Similar to other confessional sites, people can submit anonymous descriptions about their various neurotic and obsessive-compulsive quirks. It's a nice way of reminding us that a) we are all a little crazy, and b) there are people out there that are far, far crazier than us.
What are my neuroses? Too many to count, but here's a sample:
I absolutely can not bring myself to enter through a door marked "exit" or exit through a door marked "entrance." I will take a long, diversionary route, if necessary, to find the correct door. If I see anyone doing this I will think less of them as human beings.
Here are a couple of my favorite neuroses featured on the site:
"Ever since I was told in third grade that Jesus is everywhere, I’ve been scared out of my mind that he’ll just appear when I least expect it. I can’t turn on a light in a dark room without fear of him being there. I am an atheist."
"When I was a kid, I used to have to count stairs when i ran up or down them, and I’d have to do it in time to the 1 to 12 song on Sesame Street."
A few years ago in one of my classes my muse and mentor Professor Diane Rubenstein commented on her own neuroses and then said that we students must certainly understand her because anyone that devotes themselves to studying radical political theory at an Ivy League institution is, by
definition, highly neurotic. I realized at once that she was right.
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1 comments:
ROFL @ "I am an atheist."
That song from Sesame Street is still one of my fav songs. The meter is really irregular in a subtle way. If I were a (better) musician, I'd figure it out. Eh, whatevs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6CvI8qK40
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