This reminded me of myself age 8-9 when I would get stressed if I didn’t “undo” any rotations of my body, or rounds around a table. Quite to the annoyance of my teachers and parents. Did anyone else have a phase similar to this?
Pro tip: wiggle away uneasy encounters you’ve had during the day. Foot wiggles to start, then a re-solidifying final full body wiggle before sleep.
I didn’t have that issue but this first time I saw this strip I thought to myself something along the lines of, “You, at most, need 1 spin to return to net-zero at the end of the day. I wouldn’t be able to sleep until I had devised a system to calculate my daily net spin”
I still have a phase like this with exercises, if I do one on the right, I have to do the exact same number on the left. If I get interrupted, it feels uncomfortable
Hey thanks for reminding me of the childhood compulsion I had to put in a lot of work to be able to ignore and forget
If I’m walking on a sidewalk and one foot falls on a crack, I have to step in a crack with the other foot, and the crack has to land at the same place on that foot. If it doesn’t, it creates additional imbalance that must be fixed by stepping on a different crack with the first foot in the position the other crack connected on the other foot. This is very silly, but it must be done. It also disproves the hypothesis that stepping on cracks breaks mothers’ backs because my mother has never broken her back and I’ve been doing this since childhood. I’m 39 years old. That’s a lot of cracks.