An Odd Trait Of Mine

Now before stating what exactly my weird trait is, I feel the need to say that I do not have a type A personality nor am I a perfectionist. My weird trait is that I have this overwhelming need to know every single detail about something I'm about to do. For example, if someone tells me to get some eggs at the store I'll be like, "Okay which ones?" and they say something like, "Oh whatever's there." Most people would leave it there but I start asking a ton of questions like, "what size?" "Is there a price I'm sticking to?" "Brown or white?" "omega 3?" "free range?" This gets to a point where I become super annoying to the person and usually they will tell me to just go do it or they will do it themselves.

This trait comes up strongest when I'm nervous. I lose control over my filter when I get nervous because I just say everything that comes to mind. Once on a school field trip, I was put in a group where the activities we were doing were archery, team building, and kayaking. I had never been kayaking before and there was a test you had to do at the beginning where you sat in the kayak, flipped the kayak upside down then escaped underwater. I was extremely nervous about this so I kept bugging my teacher with questions about it, in response she kept trying to comfort me. When it was my turn I did the same thing to the instructor and I kept asking him exactly what I should do and how it was going to go. In the end, I did the test and I freaked out when I was underwater because I got stuck in the kayak. I escaped but was really embarrassed afterward because my classmates had seen me freak out and I had a big bruise on my leg.

Asking a million questions definitely shows a lack of confidence, but the main reason I do it is because I don't want to mess up and I want to do it exactly as the person wishes. This is also why I'm very into researching things because I like to know exactly how certain things happen and what I should expect when going to do certain things. Anytime I'm doing something new I will look it up on the internet so I know what to expect and can prepare myself. It's when an unexpected situation comes up that this trait shows itself.