What are your idiosynchrasies?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I touch my face a lot. Some of it has to do with being self-concious, but it's usually influenced by what I'm doing. If my attention is rapt while learning, watching something, listening, etc., I touch my lips and nose alot. And it's a TERRIBLE and specific habit. It's usually with my middle and ring fingers pressed together, and with just the tips of those fingers I press against my lips and then my nose, and back and forth and back and forth. It's SO odd but I've done this, or something very similar to this, since I was a kid. Similarly, I'll press my thumb lightly against my lips/nose while my pointer and middle fingers play around with my cheek.

I'ts an idiosyncrasy in the strictest sense, because I've never seen anyone doing anything remotely like it.

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Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

I touch my face a lot. Some of it has to do with being self-concious, but it's usually influenced by what I'm doing. If my attention is rapt while learning, watching something, listening, etc., I touch my lips and nose alot. And it's a TERRIBLE and specific habit. It's usually with my middle and ring fingers pressed together, and with just the tips of those fingers I press against my lips and then my nose, and back and forth and back and forth. It's SO odd but I've done this, or something very similar to this, since I was a kid. Similarly, I'll press my thumb lightly against my lips/nose while my pointer and middle fingers play around with my cheek.

I'ts an idiosyncrasy in the strictest sense, because I've never seen anyone doing anything remotely like it.

Could it be a carry over from the womb? I ask because baby Jade is always touching her face. She'll suck her thumb while pressing her nose up and rubbing her cheek with her other fingers. When she isn't doing that she'll be rubbing her eyelashes. The girl cannot get to sleep without something to rub. Lately it's the thumb, cheek rubbing, while rubbing my armhair with the other hand. I think that some people are just very tactile by nature.