We all have OCD

[VGKoopa]

I have this issue where I must untangle cords or wires or strings and the like. I also find myself fidgeting with the seatbelts in the car so that they're straightened.

 

[DND Judgement]

I also have a habit to start sentences with capital letters.. it's weird.

Where's the capitol on "it's"....?

 

[God's Clown]

My Habits include but are not limited too:

1. I must sleep at least 8 hours a night. Any less and I'll be a grumpy bear all day.
2. I stack cans. If in my room there is ever more then 1 pop can, I have to stack them on each other.
3. I must say fail, noob, idiot or dumb ass at someone at least once a day.

Thinking back, the first "habit" is really more laziness than a habit. I'm a bear though, I like my sleep.

 

[God's Clown]

I also have a habit to start sentences with capital letters.. it's weird.

Where's the capitol on "it's"....?

He never ended his sentence, thus "it's" is just it is, not It is as if he was starting a new sentence.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

I used to scan every word I spoke or even thought to see what the number of letters in it were divisible by, it became a really strange habit, and it took ages to get out of it.

I have the exact same thing i also have to put the vowels in the word in alphabetical order and every constanant has the have a vowel after it again in alphabetical order

 

[InsanityWave]

I barely ever clean my room but once I do, EVERTHING has to be prefectly straight, and in order this is why my mum does it because she gets annoyed about it lol,

 

[GunnerGraye]

whenever i walk over square tiles or the sidewalk, i have to not step on the lines. whats your bizzare habit?

Oh same. That and if everything is stacked. i gotta have it perfectly aligned.

 

[Klagermeister]

I have an insane tendency to cross my eyes to align things.
It's like those Magic Eye books, except there isn't a secret picture and no point to it.
AAARRRGGGHHH! I'M DOING IT RIGHT NOW!

I also change the words in a sentence so that the number of letters (spaces included) are divisible by 3.
For example, Welcome to the Escapist! would be changed to... Oh, wait. It's already divisible by 3.

 

[Jharry5]

The stepping on cracks in the pavement is a course of habit - I thought everyone did that?
I also need to have al light switches aligned and do the same thing with each hand [insert gratuitous and predictable jokes here...] By that, I mean if I scratch a finger on one hand, I have to do it on all my fingers to feel ok again...

 

[Knonsense]

I generally only step on one color of tile when there are differently colored tiles in a hallway.

 

[orifice]

I arrange all banknotes in my wallet so that the queens head is upright and facing forward. I also have to triple check that my front door is locked before I can walk away.

 

[oni565]

Every time someone say the word "Walrus" I start singing "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles in my head.

 

[Dead Bird]

I arrange all banknotes in my wallet so that the queens head is upright and facing forward. I also have to triple check that my front door is locked before I can walk away.

i also have to check if a door is locked 4-5 times befor i can be sure.
If i leave teh computer i must always go back to see if i turned everything off/ if it's still on i must check if msn is off and so on.

It's sorta about being insecure about things i guess, I have the tendesne of constantly forgetting things so taht might be the reason why i have to triple check everything.

 

[DND Judgement]

I also have a habit to start sentences with capital letters.. it's weird.

Where's the capitol on "it's"....?

He never ended his sentence, thus "it's" is just it is, not It is as if he was starting a new sentence.

Well if you don't mind i see a full stop(period if you're american).... So his sentence is over....

 

[ampa451]

make sense

 

[fix-the-spade]

Everything must be anti-siezed, greased and done up to the correct torque setting(s). EVERYTHING!

 

[Blue Sonnet]

The stepping on cracks in the pavement is a course of habit - I thought everyone did that?...

It probably comes from the old wives tale/nursery rhyme about breaking your mother's back - it's become ingrained into our national consciousness in the west!

 

[JakCurse]

for God's sake. here's some real, Diagnosed, First person definition of OCD. (in case you haven't gathered that was me telling you for a FACT that i have the disorder.) I have to tap 25 times on anything i have in my hands, be it a controller, a pen, if I'm resting my hands on a desk, whatever. that's 5 times on the thumb (and for every digit i say "OneTwoThreeFourFive" in my head, i really Cannot help it) five times on the index finger, etc.

If I'm in a room without lights on, i have to flick the light on/off before i leave the room. there are SO many more little things that are borderline habits, (meticulously spellchecking my own work even when a spellchecker is available, making sure grammar is correct, ordering games from most recently played to least recently played, they're more or less habits, really) but if i were to not do either of these main two, i get extremely agitated.

As someone said on the first page, have some respect.

A habit is not OCD. it's only OCD if, and this is my way of describing it to people, if you feel like the world will implode if you don't do it.

please, have some respect for sufferers.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

For a long time I confused OCD with obsessive clean freak.

 

[Grand_Poohbah]

whenever i walk over square tiles or the sidewalk, i have to not step on the lines. whats your bizzare habit?

I do this too. Even when I try to stop thinking about it I still avoid them.