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40 Quirky Things People Secretly Do When Alone

We think that there are some aspects of our nature that we need to hide from others. Perhaps we fear judgement or perhaps it’s our innate anxiety preventing us from being our true selves. Whatever the reason may be, it seems that many people have secret quirks about themselves that they only admit to when alone or in an anonymous setting. The ME IRL subreddit has its fair share of candid admissions with folks revealing their odd procrastination habits, anxiety-fueled daily struggles and bouts of overthinking. Scroll below to check out what secret things basically everyone does, but pretends not to.

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Nea : Or if I have to exit without buying anything in the store.

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RabidChild : This is my life since I moved to hill country after living in a flat, sea level state for 40 years. I’ve gotten pretty good at finding secluded places to huff & puff to reinflate my poor lungs

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Kristal : I just ordered a costco cake for my birthday. Just for me. I’m going to have cake for weeks!!!

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Auntriarch : Not just you. And sometimes a leg too

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Mark : c.) pulling yourself along with your hands while floating

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Kristal : And it’s hot outside

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Multa Nocte : I need to incorporate this word into my vocabulary.

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censorshipsucks : supported! huge waste of time.

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Nea : Noone can pass this one without feeling their tongue.

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xolitaire : It feels like betrayal

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Smilodon, a Bad Cat : I’d live in the shower, but it’s hard to eat cake in the rain box.

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Angi : Another One Bites the Dust

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Multa Nocte : Nah. I was an “essential worker.”

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Angi : I feel seen

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Freya the Wanderer : I HATE Recaptcha. Sometimes I have gone through as many as 20 images before it lets me through. If there is a Hell, I hope it has a really nasty place for the jerk who invented it. Gimme rotating a 3D model of an animal.

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Angi : I do that all the time

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Skara Brae : Imagine your partner refusing to watch anything in a foreign language because they don’t like subtitles.

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Pernille. : We have a word for it in danish: lækkersulten, it translates to delicious hungry, but is used for that kind of hunger OP describes.

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Jason : Then can’t get back to sleep until 655

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Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.