Questions about being strange, long and pointless

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I don’t know quite where to post these questions.

On the one hand there could be factual answers and thus qualify this for GQ.

On the other there is some theoretical physics involved which would make it ideal for GD.

It is a solicitation for opinions and would fall quite well in line with IMHO.

In the end I’m going for MPSIMS because the behavior listed is mundane and pointless and the answers I anticipate to be equally M&P.

So, here it goes, mods please do with this what you will.

My wife thinks I am strange. She is basing this on behavior of her 10yo son and the similarities between some of his goofyness and mine.

Example #1 - This youtube video featuring said son playing with a new camera. I personally don’t find anything extremely odd about his behavior here, it is just a kid playing with a camera, making faces and such. What do you think about this? Is this normal or not?

Example #2 - I’m crushing your head. Or pinching your head. Or picking your nose while you are not looking. Or any thing else I can do perceptually with whatever falls within my line of sight. If it is raining or if there are dead bugs on the windshield and you are coming out of the store then that dead bug is going to be sitting on your head for most of the trip across the parking lot. I, on the other hand will be the one in the car bobbing my head up and down perceptually placing that bug on your head. Is that abnormal behavior or just kind of strange?

Example #3 - I’m crosseyed as a bat. Ok, not really, but sometimes I like to look at my left eye in a mirror with my right eye and notice it staring off at an angle. Then I look at my right eye in the mirror with my left eye and notice it staring off at an angle. After getting both of these images in focus I will superimpose both of these and enjoy the humorous look of myself staring out all cock eyed and odd looking. Is this bizarre behavior? Some odd narcissism perhaps? Or just odd ways to pass time?

And Finally

Example #4 - Thoughts that are way beyond my actual ability to think them, let alone any body elses ability to understand them. I drive 30 minutes to work and 45 minutes home due to traffic. This gives me 45 minutes alone in a car with only my thoughts to keep me company. A prime example of these thoughts is today’s gem. It occured to me today that the reason the gravitron remains elusive and undefined is that there is only one of them. Go ahead and do the math, it works out to only one. My theory is that there has always been only one gravity particle and there will only ever be one. At the moment of creation, when the point singularity erupted into what we call existance, there was one gravitron and the outer shell of this particle started moving away from the point of origin, expanding at the speed of light like a giant bubble. That is the universe, one gravitron and the contents within are all that we know as reality. The cool part is that it does not matter where you are with respect to the outer edge of this expanding particle, you are always in the center. At any given point the the shell of the particle will be moving away from you at the speed of light, as Heisenburg pointed out one cannot know exactly where one is at any point of time. Even if we are on the very edge of the universe, that edge will move away from us at the same speed as the opposite edge so it doesn’t matter. Given Shodengers cat theory concerning multiplicity of states of being, because no matter where we are with respect to the ever expanding universe we are always at the center and we have no way of decerning our proximity to the edge then we are in a state of both. We exist in the center of the universe and on the edge of the universe at the same time.

Ok, deep breath here.

After explaining this to my loving wife she looked at me and asked me to post this here to ask what your opinions are about it. Right or wrong, point or no point, is it normal to think like this? I do seem to do it quite a bit.

Do all of these things make sense? Do they seem normal really? Should I be concerned for myself, my wife, our children?

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Nah, you’re fine.

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I’m a little confused… but yeah that kid seems a bit strange. He doesn’t seem like any 10-year-old boy I’ve ever met. Is he mentally disabled in any way? Autistic or Aspergers? Is he in normal classes at school? In the video, was he purposely filming himself being silly? What was he looking at while it was filming? Because he never looked at the camera, which is what you would expect a kid to do whilst fooling around with a camera. There was just something about him that seemed a bit abnormal compared with what I typically expect with boys that age.

Has anyone else ever commented to you that you are strange? Did your wife think you were strange when you first met or is this something new?

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I don’t think what your son was doing was strange to the point of labeling it abnormal. Looks like he’s looking at the computer screen, that’s where his face will show up when the camera is on.

I’ve got two sons, and over the years - between them and their friends - I’ve watched hundreds of weirdo faces, heard hundreds of bizzare sounds (and songs), witnessed hundreds of goofy actions, you name it. I think accidentally seeing them playing with their own snot was the worst (at the end of a video). :stuck_out_tongue: Your linked video is nothing compared to real-life things I’ve witnessed.

From your anectodes about things you do, it sounds like you have a good imagination and that you know how to entertain yourself. That’s a good skill to have.

I don’t find either your or your son’s behavior remarkable. My entire family does goofy things and ‘thinks too much’.

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Are you doing this at a dinner party, in a business meeting, or to strangers in the line at the grocery store? Or do you just do this to entertain yourself when you’re alone? If the former - that’s a bit odd, it shows a lack of awareness of how to act appropriately in public/social settings. But if it’s the latter, I think that a lot of people do weird things to entertain themselves when they’re alone.

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Hello I am n8s wife.N8 told me I could reply so here it is…We have never considered Jeffey “mentally disabled” in anyway He has gone through years of speech therapy.We were told that he had some speech issues because at birth he was tongue tied, and the muscles did not develop normally in his mouth causing him to have some trouble with speech.A t the end of the school year the teacher calls me and asks if I had ever had him tested for autism I was shocked and thought they were just stupid but after looking it up on computer and seeing the broad range that a child with autism can have we decided to take him to a neurologist long story short the doctor was with him for about an hour and immed.said no doubt about it he was autistic.The reason we posted this is because to me there is “something” in this video that I have never seen before it was just odd behavior to me he was in the room by himself and it was just weird n8 thinks it is normal behavior. I dont know it may be a guy girl thingI look at some of the things n8 does and just think to myself man he is weird I love him with all my heart and he makes me laugh alllllll the time but smashing peeps heads with your fingers is weird to me. going through walmart yelling TOILET as people walk by is weird …funny but weird.I have just accepted we have a housefull of goobers.Yes I thought he was weird when I met him but that was part of the attraction I think.lol

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Wow, nd_n8, if I didn’t know better, I’d ask if my husband had finally signed up for the Dope! I consider him (and he considers himself) to be pretty weird, partly because of the things he thinks about when he’s alone, and partly because of other stuff. (FTR, we have talked before about the possibility of him having some Autism-like symptoms, but he’s never been diagnosed.)

To keep a long post short, yes, you do seem pretty weird. And if you or your wife is concerned about it, should get it looked into. But if it’s all just quirks, and nothing bad comes of it, embrace it! Normal is boring. :wink:

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Yeah, you’re strange, but there’s nothing wrong with strange.

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One of the “Something Different” behaviors in the video is the child waving his hands back and forth and moving his eyes back and forth (yes, for the record, he is looking at the monitor and watching himself).

My opinion on this is a moment of discovery w/re the mechanics of a recorded image versus a mirror image. If a person stands in front of a mirror and moves their hand, the image of their hand follows in the same direction. But, if a person looks at their recorded image and moves their hand, the image of the hand crosses with the actual hand. An interesting observation but nothing more.

My wife thinks this is absolutely bizarre, any thoughts?

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The elevator in my apartment building has a mirrored door. Whenever I ride up alone I make faces at myself all the way to my floor. It’s great fun!

My ten-year-old son has mild Asperger’s. It wasn’t particularly surprising to my wife and me when he was diagnosed – he’s always displayed some strange behaviors that match the autism/Asperger’s spectrum. As long as your son is able to function in school and interact with his peers I wouldn’t worry about him being goofy. How boring it would be if everyone was “normal”!

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It all sounds normal to me.

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If that’s your definition of weird, we need to start a Weirdo’s club. You do a lot of things I do, all the way down to your gravitron thinking. As I was reading it, I could actually understand what you were getting on about and follow it. I do the same thing all the time. And squishing peoples heads is one of my favorite. I’ve done a variation of the bug on the windshield thing a million times. Seriously, I think we might be twins separated at birth. Kinda freakin’ me out.

MT

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I giggled at this. But then I’m strange, just like you – and everybody else. I’m sure we all have our own odd ways of amusing ourselves that in our heard of hearts even we know is weird. But it amuses us, so we do it anyway.

I’M CRUSHING YOUR HEAD. CRUSH! CRUSH!

(Although it’s been done for eons, the popular meme originated as a recurring skit on The Kids in the Hall. My favourite one is this.)

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I am 6’ tall which isn’t exceptional by modern standards, but I, too, have been considered strange, long, and pointless at times.

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I was going to do that joke, but then I got distracted CRUSHING YOUR HEAD.

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Um, I am a bit surprised you posted a video of your son being weird while he thought he was alone. I find that disrespectful to him, and disrespectful of his privacy.

I’d be enraged if anyone did that to me.

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First of all he wanted us to post the video on u tube he himself found it hysterical.
second …IM CRUSHING YOUR HEAD

-N8S WIFE :rolleyes:

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WEIRDO.

(That’s a good thing.)

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ohhh nooo, Mr. Bill!!!

(It was really funny.)

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Mrs. n8’s wife, you should join the Dope. Your willingness to crush the heads of your opponents tells me you’d fit in perfectly here.