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Originally Posted by truncated
I think I've told this one before, but insofar as speed allows, every word I speak/think, I type out imperceptibly with my fingers. I also simultaneously count the letters in the word to a 5, 7, 10, or 14 beat rhythm. This has lent me the absolutely useless ability to instantaneously know how many letters are in nearly any given word, on mere sight.
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I do the typing thing as well...certain words and phrases moreso than others. One of those is whenever anyone starts sentences with "The right thing to do..." and then I have to at least envision how the entire sentence looks being typed on a keyboard. There are other phrases, but this one came to mind, because my mom is always beginning sentences that way.
I will also for the most part refrain from engaging in activities if I foresee that particular activity ending in death or injury. Most of these are the result of hearing about someone else dying in the same manner, but others are just ridiculous. I won't drink from glass soda bottles while riding in a car because I think that if I do, we will get in a wreck and if I'm not killed instantly, all of my teeth will be knocked out because the crash would've happened while I was taking a drink from the glass bottle.
My dad always leaves the newspaper and other mail on the stove. I move the stuff whenever I see it this way.
Excessive hand-washing. Especially after petting the dog, which is all the time.
I have a cell phone now, and my brother was calling someone on it once, and instead of pressing the "End" button and then closing the phone, he just skipped right to closing the phone. Every time I see someone do this, it makes me cringe, and if it's at all possible I have to check the phone to make sure it really has been "hung up," even though I know it has and I'm just being stupid.
When using a calculator, I have to press the clear button at least four times before I can punch in more numbers.
The windows in my room have to be opened at the same level. Usually they stay closed because it is particularly hard to do this.
There are more, but most of them are so similar because they involve checking things multiple times to make sure that they were turned off, or whatever it may be in each case.
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One thing that resulted in me getting made fun of in math class was when I had to trade homework papers with a friend of mine to grade, and she saw that I had written the most basic of formulas in the margins of my paper (I think the one she pointed out read 9 x 5 = 45). In math, I have to write everything out.
I'm now looking at that online OCD test, and apparently re-reading things is bad. This, in general, is very bad.