#which is ironic considering my grandpa went here as a catholic and later converted to the main religion
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When I get a moment of nervousness or social anxiety/embarrassment or need to clear an intrusive thought from my head, I often make the sign of the cross, modified generously to include knocking on my left temporal lobe. It works fairly well; it's a little weird since I'm not Catholic and I never have been, but it usually seems to calm my brain.
The only problem with this habit is that I mostly only do it in high-traffic areas such as walking to classes or while studying in public. The combination of this fact and aforementioned strange motions means that people constantly think I'm waving at them. Complete strangers wave back at me and I just kind of have to lean into it and go ๐๐ as if I wasn't just having thoughts about ripping out a man's jugular vein with my teeth
#if this gets many notes i will draw out the process for my Bastardized Sign of the Cross because explanations dont do it justice#if this gets no notes i will probably also draw it out. i'm not cool#its an especially weird thing for me to do because i go to Highly Religious University [not a catholic one either]#so people regularly watch an anguished-looking guy do the Sign of the Cross on 99.6% Not Catholic Campus and have to figure that out#which is ironic considering my grandpa went here as a catholic and later converted to the main religion#how the tables turn
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