Is it normal to have a ton of habits as a child?

Young twenty-something people really over-blow and obsess about obsession it seems. Inflating little childhood habits and games into OCD is silly. Put the DSM down and just take life for what it is.

Children have strange habits and tendencies.
Damn Modern Psychology fad hype for making us think that every little quirk is a fucking mental illness.

I wonder what caused you to change so drastically. Did you smoke a ton of weed or something? :P

in your case yes, thank goodness

I did the circle deal and it faded but sometimes i still feel the need to do it or if i touch something with one hand i have to do it the same way with the other before i can walk away or it feels weird and i have to do it all over

Are you serious? I have those exact same ones! And I still do, unfortunately. Just as strongly as when I was a kid, too.

Lolwut

I had a lot of habits too. The cigarette habit, the weed habit, the alcohol habit, the cocaine habit, the animal torture habit...

I had it too when I was younger.
I had the counter rotating thing.
In addition, I would always walk back from somewhere on the same route I took there even if it was longer and inconvenient.
I would always attempt to take the same number of steps on each foot when going up a staircase.
I always set the volume on the TV to an even number. (and still do out of habit now)
I'd always try to keep everything symmetrical - from posters put together with glue to even spacing of components on the window of a computer program.

I sometimes still get these, but only when I'm bored and have nothing better to do or think about.

Now that I think about it, I'd prefer to consider them mental games devised to keep my brain active and prevent it from succumbing to boredom rather than serious OCD.
Even back then, I could resist these urges, it just made me uncomfortable, as if my level of perfectionism wasn't achieved.

You grew up.

Yup
I was pretty much the same when I was younger