Name 5 things you hate which people consider to be unusual

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1. The sound of people breathing loudly
2. Talking on the phone
3. Greeting people (I just really don't like saying "hi" to people)
4. Unexpected visitors
5. Nuts

1. The sound of people scratching paper, scratch and sniff things, pillows, chalk boards etc.

2. Grease on my feet.

3. People "tickling" or jabbing without warning. This makes me jump or even fall down in surprise / shock.
a. People touching me when the know that it freaks me out makes me enraged that they would do it knowing what my reaction would be. One time I was in Sam's Club with my sister and mother. My sister had been touching my back and shoulders in the store and I kept glaring at her and telling her to stop. I kind of cracked at the check out line. I yelled at her to stop, it sort of attracted attention.

4. Too much noise. I swear that every single dance I've ever been to has the music turned up to about 5x what the volume should be.
a. Also, being surrounded by people talking is kind of frustrating / claustrophobic. I just feel like, "I need to get out of here!"

5. People being... not smart. It's so annoying when the solution to a problem is so freaking obvious and someone just guesses, or makes a random choice and they don't even think about their action / answer.

6. People trying to help me be social. Sometimes people will go up to me and try to help be get involved with a group or make friends. I'm not sure why, but it makes me kind of mad. I just feel like, "leave me alone".

7. Other people's saliva touching me or anything I own. It's gross, and after I get any saliva on me, I have to wash my hands a few times. Also sweat, or people touching me can make me feel like I need to wash the part that they touched. Especially if there's any sort of residue on their hands though.

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8. The mixing of peanut butter with jelly in jars and vice versa. I always use two utensils when I make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Same goes for mixing tuna and mayonnaise, and also bread crumbs and butter. I don't like when food mixes in their containers.

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1) Sex
2) dancing
3) massages
4) using the phone
5) the summer (too hot, too much sunlight)

If I mention I don't like one of the above, people either don't believe me or think I am crazy.

1) Cheese and anything made with cheese. Even the smell of cheese.

2) Using scientific language unscientifically. We frequently hear people say "I got a theory ...", but it is very rare that they have a theory. They don't know what the word even means. What they have is usually, at best, a conjecture. For something to be a theory, there has to be established evidence that supports it strongly. "Theory" is just one very small step removed from "fact".

3) Using "that" to refer to people. For example, "My neighbors that raise cattle." I understand that it is acceptable to use "who" or "that", but "that" just sounds so wrong. I greatly prefer "My neighbors who raise cattle." The really bad thing is that the use of "that" to refer to people is so common that I occasionally find myself doing it subconsciously.

4) A number of certain food and restaurant practices. For example:

4a) People who take their dirty plate back to the buffet and refill it instead of getting a clean plate. Also, restaurants that permit people to do so. To the best of my knowledge, this is illegal in all fifty of the United States.

At one Chinese restaurant in central Texas years ago, I saw some kid take his plate back to the buffet, carefully dump the various food items on the plate back into their places on the buffet, and then refill his plate with other food. Needless to say, I refuse to ever go there again.

At a Chinese restaurant in Oklahoma a few years ago, I frequently got after the manager about not having a sign as required by law to tell people to get a clean plate when returning to the buffet. They refused. Then my nephew who was a firefighter in the town told me about seeing the manager take plates off of tables and scrape food back onto the buffet table. If you order from the menu you aren't safe because anything on the menu that is on the buffet is filled from the buffet even if you order it off of the menu. And if they are doing that at the buffet, you really have to wonder what they are doing in the kitchen. I categorically refuse to ever step foot in that place again, even if they change management.

If you are going to eat there, you might as well eat out of the garbage cans around back -- you get the same food for free.

4b) People who "wash" dishes by just dipping them into water and rinsing it off. If the dishes wasn't scrubbed with a dish cloth, or ran through the entire cycle on a properly working dishwashing machine, they haven't been washed. It's amazing how many people I've seen just hold their plates under running water for a few seconds and dislodge any scraps they see with their fingers and consider them washed.

4c) Going to any restaurant where I am one of the younger customers. I'm 58. If that high a percentage of their customers are older than me -- that is, if that low a percentage of their customers still have any sense of smell and taste -- then there is a something terribly wrong with the food. It is bad.

I eat dinner on Sundays with my oldest brother and his wife. My oldest brother wants to go to the same restaurant every Sunday and he doesn't choose restaurants for the quality of the food. One restaurant that thankfully closed a few months ago was his favorite for years. I asked my nephews wife who works at a hospital why they never ate there and she said that they saw far too many people at the emergency room who had eaten there an hour or two earlier. I don't understand why the health department allowed it to stay open.

The place we go now is not much, if any better -- I feel sick after eating there about one third of the time.

4d) Restaurants where the waitress/waiter takes the glasses back to the kitchen to refill them. You know very well that they really don't keep them separate. In some cases, you might not even get the glasses back from your own table. The only acceptable way is to take a water pitcher out to the tables and fill the glasses there.

5) Movie theaters. It used to be that people would sit there and enjoy the movie. These days the movie theaters are filled with twerps who seem to think that people paid their money to hear them go on and on about things instead of the movie. If you are at a movie, keep your mouth shut. Or go outside.

I've also seen people put their feet up on the backs of the seats in front of them which greatly interferes with the view of the people behind them.

The movies being shown have gotten far too loud. It can be quite painful to even go to a movie any more. I suspect that they are so loud to try to drown out the mindless twerps who sit there talking.

We need more drive-in movies. There you can adjust your own volume and if you want to sit there and talk to the others in your car, feel free to do so -- just close your windows first.

I've pretty much given up on movies. In the past ten years, I've been to precisely one movie at a theater -- one of the Lord of the Rings movies. I just wait for them to appear on tv or get a copy on DVD at the store.

1. Touching most kinds of paper. Yes, I have to do it, but I cringe every time. Drywall, too.
2. Using pencils. Horrible feeling. Makes me shudder. I use pens for everything.
3. Salespeople who ask if I need help/waiters who ask if everything is ok/anyone else who suddenly looms up out of nowhere and starts asking questions!
4. Having my plans for the day suddenly changed by someone else, even if the change is otherwise neutral.
5. Butterflies, moths, and small fish. They are just very disturbing to look at.

1) the noises the bus and subway make when screeching to a halt
2) the smell of cold cuts and canned tuna fish or salmon
3) the taste/texture of dried fruit (including raisons) and peanut butter
4) my heater-it's really loud
5) parties

1. Shoes.
2. I have so many issues with food, and what I will eat, and then what I just cannot even imagine putting in my mouth. I hate fish, chicken meat that has been next to a bone, banana, certain food combinations...
3. Little dogs. People think this is silly because I have a German Shepherd and an Akita, but little dogs creep me out.
4. Telephones. I can text all right, but actually speaking on a telephone? No.
5. Some supermarkets and clothing stores. They're just too busy, not only with all the people and sound, but there's just too much to look at.

1. The smell of certain perfumes and scents. Chanel Number 5 for instance causes immediate overstimm. Just a hint of the stuff can do it.

2. Certain types of soft texture foods. Asparagus out of a can. Anything with a baby food like texture to it. Makes me gag instantly.

3. 100% wool. Feels like absolute sandpaper on any part of my skin. Almost is painful.

4. Extremely hot weather. Anything upwards of 100 or above, I just cant handle it. moisture level does not matter.

5. Songs written by Micheal Bolton.

You have that right. I can't stand canned shaving cream, either. Using that will guarantee that I will feel sick for hours. I use shaving soap instead and it works quite nicely.



Same here. I like asparagus, but only if it is stir fried. Stir frying chicken and asparagus in a hot wok oil usually makes a really nice meal.

w/o reading other replies to prevent copying

1) Illogical decision making
2) Subjecting oneself to wrong interpretation
3) Not having clear goal or direction/structure
4) Unannounced appointments
5) Thinking everthing is normal

1. Any pants other than sweat pants (yeah, I'm not very fashion conscious)

2. Any kind of "sliding" (when any two objects slide against each other, it really bugs me. This might be OCD or a complicated tic or something, because when something "slides" the pain can be extinguished by patting the two surfaces that slid against each other). This has been something I've had to deal with nearly all my life.

3. Any kind of artificial smell (perfume, hair spray, scented products).

4. Soda pop, coffee, alcohol (I hate the taste of all of them, I can never drink them. Love chocolate milk though!).

5. Dishonest advertisements. Advertisements that make claims that imply things about the product that aren't actually true.

Number two is such a weird one that sometimes people just don't understand it, so I have to just stand there and watch them slide a plate or a cloth or whatever.

1.Hot weather: I hate it when it gets over 30 degrees celsius I just feel tired and grumpy and I hate feeling sweaty.

2.Sport: If I say I'm not keen on sport people think its weird.

3.Birthday cards with all that mushy soppy stuff on them: I think they should come with chunder buckets.

4. Concerts: I think they're a waste of money when you can't see the people on the stage because someone stands on the seat and you end up having to look at the screen, because you have someone's bum in the way might as well watch a video of the person at home at least you can see them.

5.New years eve parties: Can't stand them I just find them too depressing and boring also I like to be in bed by then.

1. The texture of fruit. I cannot eat fruit. Will not. I like fruit juices though. Entirely a texture issue.
2. The quiet vibrations and noises the interiors of cars make when in motion. When I drive I am perpetually pressing my fingers against the console paneling to stop it from vibrating against whatever it is connected to.
3. Television. I will occasionally watch movies and I like to play video games, but I can't stand television programs. I don't understand how people can tolerate watching tv with all the repetition and the noise and the laugh tracks and the commercials and the whole presentation system television news programs use.
4. Ordering take out food for delivery to my home. I do not like waiting for the delivery person, hearing them ring the bell/knock on the door, having to deal with them briefly as I pay for the food items. If I do take-out, I will call ahead and then drive to the place to pick it up myself.
5. Sunny days. The sun is too bright. My favorite weather is thin cloud overcast, but not so thick that it's noticeably dark outside, with a light breeze.

1. tight clothing....or as in cold weather, having to wear layers of clothes. i feel as if i'm in a giant tangled bunch all winter long!

2. hugging. i don't feel the need for it, and never know how to tell when others need or want or expect a hug.

3. eating meat. not because of the ethical or religious reasons most vegetarians consider eating meat objectionable, but i just don't like the smell, taste or texture of it..and the idea of eating somebody else's dead flesh.............. but i will occasionally eat fish.

4. new year's celebrations. i never understand what is so special about the turning of a calendar page. same goes for rosh hsshana, or any other new year observance. it's just another day to me.

5. wires. and power cords. they're everywhere. they tangle. they look messy. they collect dustbunnies.

there's more, of course. always more!

i really enjoy reading this thread!

- meetings and parties
- bright lights
- changes in routine
- annoying and loud sounds
- handshaking, hugs, some smells......

1. Too much socializing at work (by this I mean too many celebrations for the holidays or Christmas time of year).
2. Immature people (adults who act like they are in junior high and talk "catty" about people).
3. Frenemies.
4. Eating with people when there is little background noise and I can hear people chew.
5. Being at work and the TV or radio is too loud close to my office.
6. Loud construction noises outside my workplace or my house.
7. Crowds of people at a mall and especially when the crowd is so bad it is difficult to even walk around a group of people and usually I want to get out of a crowded mall as fast as possible.
8. Walking along in a mall or other crowded place and a person or group of people get in front of me and walk extremely slow. Or walking behind someone when I am shopping and the person in front of me decides to stop all of a sudden.
9. Grocery shopping bugs me often times because again it can often be a crowd of people which can get annoying (it depends and somtimes I do not mind grocery shopping).
10. Any loud noise outside my house to include people doing loud yard work, people "revving" their car engine, and loud booming music next door to me or loud music in a car driving by my house. (oops I went past 5 things).

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