I love the number five. No particular reason i just really like it. drawing 5-pointed stars with 5 lines, whilst counting the lines (either doodling them on paper, or tracing them in my pocket [lol that sounds strange]), is always strangely calming.
My other favourite numbers have to be prime numbers. Especially 11 as well. Purely because i find it to be a really cool number - it is written as 2 number 1's. Adding the 2 1's together makes 2, and timesing 11 by 2 gives 22, which is written as 2 number 2's.
Generally i'm a big fan of numbers. Much prefer them to letters any day.
Other favourite sounds are water - waves breaking, sound of the sea, sound of the paddle as a boat glides through the water, etc.....
I have a problem of impulsiveness. If I'm watching a DVD on my laptop I HAVE to keep stopping it to check imdb.com of wikipedia or dictionary.com if I don't understand something. I also store things in my phone to remember to look up if it comes up in conversation.
I absolutely love music and finding emotion in music, I also like the way animals behave.
I love genetics. I like to research anything related to genetics and can do it all day if I had the time. I've been obsessed for about 15 years. I like making collages of photos and I like collections of things, or just things grouped together. I'm not quite sure how to explain that.
I'm hugely impulsive, so I will randomly get an urge to do something and I will usually follow through.
I like the smell of books.
Hate certain fabrics love others
cant eat certain food, but there are others i will happily munch on for days.
I watch people all the time, cause its really interesting. People amaze me, and disgust me too sometimes. while amazing me often. I like to try and figure out what is going on inside, like a puzzle.
i love music, but i cant stand live music as i can feel wrong notes.
"we are all the same under the skin, and I for one would skin the world to prove it" - Ayn Rand
I like to take photos of a flower. or swans, or practically anything or throwing a pebble into a pool or lake and take a photograph of the ripple it causes and capture the moment in time
I tend to look at numbers and dates - I somehow recognize patterns with license number plates and also with the dates when the trains had their technical service. Somehow numbers have a special meaning to me - I also read the obituaries and try to read patterns I have remembered from before. I know it's odd but on cemeteries, I am constantly calculating the age of the people buried- I work in a field where I need to keep much data - in a minute I can recognize patterns for myself. I can also remember numbers with more then 23 digits. These things are not useful but each assembly of numbers, dates, etc. has a strong meaning to me.. I also assign colours to letters, numbers and also years. I can remember any details I encountered in my life when I'm in some hypnotic dream state (that's amazing - everything is still here and I know the year when it was like that, everything is kept in my mind with every detail)
I also love to theorize about natural structures, I can go out in nature and would recognize resembling structures easily.. I am highly imaginative with these things and tend to cannot get enough of structures once I had begun to examine them..
On my phone I have 1000+ photos that I've seen on the Internet with an interesting caption or something on it, and I think it might be useful one day. This trait is applied to everything, I never throw things away it seems wasteful, even if I've destroyed something I'll try to find another use for it.
I tend to be half way through a scentance, and when I've made it make sense in my head I just change the topic and everyone else is "what?" and I say never mind it makes sense to me, then when they make me tell them I'll forget and make the conversation very awkward.
I tend to read signs and notices out loud, which my family finds annoying and says I'm stating the obvious but it seems to make sense more if I say it out loud.
I also run my hand along walls and notice boards etc to feel what it is, I get some strange looks but I like to touch things. My friends at school think I'm off my rocker because I touch their sleeves when I'm talking to them to see what it's made of since I can tell materials apart by their feel and quite often smell.
Sticks and stones will break your bones, but more often if your dyspraxic!!!
I have a mild form of dyspraxia 'dyspraxic tendencies' it was called when I was diagnosed at ten years old (I am now 25).
I am messy, I can tidy my bed room and two days later it will be an absolute tip and I will have little idea how it got like that. I can be prone to obsessions (this is where I feel my dyspraxia draws on asperges syndrome) for example pulling threads out of towels and fiddling with them in a dream like state for a good half an hour.
On the plus side being dyspraxic makes me quite an oringal thinker so I have a lot of friends. I also have a strong memory for very specific things ie what nail varnish, shoes or jewelry a person was wearing on a particular day, music and sounds in general. I am also very good at reading and have an excellent vocabulary however this can often make me come across as a bit stuck up despite not being at all.
As I have read on here I also have random bursts of enthusiasm for certain things but frustratingly I often lose interest just as quickly.
I like to look at peoples eye color; at all the intricate designs and patterns and sometimes multiple colors in the iris's. I've noticed that I have dark blue outlines, and in the middle I have a teal color, and that's mixed with a yellow color that's coming from the outer rims of the pupil. I also have dark red specks that I like to call "eye freckles".
I notice wall and ceiling paint. The texture of it trips me out sometimes, and I just stare at it and start seeing shapes and movement (if I don't blink my eyes).
Face shapes are also fascinating to me. I like to try and figure out what shape people's faces are: square, pear, heart, round, oval, oblong, etc.
When I ride on the train, or drive around, or am in line at a store, or eating at a restaurant, I examine people. I watch how they act and pay attention to every detail from facial expression, to their clothing styles. I like to try and put myself in their shoes and see through their eyes. I even make up stories about them. This actually helps me come up with characters for my short stories.
I can relate to what Peculiar said. I like to look at my own eyes and imagine tiny universes in every swirl, colour and shape. I also like to look at minute facial features, down to every single colour of every single cell. I like to think about how the world would be shaped differently if our perception of language was different (I can't explain what I mean by that ironically...I know what I mean). People say to me "that's why you're an artist, cause you're so weird" but I just see it as looking at the world from a completely different point of view
I notice everything and read any bit of text I see, often out loud if I have company. I often annoy people by constantly going "look at the sheep, ooh that's a nice hill, that person has a funny hat on"
I always, always eavesdrop, I don't mean to, but I do. It's got to the point where I would rather listen to somebody else being told something than ask myself. My boyfriend (also dyspraxic but in some ways opposite to me) got really peeved a few months ago when I overheard some important information and then snapped at him "didn't you hear what she just said?". Apparently he hadn't because it is rude to eavesdrop.
