i am neurotic.

Whenever I am walking with someone else and something comes in between us, such as another person or a divider, that we have to walk around and sort of separate, I always say “bread and butter.”  This is just something we did as kids and I never stopped.

When I am walking on tile floors, I have to step two tiles at a time, without missing one in between. It looks like I shuffle my feet the entire time at school.

I have tile neuroses. Whenever I walk on square tiles, I have an uncontrollable need to walk in pattern like the steps that a chess knight can only take. In most circumstances, that’s like my normal gait, but when I’m maneuvering in thick crowds, it makes getting places difficult. Also if a room or hallway has patterned tiles and if I notice any tiles that ruin the symmetry of the floor, I cannot step on the unsymmetrical tiles.

Whenever I’m walking on the street or anywhere with cracks in the concrete. I have to step on every crack, if I miss one I have to go back and step on it. If I go home knowing I missed one. I feel wicked guilty. I feel like I will be cursed.

Whenever I speak to someone over the phone, I always have to be walking somewhere. I’m either walking home from the train station, walking down town, or just pacing back and forth in my room. Walking helps me concentrate on what’s going on in the conversation, otherwise the conversation would be incredibly bland.

when i need to think about something logically i pace. as a computer tech i walk clients through fixing things over the phone. if i don’t pace while talking to them, i lose track of what i am doing and i freeze up. same goes for arguments.

I cannot split stationary objects while walking with company. If I am walking with another person, and we happen across a telephone pole, light pole, garbage can etc., I have to pass it on the same side as them. If they walk to the right of it, and me to the left, it gives me a terrible panicky feeling, and I will usually turn around and walk back around it on the same side they did.

whenever i’m alone and i step on or off a smallish ledge, like the last step of the stairs or a curb or something, in my head i say dingdingding jackpot and mentally envision myself tripping up and slamming my chin into the ground really fast that my teeth jut into my nose

I have to walk from one place to the next in the straightest line possible. I will choose my route based on which has the fewest turns. I will also climb over things that are in my way.

I can’t use a crosswalk with the “Don’t Walk” sign on. Even if there is no traffic and my friends cross the street. I will, however, jaywalk in the middle of the street with no problem.