I’m not sure about ‘quirky’, but today’s random question asks…

What’s a quirky fact about you that not many people know?

For several years I maintained a ring binder with explanations to words I would not use daily, or not at all often times. But I wanted to remember them, because they were relevant or interesting to me in one way or the other. Well, a dictionary, duh! No, not quite. Along with the explanations given in a dictionary, I wrote in that book, how a word, phrase, concept, idea, etc. applied to me personally. Quite often I also added my own thoughts and questions, to explore further at a later time. Ridiculous? Perhaps. But still, years later, when I decided to abandon the ring binder concept, it was quite the chunky monkey. How it all started…
I searched for a plausible explanation as to why I don’t feel any kind of sexual attraction for a man, unless I have a deep emotional connection with him. My friends would get all wound up about seeing a random guy, who they thought to be good looking. That did nothing for me. I could not understand why they were drooling over a man, not wearing a shirt and showing off his muscles. And again, that left me wondering instead of attracted. What the fluff is wrong with me? As we know, Dr. Google has the answers, or at least gives some ideas and a direction in which to explore further. That’s what I did….and stumbled upon the term demisexual. The provided explanation made sense to me and it lead to a more in depth search. I wrote down the key facts about what I had learned, along with my thoughts of how this could possibly apply to me. Later on, I had a conversation with my longtime best friend. Not only did she agree with me, she actually had never heard of that word until I brought it up. This was the beginning of my very much loved and often used ring binder. It’s been more than a decade, and I often think back to this book and even entertain the thought of starting another one.
PS: Until today, no one knew of the ring binder’s existence 😊