• From pulling out your own hair out to laughing at the wrong time, the Planet Dolan
crew re-enact some of the best true stories from our subreddit about the weirdest things
we do when we’re nervous.
I’m Nixxiom and today I’ll be your narrator.
Number 10 was submitted by Mote-of-Lobross Pringle
Pringle has clinical anxiety, so when he gets nervous his knee starts bouncing up and down
uncontrollably.
One day in high school Pringle had a huge test that he was freaking out about.
He was struggling with a lot of the questions so his knee started banging really fast into
the underside of the desk.
Apparently it looked Pringle was masturbating.
Some of the other kids noticed this and spent the next few weeks teasing Pringle about jerking
it in class.
Ever since that day Pringle has tried to stop the habit.
Number 9 was submitted by SwaggyGirl123 Doopie Biting your fingernails is pretty common,
but when Doopie gets nervous she bites down on her actual fingers!
One time during a math test Doopie bit down so hard that blood started pouring out of
her finger!
Her teacher thought something serious had happened and sent her straight to the nurse’s
office!
Doopie was pretty embarrassed when she told the nurse her injury was self-inflicted.
Number 8 was submitted by Liviloukinz Andiemations When Andiemations was little she had a weird
way of getting over nervousness.
She’d go into the nearest bathroom, look in the mirror and say, “Andie, get your
flippin’ poop together, you idiot!”
Then she’d slap herself in the face again and again until her cheeks went bright red.
One time Andie was given first chair in a school concert.
Before the show, she ran into the bathroom to slap her nerves away, but as she was slapping
herself she fell and twisted her ankle!
Number 7 was submitted by FlameFlamedramon Grgak
Grgak is kind of a weird guy, so it makes sense that he has a weird nervous habit.
Whenever Grgak feels scared or overwhelmed he throws his arms straight up in the air
and rocks them from side to side.
He calls this his crab dance.
Strange as it may seem, it calms him down and makes him feel better.
As a bonus, it also gets him out of danger, since anyone who sees Grgak’s crab dance
usually laughs or backs away!
Number 6 was submitted by megadestroyer135 Tolop
Tolop deals with nerves by going into fits of hysterical laughter!
Tolop will laugh at practically anything, which can get him into some pretty awkward
situations!
One time, Tolop was doing a super important math quiz.
He was freaking out about failing, so when he got to Question 69 he completely lost it.
He started laughing so hard that the entire class looked at him.
His teacher was NOT impressed, and asked Tolop to leave the room immediately.
Number 5 was submitted by Jediarereal26 GhostToast When GhostToast gets anxious he feels a little
tickle in the back of his throat…
The tickle is completely out of his control and it won’t go away unless he starts coughing.
Every year on the first day of school GhostToast’s coughing got so bad that his throat would
get all red and sore!
His family moved a lot, so GhostToast had to change schools almost every year.
Meeting new classmates made him so nervous that he would literally throw up!
Number 4 was submitted by 2fast2gobble Gooby Gooby is quite an anxious person…
But at least her way of coping with nerves is fairly healthy!
Whenever she’s scared or worried, Gooby will start chugging from her water bottle.
It’s great for making sure she drinks enough water every day, but the problem is if Gooby
gets too stressed she’ll drink and drink until she makes herself sick!
And there’s another drawback to drinking too much…
she always needs to pee!
Number 3 was submitted by unknown_mimikyu Zaraganba
Zaraganba’s body has a strange of dealing with stress…
When he’s nervous, he lets out tons of silent-but-deadly farts!
He has no control over this habit, and when it starts, Zaraganba freaks out worrying if
other people will know he’s responsible!
Of course, this start a cycle, as stressing out about getting caught just makes him fart
even more!
Luckily, he’s gotten really good at blaming the person next to him.
Number 2 was submitted by Ceilidh1101 Pandora Pandora has a condition called Trichotillomania.
This means that when she gets nervous she pulls her own hair out of her head!
Sometimes she just takes a single strand, but if she’s really stressed out she’ll
rip entire clumps of hair out!
This habit started when Pandora was getting bullied.
It got so bad that she had big bald spots on her head.
Her teachers gave her special permission to wear hats at school to stop her from pulling
out her hair.
Pandora seems to be getting better.
She now has a full head of hair, but she has to stop herself from going back to her old
hair-pulling ways whenever she
gets anxious.