My OCD Traits.

Obsessive or Compulsive or Neurotic about many things, but it was just pointed out to me that...

everytime, everytime I am in Target or the Market, I spend about $12 in sponges.

Guess, I hate dirty sponges and love these new shapes, sizes and colors.

I like the kind that has a scrubby pad on one side.

my fork and knife have to match or else I get upset.

My Desk at work is always tidy, messing it up forces me drop what im doing and sort it out.

I have to put my left shoe on first.

I cannot eat lunch on workdays with others. I get social anxiety to the max if my cathartic chewing of tasty things is interrupted.

I am not sure if I exhibit any specific traits but whenever my brother turns the lights off in a room he has to flick the switch on and off several times and when he removes his shoes he taps them both in a circular motion on the ground before setting them down.

Oh...ifI eat with friends I cover my mouth with my hand when I chew....kind of weird I guess.

I do the same thing. I cannot stand for people to look at me while I'm eating, so I do this if they're talking to me.

I check my alarm clock and cell alarm about ten times each night before I go to bed.

ME FUCKING TOO.

I'm terrified of waking up late for work.

I tend to check my alarms numerous times before I sleep also...the problem with me is that half the time I sleep through them anyways

Interesting! Sounds kind of like a fascination with symmetry.

I look at things on SG in a certain order...

Oh god. I just realized that I do that, too. It's more of a ritual than a compulsion, though.

I regularly misuse the term "OCD" to mean something other than a medical condition. It's weird, but I can't help it.

I slowly count to ten every time someone does that.

I'm OCD, right ?

... or obsessively troll threads to put down others.

Educate yourself before claiming to have a disorder.

Buying sponges is far from OCD. OCD rarely has almost absolutely nothing to do with being a neat freak or a perfectionist.

THANK YOU!!!