Do you doodle?? Do you HAVE to doodle??

Whenever I'm around a bunch of people talking (i.e when I was in school, when i'm in a meeting, family event) I can't help but sit and doodle. Typically I write words all pretty and grouped together and I draw stars a lot. Sometimes flowers and trees but usually just stars and such. I get very easily distracted. Actually when I'm at work and someones talking to me on the phone half the time I'm tuning them out and reading something on my computer or typing instead because I just can't focus or concentrate on anything too long.

I am a 'doodler' - and the phone is the time I do it the most. I go crazy if on the phone and can't reach a pen or pencil. One day I resorted to grandson's crayon that was near-by :) Strange thing is I don't doodle anything in particular - I may fill in all the enclosed spaces in whatever printed material is in reach (such as filling in the 'o's) or may draw boxes around words or will make lists. Sometimes I wonder how on earth I'm actually paying attention to the conversation while doing this but I do.

I do doodle- all the time- not usually at home when I’m watching TV though- I doodle at work- I doodle when I’m on the phone here- I also doodle during meetings- It’s funny- I write bubble letters- I make designs—checkers- to do list and doodle- I’m just a doodler- I did it all through school and college-

same thing with me! my mom was constanly doodleing everytime she ws on the phone.. it was funny waytching her on her way to the ringing phone she would grab a pen pick up hte phone and if she had no paper handy she would you the phonebooks newspaper or anything else that was there. I also doodle. i dont know why i do it. its not that im bored with the convresation if that was the case it would be weird to be bored iwth every converwstaion. very interesting discussion

I've been told to have a doodle by certain people, mainly british, but neither americans nor canadians have ever told me so. I guess it depends on the kind of accent you're used to. Mine sounds more american-canadian because of who i learned english from, os it's logical that brits consider that i have a doodle. Anyway i suppose that understanding each other is what counts, right? :)

I don't doodle much these days. but I was a doodle addict when I was younger. Now I try to focus on the things I do, and have some other means of distracting myseld when I am bored. But I don't hold any view against doodling. It is not unhealthy at all.

I have a hard time sitting still and doing nothing. I am like you, though, and I do not talk on the phone very much. Posting to myLot, my hands keep busy. I do not often watch TV, it makes me fall asleep. Back about ten years ago I found though, that subconscious writing/doodling was good. I was widowed, and had written to some people in some singles papers. I ended up in a quandry because I had a couple of men interested. One of them that called me a few times, I doodled and just wrote random words while we were on the phone. When I read them later, I knew the answer to my dilemma. He presented himself well. He evidently had some financial means, or said he did. But my notes that I had doodled down were that he was someone who was broken, and I did not want to fix him.I just came up with that at the uh hum, yes, I see stage of the conversation. I ended up dating my husband, and obviously marrying him. Money wise, I am not as set, but feeling wise, and relationship wise, I could be a queen. Some times a doodle, and a scribble can translate to what you are really feeling.

This is a great discussion I do doodle if there is a pen and paper near me. I think sometimes it has to do with nerves and the person we are talking to. Its possible. I dont like talking on the phone alot either. Sometimes while Im on the phone I will pase up and down. Again nerves or maybe I just want to get off the phone.LOL Well happy doodling!

Depends on who I am talking to, I doodle but not all time, if I am bored with the conversation I will.

Yes I am a doodler...I have a pencile stuck in my hair and everytime I sit down for a few minutes I doodle. I even doodle while reading or surfing on the 'net. My hands are busy drawing all kinds of stuff...I even draw sad pctures if I am reading about something sad. And happy pictures when reading about happy things. I love to doodle or draw what I feel or see.

i do doodle. Not so much these days with a laptop in front of me but I guess there is no specific time or reason. Trees are my main thing, also animals and abstracts.

Yes, I can't help myself either. I don't know why I do it, but when I am on the phone I have to do doodle drawings. Even if I stop myself while I am on the phone, I will notice a couple of minutes later that I am doing it again.

If there is a pen or pencil and something to write on I will doodle, especially if I am on the phone. I am not really sure why I do, I have done it as long as I can remember. I even remember doodling in school during classes, my notebooks were full of doodles.

I also doodle while I'm talking to someone, whether on the phone or in person. Even while I am at work, I doodle. I am in a call center and I handle inbound calls. While my customer is talking, I doodle unconsciously. I don't know why I do ths, but one thing is certain, I understand them better when I doodle. Sounds weird? I think so too. Even when I was undergoingtraining, they thought I wasn't paying attention because I kept on doodling. So whenever they would ask me a question, they were surprised because I was able to answer their questions. I think there is nothing wrong in doodling. It helps me kill time when I am bored.