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Hannelore's OCD

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wargrafix:
everyone had small quirks.

Mr. Skawronska:

--- Quote from: SayWhat on 18 Jan 2009, 17:57 ---I think it's sorta weird. I freak out if I get sticky stuff on my hands, like clay (watching me in my ceramics class was hilarious, every couple minutes or so I was wiping my hands clean), but I can make kisses with a  guy and not wig out. Kissing is dirtier than clay, I think.

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Honestly?  I don't think that's weird.  You make kisses with whoever because you want to.  Sticky stuff on the hands, at least to me, attracts things, and I touch pretty much everything with my hands, sometimes including my food.  Yes, I wash them first, but it's still the "ick" factor involved.

I like to wash blood off before it gets sticky.  Fresh and squicky is okay, but ewww when it starts to dry.  Other bodily fluids (and solids and semisolids) are just things I have to tolerate, but I wash them off ASAP.

As far as clay goes...

Tried slicking your hands with water first before handling it?  Or wearing gloves?

Do either of these help?

Sorry to sidetrack the thread.

S

SayWhat:
Blood has to be washed off right away. Gross gross gross. I'm always afraid I'll accidentally touch something, and get blood on it.

I've tried the gloves, it doesn't work because I can't find any non-latex gloves that actually fit my hands, if the gloves are too big they leave weird marks in the clay. And slicking my hands down with water does help a little, but sometimes makes the clay too wet to work it right.

I wish I would eat things with my hands, I am getting tired of weird looks from people at lunch because I cut food, like burgers or hot dogs, up and eat them with a fork. But I also get weird looks if I wipe my hands off with a napkin every couple seconds. I also look at every bite, to make sure there's nothing on it that there shouldn't be.

But my room is a complete pigsty. Whut teh eff?

*cough* on track stuff...on track stuff...erm. I got nothin'.

Astroasis:

--- Quote from: HappyGrar on 17 Jan 2009, 01:18 ---Forgive me, but I noted no one "tee hee"ing anywhere.

At the risk of taking the whole thing FAR too seriously, did it ever occur to you that the people here (myself included) might have far more problems than they let on? And that a vacuous "tee hee" might not be the last word? I mean, I might go into how I also have Asperger's and that makes it really hard to relate to people, and to pull myself out of my thoughts and get on with life, but why the hell would I do that on a forum full of people I don't even know? Oh wait. I just did. Tee hee.

I'm really sorry if you've had to put up with airheads like that on a regular basis, but not everyone is one of them.

[/rant]

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The "tee hee" ire was more of a general thing to denote the usual tone of the things said in various places - not a specific thing said here. ...Which could really be said about my whole comment/rant there.

It's not so much anything said here in particular, just the way these kinds of conversations inevitably seem to go when OCD is mentioned. People read a few QC comics or watch a few episodes of Monk and then they think they have OCD because they wondered if they were a cyborg once or because they prefer it when their food doesn't touch.

And really? I put up with airheads like that everywhere I go. If my OCD is brought up, people try to "relate" by telling me how they alphabetize their CD collections (as if that's anywhere close to it). Even in totally non-OCD forums/conversations, some bonehead tends to pop out some cliche comment about how "I'm so OCD I... *fill in the blank with some idiotic thing here*" Idiotic Twilight fans are now running around proudly proclaiming they have OCD - "Obsessive Cullen Disorder". I've even heard someone say they had "Obsessive Christ Disorder". That's all what the "tee hee" was summing up. It's all just such blatant and idiotic disregard for the suffering OCD actually causes.

I'm sure you've noticed by now, I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about these things. The internet'll do that to ya, I guess.

Like I said in the first post, ridiculous things like that are, in my opinion, no better than making light of quadriplegics and trying to "relate" to them with tales of woe about your top-shelf-reaching difficulties.

And if this conversation doesn't go that way? All the better.

Anyhow, it's like wargrafix said. Everyone has quirks. Everyone. And about 98% of them have ONLY that.

Bottom Line: I was ranting about the tendencies I've witnessed. Not to/at anyone here.

HappyGrar:
I'll admit I overreacted. I do apologize for that.  :|

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