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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
If you don't have OCD, you could have simply said "Apparently there's been a misunderstanding. I don't have OCD." or whatever. "OCD" gets tossed around a lot by people who actually mean "I'm picky about ____", and for the most part it stopped bothering me long ago. But the implication that people with OCD walk around counting everything borders on ridicule. I don't believe you intended it that way, but it comes across negatively. OCD is a complicated disorder that manifests in many different ways and for different reasons. A large number of us manage it quite well. I'm certainly not a "counter" - I don't like math.  |
Thanks for the clarification. My intent was to poke fun at *me* not all people afflicted with OCD - if I came across otherwise I apologize. If I misinterpreted anything I also apologize. I know not everyone OCD is a counter, but sometimes *I* am. My worse affliction is manic depression, which in a manic state, combined with my mild OCD, results in me exhibiting counting behavior along with a need for reorganizing unimportant things that so-called normal humans wouldn't bother with.