Feelings about Numbers

[Anarkitty]

The number 13 used to bother me. I started deliberately choosing it when possible just to get over that.

 

[Judge]

The number 13 used to bother me. I started deliberately choosing it when possible just to get over that.

Think nothing of it!

 

[Anarkitty]

Think nothing of it!

LOL! Could you try to NOT add to my phobias?!

 

[Judge]

LOL! Could you try to NOT add to my phobias?!

When it comes to that particular number, I can't think of another event that might top that. Except perhaps that both my parents died on the 13th of December on a Wednesday, yet 28 years apart. No joke.

Numbers might have great significance. Yet also the kind that we may not be able to fully understand.

 

[Bikutoso]

I don't have feeling towards the numbers itself, but I have towards how numbers sound.
I find 7 (sju), 5/五 (ご), 400/四百 (よんしゃく), and 600/六百 (ろっぴゃく) are funny sounding.
And 7 (syv), 20 (tyve), and 6/六　(ろく) are beautiful sounding.
And I don't like how 7/七 (しち/なな) sounds.

I do like to write the number 2, as I love how I write a loop instead of stopping to change direction.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I dislike 1021. 1048 is slightly redeemed by the number you get if keep doubling starting at 1

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I remember doing that! It wasn't quite as strong of a compulsion with me, but I remember doing it sometimes.

One of my compulsions was if something touched my right hand (or foot, leg, etc.), I'd need it to also touch my left side, so I was always doing odd things so that I could get the same sensory input on the other side of my body. I still do it sometimes, though sometimes I'm able to tell myself that I'm a grown-up and should be able to ignore that. I caught my son, who is also autistic, doing the same thing once when he was a teenager. It made me laugh because I'd never known anyone else who did that. I told him that I'd never met anyone else like me, so I had to breed one.

I use to do this too.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I like 2112

Another friend is 360, easy to work with.

Visually speaking, I like numbers that are symmetrical, like 8 or 88 or 10001.

360. I wish a year was 360 days like the degrees a circle.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I like 2112

Another friend is 360, easy to work with.

Visually speaking, I like numbers that are symmetrical, like 8 or 88 or 10001.

Palindrome numbers are good numbers.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

Thanks for everyone’s reply this thread has made feeel better about my quirks.

 

[Anarkitty]

Thanks for everyone’s reply this thread has made feeel better about my quirks.

Me, too. Last night, I told my husband that I'm glad I joined this forum because it's the only forum I've ever been on where we had a discussion about liking numbers.

 

[Peter Morrison]

The number 7 always intrigued me. Can't say why.

 

[inkfingers]

I'd say it's normal. I don't necessarily dislike numbers that much. I do like the number 2. I think it's part of my ocd, though. I like to eat things by twos. For example, I can't just have one oreo cookie, I have to have the cookies 2 at a time. I like to cut my sandwiches into 2 pieces, and I will eat pieces of snacks (such as peanuts, pretzels, etc...) by twos. Eating something by threes is unsettling.

 

[tlc]

I like the movie "Number 23".

There are some numbers that stuck with me for a long time. Like 122 (more payments), I always think of the movie "The Family Man".

The number 161 was an early child support figure, and even though the court basically tripled it overnight to 500, I still see the number 161 a lot in my engineering calculations at work. A number I'd really rather forget.

My dad used to say that 22 (the 22nd of the month) was a good day for him. Don't remember why, it was 30 years ago. But I followed suit shortly after, as my first kiss was on a 22, and her birthday was a 22, and I bought my first car on a 22.

Even numbers I think of as white keys on a piano/keyboard, and they sound happy/friendly. Odd numbers I think of as the black keys and sound sad/mysterious. Of course some odds do get skipped.

I tend to buy at least 2 of everything, but because I hate running out of things, and I hate going to the store. 2 is a nice number though. 2 + 2, 2 x 2, and 2 ^ 2 all equal the same thing.

 

[Jojo_LB]

Palindrome numbers are good numbers.

Palindromes are just really fun in general.

 

[Jojo_LB]

Other than the number 6, and my quirks with graphing 2d functions in my head, I don't really have any other numbers that I really like or dislike.

But I really do enjoy counting by 3's. I think this started after I watched School House Rock, the one about the number 3. I still can sing that song. It's great.

 

[Aspychata]

l l can remember random many digit numbers out of a string of numbers, it saved me when a waitress tried to short a restaurant out of a check that she didn't put money in cash drawer.

It's good to be Aspie!!!

 

[Anarkitty]

But I really do enjoy counting by 3's. I think this started after I watched School House Rock, the one about the number 3. I still can sing that song. It's great.

In the 90s, a bunch of bands got together and produced a School House Rock album. Blind Melon remade "Three Is a Magic Number." I love School House Rock.

 

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[Jojo_LB]

I think I heard this remake before! Wow, Shannon Hoon was perfect for that..