Trufax. OCD was the autism of the 90s. Everyone insisted they had it. You're not OCD, aunt helen, you're just an oppressive control freak. Now it's, you're not autistic, tyler, you're just a self-focused unforgiving dick
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I really felt bad for this guy because he was clearly genuinely bothered by the topic. I get it.
This applies to so much. It's almost always people who have never experienced anything truly hard, no matter if it's the same category, who do the "omg, that's so me" thing. Experience of that leads to empathy, sympathy and understanding that someone else's struggles with something that has never been hard for you can be the main thing that makes their lives difficult.
That's not an exclusive thing, of course, some people understand that even though they have never had issues on the same level, and some people have had stuff that's affected them and their lives more bit still don't get that. But my experience is that those are outlier more than the norm.
"'I have to sort my books!' she cried,
With self-indulgent glee;
With senseless, narcissistic pride:
'I'm just so OCD!'
'How random, guys!' I smiled and said,
Then left without a peep -
And washed my hands until they bled,
And cried myself to sleep."
-Poem for your Sprog
Oh god no. No.
if i had that many books i'd organize them how i organize my clothes. if i pick a book to read, it's going back at the front when i'm done, so it's easy to pick it back up for reading later.
this will naturally sort books from most to least read, and then the books i finished or haven't read will be at the back... eventually, i think.
I believe that ignorance leads people to think / claim that they have OCD. I used to think that I had OCD but after watching a documentary on it I realise that I’m just a little particular about how things should be.
It’s a genuinely dangerous ignorance.
Things like food allergies aren’t taken seriously because Karen doesn’t like onions or seafood and tells everyone she’s allergic. It’s not just ignorance at that point, it’s selfishness and a complete lack of empathy and reason.
As someone who is allergic to some foods and has to carry an epi pen everywhere I want to say that I do not care if Karen says they're allergic to whatever. The problem is people who do not take food allergies seriously and assume that when someone says they have an allergy they actually have an allergy.
If you're one of those people who have to prove someone isn't allergic, you're not just an asshole, you're an attempted murderer (not you, op, just people in general).
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For some reason people just love self diagnosing with mental illness.
I think people like rationalizing their behaviors so that they don't seem weird. When really they are just being themselves.
Behaviors become mental illnesses when they start to affect other parts of your life. Organizing your books by color is unusual and quirky, but not a mental illness.
If you can't leave a library because you have to organize their books by color, then it's a mental illness.
My kid has autism. He once had a complete panic attack because we wouldn't let him stay to organize the bottles at total win and more. He has never been diagnosed with OCD and my understanding after talking to his neurologist about it is that this was a stim for him, and not necessarily OCD behavior. There have been other instances all through his childhood like this one, and I can't help but think that having a completely different disorder or Neurodivergence also adds to people self diagnosing because there's way too many people who don't know they're neurodivergent.
I was straight up diagnosed with OCD as a child because they really didn’t want to believe a girl had autism. Throughout my life I’ve struggled with compulsions when I’m mentally struggling and had zero issues when things are otherwise calm (sometimes I’ll go years without any symptoms). I’d never thought of it as a stim, but it absolutely is a thing for me to focus on to release mental pressure/sort through inputs. That’s totally a stim.
Sorry to do the thing that this thread is about in the thread.
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Organizing books by color with no regard for book series is insanity.
My ex-partner had her bookshelf sorted with "perfect disorder". No two tall books touching, no two red books touching. As chaotic as a bookshelf could possibly be, with a pointed disregard for series or even genres. 100% vibes Based disorganization.
I hated that fucking shelf. I swear it nearly gave me an aneurism trying to find anything on it.
At least it had
A E S T H E R I C S
I swear that's a hard math tesselation problem
It makes perfect sense to people who don't need to find a book because they don't actually read.
As I said: insanity
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It's extraordinarily un-OCD. I think that's the point here. People seem to have forgotten what the D stands for in OCD.
Not being a total slob doesn't mean you have a disorder.
If I were Santa, Christmas would be 30 days late cause I'd check the list 50 times
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
(I wash my hands so much they bleed)
Not to make light of your situation, but it reads like an OCD version of Slipknot's Wait and Bleed:
I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wander out where you can't see
I wash my hands so much they bleed
I do the same. I told an ex nurse friend that and he said it might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_urticaria
I had a friend like this. He offered to go to Thailand with me and my daughter for two weeks and it broke him. (Of at least this fixation.)
There is no way to keep up the habit, everything is dirty and it ends up being fine. By the time he got home the impulse just wasn't there.
sometime i wash my hands so hard my hands would end up being rough and dry, so i had to put moisturizer (ie: bag balm or cetaphil) to make them NOT dry. seriously!
Amateur. Try translating that to butt wiping my guy.
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