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The OCD and general weirdness thread
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if i accidentally hit something with my left hand, i hit it with my right hand to balance
if i hit something with my right hand, i hit it twice with my left hand and once more with my right hand..
sometimes when i walk ill feel the urge to kick the side of my right foot into the side of my left foot, and it has to feel a certain way or else i'll keep doing it. usually takes about 6-10 tries. people ask me wtf i'm doing; i usually just say my foot itches.
It's hilarious you say this because when I was a kid I used to do something very very similar. If I was walking and I scraped my left foot on a step I'd have to scrape it the exact same way with my right foot to balance it out. And if I messed up I'd have mess up with my left foot too. Everything had to be perfectly the same lol. Even with stepping on cracks, if I stepped on a crack with the front left foot I'd have to step on one with my front right foot.
It goes a little beyond that but I don't feel like sharing how much more weird I am
I wish I could pinpoint it - I'm just messed up all over; there's no pattern really. Oh - I don't like people in my house or my car. I always feel like I'm going to be judged about my space. Okay maybe there is a pattern there.
if I shake somebody's hand I feel a strong compulsion to run to the bathroom and wash my hands. I really don't like it. I can feel the germs crawling on me.
I won't touch the taps, toilet, or doorhandle in the bathroom.
I have to clean a shared phone at work or I can't use it.
I don't like thinking about how cheese is made because of all the bacteria.\
When I was little I did the balancing out of right side left side thing too.
It was much worse when I was an active addict. I would compulsively check locks, the stove, light switches. I'd turn them off and on a few times every few minutes, and lock and unlock the door to make sure it was locked.
Then again, I was also fairly certain that there was somebody outside my door listening, and I would also have to check the blinds every five minutes to see if there were murderers standing outside my house. LOL.
oh yeah, and I could see bugs under my skin out of the corner of my eye, but if I tried to look directly at them they would scuttle off.
I'm ok now though
I won't touch the taps, toilet, or doorhandle in the bathroom.
I have to clean a shared phone at work or I can't use it.
I don't like thinking about how cheese is made because of all the bacteria.\
When I was little I did the balancing out of right side left side thing too.
It was much worse when I was an active addict. I would compulsively check locks, the stove, light switches. I'd turn them off and on a few times every few minutes, and lock and unlock the door to make sure it was locked.
Then again, I was also fairly certain that there was somebody outside my door listening, and I would also have to check the blinds every five minutes to see if there were murderers standing outside my house. LOL.
oh yeah, and I could see bugs under my skin out of the corner of my eye, but if I tried to look directly at them they would scuttle off.
I'm ok now though
if i accidentally hit something with my left hand, i hit it with my right hand to balance
if i hit something with my right hand, i hit it twice with my left hand and once more with my right hand..
sometimes when i walk ill feel the urge to kick the side of my right foot into the side of my left foot, and it has to feel a certain way or else i'll keep doing it. usually takes about 6-10 tries. people ask me wtf i'm doing; i usually just say my foot itches.
lololol i do the same shit.
I also blink every time a car passes me while im driving, ill only blink when the car is in line with my car, like parallel. Fuckin weird
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.
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.
lol@the freak shows here
