Is there anything that you do, or have done, that makes others think you might be insane?

Yeah, I talk to myself all the time. Frequently I’m rehearsing an upcoming conversation with somebody which has some anxiety attached to it. Or I’m re-running a situation that could have worked out better.

It took me a year or so before I screwed up the courage to ask my shrink about it. He just chuckled and said that as long as I don’t think they are answering me back or that they are really there, then it’s perfectly normal. This was over 20+years ago and I’ve been talking to myself whenever the need arises. But I do get strange looks sometimes :)

The other thing I get strange looks about seems perfectly normal to me.

I do part time work as a face painter and ballon sculptor. Many times I’m dressed as my clown character. Sometimes if it’s been a really long and busy day, I haven’t had a chance to eat or anything.

Rather than go all the way back home, I’ll stop off (usually at an informal type of Chinese restaurant) to get a bite to eat, use the restroom and get off my aching feet.

I do get some really strange looks, but hey, clowns have to eat too, right ?

All in all, I’m a pretty odd duck but I don’t spend my life worrying about what others think. Besides, my shrink pronounced me sane, so I’m good.

Don’t worry Chuck, you’re perfectly ok. And FYI he also told me that creative people are the ones who most frequently talk to themselves.

As long as it’s not a hallucination, you’re good to go. Extremely unlikely to “go postal.”

:D

I laugh at the computer screen often (or so it seems to the people around me).

lol, funny question

Thankfully, I have a dog so I can pretend to be asking/telling him something. I laugh at talk radio when I’m driving, probably looks stupid.

Yes. Make it to the 10k club on here….. I mean make it to the 20k club on here…

O’shit just forget it. You ARE insane! :-)

I used to mumble. It was used to keep from blurting what I was thinking. Pressure relief valve.

Also, everytime I finish saying something really important to someone, I tend to mumble it to myself. People rarely notice it but when they do .. well.. They look at me funny D:

@naivete – Yikes!
I mean… That is not a big deal.

Well I used to think so but I now realize that people are just jealous that the voices only talk to me.

@ChazMaz It’s uncomfortable…

There are several things that I do that would qualify me as insane but I think the one that overwhelms most in my family is my continued contact with my sister in law. My family know her to be a complete sociopath. They think I am out of my mind to keep on good terms with her as though I am unaware of her status. I have dealt with her for over twenty years, so I know where the mines are and how to get around them. The only reason I maintain contact is so I can keep track of my nieces and nephews. This is something my brother can’t even do, without causing a lot of raging.

Oh,the list is sooooooooooooo loooooooong…and my lack of concern is alittle appalling ;)

I talk with my hair. When making a point, instead of pointing with my finger I point with a few strands of hair. A guy at work noticed this before I did and makes fun of when I talk with my hair. I’ve been trying to find a 12 step plan to stop.

Hahaha, I’m glad I’m not the only one! I plan out conversations or replay conversations to myself all the time.

My kids think I’m a crazy old woman….

Well, one time my family thought I was trying to kill myself when I actually intended nothing of the sort. That one almost got me committed.

LOL. Sometimes I’m caught in my car by the befuddled adjacent driver, talking or arguing with my family who apparently live in my radio I will casually pick up my phone as if engrossed in conversation.
I don’t know what’s crazier. Talking to myself or trying to cover it up for appearances. :)

I come up with little random sayings which I put a little jingle to. The problem is, I will just randomly sing my little jingle without warning or invitation. My partner gets really tired of it because sometimes I do it over and over.

At the moment, I sing/say in a silly voice “Forever, we will be together, you and meeeeee…” to my dog Shpanky. I say it over and over and when he comes over to me for a pet. My partner gets so annoyed that it gets to the point where as soon as I say “Forever” he suddenly says “Argh, shhhhhh.”

LOL

Another one is “Oooooohhhh, a, Shpanky oh a Shpanky, oh a Spanky oh a shpoooooooooo!” over and over.

Mmmmm, maybe I am a little odd…

Who Me??????????/// hahahahahahaha…....I’m just a little eccentric.

@Rachienz
I think you may be my brother. ~

Being perceived as insane by other people who function in society is a far cry from actually being insane, unless you kill people or hate music.

So no, but people do think I am kinda weird.

@SeventhSense Just be glad they live in your radio and not at your house.
They eat less that way and you can just get out of your car and leave them behind.

@JessicaisinLove

‹(•¿•)›‹(•¿•)›‹(•¿•)›‹(•¿•)›‹(•¿•)›‹(•¿•)› Oh God..they heard you and now they’re following me!

@AstroChuck What do you talk to yourself about?

The way I dress sometimes causes those around me to shudder as if a lack of style is mental illness. Sometimes they buy me clothes to hide the shame of associating with someone so apparel challenged. I’m working on it; but therapy don’t come cheap.

well basically everything i say or do makes me come across as insane and it doesn’t help that I might be hallucinating about a tree that i believe is out to get me so not only do i seem like i stuff but im aslo paraniod

I’m a ranter. I always end up ranting in an argument. Makes people think I’m nuts.