This is autism now. Everyone claims they are autistic and then look at me funny when I struggle to communicate with them...
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It's PTSD now. "Oh my god my last boss gave me PTSD"
"...I can't trust the physical sensations in my body which are completely out of control, my entire arousal network is wired wrong, and my threat detection system is run amok."
"Oh, I meant like, he was super mean."
I believe that ignorance leads people to think / claim that they have OCD. I used to think that I had OCD but after watching a documentary on it I realise that I’m just a little particular about how things should be.
For some reason people just love self diagnosing with mental illness.
I think people like rationalizing their behaviors so that they don't seem weird. When really they are just being themselves.
Behaviors become mental illnesses when they start to affect other parts of your life. Organizing your books by color is unusual and quirky, but not a mental illness.
If you can't leave a library because you have to organize their books by color, then it's a mental illness.
My kid has autism. He once had a complete panic attack because we wouldn't let him stay to organize the bottles at Wine and More. He has never been diagnosed with OCD and my understanding after talking to his neurologist about it is that this was a stim for him, and not necessarily OCD behavior. There have been other instances all through his childhood like this one, and I can't help but think that having a completely different disorder or Neurodivergence also adds to people self diagnosing because there's way too many people who don't know they're neurodivergent.
I was straight up diagnosed with OCD as a child because they really didn’t want to believe a girl had autism. Throughout my life I’ve struggled with compulsions when I’m mentally struggling and had zero issues when things are otherwise calm (sometimes I’ll go years without any symptoms). I’d never thought of it as a stim, but it absolutely is a thing for me to focus on to release mental pressure/sort through inputs. That’s totally a stim.
Sorry to do the thing that this thread is about in the thread.
Don't apologize. It's okay to express yourself and there's nothing wrong with relating your story.
I was diagnosed with ADD (now called ADHD inattentive type) when I was a kid and got basically no support for it because my younger brother was diagnosed with Autism at or around the same time. It turns out my sister also has ADHD (and was diagnosed as an adult), and got no support and stims are fairly common. There's a lot of behaviors in my own life that I didn't recognize as stims until years later. It seems a lot of us ~~feel~~ fell through the cracks so to speak.
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It’s a genuinely dangerous ignorance.
Things like food allergies aren’t taken seriously because Karen doesn’t like onions or seafood and tells everyone she’s allergic. It’s not just ignorance at that point, it’s selfishness and a complete lack of empathy and reason.
As someone who is allergic to some foods and has to carry an epi pen everywhere I want to say that I do not care if Karen says they're allergic to whatever. The problem is people who do not take food allergies seriously and assume that when someone says they have an allergy they actually have an allergy.
If you're one of those people who have to prove someone isn't allergic, you're not just an asshole, you're an attempted murderer (not you, op, just people in general).
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The biggest issue with most of these issues is that everyone has something a little bit like them. Everyone gets distracted or washes their hands or is sad. The difference is how much that thing interferes with your life. My ADHD causes all kinds of major problems just from the executive dysfunction side alone, let alone some of the other joys that come with having it. People want to feel special in any way they can and sometimes cosplaying their mental health is the way.
People also tend to point towards the most extreme versions of ocd in response. I have diagnosed ocd and it's just the way my anxiety disorder manifests. I get fixated on a point of anxiety and spiral around it and before treatment would develop rituals to prevent those points. Locking the car door three times meant I was sure the door was locked for example.
I still have low key anxiety every time I go on vacation that I left the door unlocked
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"'I have to sort my books!' she cried,
With self-indulgent glee;
With senseless, narcissistic pride:
'I'm just so OCD!'
'How random, guys!' I smiled and said,
Then left without a peep -
And washed my hands until they bled,
And cried myself to sleep."
-Poem for your Sprog
Now that's a name i haven't seen in years
Username doesn't check out 😱
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Organizing books by color with no regard for book series is insanity.
It makes perfect sense to people who don't need to find a book because they don't actually read.
As I said: insanity
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My ex-partner had her bookshelf sorted with "perfect disorder". No two tall books touching, no two red books touching. As chaotic as a bookshelf could possibly be, with a pointed disregard for series or even genres. 100% vibes Based disorganization.
I hated that fucking shelf. I swear it nearly gave me an aneurism trying to find anything on it.
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It's extraordinarily un-OCD. I think that's the point here. People seem to have forgotten what the D stands for in OCD.
Not being a total slob doesn't mean you have a disorder.
Trufax. OCD was the autism of the 90s. Everyone insisted they had it. You're not OCD, aunt helen, you're just an oppressive control freak. Now it's, you're not autistic, tyler, you're just a self-focused unforgiving dick
Spit your shit indeed
When I got my gender-dysphoria diagnosis, one part was to look into any other disorders I might have and OCD did come up. The problem is that a lot of these disorders have descriptions that are so relatable that you can feel genuinely insecure.
Even OCD sounded so relatable at that point, that what really ended the discussion there was when my psych asked in the end after I was saying that I wasn’t sure, whether my symptoms were clinically relevant, to which I immediately responded with “no”.
So yeah, it’s probably relevant to remember that most things come on a spectrum and that people can be OCD-adjacent without crossing into the boundary of where it is enough of a problem to be a disorder, but rather a mere personality quirk.
And that’s okay! In both directions!
This! A lot of people seem to forget that in order to get a diagnose it has to cause a disturbance in normal life. Myself included, as a late diagnosed autistic person.
Coping mechanisms are like adding cotton around the spikes (aka. struggles) of the diagnose / disorder. They do not remove the struggles but instead make them less visible. But if you push enough on a spike it will eventually push the cotton away and the spike with be more prominent.
Most people have small spikes that don't cause a lot of trouble but may make the person say they have a bit of [disorder]. But it is not a disorder as they don't have loads of comping mechanism and a disturbance in normal life. It's just a normal human variation.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
(I wash my hands so much they bleed)
I had a friend like this. He offered to go to Thailand with me and my daughter for two weeks and it broke him. (Of at least this fixation.)
There is no way to keep up the habit, everything is dirty and it ends up being fine. By the time he got home the impulse just wasn't there.
Amateur. Try translating that to butt wiping my guy.
My butthole is also effected by my compulsions
:(
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If I were Santa, Christmas would be 30 days late cause I'd check the list 50 times
if i had that many books i'd organize them how i organize my clothes. if i pick a book to read, it's going back at the front when i'm done, so it's easy to pick it back up for reading later.
this will naturally sort books from most to least read, and then the books i finished or haven't read will be at the back... eventually, i think.
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I really felt bad for this guy because he was clearly genuinely bothered by the topic. I get it.
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