Me, I hate when people sing in the wrong “colour”. When I listen to music I “see” colours based on the key. So if someone sings, say, creamy white C major instead of light read D major, it urks me.
I also dislike most cover songs, but Tori Amos can make most things good.

Heheh, I used to save it all because I did realise there was no way it was going back on my head or in my mouth, but it was too hard to let go of it. So I had a box and I put my hair, my nails, what was left of my food, etc. in it (teeth went in a special box). It got pretty disgusting and my parents had a hell of a time trying to get me to quit that ^^.

You mean that stuff ISN’T considered normal?? LOL. I started to guess that people having specific places to sit was unusual when Sheldon from Big Bang Theory insisted on sitting in his own seat he always sits in, but the others I thought were pretty usual.

When I was a kid I would go into screaming meltdown if my mom cut the sandwich across instead of diagonally, though she didn’t see what was the problem since she didn’t know that my dad (who’d stayed home with me while my mom kept working) had made and cut my sandwiches the same every day for years.

Also she would forget key ingredients like lettuce, which she doesn’t normally eat with sandwiches, but which had been a staple ever since I could remember.

She had no idea I was autistic, and she always wondered why I didn’t get into screaming meltdowns very often when dad was home, and mainly it was because he did things the way I expected, and also understood when something was overstimulating me and that I needed more time to learn how to do things like wash dishes and do laundry (he’s autistic too).

One thing will over-ride the awkward feeling of having less hair when I get a lot of it cut – I’ll be able to get my hair very clean, something which has been difficult for me to achieve since I started showering 5 years ago. (And baths take too long.) It’s like having all that hair is too much information for me to keep track of, so inevitably I’ll forget to wash part of it, or forget to brush part of it – had similar problems with brushing teeth, too, but my parents helped with that and I developed a procedure so now it usually takes me no more than 2 or 3 minutes to brush.

He also tries to get Jim and me (and my parents) to sit in particular places on the couch sometimes, and he always wants Jim to wear a certain blue shirt and me to wear a certain pink one. I figure there’s some “deep memory” behind it.

@TomsMom, maybe he heard somewhere about bumblebees and stinging in the eye?

@AnneC, I have contacts and glasses and wear both; Charlie hasn’t seem to care much one way or the other (fortunately, and the glasses I’ve been wearing have fairly thick black frames).

I also do the same thing with my own face to some extent — when I first got glasses I hated wearing them because I “didn’t look like myself” with them. I eventually got contacts and was happy about that, but eventually switched back to glasses due to eye allergies and the simple fact that glasses are easier to maintain (and don’t require sticking fingers in my eyes). And now I’m at the point where I feel really weird NOT wearing glasses, and don’t feel like I look like myself without them.

My hair, though, is another story — I’ve liked wearing it short for the past few years, but I’m pretty sure it’s been every color of the rainbow during that time interval.