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OCD Me!
June 27, 2006 at
09:59 PM
Time to 'fess up...
We all have strange habits/superstitions/compulsions. Give it up--let's hear yours.
Here are a couple of mine. I have a strange distaste for odd numbers. If I can control something and I have a choice between even or odd--for example, my home theater receiver volume displays in digits--I will always choose an even number.
I also "write" phrases with my finger on any surface (the arm of my chair, the car door, my thigh) that I hear on the television, radio, etc. I alternate between cursive and print, and sometimes I try to keep up with whomever I'm copying. For example, if the news is on and the anchor says "a shocking double murder in the District this evening," I will be scribbling this phrase on the couch cushion to my right.
I've also practiced wiping my butt with my left hand in case my right hand gets cut off or mangled in some horrible accident.
Your turn.
We all have strange habits/superstitions/compulsions. Give it up--let's hear yours.
Here are a couple of mine. I have a strange distaste for odd numbers. If I can control something and I have a choice between even or odd--for example, my home theater receiver volume displays in digits--I will always choose an even number.
I also "write" phrases with my finger on any surface (the arm of my chair, the car door, my thigh) that I hear on the television, radio, etc. I alternate between cursive and print, and sometimes I try to keep up with whomever I'm copying. For example, if the news is on and the anchor says "a shocking double murder in the District this evening," I will be scribbling this phrase on the couch cushion to my right.
I've also practiced wiping my butt with my left hand in case my right hand gets cut off or mangled in some horrible accident.
Your turn.
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Same goes for sex.
My OCD.... I go into VQ's OCD thread... even though he's just been here... but I make an edit so he thinks someone new has posted. :hehe:
:Edit:
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
Sometimes, right before I poo, I say to myself "ready, set, go!"
I ALWAYS put the emergency brake on when I turn the car off.
That's all I can think of right now.. I'm actually quite normal compared to some of you freaks.
Gas at an even number thing. IDK why, it just looks good like that.
I have to pee before going to sleep or eating. I'm not comfortable doing either even if there is the slighest hint of pee in my bladder. Sometimes, I'll even push on my bladder to make sure I don't have to pee.
Soft drinks HAVE to be in a glass with ice. I don't like drinking them out of the can and I HATE drinkning without ice.
Gots lots more but I can't remember or they're too gross to list.
I never get out of my car with it in gear.
TP HAS to be facing outward, I don't like reaching under it to find a piece.
Consistency is KEY in everything.
I am consistently late.
I don't lay or sleep on my stomach, ever.
Volume is always either 5 or 0.
I set my tv volume to multiples of 5 too....
I'm just editing my post again to make VQ think there's something new to see.
I ignore Drio's obvious attempts to upset me and shake up my OCD.
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side up, before I pour the milk in the bowl...
Autumn, I sort of do the same thing, touching my heart (or cheek) to give a physical sensation to go along with the emotional sensation. It's a kind of reinforcement so that special memories don't fade so quickly.
I do things in 4s and 8s, and used to be constantly counting in my head. Now I only do it when I'm nervous or concentrating really hard.
I also hear myself talking while I type.
I used to be completely obsessed with "everything has to be even on both sides". Sometimes, I still do, but I'm not so bad about it.
I know there are some others, but will have to think of them later.
I'm just editing my post again to make VQ think there's something new to see.
I ignore Drio's obvious attempts to upset me and shake up my OCD.
I do the gas pump thing, try to get it to a whole dollar. Unless it stops on an 8 or a 42. Sometimes 69. (Make of that what you will
I do the phone cord thing; can't stand to see a phone cord that is tangled. The really bad thing is, I'll do it to phones that I don't own! Hubby's office, hubby's boss' office, mother in law's house, the SCHOOL! People don't really look at me weird, they just say something like "Thanks, I never have time to do that", lol.
I do the "EDIT" thing when I edit a post.
I'm sure I'll think of something else.
EDIT: And now I am totally giddy that I got the first post at the top of page 8!
(Yellow -> Orange -> Red -> Pink)
(Yellow -> Orange -> Red -> Pink)
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