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When people are talking to me I follow along on my fingers and count the number of syllables in what they say, especially if they're particularly boring. If I feel particularly clever, I'll rearrange the words in what I say so that the syllables make a particularly nice pattern.
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Comments (18)
Anonymous
Wow cool.
Youve gotta be pretty smart to do that, actually.
Shakespeare-esque.
You should write plays/poetry or something!
Anonymous
Have you considered that you are obsessive-compulsiveness? You make it sound as if you do it when people of talking, not just when they are boring you.
Anonymous
It might be obsessive compulsive, but it's pretty cool! As long as it doesn't hinder you socially, what's the harm?
Anonymous
hey i used to do that! you rock. do you ever find numbers form mailboxes or zipcodes and try to rearange the numbers to find patterns. thats fun too
Anonymous
I count every letter in every word people say to me. I'm frustrated if it doesn't come out to an even 5 or 10. You're not alone.
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Apparentally serial killers have a tendancy to obsess over details like that.

Now I advise for everyone to discard what I previously said and give this fine man your names and addresses.
Wow. I thought I was the only one who did things like that. I count the number of letters in everything that is said on my fingers. I don't like it when the total of a sentence is odd. If it's odd I include spaces and grammatical markings to try and make it even. If it's not even after that, it bothers me.
wowww thats cool you should be a poet! seriously!
Like what kind of nice pattern? Give us an example.
And I thought I was strange (I make lists of names and words). Can you say "Oh see dee"?
Anonymous
u should lick my nuts
And you can still concentrate on what they are saying??
Step 1: purchase .45 revolver.
Step 2: load one bullet
Step 3: place tip of barrel at temple
step 4: pull trigger.
sounds obsessive compulsive to me, try iambic pentameter with an ababcc rhyme scheme, then publish it and see what you get.
OCD is what you have, i think
I used to do that, cept i used to count the number of letters in every word, then see how many syllables the word had, and then finally divide the amount of letters by the syllables, so i could get the average amount of letters per syllable...

omfg
Cool