I often have to do things four times. So if I accidentally touch a banister with my right hand I will do it another three times. Sometimes (I'm not as bad as I used to be) I would then have to touch it four times with my left hand.......and on occasion I have been known to repeat each of those patterns four times, so 16 in total for both hands.
I'll do it when walking too, four right steps and four left, maybe with a little hop at some point to make sure before I get to some kind of barrier, be that a crack in the pavement, the edge of the path, or a road when I cross it !
I also talk to myself when I'm stressing about something. Difficult conversations I need to have or people I would really like to admonish. I don't like confrontation or arguing unless it's on something I feel I know really well.
My wife bursts out laughing at me when I'm mowing the lawn chatting away to myself. I usually don't even know I'm doing it.
[e] One more is I will not walk across a sports field or court, especially if a game is going on. I just feel it's not my place to walk across something I'm not involved in. It was fine when I was coaching kids football and it was my team, but someone else's game I won't even cut the corner flag, I'll walk around and insist everyone else walking with me does it to.


