The OCD thread

[NickFitz]

I insist on giving my users a stream of abuse every morning.

that sets you up for the day then?

He's suffering at the moment - he used to then post on TPD about it

There was a tangentially-related thing on one of 37signals' ragbag-of-unrelated-stuff blog posts the other year:

Jason showed us this email he received: “When you heat up leftovers in the microwave, what time do you enter? 2:30 or 2:22? One is close enough and much faster.”

I assume the original missive was referring to microwaves where you can push the 2 button three times instead of pushing the 2, 3 and 0 buttons - it wouldn't make so much difference on one of those where you have separate buttons for minutes and seconds

[NotAllThere]

Everytime I see this thread I have to make the same response.

[original PM]

my brother does the car stereo not being on an odd number

I bought a wii this xmas (white one) and bought and extra controller (black one) both my missus and brother were up in arms - like wtf

but seriously I just have one question about OCD - before it was diagnosed as a mental condition (or whatever it is) did people simply not have it or were they in all but the most extreme of cases just classed as pointless whinging fu<wits?

[Diver]

my brother does the car stereo not being on an odd number

I bought a wii this xmas (white one) and bought and extra controller (black one) both my missus and brother were up in arms - like wtf

but seriously I just have one question about OCD - before it was diagnosed as a mental condition (or whatever it is) did people simply not have it or were they in all but the most extreme of cases just classed as pointless whinging fu<wits?

The latter I think

[original PM]

i completely agree!!!

i think alot of diseases are now trendy to have OCD, Autism, Dyslexia (big one in the eighties this was to describe thick fu<<ers who could not spell).

A lot of the stories people have mentioed in this thread do not point towards OCD they actually point towards an in ability to change - e.g this is what we have always done so this is what we shall always do without ever stopping to think about what they are actually doing and why they are doing it.

[Diver]

i completely agree!!!

i think alot of diseases are now trendy to have OCD, Autism, Dyslexia (big one in the eighties this was to describe thick fu<<ers who could not spell).

A lot of the stories people have mentioned in this thread do not point towards OCD they actually point towards an inability to change - e.g this is what we have always done so this is what we shall always do without ever stopping to think about what they are actually doing and why they are doing it.

Actually my younger brother has Dyslexia, he has struggled with it his whole life and despite being of above average IQ, with an excellent maths ability, he still puts letters/words backwards and mirror writes occasionally and can't see what's wrong until he compares with type written words. He avoids handwriting as much as possible now, and uses word processing.

I actually wish I had his maths ability

[RichardCranium]

I don't have any OCD behaviours.

Except CUK.

[Diver]

I don't have any OCD behaviours.

Except CUK.

I have the urge to clean my keyboard every time I use it.

Just to get the crumbs, cornflakes, chocolate, cake, gravy and dribble from between the keys really