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.
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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.
