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Are You Eccentric?

When I meet you, I’ll try to find an anagram for your name and then tell you about it.

If you tell me your phone number, I’ll recite it back to you forward and then reverse.

I’ll memorize your license plate number, but forget your face and name.
 
Nervous Rex said:
When I meet you, I’ll try to find an anagram for your name and then tell you about it.

If you tell me your phone number, I’ll recite it back to you forward and then reverse.

I’ll memorize your license plate number, but forget your face and name.
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So you do that with everyone? Good to know because if I introduced myself to someone and they invented an anagram for my name and showed off that they could recite my phone number, I would have probably assumed that they not only had a neurodivergent condition of some kind but had a whopper of a crush on me as well.
 
I asked Chat GPT why people could ask me if I'm autistic and it actually gave a really good answer and pointed to the way I have a conversation with it 😱 (I think so, because the answer was too accurate). It pointed out that I take long to respond, stay calm and neutral, don't small talk or add "emotional padding", and give detailed, analytical thought-through responses instead of immediate ones serving an emotional or performative purpose. It said that of course it's all stereotypes, but people might think this way. It also said that it could be eye contact, mirroring facial expressions, fidgeting and sensory sensitivities.

So yeah, I think that explains it. And explains how someone can be "autistic but not odd".
 
Around town, I'm known for riding a bicycle. It looks like junk, but is light and fast. I've had it for 48 years and over 100,000 miles. My car just sits most weeks. It is 34 years old, in very good condition, weighs under a ton, averages under 5l/100 km (47 MPG US) and has one seat, one bed, and a full kitchen.
 
I feel the most essentric thing about me is my particuarness with placement. Mind, I will not throw a huge fit if it's changed. But that initial OCD just kinda hits me and it has to be just right. Whether it's books, papers, notepads, vinyl albums(still thinking on making a thread about that), or other objects in touching range.

Outside that. I am not sure.
 
FayetheADHDsquirrel said:
So you do that with everyone? Good to know because if I introduced myself to someone and they invented an anagram for my name and showed off that they could recite my phone number, I would have probably assumed that they not only had a neurodivergent condition of some kind but had a whopper of a crush on me as well.
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Ha! No crush, but here you go:

Fayetheadhdsquirrel ==>
Relay Hired Heft Squad
Her Lady Squid Feathers
Quite Half Ready Herds
Dreads Half Her Equity
 
TBRS1 said:
How many points do I get?
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Nervous Rex said:
When I meet you, I’ll try to find an anagram for your name and then tell you about it.

If you tell me your phone number, I’ll recite it back to you forward and then reverse.

I’ll memorize your license plate number, but forget your face and name.
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I'm similar in abilities, I never had to write a phone number down but soon discovered that I need to write it down anyway otherwise people think you're not taking them seriously and that you're just fobbing them off.

I'm the same with names and faces too, completely hopeless there. One trick I learned when I was young was to make jokes out of people's names in order to remember them, this was mostly only to do with people on the world stage though so that I could join in on conversations. I'm fine with people that I see on a regular basis.
 
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I'm the same with names and faces too, completely hopeless there. One trick I learned when I was young was to make jokes out of people's names in order to remember them, this was mostly only to do with people on the world stage though so that I could join in on conversations. I'm fine with people that I see on a regular basis.
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Yep. When I get a Facebook friend request, I show my wife and ask, “Do I know this person?”

And if I see someone regularly at work, I probably won’t recognize them anywhere else because they’re out of context.

I do anagrams to try to make something interesting out of a new name so I’ll remember it.
 
Shevek said:
Around town, I'm known for riding a bicycle.
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I'm either "that guy with a camera" or "the flasher".

The first is obviously a photography reference because you'll never see me without at least one camera on my person. The second is due to my habit of walking around town after dark in the winter wearing safety lighting. I somehow picked up the nickname The Flasher in one of the local groups and it stuck. 🤣
 
Eccentric? I didn't think so when younger but now I'm older I feel I get less leeway and more feedback ... have played music in a graveyard as I thought maybe the residents might enjoy it. Happily chat with trees and other landmarks. Endless photographs of fallen leaves, interesting drain covers and such like. Prefer to be asleep by 6pm and awake at 4am (would love to live entirely awake at night and asleep by day but my body can't handle it). Bed is full of books. Recently discovered sudoku and am enjoying observing how my brain is learning to do the hardest ones. Intensely dislike restaurants. Can handle cafes, most of the time. Order the same thing wherever I go :)

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Nervous Rex said:
I remember hearing a joke when I was younger that people can be weird, but if they’re weird and rich, then they’re eccentric.

So, I’m just weird.
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Yep, all my life I have been called weird. I'm not rich, so I guess I'm must weird and don't qualify as eccentric.

At first, being called weird was taken as an insult. Eventually, I started to actually like the idea of being weird. To the point of thanking anyone for calling me weird.
 
Frankly I've always thought of that word as more of a class distinction. That to be "eccentric" requires one to be wealthy or a celebrity.

That the rest of us are merely "crazy". ;)
 
Described as Wacky, or Different , clothes hound , prolly over 100 hobbies distractions perseverations . Love Christmas themed things. Used to Love all animals . Then found out in some places some critters are competitors for wild edibles .🙃. Healthy Food is expensive .
 
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