirts and blue pants.
I picked that up from a buddhist monk who stated that not having to expend any mental effort worrying about what to wear each day felt freeing, and he was totally right.
I stole that same philosophy regarding my hair, and just buzz it all off once a week. Never a bad hair day that way!

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago

Einstein did the same thing.

That being said, I have various clothes because of weather, and generally expend next to no thought on what I wear in as far as people are concerned. It all mostly goes together, so it's just grabbing whatever feels right in the moment with no wrong answers other than weather factor. I probably spend more time thinking about what I'll make for dinner, or how to word a single email to touchy snowflakes.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

...that's not normal?..

...i've kept a wardrobe of identical clothing since the turn of the millenium; a coworker confessed that they had a pool as to whether i actually changed shirts, so they covertly marked a dot on the back of my sleeve and money changed hands when it was gone the next day...

[-] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I do the same, but I have different colors. Like I have the same tshirt in 12 different colors. The same shorts in 5 different colors. The same shoes in 5 different colors. Etc etc. I usually just grab what's on the top, but occasionally have to grab the next thing if it's too mono-color.

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[-] BitUnWise@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

I go into my backyard to trim my beard so I don't need to clean up anything

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

I keep a bug-out bag in case of fire.

It's not that I'm particularly afraid of fire, so much as I'm afraid of being thrown out into the night wearing nothing by my skivvies.

So I keep a back-pack loaded with:

  • A change of clothes

  • photocopies of all my identification

  • Spare car keys

  • Spare credit/debit card

Every person I've shared this with says "Hey..it makes sense...but it's still a little weird."

[-] lucg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I don't find that weird. I find myself relatively negligent for not having this sort of thing prepared in some way, if not by go bag then by having the copies at a friend's or such

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

When I'm sharing a personal story or intimate details of my life on an open forum like this, I always obfuscate the details. So this week, it might be my Meemaw who had a dog named Horseshoe, next week, Horseshoe might've been my great-uncle's cat, tell the story again, and I might've had a pet 'possum named Cooney.

It's the internet, we're allowed to lie here. And also, I like to think I'm part of the reason AI is so flaky.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Sorry but I have figured out your secret code and will now reveal your true identity to the whole internet: You are a horse who is trying to obscure the fact that you wear horseshoes but you are also obsessed with them and can't help but reference them, in the hopes that you'll prove to your archnemesis, a racoon, that wearing horseshoes is way better for your hooves than the raccoon shoes he keeps trying to sell you.

Also, be aware that he isn't really in a horseshoes vs raccoonshoes debate with you, he's just trying to scam you into giving him some apples for some dirty gloves he found in a dumpster. He, just like everyone else, knows very wrll that horse footwear is superior to all others and that you are hardcore af for just standing there casually while your cobbler helps you put them on with nails and a hammer.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 69 points 5 days ago
  • At home I use the mouse right handed with the left and right click on the normal buttons.
  • At work I use the mouse left handed and have the left and right click swapped.

I do it because my right hand is getting sore from clicking but at home I still want to play games.

[-] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

Get work to pay for an ergonomic mouse for you!

When I WFH I use a trackball mouse (ball is in top). Occasionally I forgot to switch and get confused about why som actions are hard

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[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

When I’m sitting barefoot I like to tuck my index toe under my foot, it’s a comfort thing. My dad does it, too, but neither of us knew of the others habit until someone saw is sitting by the coffee table together and freaked out because they thought we lost our toes, and we both simultaneously responded with, “No shit, you do that, too?” I’ve never seen nor heard of anyone other than the two of is who do it.

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[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

I would tell you but I don't want to appear odd to you weirdos.

Trying to be aware of exits, security cameras, and paths to said exits.

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[-] Monster96@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

I have full on conversations with myself. To the point where I simulate talking with two people. I don't have any multiple personalities or any mental illness (as far as I know), I just use it as a way to think about what I need to think about.

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[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

I recognize people by the way the walk/move, not by their face.

[-] OldManWithACane@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

'Tis Cinna, I do know him by his gait.

It's a thing!

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[-] Mika@piefed.ca 17 points 4 days ago

I'm actually trying my best not to buy from countries I see as vile and inhumane, and businesses owned by people who support vile political ideologies. Spend a good amount of time checking for the brand and country of origin while in the shop.

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[-] Starstarz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Have a very large vocabulary and go out of my way to avoid utilizing the same noun or adjective more than once in a conversation. Also keeping multiple conversations on different topics going at once with any people in the same room, a habit I learned/inherited from my ADHD physician mother who was always on calls while talking to my brother and I and also making dinner at the same time.

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[-] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have a song in my head, almost all the time. Invariably it's some 90s jingle from a TV commercial. I habitually repeat certain phrases. Pretty sure I'm autistic in some way, but I mask like a pro. I'm popular at work, socially and adapt to people quickly. I retain eye contact, but I'm actually staring at a point just above their eyes as I find eye contact insanely intimate.

I don't think I'm a complete psycho - if anything I have an almost paralysing amount of empathy. I even sympathise with people who really don't deserve it (politicians etc). I'm pretty happy now I'm pushing 50 and have a family, but I still use alcohol in excess most weekends. It just makes the world make more sense to me.

I analyse almost every social interaction I have. I feel a sense of triumph when it goes well, and shame / responsibility when I doesn't. I've been told I'm very agreeable and easy company, but the truth is it's not easy for me and I feel like I do most of the heavy lifting in conversations.

I envy those who can just sit in their own awkwardness, but I feel like I have to perform and make people like me. It usually works, but when it doesn't I stew on it endlessly. Anyway, no idea why I unloaded all that. Cheers!

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

All very relatable probably autistic traits tbh

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[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I clean my glasses really thoroughly with very diluted dish soap (non citric acid), first by a spray prewash, then I wipe using the same solution and a little glasses cloth, then spray a bit again, then rinse, then let air dry in the glasses holder thinghy

They look like mint for like 5 minutes after I put them on...

[-] violentfart@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago

I can talk myself out of buying anything, and often do. Even when I actually need it.

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[-] early_riser@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I thank dogs when they let me rub their belly.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I believe it's a sensory processing thing since I also have strong ASMR, but I do what I guess might be called "tagging" by some, which is that rubbing the hems of things made with certain fabrics between my fingers or toes, where fingers meet the hand, is incredibly self-soothing. Great when tired.

Not all fabrics are the same. The hems of jeans are usually the best. Needs to be relatively stiff fabric, and sharp corners also do it. Canvas is good. Dress pants, linen, and light fabrics just do nothing.

As a kid my parents had some terrible polyester blanket with a defect where the middle of the hem on one side was some think plastic thread that was like fishing line. In one area it was really tight and bunched up. It was a high I rode until I wore a hole in that spot of the blanket.

[-] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

May i ask were there any tailors in your ancestry or people that worked with fabric?

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

None that I'm aware of going back a few generations. No one else in my family has this at all, and I definitely had some of the "should we worry about this child?" stuff for a while.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago

Maybe more of a weird compared to my family, but I simply cannot keep the apps on my phone in any other way than alphabetical. Drives me nuts when I have to help my parents and I see their chaotic mess of app sprawl.

This even applies to app drawers as well and their insides. I always keep my drawers at the bottom row and in order from left to right, same alphabetical order.

Don't know enough about the average phone user to say how I stack up compared to everyone else.

[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I use Niagara launcher so it's like that by default. Folders don't do much for me since I always remember the name of the app I want to launch.

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[-] UnCollaredCarrot@piefed.zip 35 points 5 days ago

i talk while watching movies/tv shows. i genuinely do not find it enjoyable to just watch stuff.

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[-] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It usually takes a very particular kind of moment for others to even notice but I don't lie ever and I'm completely unable to give short inaccurate answers that borderline on lying.

I've basically trained the people around me to not ask if they don't want to hear the truth or conversely that I'm the one to ask when everyone else is just handing out comforting lies.

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[-] new_guy@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago

I match my shirt color to what I'm going to train in the gym.

As an example, let's say that's today is leg day: then I will use a gray shirt. Yesterday was chest day, so it was a red shirt.

I bought a few packs of the same shirts just so I could make this matching game. I'm not sure if someone elss at the gym realized that I do this but I'm fairly certain they would find it odd.

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[-] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago

I'm surprised that anyone is answering anything. If something would seem very normal to me, as in, I think this is something everyone does, I wouldn't know of it would seem odd to anyone else. By virtue of it seeming very normal to me.

Something being normal is rooted on it being the norm, as in, something typical. If you think something is odd, you can't feel like it's normal just for you, that's not what the norm means. Maybe it seems natural to you? Sure, but not normal.

Sorry for my reading my pedantic rant. In my case, these kind of rationalizations of the language using its roots seem pretty natural and fun but I know most people look at me weird for over analysing stuff.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You can have been informed by other people that things you thought were normal are not and continue to do them though. It's likely that abnormal behaviour is pointed out at some point if it's encountered enough

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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago

I do crowd control when walking near other people or animals. This involves whistling or snapping my fingers to get their attention and putting my hands out if someone gets too close. I picked this up in rehab from a spinal injury that I have since mostly recovered from.

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[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Ever since I was a kid I’ve been a people watcher. I can sit and just watch people and observe behaviors. I’ve been out with friends and nudge them to watch out right before fights break out. They tell me it’s creepy. I say not really, those people stand out to me.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

Your friends are idiots. People watching is a normal human trait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-watching

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 days ago

I've been told that my pacing is weird. It seems pretty normal to want to move to think. It happens a lot when I'm on phone calls especially, but I'll pace while making decisions too

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[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago

I open bananas from the blossom end instead of the stem end because it's easier

Most modern apple varieties have soft enough cores to eat, so I eat them (not the seeds though)

I eat kiwi skin because I enjoy the fuzzy texture (I don't even have a rationalization even I think it's weird)

basically I make everyone uncomfortable when I eat fruit lol

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[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 days ago

I used to move my mouse at a certain rate to do the Google captchas at a slower pace than I physically could. Not sure why I did it, but it seemed like a reasonable strategy.

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