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More people are living alone than ever, as a statistic we met recently with great happiness noted. But — prepare yourself — living alone might be making you weird. In The New York Times’, Steven Kurutz sort of went and ruined that joy with his look at the strange things people do when they live alone.

How weird does it get? A few examples from Kurutz’s piece and our own personal experience:

• Staying up all night.
• Washing vegetables in the shower.
• Examining your pores nightly in a mirror.
• Coming home late at night and attempting to cook things.
• Wearing strange ensembles.
• Never closing the bathroom door.
• Talking to your cat. 
• Never eating actual proper meals. Small bag of Doritos for dinner, mayhaps?
• Being weird.

Take the case of Amy Kennedy, a 28-year-old schoolteacher who lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment:

The effects are noticeable, she said: “I’ve been living alone for six years, and I’ve gotten quirkier and quirkier.”

Among her domestic oddities: running in place during TV commercials; speaking conversational French to herself while making breakfast (she listens to a language CD); singing Journey songs in the shower; and removing only the clothes she needs from her dryer, thus turning it into a makeshift dresser.

“The entire apartment is your room,” Ms. Kennedy said, by way of explanation. “If I leave a bra on the kitchen table, I don’t think much about it.”

I really take that “the entire apartment is your room” sentiment so far. But for me it’s more like, the entire apartment is my CLOSET. Living alone is the shit.

Yes.  Yes, it is, combined with unemployment.  VERY weird.

Those things are weird? I don’t even live alone.

But I mean, I’d think you were pretty weird if you didn’t talk to your cat.

Ok, washing vegetables in the shower is a little weird.

honestly

I love all of these things I don’t even care if it’s weird I WANT TO EXPERIENCE LIVING ALONE

While I’m just in a dorm, I am still living alone and I alternate betweens hating it and it not being that bad constantly.

why is this list supposed to be negative? i don’t wash my veggies in the shower, but i’m weird as hale and live alone and i ain’t gonna change that shit fo’ nobody.

Quirkier and quirkier