Where do you want to start....

I do all the things Steven RW does and MUCH MUCH more...

like him i also have Aspergers syndrome and chronic OCD

.......I have to have every tin in the kitchen cupboard perfectly lined up in the correct row and every label has to face exactly the same way.....and i have to rotate the stock by sell by date.....

All the towels have to be correctly lined up in the bathroom so they match perfectly....

The ambient temperature in the car HAS to be 18 degrees(I have the climate on all year round)

My work desk has to be perfectly symmetrical,i have been known to go out and buy new pens and stuff so i can get it right

I check the back door is locked CONSTANTLY..... my missus reckons i check it upwards of 50 times a day and when i lock up to go to bed,everything must be done in a very precise order......if i fook up and do anything incorrectly i will go back and do it all again...

Etc Etc Etc Etc.....

Help me i`m mad....

Luckily my long suffering wife has learnt to cope with my odd behaviour after 21 years.......

 

good job you never told me that on the M6 toll road

 

@ this thread

 

ditto

 

When putting a towel on the rail, it has to be folded up evenly

Toilet roll must roll from the top

Same with the tins, must have all labels facing the front.

If I have a pile of paperwork/files on my desk, they HAVE to be neat and straight, cant have bits of paper hanging out at angles.

Loads more as well

 

It brings a smile to my face to know that the Diva amongst others is easily as mad as I am.

Quality

Interestingly - were all sound chaps - amazing what weirdness u can hide!

RW

 

i more. i carnt eat with out reading something even at breakfast time WHY GOD WHY

 

The Diva


I check the back door is locked CONSTANTLY..... my missus reckons i check it upwards of 50 times a day and when i lock up to go to bed,everything must be done in a very precise order......if i fook up and do anything incorrectly i will go back and do it all again...

This is so me.....everytime i walk in the kitchen i check the back door a few times...drives the misses mad.

If we all go out as a family they end up sitting in the car for 5-10mins whilst i do my checks/routines

Its the same when i go to bed.....I find it really frustrating myself and end up going to bed stressed out

 

I have to face the TV when I eat cereal too

 

I reckon its alot to do with modern society - its so FULL ON that we never learn to relax.

RW

 

i was just thinking the exact same thing mate......Like you say lifes all about pressure and we all have so much going on in our heads and this is the effects of it.

 

Re: the handbrake thing - I get that too! I sometimes even lift it ever so slightly that the light ont he dash comes on then stop myself

Also I do the towel thing, gotta be straight. When I was saying earlier about eating at fast food joints and eating it always in the same orderm I also have to take a newspaper in with me to read as I eat. If I don't have one I will drive as far as it takes to get one before I go have my food

 

Just remembered a couple more

If someone nicks a chip/whatever from my plate i can't eat any of it anymore..

If anyone drinks from my cup of coke or pours a glass out of my bottle i have to chuck it (including family )

If i get a big mac from mcdonalds i have to open the box seperate everything and eat the middle bread with all the shit on it first then have the rest as a plain double burger

If i fart in someones presence it is the funniest thing on earth if someone farts in front of me they are the most dirty cunt on earth and i won't talk to them for the rest of the day

No matter how late it is if i have less than 10 fags even if i am about to go to bed i have to go out and buy 40

oh and as for the cooker once i turn it off i hold a light to it to make sure it is off then turn it back on and light it then turn it off and don't need to check it

Mart

 

I have to pull my blind in my bedroom before it gets dark, whenever my mum sleeps out..

 

OMG! how weird is this thread! Funny how people do the same things.

Mine are..

Volumes: HAVE to be even numbers.

Milk: Same as M4DYETI, i CANNOT use milk from a carton that has less than a quarter left.


i honestly thought i was the only person that did that, but to get over it, i pull it up gently, holding the button in, just enough so the light comes, then flick it on and off, that usually satisfies my needs! lol.

And my main one: I HAVE to without fail, smell/sniff stuff that i pick up. It can be anything, like Keys, clothes, grease, oil, rubber etc. It annoys my work mates.

 

how about this one...

your point of view via the tv screen

you normally sit in the same chair.looking at the tv. if theres a pair of his trainers on the floor.in front of the tv I have to move them g/fs sons

even though they dont even block my view of the screen

and she shouted at me

you have got fucking OCD you twat ..maybe she right

and that was last week.love this thread

 

I thought it would make you smile matey...

Just locked up to come upstairs and got my ritual spot on first time which made me chuckle thinking about this thread.......

Part of my bizarre ritual is that i always have to open the front door and do a last perimeter check,which includes grabbing all the car keys and checking the cars are locked,even though i now i didn`t use mine today and i always have to check the cars in the same order.........Wifes first and then mine......if i get it wrong i will open both cars then lock them again in the correct order..

And i always have to turn off all the TV stuff in the right order too.....first the Sky box,then the surround sound,then finally the TV.......WIERD..

 

Whenever I am in a high rise hotel or bridge etc I have a mad urge to throw myself off the balcony....or assess whether I could make the swimming pool if I jumped.

Bog roll thing....me too....has to be over the top.....it's a man thing I think

Symmetry rules in all things

Tidiness rules in all things...especially the car

Constantly smelling my clothes to ensure that they still smell of fabric conditioner

I follow the same pattern prior to falling asleep i.e spend a short time on my side before laying on my back. Will not sleep if I don't follow this. Also I MUST read for a while before lights out.

Totally paranoid about leaving keys too near the door. They have to be hung on cork board.

It's reassuring to learn there are people out there like me beacuse my wife keeps telling me that I'm special.

 

I have to touch a piece of wood every now and again (stemmed from when i was younger 'Jinx - touch wood)

And i always slightly crush any empty drinks can.

 

Snap thought that was just me lol

Both HAVE to be down

 

My psychologist says the same about me. Apparently its about one in 100 who have AS in this country so probably quite a few on this site.


I have lots of habbits some i think are wierd others i dont

I listen to the same music repeatedly when in my car or on the IPOD. Not the same track forever but i will listen to one track for a few weeks then move on. But ive been told im a freak for this so now i dont listen to music in my car when i have passenegers cos im ashamed of it and worried about getting more stick!

I am oversensitive to certain smells and paranoid that everywhere stinks so i go around with febreeze in my room and car regularly. I use 2-3 1litre bottles of febreeze every month and spray it in my room several times a day. Some perfumes are too strong for me and i hold my nose when i walk through the perfume section in boots!!!!

I stare at spinning things regularly. eg cieling fans, rotating radars, helicopter rotor blades. It annoys hell out of my workmates because i adjust the fan speed so its just right for me to look at (nothing to do with cooling!!) and often i do this impulsively without realising. I find rotating things very therapeautic. Often if i have nothing to look at i imagine spinning things or remember times ive seen things spinning. Before i drove i used to love it when the train went past motorways and watched car wheels spinning. Even now im thinking about my last train journey and the wheels of a mini cooper i was transfixed by as it was travelling on the road by the train about the same speed!!

I have set routines for many day to day tasks and i have to keep them identical otherwise i get stressed or i screw it up and dont know what im doing. For example i have series of routines for my driving. I follow the routines taught me at my driving lessons exactly. so i always pull away the same, pull up the same etc etc. for exampl pulling up routine when i park, car stops, on handbrake, in nuetral, off foot brake, off clutch, off lights, off engine, undo seatbelt, unlock doors, exit car, close doors, lock car, check car walk away. I even did this when i drove my car off a ramp and in a car i had flipped onto its roof. The recovery service and firebrigade were most amused to find id put handbrake on upside down

I rehearse most conversations in my head when im not talking to people. I also preplan answers to questions and i sometimes have complete conversations in my head including imagining the correct voice tones etc so that i know what to say and how.

I talk to myself in my sleep

I like to know where i am going to be during the day. uncertainty makes me panicked and anxious.

I like things to run on time to the point of almost being rude and worrying so much that people have said they thought my reaction was similar to if the world was ending cos they were 5 minutes behind schedule!

I hate public toilets and always try and go use a cubicle paranoid that i will be attacked if i use the urinal.

When i have things tidy (when ive got the space basically) everything has to be put away in the right order. For example i will work out an order for dvd cases and that has to be stuck to rigidly and i get upset if anyone moves it around. The funny thing is i cant explain my reasoning for the order of things as nobody understands. it makes sense to me but no-one else gets it.

I think mostly in images not words. (except when thinking about conversations!!).

I often take things literally such as with idioms, metaphors etc. Luckily ive learned a lot of the common ones now. Does make me laugh sometimes. for example if someone tells me to "take a hike" i will firstly imagine myself taking a hike up a mountain then chuckle wondering why he wants me to do that!!!! Obviously ive learnt that that means the same as "go away" or even "fuck off" but i still get caught up with new ones all the time!!

I tend to wear the same kind of clothes all the time. I have 3 identical pairs of trousers and also 2 identical polo shirts and stuff like that. I have been forced to vary my clothes as people take the piss and accuse me of not changing clothes cos they dont know io have a lot of similar stuff so i cheat and go and buy three rugby tops identical but for different colour stripes or same trousers but different colours. I dont actually care what colour my clothes are, as long as they are comfortable.

I brush my teeth with strawberry flavour kids toothpaste Mint toothpaste is way too strong.

I like to sit in exactly the same seat in meetings. I like to use exactly the same computer in the internet cafe and often i will walk away if its in use even when others are available. I cant explain it really, i just have to have the same one, I know its not my computer as such but i just have the urge to use that one. dunno why really.

 

When ever i see something rotating, i.e. a cam/alternator pulley ect i have an urge to poke my fingers in there thankfully i have managed to resist.

I have to check the doors are locked when i go to bed, i have even woke in the middle of the night to check.

I cannot sleep without having the duvet tucked under my feet

 

before i leave the house i check everything is off

if there is sumthing on the side i have to line them up straight next to each other.

i went through a phase off having a lucky fag in my packet if i dint smoke that one last something bad would happen

i put all my car magazines in order of month or issue number

i think it really fucks wiht your head you say to yourself why am i doing these things and sit down and try not to do them but it allways wins and you end up doing it.

i get really annoyed wiht it all but cant stop doing it

 

I managed to ditch all my ocd related stuff, apart from the stereo on even numbers and counting when I go up stairs (although I'm 90% over them now)

When I was a kid I used to check the light switches and plug switches were off, I'd also turn switches on then off to make sure.. if they didn't click satisfyingly I'd do it again until I was happy. I'd also check in my cupboards etc to make sure everything was right. I had a routine to do before bed, if part of it fooked up (ie a switch wasn't off right imo) I'd start over.

For me if I didn't do this before I went to bed something bad would happen to me or my family

One day I just started talking myself out of it. I'm so miserable these days I'd rather put the stereo on 13 and dare 'whatever' to make something bad happen

 

this thread is brilliant - it's hilarious imagining some of you doing all of those things

 

How true is that

Do you kick your legs up so it swings under your feet then put them down??


Feels lovely if the duvet is cold

 

Cannot eat packet sandwiches, nor can i eat someone elses sandwiches if they dont want them......

 

i can relate to so many of these situations and its nice to know im not the only freak on here

Has anyone ever had any treatment for this??

would be interesting to know if anyone has been cured from this frustrating condition

 

Fook No.......

I`m normal..... It`s the rest of the population that are mad...

 

if my bird drops anythin like a sweet on the floor she has to drop another so it has a friend!! or leaves a chip on a plate it either has to get eaten or another one left! wierd. i love winding her up leaving things on their own lol

 

oh yes its the only way

 

 

Mine is if i think of something bad that might come out of what im doing ..
i.e if im out on my quad & think about falling off i have to touch my head..i.e hope that dosent happen touch wood..So i touch wood if i think of something bad fookin crazy

 

Thats not OCD... Thats odd.

 

i fukin know

 

Toilet Roll - from the top its the only way.

Going back & checking if I locked the car, even though I know I did - sometimes I have to press the remote 2-3 times just to reassure myself its locked!!

Always reset the odometer in my car when I fill up - purely because I have to try to beat the 400miles to a tank everytime!!

I dont fill up unless the car has got the red petrol light on - otherwise its a waste & I havent got my moneys worth out of the previous fillup.....WTF is all that about cos when you think about it its just gonna cost me less to fill up the sooner I do it!!! LOL!

Thats about it really!!!

 

PMSL@this thread. AWESOME!

my wife accuses me of having OCD all the time. In fact the minister mentioned it at our wedding the cunt! I always say its better than having CJD but no the minister bottled that one

I can relate to a few things on this thread but also feel better about the things i do do considering what some of you are up to

Bog roll HAS to be rad's way. Wife knows i hate it but always puts it the other way. She also says she doesnt care which way it goes yet always puts it "under". I think she's a closet ocd'er herself

Im same about locking the back door etc but i think thats just being sensible? Also cos the wife is so shite at locking it someone has to check!

I like a clean kitchen also. Cant stand too many dishes etc lying about when im trying to cook and they get in the way!

I also reset the fuel counter when filling up but thats just so i can measure how far i have left or how heavy my foot is im same as Lee above tho and cant fill unless the light is on Sometimes i'll fill early and it feels like getting cheap fuel...PMSL

Cant remember who said it but counting stairs LMAO . I quite often do that. Imagine working on an oil rig with 7 floors you're up and down non stop and counting the stairs? i wont use the lift from a excersise and dont want to be lazy point of view.

Ginge i think said abut having ie window fully open on computer screen. AGREED! Hate having to scroll around the screen!

Im still not convinced i have OCD. I like to think its called being organised!

 

fpmsl

I dont have any quirky ocd like symptons

 

me too...even if its just a little bit open..

gets fooking annoying when its raining


get ya
walking on 2 is ok though

carl