The OCD and general weirdness thread

[billfred]

lol@the freak shows here

Just started

 

[hurricane]

I'm very OCD about punctuality. I'm not sure where it came from or when it started. But i can generally time, to the minute, how long it will take me to get somewhere that is a less than 20 minute trip (and I will show up on the dot of the time I said I would be there) to a familiar location - an example is I know after 6:30pm it takes me exactly 12 minutes to get to my best friend's house from home. Anywhere unfamiliar or over 20 minutes, I budget an extra fifteen minutes in (or more, depending on the time of day and expected traffic). If something comes up - construction, and accident, etc - that delays me beyond that budgeted time, I start stressing out majorly. I literally have an internal freak out if I am even going to get somewhere at 7:02 instead of 7:00. As far as OCDs go, it could be worse....at least other people benefit from it, and most never know how much that kind of thing bothers me (which doesn't mean it goes unnoticed - but it's usually remarked on in an appreciative light, not a "wow, you're a freak" light lol)

I don't like being super early either....there's a five minute window of perfection for me. Unless it's work/diving related, in which case I'm usually there at least 20 minutes early, often the first person there.

opposite here.. i have to show up where i gotta be at the lastt minute,no matter what.. it causes me to be late often due to possible traffic

they call me the minute man at my job..its a sickness.. i CANT be early.. it depresses me

 

[ortiz34]

When I smoked crack I would be looking out every window in my house every 2.3 minutes...peeking through blinds, making sure my stash was accessible and hideable at the same time
Some other REAL crazy stuff too that I'm too tired to remember right now.

 

[nydj66]

Post a video of you changing socks!

Goddamn that was funny.

I'm extremely anal about the way I arrange things. I even rearrange the weights in the gym between sets if they're not the way I prefer them. But it's not a compulsion; there's no negative consequence if I can't rearrange. It just feels like my environment is out of whack.

The bad one I have is that when I'm tired or stressed (especially if both) words quietly come out of my mouth without any intention on my part of saying them. Very often it's things that run through my mind when I masturbate like, "suck my dick, Vicky."

When my wife would hear me do this, I used to tell her I was just singing or humming some song. Eventually I made the mistake of admitting what I was doing and now she has to bust my balls whenever I do it.

Other than that, I'm right as rain. Laughing my ass off at you germ phobes.

 

[AFeedz]

SL, have you ever watched that show called the OCD project on VH1?...

there was a lady on there who when driving, would come to a sudden stop every 10 feet because she always thought she hit someone. So she was jerking around like it was her first time driving a stick or something.

The therapist decided to "cure" her by having her drive while he threw baby dolls at her windshield. Funniest thing ever!!! Lolol

And I have this thing where I have to count the number of circles I move the toothbrush in while I brush my teeth. I can't brush them without counting.

I also have a phobia of touching newspaper. It's like scratching finger nails on a chalkboard to me. I cringe at the feel.

 

[billfred]

I do a lot of what people described here but I think it is quite normal - except for some of you freaks.

Like not touching the door handles at a public bathroom. Who would do that? Flushing with my foot - yeah. Cleaning the toilet seat before sitting down - people who don't do that stuff are gross.

I think I am too ADD to have any real OCD issues. Can't focus on anything long enought to do it twice the same way.

Here is one that I do have - I don't like my drink poured where there is more liquid than ice. I like just enough liquid where the ice is not floating. I get a coke and a glass of ice and pour it that way - waitress comes over and tries to top my glass and I always put my hand over it. They think I am nuts.

Lot of times I will order a drink + a glass of ice just so I can mix it right.

 

[nefertiti]

opposite here.. i have to show up where i gotta be at the lastt minute,no matter what.. it causes me to be late often due to possible traffic

they call me the minute man at my job..its a sickness.. i CANT be early.. it depresses me

You and I could never be friends lol

Other people being late bothers me too....to a lesser degree than the prospect of my own lateness, but I get very antsy if anyone makes me wait even for a few minutes. I had one very good friend in college who moved like molasses. I loved her to death, still do, but on the inside I felt like crawling out of my skin every time I had to sit there, completely ready to go do something, and wait for her to slowly put her life together so we could leave.

 

[kx250rider]

bunch of wierd fuckers up in here

You didn't hear mine yet.

I have the compulsion to blow an air raid siren every last Friday of the month at noon. And I do; every month! I get all weird if I can't do that. And of course I need 200 or 300 old TV sets sitting around, and I don't watch TV.

Charles

 

[shirlene29]

I'm very OCD about punctuality. I'm not sure where it came from or when it started. But i can generally time, to the minute, how long it will take me to get somewhere that is a less than 20 minute trip (and I will show up on the dot of the time I said I would be there) to a familiar location - an example is I know after 6:30pm it takes me exactly 12 minutes to get to my best friend's house from home. Anywhere unfamiliar or over 20 minutes, I budget an extra fifteen minutes in (or more, depending on the time of day and expected traffic). If something comes up - construction, and accident, etc - that delays me beyond that budgeted time, I start stressing out majorly. I literally have an internal freak out if I am even going to get somewhere at 7:02 instead of 7:00. As far as OCDs go, it could be worse....at least other people benefit from it, and most never know how much that kind of thing bothers me (which doesn't mean it goes unnoticed - but it's usually remarked on in an appreciative light, not a "wow, you're a freak" light lol)

I don't like being super early either....there's a five minute window of perfection for me. Unless it's work/diving related, in which case I'm usually there at least 20 minutes early, often the first person there.

my husband is like this...to the point where ...he has to check out a new place by driving there the day or a few days beforehand so he's not late after mapping it out like 5 times for the best possible route there...BUT he has to be like an hr early to everything
crazy bastard likes to be an hr or two early to work every day too...considers himself late if he shows up at like 7 when everyone else shows up around 8-ish...and he's salary

it makes me a little insane because Im more like cane but his need to be early/on time compulsion has worn off on me and now I find myself showing up 15 minutes early to everything

 

[miplank]

You didn't hear mine yet.

I have the compulsion to blow an air raid siren every last Friday of the month at noon. And I do; every month! I get all weird if I can't do that. And of course I need 200 or 300 old TV sets sitting around, and I don't watch TV.

Charles

shit, they blow air sirens here every friday here at noon during tornado season.