# Are You Are Crazy Like Me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552 "2016-06-05T09:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/1 "2016-06-05T09:18:19Z")
I like peanut butter on celery stalks. I stay up all night and sleep all day. I love local musicians, no matter how bad they are. I put ketchup on my hot dogs. I have a hammock as my primary bed. Ramen noodles… oh, what can I say? Eating from canned goods just because… I have a can-opener, but the trip to the microwave is a whole four steps away. I have not been certified Crazy yet, despite all my efforts. How are you all doing on this front? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/2 "2016-06-05T12:58:43Z")
There’s nothing crazy, or even atypical, about any of this. Sorry to disappoint you. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/3 "2016-06-05T15:55:57Z")
Dammit. I now have to try harder to be un-normal. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/4 "2016-06-05T21:46:55Z")
Nothin’ like you. And you are kind of nuts, despite what _that other guy_ said. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/5 "2016-06-06T00:04:07Z")
Crazy people rarely think they’re crazy. Therefore, if you think you’re crazy, you almost certainly are not. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/6 "2016-06-06T00:06:36Z")
Nope. My dog says I’m perfectly sane. ---
**Author:** ![CerebrAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@CerebrAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CerebrAl)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/7 "2016-06-06T00:40:11Z")
No I am not like you. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/8 "2016-06-06T00:47:09Z")
I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/9 "2016-06-06T02:06:25Z")
In college, a buddy and I got stoned one night. We wrote a song called “Everybody’s Crazy But Baby I Don’t Know.” Musically & lyrically it was absolutely terrible. But according to me and my stoned buddy, you \*are \*crazy, and so are the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/10 "2016-06-06T02:20:23Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested. But did she follow up with the specialist in Houston? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/11 "2016-06-06T02:33:23Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > Dammit. I now have to try harder to be un-normal. 😛 Everybody, let’s help **Cabin\_Fever** with some suggestions on how to be un-normal! Put your hot dogs in celery stalks. Stay up all night and party all winter. Eat your ramen noodles with local musicians straight from the can. Put your hammock in your microwave. Put peanut butter in your soup, and ketchup on your telephone. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/12 "2016-06-06T02:45:46Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Eat your ramen noodles with local musicians straight from the can. Hmmm - even the bad ones can get expensive when used as a condiment. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/13 "2016-06-06T03:51:31Z")
No, I’m my own brand of crazy. Although the older I get, the more I have come to see that crazy is the new normal. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/14 "2016-06-06T03:58:29Z")
Pretty close. I like peanut butter on celery stalks, regularly. I put ketchup on my hot dogs. I sleep on the floor as my primary bed, just a folded blanket for a pad. Also, I don’t own a microwave. I prefer music that is not sung in a language I understand. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-are-crazy-like-me/756552/15 "2016-06-06T04:10:35Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > But did she follow up with the specialist in Houston? No. We saw a woman in Manhattan who told my mother that not getting straight As in junior high school was not a symptom of anything, but I might be stressed out from her expectations, and I also might be slightly depressed from missing my aunt, but depressed is not crazy; maybe I would benefit from counseling. I didn’t find any of this out until I read the letter she sent to our GP when I was in my 20s. All my mother told me at the time was that she said there was nothing wrong with me that would prevent me from getting better grades.